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Old 30-06-2007, 13:41
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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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Old 30-06-2007, 14:00
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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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Old 30-06-2007, 14:15
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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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Old 30-06-2007, 19:21
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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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Old 30-06-2007, 20:32
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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.
I used to wander around the school library with that list, the librarians were very puzzled to se a student with strange clothes and way too much eyeliner asking for some of those books
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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...
"Books for generic disaffected 16-18 year olds" - By Richey Edwards

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.

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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.
Intelligence -
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?
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Old 30-06-2007, 20:48
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"Books for generic disaffected 16-18 year olds" - By Richey Edwards

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 forum reading lists go.

Intelligence -
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?
hahahaha ftw.
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Old 30-06-2007, 21:12
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"Books for generic disaffected 16-18 year olds" - By Richey Edwards

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 forum reading lists go.


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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"Books for generic disaffected 16-18 year olds" - By Richey Edwards

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.



Intelligence -
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?
And what do you read? Anna Karenina by Tolstoy or the Magical Far Away Tree by Enid Blyton?
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Old 30-06-2007, 23:34
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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
There's mistakes in the book titles and authors' names in this list. It took me a bit of work to fix them all, (and I needed some help from a few fd-ers, also), but I have the corrected list on my site on this page: http://www.richeyedwards.net/richeybooks.html

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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Old 30-06-2007, 23:53
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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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There's mistakes in the book titles and authors' names in this list. It took me a bit of work to fix them all, (and I needed some help from a few fd-ers, also), but I have the corrected list on my site on this page: http://www.richeyedwards.net/richeybooks.html
Thanks! That explains why some of the authors were hard to find...

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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.
That's strange... Do you remember where the list of books came from? Richey can't have listed an article about himself written in 1996 could he?
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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?
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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