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Chris Lynch

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born
July 12, 1977

gender
male

place of birth
Papua New Guinea

website

genre
Science Fiction & Fantasy, Horror, Travel

influences
Robert Louis Stevenson, Jules Verne, Joseph Conrad, George Orwell, PK Dick, Jorge Luis Borges, John Crowley, Jeff Vandermeer

member since
April 2007


about this author

Chris Lynch grew up in Papua New Guinea, the Land of the Unexpected. He currently lives in Brisbane, Australia.

He is a graduate of the Clarion South 2007 Writer's Workshop, and is writing a bunch of short stories and a book about walking the length of Japan.




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The Road


Sorting through my haiku from the walk, I’m reminded of the strange, whimsical moods I was in as I wandered alone across Japan. Some days — usually when the featureless road stretched out before me for hours on end — my idle brain would compose dozens of haiku in a single day. They sometimes shared a theme, and were often rather silly.

I discarded most of them, but occasionally I wrote them d

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avg rating: 3.45 | 11 ratings | 3 reviews | 2 distinct works | 2 fans
Dreaming Again: Thirty-five Ne... Dreaming Again: Thirty-five New Stories Celebrating the Wild Side of Australian Fiction
by Jack Dann (editor), Garth Nix (contributor) Richard Harland (contributor)
avg rating 3.62 — 8 ratings — published 2008
2 editions
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The Devil in Brisbane The Devil in Brisbane
by Zoran Zivkovic (Editor), T.J. Banks (contributor) Lee Battersby (contributor)
avg rating 3.00 — 3 ratings — published 2005
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Looking for the Lost... 05/29 Chris is currently reading:
Looking for the Lost: Journeys Through a Vanishing Japan (Kodansha Globe)
by Alan Booth
bookshelves: 2009, adventure, currently-reading, japan, travel
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Shriek: An Afterword 03/10 Chris is currently reading:
Shriek: An Afterword (Hardcover)
by Jeff VanderMeer (Goodreads author)
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The Artist's Way: A... 03/01 Chris is currently reading:
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity (Paperback)
by Julia Cameron
bookshelves: art, creativity, currently-reading, non-fiction, self-help, writing
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May 29
Rambles Through My L... Chris Lynch gave 4 of 5 stars to:
Rambles Through My Library (Paperback)
by Raymond M. Smullyan
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read in May, 2009

Chris Lynch Chris said: "This is a fabulously idiosyncratic collection of snippets from Raymond Smullyan's personal library, with commentary and anecdotes from Smullyan, who also wrote 'The Tao is Silent', one of my favourite books.

Smullyan loves both obscure au...more
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Looking for the Lost... Chris Lynch is currently reading:
Looking for the Lost: Journeys Through a Vanishing Japan (Kodansha Globe)
by Alan Booth
my rating:
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The Great Snake: Sto... Chris Lynch gave 4 of 5 stars to:
The Great Snake: Stories from the Amazon (Hardcover)
by Sean Taylor
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read in May, 2009

Chris Lynch Chris said: "A nice collection of fables from the Amazon, interspersed with the story of the author travelling up the river in search of old-timers with stories. Simple but effective wood-cut pictures accompany the text.

Written for children, but enjoy...more
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66892 Chris wrote: "Hey Angie, yes, it is.

I was part way through it when life got the better of me, but I'm going to pi...more
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Creative Ecologies:... Chris Lynch gave 3 of 5 stars to:
Creative Ecologies: Where Thinking is a Proper Job (Creative Economy + Innovation Culture)
by John Howkins, Stuart Cunningham (Editor) John Hartley (Editor)
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read in May, 2009
South: The Endurance... Chris Lynch gave 4 of 5 stars to:
South: The Endurance Expedition (Penguin Classics)
by Ernest Shackleton
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read in May, 2009
On Love and Barley:... Chris Lynch gave 5 of 5 stars to:
On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho (Penguin Classics)
by Matsuo Basho
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read in April, 2009
April 14
Romaji Diary and Sad... Chris Lynch gave 3 of 5 stars to:
Romaji Diary and Sad Toys (Tuttle Classics)
by Takuboku Ishikawa
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read in April, 2009

Chris Lynch Chris said: "This personal diary and collection of tanka was written in early 20th century Japan. The poet, Takuboku Ishikawa, was a weak, irresponsible, miserable man who died in his twenties of tuberculosis -- closely followed by his long-suffering wife and his...more "
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind."
Ralph Waldo Emerson


"Tear man out of his outward circumstances; and what he then is; that
only is he."
Johann Gottfried Seume


Bruce Chatwin
"I haven't got any special religion this morning. My God is the God of Walkers. If you walk hard enough, you probably don't need any other god."
Bruce Chatwin


Pablo Picasso
"“I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.""
Pablo Picasso


G.K. Chesterton
"An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered."
G.K. Chesterton





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