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Richard B. Knight

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in Dover, The United States

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Fantasy, Young Adult, Humor and Comedy

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April 2012

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Richard B. Knight (The “B” stands for Brandon) teaches Language Arts during the day and writes fiction at night. He decided that he wanted to be a novelist back in the fourth grade. It was all quite spontaneous. Back then, his teacher asked all of the students what they wanted to be when they grew up, and while many students chose “doctor”, or “lawyer”, or “astronaut,” Richard, wanting to be funny, chose “drag queen garbage man”. It wasn’t until his peers starting reading off their choices that Richard decided that it would probably behoove him to write down another profession. He has stuck with “novelist” ever since.

Richard has a love of movies, video games, and comic books, and all three influences come through in his writing ...more

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Average rating: 3.83 · 169 ratings · 54 reviews · 6 distinct works

	Clean Hands 3.83 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 2015	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 Darkness of the Womb 3.75 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 2013 — 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
	Q: Are We Not Human? A: We Are Corpses! by Richard B. Knight (Goodreads Author), Veronica Roxby Jorden (Editor) 3.68 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2015	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 Boy and His Corpse 3.74 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2014 — 2 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 Interdimensional Subwoofer 4.14 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2015	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 Father's Fears 4.20 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2015	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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It's Okay To Think Blade Runner Sucks

Blade Runner is one of the greatest sci-fi movies of all time. It's the "thinking man's" sci-fi film. Ridley Scott is a genius, and Harrison Ford has never been better.

Except none of that is true. At least not for me. Blade Runner is a boring, meandering, mess of a movie, and I hate it, even if you love it. Sure, everybody talks about it like Jesus Christ Himself was behind the camera when it was Read more of this blog post »

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The Kite Runner

by Khaled Hosseini (Goodreads Author)

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The Picture of Dorian Gray

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Monster: Oil on Canvas

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At times, I thought this was better than Uzumaki, and at other times, I felt it was way too long. So, I liked it. I just didn't love it. ...more
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My favorite of these books yet. I feel like this one is closest to the show, and it adds a great deal to Roku's character. Looking forward to whomever comes next (But it's probably Kuruk). ...more
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King famously said that he doesn't remember writing Kujo because of his drug addiction at the time, but this is honestly one of his best novels. In fact, I wish I could be as good a writer as King was when he was zapped out of my mind. Yeesh. And tha ...more
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One of Junji Ito's more visual stories, I liked Gyo, but besides Uzumaki, I think I prefer his short stories to his longer ones. The additional short story that everybody loves (the one with the shapes in the mountain) is at the end of this book, and ...more
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Not a huge fan of the Lovesickness story arc, but I did enjoy the additional short stories, namely the one involving the mansion that exudes phantom pain, and that strange family, which was actually laugh-out-loud funny. So, some I loved, and some I ...more
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I went into this book thinking I would hate it only for it to be one of my favorite books that I read this year. Color me surprised though when I found out it was written by some white dude. lol. That just goes to show that I go into most books blind ...more
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“When I'm writing, I make words my b*tch. But when I'm editing, the words make me their b*tch. It all equals out in the end.”
― Richard B. Knight

tags: editing, writing-life, writing-process

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“If I could make money making armpit farts, I would. But since I can't, I teach. And write.”
― Richard B. Knight

tags: armpits, farts, teaching, writing

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“Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

tags: humour, telekinetics

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“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

tags: reading, writing

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“When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth.”
― George A. Romero, Dawn of the Dead

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“It isn't by getting out of the world that we become enlightened, but by getting into the world…by getting so tuned in that we can ride the waves of our existence and never get tossed because we become the waves.”
― Ken Kesey, Kesey's Garage Sale

tags: enlightenment, existence

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“You'll hit gold more often if you simply try out a lot of things.”
― Ira Glass

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