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Clive James

Born

in Sydney, Australia

October 07, 1939

Died

November 24, 2019

Website

http://www.clivejames.com/

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An expatriate Australian broadcast personality and author of cultural criticism, memoir, fiction, travelogue and poetry. Translator of Dante. ...more

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Writings and Drawings by Bob Dylan reviewed – archive, 26 July 1973

26 July 1973: Clive James reviews a collection of Dylan’s lyrics, poems, writings and personal drawings

Writings and Drawings by Bob Dylan (Cape, £2.50)

For a gentle but rapidly ageing generation, no book ever asked to be read to pieces like Writings and Drawings by Bob Dylan. Helpfully, Jonathan Cape have bound its 300-plus pages in pink cardboard, so that it can come to pieces more easily.

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Average rating: 3.9 · 15,471 ratings · 1,876 reviews · 102 distinct works • Similar authors

	Unreliable Memoirs 3.87 avg rating — 4,360 ratings — published 1980 — 38 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
	Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts 4.12 avg rating — 1,944 ratings — published 2007 — 35 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
	Falling Towards England 3.88 avg rating — 945 ratings — published 1985 — 20 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
	Latest Readings 3.84 avg rating — 569 ratings — published 2015 — 8 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
	May Week Was in June 3.86 avg rating — 546 ratings — published 1990 — 14 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
	Sentenced to Life: Poems 4.08 avg rating — 446 ratings — published 2015 — 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
	Play All: A Bingewatcher’s Notebook 3.59 avg rating — 496 ratings — 8 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 Fire of Joy: Roughly Eighty Poems to Get By Heart and Say Aloud 4.22 avg rating — 342 ratings — published 2020 — 7 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
	North Face of Soho 3.91 avg rating — 364 ratings — published 2006 — 16 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 Blaze of Obscurity 3.93 avg rating — 298 ratings — published 2009 — 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

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Unreliable Memoirs (5 books)
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TV Criticism (4 books)
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“Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.”
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“Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.”
― Clive James

tags: logic, psychology, science

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“She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.”
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tags: marilyn-monroe

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Topics Mentioning This Author

topics	posts	views	last activity
Aussie Readers: Annual Aussie Author Challenge 2013	632	382	Dec 21, 2013 09:08PM
All About Books: La Divina Commedia - Inferno - Canto I	11	27	Apr 15, 2014 11:09AM
Between the Lines: Humorous Contemporary Writers	34	350	Nov 15, 2014 10:39AM
All About Books: Holding Court by Clive James (23rd June 2014)	23	68	Jan 06, 2015 11:43AM
Aussie Readers: Summer Reading Challenge - 1/12/14-28/2/15	1029	239	Mar 04, 2015 01:14PM
Divine Comedy + D...: Translations: The Divine Comedy	86	539	Sep 30, 2015 08:31PM
Aussie Readers: Aussie Author Challenge 2015	873	420	Jan 02, 2016 05:26AM
Aussie Readers: Recently purchased/acquired book/s	11518	1450	Mar 07, 2016 06:20PM

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Clive James

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Writings and Drawings by Bob Dylan reviewed – archive, 26 July 1973

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Clive James's Blog

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