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About this author

Short absurdist comic-surrealist nonsense with poly genre mashup. Sincerely weird.


Average rating: 2.75 · 504 ratings · 139 reviews · 42 distinct works
Snapdragon Alley
2.97 of 5 stars 2.97 avg rating — 78 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions
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Zombie Nights
2.75 of 5 stars 2.75 avg rating — 76 ratings — published 1983 — 5 editions
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Bookstore Lore
2.51 of 5 stars 2.51 avg rating — 72 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions
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Freak City
2.89 of 5 stars 2.89 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions
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The Part-Time People
2.46 of 5 stars 2.46 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions
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Dragon Town
2.94 of 5 stars 2.94 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions
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Squatter With A Lexus
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Orange Car With Stripes
3.17 of 5 stars 3.17 avg rating — 12 ratings3 editions
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Death Ray Butterfly
2.71 of 5 stars 2.71 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions
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Sexy Teenage Vampires
3.4 of 5 stars 3.40 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions
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Deadline - a short story (Literature & Fiction)
1 chapters   —   updated Sep 10, 2010 03:51pm
Description: a rainy night, a diner, and the inimitable Darcy and Dave
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Tom Lichtenberg wrote a new blog post: just a thought or two
Things don’t have to be great. They really don’t. Movies, books,songs,art and so on. It’s okay if they’re just good. But no. In this superlative in... read more »
Tom Lichtenberg made a comment in the group Goodreads Authors/ReadersGiveaways! topic
"I've got a Goodreads giveaway going on now for Ray & Nights, perhaps the world's only zombie/SF/coming-of-age trilogy featuring the same set of ch...more "
"Now I wasn't prepared for this! Much in the same way as Treasure Island surprised me by being so much more than a book about pirates and parrots, so Frankenstein is so much more than a novel about ..."   ...read it »
"You think I'm kidding, right? That's sweet, that you think I have to make shit like that up. No, I'm not going to even save it for a slow reveal. In this chapter, Christian Grey fucks Ana so hard s..."   ...read it »
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How I Became a Nun by César Aira
How I Became a Nun
by César Aira
read in March, 2012
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I read this book as slowly as I could, because I didn't want it to end. The several stories that compose this impossible autobiography form a cohesive narrative, yet each one can be read on its own. In fact I read each chapter at least twice before m...more
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The Seamstress and the Wind by César Aira
The Seamstress and the Wind
by César Aira
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wildly inventive and madly endearing, the handful of characters who get caught up in this strange vortex of a fictional downpour each have their own unexpected fate and unpredictable tale to tell. as usual Aira lets his story develop and unfold in it...more
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An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter by César Aira
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This book reads like a symphony, the way it swells and rises to an astonishing crescendo. It's like catching a wave and riding it all the way in to shore. Aira really got hold of something here and made the most of it. Somehow it reminds me of a sort...more
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The Literary Conference by César Aira
The Literary Conference
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An interesting Goodreads person, whose reviews I enjoy, gave a pretty negative review to a different book by this author, but the things he didn't like about it were the kind of things I usually look for - whimsicality (his word), restlessness, metaf...more
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The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
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Though well written and engaging, the main problem I'm having with The Hunger Games is that it seems fundamentally un-American. If it were a mythical country it would be more believable, but as a future America it seems to contradict a number of trai...more
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“There are no lessons to be learned from the past. This is the first thing I learned from it. There is nothing back then that there isn't here now. There is nothing here now - nothing that matters - that wasn't back then. What matters. Are you a good person? Do you have any love in your heart? What would you do in a given circumstance? It all comes down to something like that.”
Tom Lichtenberg, Time Zone

“If there was a God he reasoned it would have the same relation to us as we have to blades of grass. Do we make them grow? Yes in the sense that we water the lawn. Do we care for them and worry over them? Again as a lawn but not as individual blades. We don't give them names. We just want them to look nice and green. A God who created the earth would want it to look nice an blue from space. He would sit back after a long day of creating things and think to himself now that's what a planet should look like.”
Tom Lichtenberg, Time Zone

“Nothing to it", Dennis sighed. "Find him. Chop his head off. Stick him in the ground again, and this time don't forget the orange peel."
"Lemon", Rags replied.
"Orange", Dennis insisted. "It's only lemon the first go around. Second time orange. Third time lime."
"Third time?", Rags said nervously.
"Sometimes it doesn't take", Dennis said.”
Tom Lichtenberg, Zombie Nights

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“Our character is composed of our ideas and our feelings: and, since it has been proved that we give ourselves neither feelings nor ideas, our character does not depend on us. If it did depend on us, there is nobody who would not be perfect. If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing”
Voltaire

“I would rather be the head of a fly than the tail of a lion.”
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“You ask yourself: where are your dreams now? And you shake your head and say how swiftly the years fly by! And you ask yourself again: what have you done with your best years, then? Where have you buried the best days of your life? Have you lived or not? Look, you tell yourself, look how cold the world is becoming. The years will pass and after them will come grim loneliness, and old age, quaking on its stick, and after them misery and despair. Your fantasy world will grow pale, your dreams will fade and die, falling away like the yellow leaves from the trees… Ah, Nastenka! Will it not be miserable to be left alone, utterly alone, and have nothing even to regret — nothing, not a single thing… because everything I have lost was nothing, stupid, a round zero, all dreaming and no more!”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Life knows us not and we do not know life—-we don’t know even our own thoughts. Half the words we use have no meaning whatever and of the other half each man understands each word after the fashion of his own folly and conceit. Faith is a myth and beliefs shift like mists on the shore; thoughts vanish; words, once pronounced, die; and the memory of yesterday is as shadowy as the hope of tomorrow”
Joseph Conrad

“The problem is, you can't tell people these things. They'll think you're crazy. And I say to myself: What can I do with this life inside me? I'd like to give it ... to make a present of it ... to go up to people and tell them: You need to be joyful! You know? You have to play at being pirates ... to build cities of marble ... to laugh ... to set off firecrackers”
Roberto Arlt, El Juguete Rabioso

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