![]() With a friend they once attempted to fly a rocket into Wellesley Square the rocket malfunctioned and nearly killed a man mowing his lawn. ![]() (Richard went on to write The Hot Zone and The Cobra Event, which tells you all you need to know about what it was like to grow up with him as a brother.)Īs they grew up, Doug, Richard, and their little brother David roamed the quiet suburbs of Wellesley, terrorizing the natives with home-made rockets and incendiary devices mail-ordered from the backs of comic books or concocted from chemistry sets. Notable events in his early life included the loss of a fingertip at the age of three to a bicycle the loss of his two front teeth to his brother Richard's fist and various broken bones, also incurred in dust-ups with Richard. Following a distinguished career at a private nursery school-he was almost immediately expelled-he attended public schools and the Cambridge School of Weston. ![]() Douglas Preston was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1956, and grew up in the deadly boring suburb of Wellesley. ![]()
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We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. ![]() ![]() ![]() Issue 65 will always be a favorite of mine, because it was (more or less) the Cerebus I read first. If you are sick or crippled and you are not DEAD, you are defying Tarim's will and should definitely consider suicide to make up for it"). The shocking, sadistic, read-out-loud-funny sermon Cerebus the Pope screams out the hotel window ("Most of all Tarim hates the sick and crippled. ![]() Every single panel of Archbishop Posey's body language, less a person than a continuous cringe. The idea of being in the middle of attempting to seduce your best friend's underage daughter when, incomprehensibly, the Pope himself wanders in and condemns you. And it was so freaking funny! 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