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Joey Comeau is a Canadian writer. He is best known for his novels Lockpick Pornography and Overqualified, and as co-creator of the webcomic A Softer World (with Emily Horne).

Comeau currently resides in Toronto, Ontario. He has a degree in linguistics. His fourth book, a novel based on Overqualified, was published in 2009.


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Average rating: 4.06 · 3,054 ratings · 402 reviews · 23 distinct works · Similar authors
Overqualified
4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 705 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions
Lockpick Pornography
4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 660 ratings — published 2005 — 3 editions
One Bloody Thing After Another
3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 542 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions
Bible Camp Bloodbath
3.38 of 5 stars 3.38 avg rating — 261 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions
The Girl Who Couldn't Come
4.01 of 5 stars 4.01 avg rating — 212 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions
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4.62 of 5 stars 4.62 avg rating — 177 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions
It's Too Late to Say I'm Sorry
4.3 of 5 stars 4.30 avg rating — 188 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions
A Softer World: Second Best...
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4.82 of 5 stars 4.82 avg rating — 83 ratings — published 2009
The Complete Lockpick Porno...
4.27 of 5 stars 4.27 avg rating — 170 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions
We all got it coming
4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 85 ratings
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Tekkon Kinkreet by Taiyo Matsumoto
This is one of my favourite comic books. It's surreal and sort of mystical in a way that isn't lame, but is instead psychological and unexpectedly violent. I was very surprised by this book.

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Packing for Mars by Mary Roach
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
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Nothing I read in 2012 had as big an effect on me as the passages here describing "Space Madness." This is a great book by a great author.
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“Sometimes I’m terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is it wants. The way it stops and starts.”Edgar Allan Poe
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“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.”Maya Angelou
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The Invisibles by Grant Morrison
This is one of those books that makes you feel different just by reading it. It makes you pay more attention to the world, to the weird small things, to ideas and to other people, and most of all to yourself. It is the kind of book that makes you go...more
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The Wild Beasts Of Wuhan by Ian  Hamilton
This is the best of the series so far, I think. The detective work is fun, and the book continues to include charming "lifestyle porn" ala Entourage. In the last book, we saw some of the benefits of her Uncles connections, and so it was very satisfyi...more
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“Dear Nintendo, We need a new Mario game, where you rescue the princess in the first ten minutes, and for the rest of the game you try and push down that sick feeling in your stomach that she’s ‘damaged goods’, a concept detailed again and again in the profoundly sex negative instruction booklet, and when Luigi makes a crack about her and Bowser, you break his nose and immediately regret it. When Peach asks you, in the quiet of her mushroom castle bedroom ‘do you still love me?’ you pretend to be asleep. You press the A button rhythmically, to control your breath, keep it even.”
Joey Comeau, Overqualified

“I feel the way bank robbers must feel before they go out on that last job that ends up getting them all killed. That is to say, optimistic.”
Joey Comeau, Lockpick Pornography

“I think the best life would be one that's lived off the grid. No bills, your name in no government databases. No real proof you're even who you say you are, aside from, you know, being who you say you are. I don't mean living in a mountain hut with solar power and drinking well water. I think nature's beautiful and all, but I don't have any desire to live in it. I need to live in a city. I need pay as you go cell phones in fake names, wireless access stolen or borrowed from coffee shops and people using old or no encryption on their home networks. Taking knife fighting classes on the weekend! Learning Cantonese and Hindi and how to pick locks. Getting all sorts of skills so that when your mind starts going, and you're a crazy raving bum, at least you're picking their pockets while raving in a foreign language at smug college kids on the street. At least you're always gonna be able to eat. ”
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Joey Comeau Pooyan wrote: "Hi joey . tnx for accepting friendship. I consider myself your fist fan from Iran!"

Thank you! It's nice to meet you.

Joey


Pooyan Ra Hi joey . tnx for accepting friendship. I consider myself your fist fan from Iran!


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