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John Dodds
Goodreads Author
Born
in Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, The United Kingdom
April 26
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Influences
Wilkie Collins, Ray Bradbury, Peter Straub, many contemporary crime no
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Member Since
December 2010
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Bone Machines
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2011
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10 editions
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Kali's Kiss (Kendrick Chronicles, Book 2)
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2012
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5 editions
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The Mechanikals
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2012
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Babylon Slide
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2015
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5 editions
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Dead Boyfriends
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2014
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Oni
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Cafe Insomnia
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2015
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Dr. North's Wound and Other Stories
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2010
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crow among the starlings
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Sugar Ceremony
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2013
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Fantastic fantasy. If Jane Austin wrote fantasy, this is just what she might have written, though set in a later era. Loved this. |
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Fun and creepy Sneaks up on you though I had some suspicion about what might happen at the end. A good read, though. |
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“I'm a drinker with writing problems.”
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“Stories are masks of God.
That's a story, too, of course. I made it up, in collaborations with Joseph Campbell and Scheherazade, Jesus and the Buddha and the Brother's Grimm.
Stories show us how to bear the unbearable, approach the unapproachable, conceive the inconceiveable. Stories provide meaning, texture, layers and layers of truth.
Stories can also trivialize. Offered indelicately, taken too literally, stories become reductionist tools, rendering things neat and therefore false. Even as we must revere and cherish the masks we variously create, Campbell reminds us, we must not mistake the masks of God for God.
So it seemes to me that one of the most vital things we can teach our children is how to be storytellers. How to tell stories that are rigorously, insistently, beautifully true. And how to believe them.”
― The Man on the Ceiling
That's a story, too, of course. I made it up, in collaborations with Joseph Campbell and Scheherazade, Jesus and the Buddha and the Brother's Grimm.
Stories show us how to bear the unbearable, approach the unapproachable, conceive the inconceiveable. Stories provide meaning, texture, layers and layers of truth.
Stories can also trivialize. Offered indelicately, taken too literally, stories become reductionist tools, rendering things neat and therefore false. Even as we must revere and cherish the masks we variously create, Campbell reminds us, we must not mistake the masks of God for God.
So it seemes to me that one of the most vital things we can teach our children is how to be storytellers. How to tell stories that are rigorously, insistently, beautifully true. And how to believe them.”
― The Man on the Ceiling
“Some truly bad writing, but brilliantly funny at the same time.
"When he was yet a million miles away the bright ring of fire that marked its portal filled the sky in front of him, flexing and twisting like the devil's anus in spasms of immortal agony.”
― The Demon Cosmos
"When he was yet a million miles away the bright ring of fire that marked its portal filled the sky in front of him, flexing and twisting like the devil's anus in spasms of immortal agony.”
― The Demon Cosmos
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