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Matthew Benoit

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Born

in Burlington, Vermont, The United States

Website

http://www.authorsden.com/matthewbenoit

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Poetry

Influences

John Irving, Tom Robbins, Woody Allen

Member Since

June 2008

URL

https://www.goodreads.com/mattylou

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Emerging from the womb wearing nothing but a pair of black frame, coke bottle lens glasses, Matthew Benoit's destiny was certain to be in the rigid, field of engineering. Three published poems and thirty five years later he at last throws off the left-handed engineering yoke and tries his right hand at a novel, Whackers.

Matt currently resides in Colorado with his wife and two French cats. He is presently in his seventh year of contract engineering work and twentieth year of writing.

After 20 years of writing I finally published my first novel Whackers. Whackers is an edgy, different story about men and women and their awkward quest to relate to each other. I like different, edgy stories and try to write the same. I don't like reading the sam ...more

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When You Are Engulfed in Flames

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“If life is what you make it then make mine like my eggs, over easy.”
― Matthew Benoit

tags: humor, life

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“Children in India are going sober.”
― Matthew Benoit

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“I'd never join a club that would allow a person like me to become a member.”
― Woody Allen

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“If life is what you make it then make mine like my eggs, over easy.”
― Matthew Benoit

tags: humor, life

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“Children in India are going sober.”
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