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“This fast-moving classic fantasy brings appealing life to a familiar tapestry.”-- Book Life
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Mark Howard
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Mark Howard
@HowardMarkLouis
Author/Husband/Father
- Replying to @hyuumanateesSwitching the Odyssey from dactylic hexameter to iambic pentameter is a pretty egregious wokeism.
- Replying to @CrazyyHubA criminal with a gun is willing to end lives. It should not be controversial when that criminal's life is ended.
- Replying to @avrilbradley23The Soviet Union: so successful they needed the Berlin Wall to keep people from escaping
- Replying to @lporiginalgMy advice: think long and hard about why you needed to clarify that your son is male. That is likely the root of what he's rebelling against.
- Replying to @RothmusNeither could Jake. Don't make stupid mistakes at parties, and end misandry.
- Replying to @hyuumanateesHonestly, I don't have nearly as much appreciation for English verse as I do Homer, Ovid, or other classics in their original tongues regardless of meter. I can appreciate Wilson's translation being more literal than Fagles' in parts, but she also made decisions that show her
- Replying to @imagesaicouldntYou calmly explain to your girlfriend that only psychopaths want this. Then you reevaluate your own life choices that led you to having sex with a psychopath.
- Replying to @danyakgaeAs if women don't have bad takes on male characters. I haven't met a single man who doesn't get teary-eyed at this scene, yet I've met so many women who only remember Boromir as "the bad guy who tried to steal the ring".
GIF - Hello, #WritingCommunity! I see lots of folks doing introductions, so here we go. I spent my time in grad school studying classics and medieval history. It's given me some great ideas for my novels, and I just had another highly successful book signing today!
- Replying to @TheMuppetPastorI've never been with anyone but my wife. We waited until after saying "I do". I have zero regrets.
- Replying to @AgRwritesThat's too bad. A young woman approached me with similar intent when she learned I was soon going to be doing my first book signing at the Barnes and Nobel cafe we were at. I think I hit her pretty hard with a firehose of information from my experiences.
- Replying to @onlyfights_Make burglars fear robbing stores again!
- Replying to @InternetH0FI wonder if these young ladies will come to thank inflation for driving us all into poverty or if they'll never get beyond "my greedy boss won't pay me enough"?