Tad Richards
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Blazing Saddles
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1974
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Take Five: Poems in 5/4 Time
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2012
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Penny Saved
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1995
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That's What You're Good At: My Life With Opus 40 and Other Venues
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The Killing Place
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1976
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The Brain of Agent Blue
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1984
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My Night With the Language Thieves
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1999
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Sir Gawain and Lady Ragnelle
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The New Country Music Encyclopedia
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1993
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Listening to Prestige Volume 4: 1959-60
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An important memoir of a crucial and under-reported time and place in American music. Otis's point of view is particularly important, because he was there, and because he reports as both an insider and and outsider. Otis was born white, and never den ...more | |
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My daughter had recommended a mystery novel called The Cutting Room, so I went looking for it, and found two, so I figured, what the hell, read both of them. I've more or less arbitrarily rated one four stars and one three, figuring that in some para ...more | |
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Murder mysteries, police procedurals, private eye novels -- they're all about murder, violent crime, the terrible disruption of lives, dark passions out of control...and we read them because they're fun. Not much fun about this one -- it's about pain ...more | |
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Two Raylan Givens novels, terse and satisfying in that unique Elmore Leonard way, and a collection of short stories, one of them featuring Raylan. I’d never read any of Leonard’s shots stories before, and he proves himself a master of that form, too. | |
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Talk about watching a train wreck in slow motion. And like that slow motion train wreck, it’s a compulsive read. My advice- just keep imagining what’s the worst next thing you can imagine happening to the hero, and I guarantee you that every time, it ...more | |
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A whodunnit with a really surprising yet completely fair twist at the end, this is also a remarkable series of sharply and subtly observed character studies by an omniscient narrator, as the murder of a too-conscientious and perhaps too-modern vicar’ ...more | |
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All About Books: * This Day in Literary History | 7189 | 1452 | Apr 27, 2022 11:10PM |

“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.”
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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.”
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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.”
― Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey
― Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey

“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.”
― Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey
― Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey

“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.”
― The Stories of John Cheever
― The Stories of John Cheever

“It was easy,' I said.”
― I, the Jury
― I, the Jury

No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read ...more

For fans of Geoff Dyer's genre-defying fiction and non-fiction. Dubbed “slacker laureate” by the New Yorker, British author/scholar/gonzo journalist ...more

Ink spillied over the Mets? There ain't enough of that. ...more

ALL GENRE COMMUNITY OF BOOK LOVERS-Perfect for those interested in good books of any genre, film and lively discussion!- from current fiction, thrille ...more
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