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    Guaranteed Or Your Memory Back
    Guaranteed Or Your Memory Back
    Guaranteed Or Your Memory Back
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    Guaranteed Or Your Memory Back

    By Scott Marmorstein

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    There is nothing more shocking than an unbelievable promise. Dan Strauss is about to discover a guarantee for a better memory *if* he doesn't like what he reads and brings his book back. Bub, owner of Bub's Used and New books store in Manhattan makes this offer. Dan just wants a book to read for the summer at the request of his girlfriend who thinks "real books are sexy". The 'guarantee' is definitely too good to be true, but Dan decides what the hell and goes along with the gag and buys the book. Dan finds out that some promises can be kept.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherScott Marmorstein
    Release dateSep 11, 2022
    ISBN9781386279556
    Guaranteed Or Your Memory Back
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    Scott Marmorstein

    Scott Marmorstein is an American author. He lives and works in North West Philadelphia with his wife and step-son, and their imaginary cat named Fred. Visit his website for blog and information about his other books at: www.scottdmarmorstein.com 

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      The baldy behind the wooden counter had his hands stretched out; palms face down, fingers splayed. Books were strewn all around the counter. The man appeared to be in his late forties or early fifties. It was difficult to gauge the age of a man like this; his puffy features seemed to subtract years, while the look of his skin added them back on. An ornate snake tattoo was starting from his collar bone and wending its way cleverly up his neck and around his ear. No hair stood on the man’s scalp anywhere, his bald head gleaming. Hence Dan had come to think of him as ‘baldy.’ Inappropriate, but at least he didn’t mention it out loud. That man now stared at Dan while he read the back cover of this book. A genuine leather-bound book by some guy he’d never heard of, Dean Roth. A cool-sounding author’s name, if ever there was one. Dan Strauss wasn’t bad either, but that was undoubtedly biased of him.

      Initially, he would have just downloaded any novel he wanted to his Kindle, and that would have been it, but his girlfriend, Elise, had unwittingly talked him into a different route. She told him it was summertime, and all the hipsters in town were reading actual books, with paper and glue binding, and heck, maybe even signed copies by authors who weren’t just trying to make a quick buck on Amazon (not that there was anything wrong with that either). She said she saw them in the parks, at cafes, their Kindle readers abandoned for actual paper, for heft, and she thought it was damn sexy.

      If she saw him with a book, she’d think he was extra sexy, and that was plenty of appeal right there. Right after she’d waxed poetic about real books, she’d placed her hand atop his and said in a sultry voice how sexy he was and how grateful she was that he read books, not just for academia but for pleasure. That was undoubtedly true. But like anyone else in college, he’d favored the Kindle for the sake of the trees and, more

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