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Nicholas Rombes works in Detroit. His novels include The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing (Two Dollar Radio), The Rachel Condition (CLASH Books), and Lisa 2, v 1.0 (Calamari Archives). He's written for The Believer, The Oxford American, n+1 online, & Filmmaker Magazine and is author of Ramones, from Bloomsbury's 33 1/3 series and 10/40/70 from Zer0 Books. ...more

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Average rating: 3.6 · 816 ratings · 126 reviews · 35 distinct works • Similar authors

	Ramones 3.46 avg rating — 383 ratings — published 2005 — 11 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
	The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing 3.64 avg rating — 199 ratings — published 2014 — 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
	A Cultural Dictionary of Punk, 1974-1982 3.87 avg rating — 104 ratings — published 2009 — 5 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
	Cinema in the Digital Age 3.62 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2008 — 9 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
	Lisa 2, v1.0 4.16 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2024	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
	10/40/70: Constraint as Liberation in the Era of Digital Film Theory 3.44 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2014 — 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
	New Punk Cinema by Nicholas Rombes (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Steven Schneider, Stacy Thompson (Contributor) 3.50 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2005 — 3 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
	The Rachel Condition 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2024	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
	Gerry: Movies Minute by Minute it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — 3 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
	Nightmare Trails at Knifepoint it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2009	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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Nicholas Rombes rated a book it was amazing The Witnesses Are Gone by Joel Lane	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
Such a strange and bleak book. An important piece of the piece of the films-that-don't-exist canon. ...more
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Nicholas Rombes rated a book really liked it The Translation of Father Torturo by Brendan Connell (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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Nicholas Rombes and 10 other people liked Bill Hsu's review of People in the Room: "This is all about the narrator's extended and elaborate concoctions. Lange spins impressive and obsessive passages like: I know I couldn't allow myself to be mistaken, that I loved them, that I didn't mind not knowing their names as long as things wen " Read more of this review »
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Nicholas Rombes rated a book liked it Stories from the Attic by William Gay	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 should have stopped reading William Gay after his near perfect story "The Paperhanger." That, and a few others in I Hate to See that Evening Sun Go Down are jarringly good. But so much else, the posthumous work especially, just doesn't have that dr ...more
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Nicholas Rombes and 22 other people liked Bill Hsu's review of There Is No Antimemetics Division: "I tend not to be that into technology-driven sci-fi these days. But this is the best I've read in the genre since Max Barry's Lexicon. A lot has been written about this, so just a few short notes. I love the big ideas of course, and the abstract play " Read more of this review »
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Nicholas Rombes rated a book it was amazing The Inspector Barlach Mysteries: The Judge and His Hangman / Suspicion by Friedrich Dürrenmatt	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
Sheer nihilism; sheer heart
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Nicholas Rombes rated a book it was amazing Yonder Stands Your Orphan by Barry Hannah	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
Such a sick, swampy, great (as in the old greats) book, such broken characters so committed to their own failures
Jun 18, 2026 01:47PM · like · see review
Nicholas Rombes and 5 other people liked W.T.H.'s review of The Face of Another: ""Is what you think to be the mask in reality your real face, or is what you think to be your real face really a mask?" A scientist scarred and disfigured in a laboratory accident creates a mask for himself in order to "win" back his wife and in the pr" Read more of this review »
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Nicholas Rombes rated a book it was amazing The Martyrs by O. Jamie Walsh	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
"A storm came, welcome after the heat of the week, and I found myself again in touching distance of a version of living where the insistence of anxiety simply vanishes into the sound of the rain. So many of my hours are crumpled like tinfoil, with no ...more
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Nicholas Rombes rated a book liked it Strange Epiphanies by Peter Bell	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
Murky, liminal, Scotland-set stories, reminiscent of Aikman. Should probably have given it 4 stars but I needed more tooth to these stories.
May 19, 2026 02:48PM · like · see review

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May 05, 2026 01:11PM

Thank you for doing this, Bill--I hadn't noticed someone had changed this. I'm so glad the novels resonate for you!

Yes, working on an expanded edition of the Laing novel, and partway through a new one about a doppelganger of Detroit that gradually removes the city piece by piece and replaces it with facsimiles.

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message 1: by Bill

May 04, 2026 06:17PM

There's a goodreads user named Professor Nicholas Rombes. Someone had changed the author of The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing to the Prof; last week I noticed this and changed it back. Hope that's ok?

(I love your 3 novels and hope to see a new one soon!)