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Clive James


Born
in Sydney, Australia
October 07, 1939

Died
November 24, 2019

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Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. See this thread for more information.

An expatriate Australian broadcast personality and author of cultural criticism, memoir, fiction, travelogue and poetry. Translator of Dante. ...more

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From the archive: Clive James on the Queen’s encounter with Reagan, 1983

Elizabeth II endured many tours during her reign, but few will have been recorded with such wit or observation as this visit to California

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The Royal Scuba Tour of California began last Saturday with scarcely any rain at all. The clouds over San Diego were full of water, but none of it was actually falling out of the sky as

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Average rating: 3.9 · 13,513 ratings · 1,608 reviews · 78 distinct works • Similar authors
Unreliable Memoirs
3.87 avg rating — 3,931 ratings — published 1980 — 20 editions
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Cultural Amnesia: Necessary...
4.12 avg rating — 1,710 ratings — published 2007 — 16 editions
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Falling Towards England
3.86 avg rating — 839 ratings — published 1985 — 11 editions
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Latest Readings
3.86 avg rating — 483 ratings — published 2015
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May Week Was in June
3.85 avg rating — 473 ratings — published 1990 — 7 editions
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Sentenced to Life: Poems
4.06 avg rating — 386 ratings — published 2015 — 8 editions
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Play All: A Bingewatcher’s ...
3.59 avg rating — 433 ratings — 7 editions
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North Face of Soho
3.89 avg rating — 312 ratings — published 2006 — 9 editions
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The Blaze of Obscurity
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Flying Visits
3.81 avg rating — 238 ratings — published 1986 — 7 editions
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Unreliable Memoirs Falling Towards England May Week Was in June North Face of Soho The Blaze of Obscurity
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“Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.”
― Clive James
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“Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.”
― Clive James
tags: logic, psychology, science
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“She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.”
― Clive James
tags: marilyn-monroe
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