2109 ratings (2.24 avg)
1445 reviews

James S.

Add friend

https://detectiveofdreams.blogspot.com/

James S. ’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (899)
currently-reading‎ (0)

read‎ (2120)
will-read-soon‎ (75)

anthologies‎ (89)
favorites‎ (60)

audiobook‎ (11)

Stats | More…

James S. ’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for Crab Monsters, Teenage Cavemen, and Candy Stripe Nurses: Roger Corman

Crab Monsters, Teenage Cavemen, and Candy Stripe Nurses: Roger Corman by Chris Nashawaty

1 highlight

“At first, I didn’t like The Big Doll House. I thought it had gone a little too far with the sex and the violence. It cost about $100,000, and it grossed something like $4 million. When I saw the grosses, I have to admit, my scruples faded ...more

See James S. ’s 3 books with notes and highlights…

James S. ’s Quotes

“True ease in writing comes from art, not chance,
As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.”
― Alexander Pope, An Essay On Criticism

92 likes

“The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

tags: depression, god

628 likes

“There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law. I love music passionately. And because l love it, I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it. It is a free art gushing forth — an open-air art, boundless as the elements, the wind, the sky, the sea. It must never be shut in and become an academic art.”
― Claude Debussy

tags: criticism, music

26 likes