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    Men Talking
    Men Talking
    Men Talking
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    Men Talking

    By J. Christen Adams

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    'Men Talking' is a collection of tales about men, and sometimes women. What they do may shock you, what they say may amuse you, and what they think may surprise you.

    The stories range from the sexy to the macabre. Some have a touch of humour, others a hint of pathos. One touches on the surreal, another, on suicide. Some are about ordinary people doing ordinary things, others are about ordinary people doing things they should not.

    These are human stories. No Super Heroes grace these pages. No one with magical powers. Apart from one story that touches on the paranormal, the characters in this book could be real people in real situations.

    If the eyes are the window to the soul, what men and women do, say, and think is the window to understanding the difference between them - and very few would deny we are different.
    How the "other' gender really works is a question often asked. These stories may shed a tiny pinpoint of light on a tiny part of the answer.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJ. Christen Adams
    Release dateJun 27, 2020
    ISBN9780648831549
    Men Talking
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    J. Christen Adams

    When people ask me what I’m so happy about, my immediate response is, ‘I woke up this morning’. It may sound a bit overdone but it just happens to be true. I think I’m the luckiest man I know.I’ve had (and am still having) a life full of rich and different experiences. Lucky not to die in the underwater caves of South Australia, prawn boat deck hand on Australia's Barrier Reef, an AFS volunteer working with exchange students from many different countries, flying hangliders 12,000 feet above the Australian outback, getting frightened fighting bushfires, teaching English in Thailand and South Korea and time as a Buddhist monk in rural Thailand are just a few off a list I almost can't believe myself.Through all this, I have developed a passion for bringing people of different cultures together. It is only through learning about each other that we come to understand that, though we may be different in many ways, we are all the same human beings underneath. We all laugh and cry, we all bleed the same colour blood when cut, we all need food and we all share this beautiful planet.Let us hope that through understanding, we can attain the tolerance required to help make this world a better place.My writing allows me to explore ideas, emotions, people, relationships and occasionally morality. Although I have been told I shouldn’t, I jump the boundaries between children’s books, adult fiction and poetry. I am much more comfortable with things that set us free rather than those that limit expression.I write for the simple pleasure of it, though also in the hope that some of my scribble might inspire someone, somewhere, to work, in some small way, towards making a better world for our children.

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