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Quentin S. Crisp
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April 25, 1972
in Devon, The United Kingdom
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I'm completely exhausted and must soon make myself some soup or something. Anyway, I thought - God knows why - I'd actually try to list my leisure reading for this year, to keep a track of my reading habits. I've never done it before. I'll keep this list in this particular blog entry, but I won't make it a sticky post, so if you're at all interested, you'll just have to bookmark it or something. I...
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"Remember You're A One-Ball!" by Quentin S. Crisp (Goodreads Author), Justin Isis   4.56 avg rating — 16 ratings
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2010
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Shrike 4.00 avg rating — 11 ratings
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2008
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Morbid Tales 4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings
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All God's Angels, Beware! 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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2009
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The Psychopomps & Others 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Rule Dementia! 2.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Nightmare Exhibition 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Strange Tales by Rosalie Parker , Nina Allan , Les Maynard & Mick Sims 4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings
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2003
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The shrike is a bird that impales its prey upon thorns. This book concerns Brett, a would-be writer in his mid-thirties who travels to Japan after a relationship fails and becomes obsessed with the idea that there's a shrike in the garden.
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Would your tenth grade English class have been more enjoyable if The Scarlet Letter was a better-written book? Probably. One can only hope that someday Dan Mills's "Revenants: A Dream of New England" will replace The Scarlet Letter, and sho...
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"Brian wrote: "i couldn't finish this. how are you liking it?"
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is on page 53 of 208 of The Orange Eats Creeps: I noticed a reader complain that although the language was great there was no story. I don't really care about 'the story', but I don't think the language is that great. What other people might see as a weird, messed-up style reads to me more like modern inarticulacy and lack of vocabulary. Still, there is something here. I'd say it's the punk aesthetic - like a song with energy even if there's no musicianship.
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“I think I can say without fear of inaccuracy that description is my strong point. Possibly this fact is central to my feeling excluded and so on in what might be called “the scene.” There appears to be a particular divide in literature that has “description” and all it implies, as its focus. Some people hate “fancy writing,” and just want to “cut to the chase,” and so on. This attitude deeply irritates me. If you can’t try and take words to their limit in the field of literature, then where can you? I actually think that variety is good, but it’s usually the enemies of “fancy writing” who also seem to deplore variety and believe that there’s only one way to write—without adverbs etc. etc.”
― Quentin S. Crisp
― Quentin S. Crisp
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“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
