Sign in with Facebook
more photos (1)
Brian’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Brian’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Brian C. Clark’s Followers (16)
1,012 books
|
541 friends
4,149 books
|
4,986 friends
187 books
|
142 friends
2,214 books
|
1,370 friends
1,697 books
|
1,369 friends
2,755 books
|
781 friends
3,469 books
|
2,092 friends
405 books
|
1,079 friends
More friends…
Brian C. Clark
Goodreads Author
Website
Genre
Member Since
March 2015
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/funkendub
To ask
Brian C. Clark
questions,
please sign up.
|
Splitting
—
published
1999
—
2 editions
|
|
|
Look Ma, No Head!
|
|
* Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. To add more, click here.
I wrote a weak novel!
I was so delighted to read Lucy Ives' piece in The Baffler, "The Weak Novel." Ives writes:
Either Tristram Shandy was a masterpiece against which all novels might be measured, or it was a weak attempt by an overly ambitious pretender with a clever idea but no control and even less taste, a torrent of “lexical diarrhea”—to repurpose Dave Eggers’s summation of Infinite Jest’s failings in a 1996 reviRead more of this blog post »
Brian’s Recent Updates
|
Brian
is currently reading
|
|
|
Brian
wants to read
|
|
|
Brian
and
6 other people
liked
Holden Wunders's status update
Holden Wunders
is on page 100 of 336 of Lost Lambs
|
|
|
Brian
is currently reading
|
|
|
Brian
is currently reading
|
|
|
Brian
wants to read
|
|
Flyingbroom
is 77% done with How to Start a Business on Your Kitchen Table
|
|
|
Brian
and
20 other people
liked
♑︎♑︎♑︎ ♑︎♑︎♑︎'s review
of
A Terrible Intimacy: Interracial Life in the Slaveholding South:
"Melvin Patrick Ely takes a deep dive into court records and comes up with an extraordinarily intimate study of enslaved Black individuals and free white individuals in conflicts that led to a trial. It’s not ‘history’ in a typical sense. Ely focuses "
Read more of this review »
|
|
|
Brian
wants to read
|
|
“Hope doesn’t die just because a life is lost, or even a million lives.”
― The Void Trilogy
― The Void Trilogy
“When you’re a cork in someone else’s stream of consciousness, all you can do is spin and bob in the eddies.”
― Lords and Ladies
― Lords and Ladies
“You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.”
―
―
“What You Should Know to be a Poet"
all you can know about animals as persons.
the names of trees and flowers and weeds.
the names of stars and the movements of planets
and the moon.
your own six senses, with a watchful elegant mind.
at least one kind of traditional magic:
divination, astrology, the book of changes, the tarot;
dreams.
the illusory demons and the illusory shining gods.
kiss the ass of the devil and eat sh*t;
fuck his horny barbed cock,
fuck the hag,
and all the celestial angels
and maidens perfum’d and golden-
& then love the human: wives husbands and friends
children’s games, comic books, bubble-gum,
the weirdness of television and advertising.
work long, dry hours of dull work swallowed and accepted
and lived with and finally lovd. exhaustion,
hunger, rest.
the wild freedom of the dance, extasy
silent solitary illumination, entasy
real danger. gambles and the edge of death.”
―
all you can know about animals as persons.
the names of trees and flowers and weeds.
the names of stars and the movements of planets
and the moon.
your own six senses, with a watchful elegant mind.
at least one kind of traditional magic:
divination, astrology, the book of changes, the tarot;
dreams.
the illusory demons and the illusory shining gods.
kiss the ass of the devil and eat sh*t;
fuck his horny barbed cock,
fuck the hag,
and all the celestial angels
and maidens perfum’d and golden-
& then love the human: wives husbands and friends
children’s games, comic books, bubble-gum,
the weirdness of television and advertising.
work long, dry hours of dull work swallowed and accepted
and lived with and finally lovd. exhaustion,
hunger, rest.
the wild freedom of the dance, extasy
silent solitary illumination, entasy
real danger. gambles and the edge of death.”
―
“One of the major problems encountered in time travel is not that of becoming your own father or mother. There is no problem in becoming your own father or mother that a broad-minded and well-adjusted family can't cope with. There is no problem with changing the course of history—the course of history does not change because it all fits together like a jigsaw. All the important changes have happened before the things they were supposed to change and it all sorts itself out in the end.
The major problem is simply one of grammar, and the main work to consult in this matter is Dr. Dan Streetmentioner's Time Traveler's Handbook of 1001 Tense Formations. It will tell you, for instance, how to describe something that was about to happen to you in the past before you avoided it by time-jumping forward two days in order to avoid it. The event will be descibed differently according to whether you are talking about it from the standpoint of your own natural time, from a time in the further future, or a time in the further past and is futher complicated by the possibility of conducting conversations while you are actually traveling from one time to another with the intention of becoming your own mother or father.
Most readers get as far as the Future Semiconditionally Modified Subinverted Plagal Past Subjunctive Intentional before giving up; and in fact in later aditions of the book all pages beyond this point have been left blank to save on printing costs.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy skips lightly over this tangle of academic abstraction, pausing only to note that the term "Future Perfect" has been abandoned since it was discovered not to be.”
― The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
The major problem is simply one of grammar, and the main work to consult in this matter is Dr. Dan Streetmentioner's Time Traveler's Handbook of 1001 Tense Formations. It will tell you, for instance, how to describe something that was about to happen to you in the past before you avoided it by time-jumping forward two days in order to avoid it. The event will be descibed differently according to whether you are talking about it from the standpoint of your own natural time, from a time in the further future, or a time in the further past and is futher complicated by the possibility of conducting conversations while you are actually traveling from one time to another with the intention of becoming your own mother or father.
Most readers get as far as the Future Semiconditionally Modified Subinverted Plagal Past Subjunctive Intentional before giving up; and in fact in later aditions of the book all pages beyond this point have been left blank to save on printing costs.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy skips lightly over this tangle of academic abstraction, pausing only to note that the term "Future Perfect" has been abandoned since it was discovered not to be.”
― The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Newest Literary Fiction
— 1511 members
— last activity 11 hours, 4 min ago
Discover and share your discovery of the most recently published literary fiction. If you love reading novels before anyone else decides they are good ...more
