Born in Winchester, MA.
Raised in Yokosuka, Ewa Beach, Okinawa, Naples, Monterey, Rota, and Mānoa.
Living in Portland, OR.

Filipino-American.
Son of O’ahu.
Navy Brat.
American Lean-er.
Mattress Tag Ripper-Offer.
Funny Clown fighting Silly Battles

Read List 2025

1. Crime and Punishment

2. Mickey7

3. The Clown

4. Nausea *

5. 1984 *

6. The Coming Insurrection

7. Halo: The Fall of Reach *

8. On Tyranny

9. Solaris

10. Count Zero

11. Buddhist Warfare

12. The Vinland Sagas

13. False Gods

14. Pity the Reader

15. The Power and the Glory *

16. Halo: The Flood

17. Slaughterhouse-Five

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Edward Ashton

Heinrich Böll

Jean-Paul Sartre

George Orwell

The Invisible Committee

Eric Nylund

Timothy Snyder

Stanisław Lem

William Gibson

Michael Jerryson

Anonymous

Graham McNeill

Kurt Vonnegut & Suzanne McConnell

Graham Greene

William Dietz

Kurt Vonnegut

* = re-read

Read List 2024

1. Dune *

2. Dune Messiah

3. Children of Dune

4. World Hypotheses: A Study in Evidence

5. Kitchen

6. Red Rising

7. Golden Son

8. Morning Star

9. Lolita

10. The Myth of Sisyphus

11. Life for Sale

12. God Emperor of Dune

13. Heretics of Dune

14. Chapterhouse: Dune

15. The Stranger *

16. A Moveable Feast

17. The Master and Margarita

18. How To Do Things with Words

19. Madness

20. A Clockwork Orange *

21. Neuromancer

22. Blood Meridian

23. Ways of Seeing

24. 2001: A Space Odyssey

25. Camp Concentration

26. Chain-Gang All-Stars

27. The Devastation of Baal

28. Hey Whipple, Squeeze This

29. Flight

30. The Defining Decade *

31. A Confederacy of Dunces

32. Drunk Tank Pink *

33. Malarkoi

34. Ham on Rye

35. Norwegian Wood

36. The Hobbit

37. The Fellowship of the Ring

38. The Two Towers

39. The Return of the King

40. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

41. Childhood’s End

42. Horus Rising

43. On Humanism

44. True Biz

Frank Herbert

Frank Herbert

Frank Herbert

Stephen Pepper

Banana Yoshimoto

Pierce Brown

Pierce Brown

Pierce Brown

Vladimir Nabokov

Albert Camus

Yukio Mishima

Frank Herbert

Frank Herbert

Frank Herbert

Albert Camus

Ernest Hemingway

Mikhail Bulgakov

J.L. Austin

Roald Dahl

Anthony Burgess

William Gibson

Cormac McCarthy

John Berger

Arthur C. Clarke

Thomas M. Disch

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Guy Haley

Luke Sullivan

Sherman Alexie

Meg Jay

John Kennedy Toole

Adam Alter

Alex Pheby

Charles Bukowski

Haruki Murakami

J.R.R. Tolkien

J.R.R. Tolkien

J.R.R. Tolkien

J.R.R. Tolkien

Ken Kesey

Arthur C. Clarke

Dan Abnett

Richard Norman

Sara Nović

* = re-read

Read List 2023

1. The Sound and the Fury *

2. The History of Iceland

3. The Last Wish (The Witcher #0.5)

4. Interviews with Francis Bacon

5. As I Lay Dying

6. On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

7. Exquisite Corpse

8. The Virgin Suicides

9. Catch-22

10. Jurassic Park

11. Either/Or

12. American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

13. Mordew

14. Naked Lunch

15. Sword of Destiny (The Witcher #0.7)

16. Intruder in the Dust

17. Dracula

18. Chernobyl Prayer

19. American Psycho

20. Blood of Elves (The Witcher #1)

21. God Is Not Great

22. Animal Farm *

23. Chess Story

24. Our Man in Havana

25. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

26. Roadside Picnic

William Faulkner

Gunnar Karlsson

Andrzej Sapkowski

David Sylvester

William Faulkner

Stephen King

Poppy Z. Brite

Jeffrey Eugenides

Joseph Heller

Michael Crichton

Søren Kierkegaard

Kai Bird & Martin J. Sherwin

Alex Pheby

William S. Burroughs

Andrzej Sapkowski

William Faulkner

Bram Stoker

Svetlana Alexievich

Bret Easton Ellis

Andrzej Sapkowski

Christopher Hitchens

George Orwell

Stefan Zweig

Graham Greene

Haruki Murakami

Arkady & Boris Strugatsky

* = re-read

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