Did he have good taste, Veeky Forums?
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David Bowie's Top 100 Books
Ryder Foster
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Ryan Allen
The only one I find completely unacceptable is fucking Howard Zinn. Including comics in your Top 100 is also a rather pleb move.
Bentley Cooper
Maybe he didn't care about the autistic patrician/pleb dichotomy
Gavin Garcia
Neither do plebs with terrible taste
Cooper Sanders
They probably think they are "patricians"
Michael Richardson
Im pretty sire hese are the only books he's read in his entire life. Its such a miss match of occasional introductory classics, pop-psychology, and contemporary popular novels for it to be a carefully selected list. There wasnt much in the pool to choose from. At least he read something.
Zachary Foster
>Its such a miss match of occasional introductory classics, pop-psychology, and contemporary popular novels
That's actually a fairly normal assembly for average people's favorite list.
Jack Anderson
fuckin' kek. great retort, you patrician you.
David Ramirez
>lolita
he's /our guy/
Anthony Moore
t.
Camden Baker
>Wyndam Lewis
>Mishima
>Elliot [sic]
>Dos Passos
>Paglia
>Lawrence
>Tomasi di Lampedusa
Samuel Allen
When Bowie was living in Berlin he had a self-painted portrait of Mishima hanging on the walls.
indeed /our guy/
Kevin Carter
Eh, Homer and Dante made it at least. But not even the entire Divine Comedy, just the Inferno. I think he's mostly a pleb.
Luke Davis
>Viz
Quality m8
Camden Allen
>no culture of critique
DROPPED
Bentley Edwards
>davidbowie.com
he read earthly powers
i mean its better than me, but im disgusted he has some missing that i love too much. not his fault i guess. its alright considering he isnt really that big of an intellectual
Aaron Cruz
I think youre mostly aspie and hadnt heard of Dante 6 months ago
Matthew Wilson
Some individual selections are questionable, but they mix nicely with the deep cuts (how many people in this thread have actually read Alberto Denti di Pirajno?)
In the end, the Guardian shit-lit and rock histories, when considered alongside the modernist obscurities and Flaubert, fit a general Bowie aesthetic that's deeply sincere, eclectic, and totally unique to his personality. A great list
For comparison, I'll post Barthelme's recommended books
Christian Ramirez
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Owen Brooks
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Ayden Edwards
>no James Joyce
>no Marcel Proust
>no William Blake
Surprise, surprise, the commercial success lacks any knowledge of true art
Anthony Cox
>The 42nd Parallel by John Dos Passos
do bongs appreciate Dos Passos more than burgers?
Tyler Clark
has anyone here even read 100 books
Xavier Wright
Pretty heavily skewed towards english and american authors with basically Veeky Forums starter pack writers like Mishima added in. I mean how can you not have read for example Kazantzakis?
Elijah Gray
>Bowie doesn’t know The Last Temptation of Christ author
Is that the joke? That he played Pilate in the movie version?
Austin Gonzalez
>ever watching the movie
If he knows him and doesn't recommend him, that's even more pleb
Tyler Edwards
Most autistic thread I've seen in a while
Landon Barnes
>Kazantzakis
>Any measure of quality
Ho ho hee hee
Joshua Myers
>mein kampf
BASED BOWIE
Sebastian Bennett
on having no head by Douglas harding
anyone who has that on their list is always fine with me. RIP
Liam Harris
>Bicameral mind
>Maldodor
>Wyndham Lewis
Not bad.