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	Blazing Saddles 3.63 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1974 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Take Five: Poems in 5/4 Time it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Penny Saved by Tad Richards (Goodreads Author), Neale S. Godfrey it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1995	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	That's What You're Good At: My Life With Opus 40 and Other Venues really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Killing Place really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1976	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Brain of Agent Blue by Tad Richards (Goodreads Author), Steven L. Vorillas it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1984	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Listening to Prestige, Vol. 3: 1957-58 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The Romance of Willem and the Werewolf and Other Medieval Lays: Works written, commissioned, and preserved by women 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Tad Richards said: " I find myself feeling that I ought to keep a journal of reading this, sort of like that old Henny Youngman racetrack joke, "My horse was so slow the jockey kept a diary of the trip." I'm on Chapter Eleven, and I still have no idea what this book is a ...more "

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Tad Richards rated a book it was amazing 52nd Street: The Street Of Jazz by Arnold Shaw	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I had always thought of 52nd Street fans the cradle of bebop in the ‘40s. I had no idea its history as the street of music was so deep and rich. Arnold Shaw brings it to life.
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Tad Richards rated a book it was amazing Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Dec 22, 2020 06:36AM · 1 like · like · preview book See a Problem? We’d love your help. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter. Problem: Details (if other): Thanks for telling us about the problem. Not the book you’re looking for? Preview — Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter <iframe id="wrongBookKindlePreviewScreen">
Tad Richards rated a book it was amazing The Sot-Weed Factor by John Barth	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Tad Richards liked a quote “It was easy,' I said.” “It was easy,' I said.” ...more Mickey Spillane
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Tad Richards wants to read One Good Deed by David Baldacci (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Tad Richards rated a book it was amazing The Beginning or the End: How Hollywood--and America--Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb by Greg Mitchell (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Greg Mitchell has a unique ability to find unexpected paths into the important issues of our time, and of recent history. He combines a storyteller's gift with a historian's insights. This journey through Hollywood and Hiroshima with Donna Reed, J. R ...more
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Tad Richards rated a book it was amazing Accidental by Alex Richards (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I was hooked on this book and Johanna, its main character, ten pages into it. Johanna is funny and smart and quirky and insecure, and Alex Richards captures her voice perfectly. I knew that the book centered on a terrible revelation from the past in ...more
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I was hooked on this book and Johanna, its main character, ten pages into it. Johanna is funny and smart and quirky and insecure, and Alex Richards captures her voice perfectly. I knew that the book centered on a terrible revelation from the past in ...more
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Tad Richards rated a book it was amazing Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley by Charlotte Gordon (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Very complete, sympathetic biographies of two extraordinary women, the writer of an enduring classic and one of the greatest thinkers of her time. Both mother and daughter were long misunderstood, and for far too long not given the credit they deserv ...more
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Tad’s Quotes

“Poor fellow! I think he is in love with you.'

I am not aware of it. And to me it is one of the most odious things in a girl's life, that there must always be some supposition of falling in love coming between her and any man who is kind to her... I have no ground for the nonsensical vanity of fancying everybody who comes near me is in love with me.”
― George Eliot

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“If something doesn't creep into a drawing that you're not prepared for, you might as well not have drawn it.”
― Edward Gorey, Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey

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“My mission in life is to make everybody as uneasy as possible. I think we should all be as uneasy as possible, because that's what the world is like.”
― Edward Gorey, Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey

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“Oh, what can you do with a man like that? What can you do? How can you dissuade his eye in a crowd from seeking out the cheek with acne, the infirm hand; how can you teach him to respond to the inestimable greatness of the race, the harsh surface beauty of life; how can you put his finger for him on the obdurate truths before which fear and horror are powerless? The sea that morning was iridescent and dark. My wife and my sister were swimming--Diana and Helen--and I saw their uncovered heads, black and gold in the dark water. I saw them come out and I saw that they were naked, unshy, beautiful, and full of grace, and I watched the naked women walk out of the sea.”
― John Cheever, The Stories of John Cheever

tags: perspective

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