Sign in with Facebook
more photos (1)
31 books
|
55 friends
89 books
|
278 friends
43 books
|
38 friends
727 books
|
2,373 friends
611 books
|
781 friends
36 books
|
133 friends
126 books
|
4,953 friends
827 books
|
110 friends
More friends…
Richard is following 17 people
Richard Melo
Goodreads author profile
url
http://www.goodreads.com/misconstrue
born
January 01, 1968
in The United States
gender
male
website
genre
influences
Tom Robbins, Laurence Sterne, Virginia Woolf, Thomas Pynchon, Lydia Mi...more
member since
July 2008
As if by some unknown metaphysics, a book changes after you’ve finished reading it. It looks different, lying on a table. It feels different in your hand. Even on a shelf, books you’ve read stand out from the ones you never finished or even started. A finished book sings to you.
Hear what Talking Heads think about a book they’ve read:
While I am a big fan of the access and democratization tha...
read more »
|
Jokerman 8
   3.55 avg rating — 11 ratings
—
published
2004
|
My rating:
|
|
Happy Talk: A Novel
5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
—
expected publication
2012
|
My rating:
|
* Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. To add more, click here.
Upcoming Events
No scheduled events.
Add an event.
My rating:
My rating:
Richard's Recent Updates
|
Richard
is now friends with
Keith Arsenault
|
|
|
13 hours, 16 min ago
|
|
|
Richard
joined the
The Next Best Book Club
group.
|
|
|
May 19, 2012 07:15am
· see group
|
|
|
"
Richard Melo is the Jimi Hendrix of novel dialogue.
"
|
|
|
Richard
gave
 to:
Won't Get Fooled Again: The Who from Lifehouse to Quadrophenia
by Richie Unterberger
read in April, 2012
|
My rating:
|
| I ate up every word of this book. It gathers clips and interviews from the era when Pete Townshend went adrift trying to follow up Tommy, through his imagining of the multimedia Lifehouse (which never came to fruition) and concluding with the Who's l...more | |
|
Richard
gave
 to:
The Wrecking Crew: The Inside Story of Rock and Roll's Best-Kept Secret
by Kent Hartman
read in May, 2012
|
My rating:
|
| It's great reading about the Wrecking Crew who had they been a band on their own would be up there with Elvis and the Beatles in rock history. Book suffers a little from its straightforward narrative, and though it was based largely on interviews, Ha...more | |
|
Richard
is now following Berit Ellingsen's reviews
|
|
|
|
|
May 03, 2012 03:10pm
· all of Richard's favorite authors
|
|
|
Richard
added:
|
My rating:
|
|
"
A west coast posse of forest radicals based out of San Francisco State University, Jokerman engages in a wild array of pranks—they sink whaling ships at harbor in Iceland, skydive into the winter forest of British Columbia on a bend to save a pack...
"
Read more of this review » |
|
Topics Mentioning This Author
| topics | posts | views | last activity | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Red Lemonade: Red Lemonade Authors List | 1 | 11 | Mar 15, 2012 11:01am | |
| Red Lemonade: Submission Request: Hybrid Beasts | 1 | 8 | Apr 11, 2012 07:56pm |
fiction files redux
— 249 members
— last activity 5 hours, 32 min ago
this is a literary love-in, baby . . . books, literature, fiction of all shapes and sizes, these things we discuss . . . make yourself at home, check...more
Red Lemonade
— 52 members
— last activity May 15, 2012 07:01am
Red Lemonade titles and other Alternative Literature books.
SFSU MFA/MA CW Students, Alumni and Faculty
— 42 members
— last activity Mar 14, 2012 03:33pm
Didn't see a school group so thought I'd start one; feel free to join and invite others!
Graywolf Press
— 292 members
— last activity Apr 12, 2012 01:38pm
An instinct for great books since 1974.
National Book Critics Circle
— 239 members
— last activity Apr 16, 2012 09:07pm
The National Book Critics Circle honors outstanding writing and fosters a national conversation about reading, criticism and literature.
Sunnyside Book Club
— 23 members
— last activity May 19, 2011 06:42am
A book club in SE Portland, meets monthly.
The Nervous Breakdown
— 154 members
— last activity Apr 13, 2012 08:21pm
The Nervous Breakdown is an online culture magazine and literary collective featuring the work of hundreds of authors, poets, and other artists from a...more
The Next Best Book Club
— 8636 members
— last activity 17 minutes ago
As your humble moderator, I feel the need to ask you a few questions: Are you searching for the NEXT best book? Are you willing to kiss all your spare c...more
