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Manic's favourite books...
I'm new to the forum so sorry if this has already been a topic. I'm on the search for a good book to read and after having my old manics obsession come back into my head I thought I would get some inspirations from Nicky Wire. lol.
Do you know what his favourite books/authors are? alternatively, could you recommend a good new/old book for me to read? Im open minded with books but do like the old horror book |
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try www.manics.nl. That has a short piece on almost everything the manics have referenced, and a literature section if i remember correctly.
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I found this "Richey's favourites" file in my Manics folder, don't know where it comes from but I think it was from some interview or something where Richey was writing down some of his favourite books/authors. I've read way too many of these...
small crypt warnings/ suddenly last summer/ baby doll - Tennessee Williams go ask alice - Anon the bell jar - Sylvia Plath season in hell - Rimbaud junky - William Burroughs myth of sisyphus/ the outsider/ the fall/ the plague - Albert Camus poetry by any of the following : Philip Larkin Primo Levi Blake Sassoons the boy looked at johnny - Burchill + Parsons mystery train - Greil Marcus awop - Nik Cohn crosstown traffic - O Murray elvis- last 48 hours/ lives of lennon - Goldman 1984 - George Orwell lolita - Nabokov the fire nextime / another country - James Baldini borstal boy - Beliar less than zero/ american psycho - Brett Easton Ellis lord of the flies/ the inheritor - Golding prick up your ears - John Lahr one flew over the cuckoo's nest - Ken Kesey brave new world - Huxley desolation angels - Jack Kerouac dice man - Luke Rhinehart invisible man - Ellison catcher in the rye - J. D. Salinger birdy/ pride - Wharton naomi - Junichiro Tanazaki no longer human - Osamu Dazai the trial / metamorphosis - Franz Kafka frisk - Cooper notes from the underground - Dostoevsky bernice bobs her hair - F. Scott Fitzgerald black rain - Ibuse thirst for love - Mishima dorian gray - Oscar Wilde miracle of the rose - Genet crash/ atrocity exhibition - J.G. Ballard blown away - Hotchrer knots - R D Laing under the volcano - Lowry wasteland - T S Elliot torture garden - Mirbeau runaway soul - Brodke the lost soul - Alan Jackson
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Thank you for the post with Richey's books. I love Richey Edwards. I admire him so much, mainly because of the intelligence/creativity/personality he had and its his intelligence that I can never live up to. I could try but no way. I have read some of those before but will go through the list to see whether there is any gold there.
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It's not like Richey was the first young person to read this - pretty much anyone with a vague interest in books does when they're a teen. He's pretty much just missing Sartre - then the list'd be complete as far as 6th form reading lists go. Quote:
Creativity - 30 - 40 OK lyrics, and a few collages? Personality - 'fucked up' slogan-makerand talking like a pretentious 17 year old at the age of 25? Last edited by TheSilentMan; 30-06-2007 at 21:41. Reason: spelt 'form' as 'forum'. d'uh |
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Well, there are some really good books in that list. And sure I'd already started with Sartre/Camus, and some of the authors I knew about as well, but I wouldn't have read Mirbeau or Rimbaud for example if it wasn't for that list.
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Spot the Dog & Where's Wally.
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And the last one, "the lost soul - Alan Jackson" is an article written about Richey in 1996, which I also have on my site, btw.
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I heard that Nicky owns the Mr Men boxset, but im not sure of the truth of that rumour.
Either way, I bought it. |
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I didnt make this thread to have a debate on anything other than what books to read. I spend my time going into my local waterstones and seeing the top ten lists and not being very attracted to the books. I've really tried to read a good book recently and be really WOW over them but it hasnt happened for a long time. And yes, I could just read whatever takes my fancy rather than going through a best of list from some famous people which may take away the pretentious concept of it but hey ho.
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Richey's favourite books list is so predictable that it's parodic.
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