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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: 3.82 · 168 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 4.10 avg rating — 20 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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Monster: Oil on Canvas

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Richard Knight rated a book it was amazing The Many Misfortunes of Eugenia Wang by Stan Yan (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
What a great graphic novel! Eugenia Wang herself is a wonderful protagonist, but I especially love all of the other characters who populate this world, like Eugenia's best friend, Keisha, and her accident-prone self. Her brother is also a wonderful c ...more
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Richard Knight rated a book really liked it Avatar: The Last Airbender--Ashes of the Academy by Faith Erin Hicks (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
One of the better Avatar stories, I like that it features the Fire Nation reconciling their past and coming to grips with the fact that, yes, they were the problem.
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Richard Knight rated a book it was ok The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt	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 read this book because my sister bought me a poster of the 100 Best Books, and this was on there, and...it's certainly not what I would call one of the best books I've ever read. Maybe one of the worst? I'd put it up there with House of Leaves, as ...more
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Richard Knight rated a book really liked it Big Jim and the White Boy: An American Classic Reimagined by David F. Walker	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 like the idea better than the execution. That said, once I realized it wasn't really a retelling of Huck Finn, but rather, a reimagining, I enjoyed it more. ...more
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Not King's best batch of short stories, but there are a few great ones in here, namely "Suffer the Little Children," "Popsy," and "Umney's Last Case." ...more
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Richard Knight rated a book did not like it Hawkes Harbor by S.E. Hinton (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
Wow. This just might be the worst book I've ever read in my entire life. The twist about midway through is awful, and none of the events seem to matter. This book was shockingly bad. What a rough read. ...more
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If I'm being honest, John Irving isn't great at writing short stories. He's a master of the novel, but short stories? I was pretty disappointed. ...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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