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Toby Litt

Autor(a) de Deadkidsongs

43+ Works 1,466 Membros 57 Críticas 3 Favorited

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Obras por Toby Litt

Deadkidsongs (2001) 241 exemplares
Corpsing (2000) 190 exemplares
Free Country: A Tale of The Children's Crusade (1993) — Autor — 144 exemplares
Hospital (2007) 112 exemplares
Finding Myself (2003) 110 exemplares
Exhibitionism (2001) 103 exemplares
Beatniks (1997) 97 exemplares
Adventures in Capitalism (1996) 88 exemplares
Ghost Story (2004) 69 exemplares
Journey into Space (1732) 46 exemplares
Patience (2019) 31 exemplares
New Writing 13 (2005) — Editor & Introduction — 17 exemplares

Associated Works

The Book of Other People (2008) — Contribuidor — 737 exemplares
Granta 81: Best of Young British Novelists 2003 (2003) — Contribuidor — 273 exemplares
I'm With the Bears: Short Stories from a Damaged Planet (2011) — Contribuidor — 90 exemplares
Midsummer Nights (1702) — Contribuidor — 73 exemplares
The Mammoth Book of Best British Crime 7 (2010) — Contribuidor — 38 exemplares
Lemistry: A Celebration of the Work of Stanislaw Lem (2011) — Contribuidor — 35 exemplares
Beacons: Stories for Our Not So Distant Future (2013) — Contribuidor — 34 exemplares
Beyond the Veil (2021) — Contribuidor — 21 exemplares
Cinema Futura (2010) — Contribuidor — 19 exemplares
Bio-Punk: Stories from the Far Side of Research (2012) — Contribuidor — 12 exemplares
Croatian Nights (2005) — Contribuidor — 11 exemplares
Piece of Flesh (2001) — Contribuidor — 11 exemplares
68: New Stories from Children of the Revolution (Anthologies) (2008) — Contribuidor — 5 exemplares
Being Dad: Short Stories About Fatherhood (2016) — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
Reports from the Deep End: Stories inspired by J. G. Ballard (2023) — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar

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I wouldn't like to hazard a guess how much of this is fact vs fiction, but it reads as a straightforward diary of a writer called Toby Litt sitting and trying to write. There is a lot of family drama from birth to death, but also disgressions about pencil sharpeners and writing itself.

One from my Galley Beggar buddy subscription.
 
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AlisonSakai | Dec 16, 2023 |
This started out well but really began sputtering out midway through and never found its way back.

The concept is good. The setting is good. A lot of the details are interesting, twists on folklore, children's games, old rhymes, Robert Browning, and the possibly somewhat historic Children's Crusade. On top of that, the two detectives are ghost boys! So it was really hitting all my favorite things, not to mention probable inspiration from J.M. Barrie's Neverland.

After a while, issues stopped connecting well. I had to infer a lot for seemingly no good reason to make an inkling of sense of the plot. Some characters that were made to seem important were just suddenly dropped. You can almost hear the authors scrambling to patch this up.

The saving grace is that the Dead Boy Detectives are consistently amusing.
… (mais)
 
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bannedforaday | 8 outras críticas | Oct 22, 2023 |
This could have been 4 stars if the artwork was better. I want to know what happened to those boys, but the bad artwork won't let me.
 
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Koralis | Jul 12, 2022 |
Was looking for a new graphic novel while at the library and picked this one at random. I didn't realize at the time that it contained side characters from Gaiman's Sandman graphic novels.

I really enjoyed this first compilation. If you're looking for Gaiman in the pages, he didn't write it and the style isn't much the same.

That being said, it's still an enjoyable read. I would definitely recommend it!
 
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bookdrunkard78 | 4 outras críticas | Jan 6, 2022 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
43
Also by
16
Membros
1,466
Popularidade
#17,521
Avaliação
½ 3.4
Críticas
57
ISBN
97
Línguas
8
Marcado como favorito
3

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