I really don't know if this is not a suitable post, so please delete the thread if it is too irrelevant. I'm feeling quite bored, and just wondering what Stones fans read?

I'm well into American authors like Fitzgerald and Steinbeck.

Another American is Paul Auster. And John Irving.
British: Ben Elton, Nick Hornby, Tony Parsons...
Among others I have to recommend the Finnish writer Arto Paasilinna.

Apart from guitar & rock'n'roll magazines and rock history, I read non fiction books from authors like Jared Diamond and David Landes.

#1 Charles Bukowski...everything i can get my hands on.........Kerouac, J.D. Salinger, Fitzgerald (the Great Gatsby).....Huxley (Brave New World)......lots of bios......James Ellroy (great L.A. crime novelist).....Raymond Chandler (earlier great L.A. crime novelist).....Celine ("Death On The Installment Plan")....John Fante (big influence on Bukowski - "Ask The Dusk" is the one to start with)....George Orwell (animal farm).....can't remember them all......the Flowers of Evil (forgot his name - famous french poet..Baudelaire or Rimbeau)........a little bit o' Burroughs (he's hard for me to read, but Junky was a good one).......can't remember 'em all........maybe after i down this coffee.........oh yeah...Thommie mentioned Nick Hornby...i've only read High Fidelity and thought it was great....the movie was darn good too......for music....one of my faves in Peter Guralnick (a top-notch music writer).........Frankentstein - Mary Shelley



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Since two weeks "Introduction in Political Science"
I just read nonfiction, and I hate litarature in the sence of novels etc...but maybe, I'm too young for it.
Last year, I had to read in school two english books:

Arthur Miller: "Death of a salesman"
Paul Auster: "Moonpalace"

Stones books.

THanks, son



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> did Camus write "The Stranger"?....x-cellent book........also,
> "Steppenwolf"...do you know who wrote that?


I'm not familiar with the English titles, I've read them in Norwegian. Only know the English title for "The Stranger" and "The Plague", and both of them are fantastic. I can't say that "Steppenwolf" rings a bell...

John Irwing, Bear Heart, Dee Brown, Dan Brown, Knut Hamsun, Agnar Mykle, Lars Saabye Christenensen, Nick Hornby and a lot more. Most important books personly have to be.
The wind is my mother- Bear Heart, 1984- George Orwell, Bury my heart at wounded knee Dee Brown and everything written by Agnar Mykle.

Erik_Snow, try Agnar Mykle

just looked it up.........Steppenwolf was written by the German author Hermann Hesse..........got a feeling you might like it Erik

Thanks Leonard, I'll remember that one

Business Week, Wine Spectator, Wine Advocate and anything written by Anne Coulter or Sean Hannity...........


Happy Thanksgiving everyone.

When I was younger I manly read stuff I ought to like.
Still I love my Dostoyevski, Mayakovski
and (from Leonard's list) #1 Charles Bukowski, Kerouac, Huxley
(Brave New World)´..,. But honestly I'm goin infor a lighter reading,
like criminal stories or Grisham.
I like Stephen King. Many Scandinavian contemporary authors.
My favorite poets are W. Shakespeare, Jim Morrison & Phil Lynott.
Fav writer all categories is E Hemingway.

Rock and popular culture bios is a given thing.

Love Finnish war-literature & Aleksis Kivi [www.nurmijarvi.fi] (all translations titles (Seven Brothers)


And my Hungarian favorites are Endre Ady
& József Attila .
József invented rap some 50 years before its did get a name.

Alas I havent gone into the Irish. Pics [www.ouka.fi], [www.kaposnet.hu] & [www.bibl.u-szeged.hu]



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I never read fiction. Only non-fiction, history, biographies, auto-bios,

don't give me that ole one two, one two three four

recently...Running With Scissors, the Case For Faith, Last Man Standing, Reading Lolita in Tehran...

Next up...Thunderstruck....

I recently read Man And Boy by Tony Parsons. Great Stuff. Also John Lennon's In His Own Write and A Spaniard In The Works.

Ian Hunter's "Diary of a Rock Star"..........i call it a must read for Hoople or rock fans in general.........an honest account of touring/playin in a band.......refreshing, epecially in this day & age of hype.........also for any Sex Pistol fans, John Lydons "Rotten, No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs"........i know alot of people dislike him......i react the opposite way....i think he's really a straight-shooter........."Get In The Van" by Henry Rollins (Black Flag) a diary account of his early days in black flag....like the band or not, it's still a great read....Rollins has brains



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........between the lines.



ROCKMAN

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> ........between the lines.


that takes talent........maybe the smartest thing to read

Racing Post

Oh and Rockman's brilliant replies. That's what I need for Christmas, a book of the best of Rockman's photos and posts...

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> Racing Post
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> Oh and Rockman's brilliant replies. That's what I
> need for Christmas, a book of the best of
> Rockman's photos and posts...


working title: The Rockman Cometh

Working title..........Drinking With Clowns



ROCKMAN

Right now Bukowski. They have a nice pricedrive at the bookstore, so I bought 4 of his books in pocket. Other than that, Rockmagazines, biographies, Stonesbooks en masse, horror etc etc..

Vilhelm
Nordic Stones Vikings

Also, as a over-wintered hippy in disguise, I'd like
to put M. L. K's speeches as one of the greatest things ever written,
though they work best as spoken words.

outside of music mags/books, and eastern philosophy/chuang-tzu, the newer books i read are mostly political.

my fave reads the past few years (all highly recommended for participants in democratic societies):

greg palast-armed madhouse
thom hartmann-screwed; the undeclared war on the middle class
joel bakan-the corporation (also a dvd/movie documentary)
david ray griffin-the 911 commission report: omissions and distortions
marc crispin miller-fooled again
fitrakis/wasserman-numerous articles/books on stolen elections, voter suppression, gop-owned voting machines, and caging lists purging democratic voters

all incredibly informative and empowering; all kept from appearing on mainstream media outlets to even discuss their writings. palast had to set up shop in UK just to do investigative journalism on the US.

JUGGS
BARELY LEGAL
SCORE
XL GIRLS
GENT
BIG ONES
BUSTY
BIG ASSES
anything by KAFKA
THE BIBLE

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> JUGGS
> BARELY LEGAL
> SCORE
> XL GIRLS
> GENT
> BIG ONES
> BUSTY
> BIG ASSES
> anything by KAFKA
> THE BIBLE


and that..............is what makes the world go round

Steinbeck, Hemingway and Norwegian writers. My latest book which I finished on the flight out of Atlantic City was Jäniksen vuosi - the year of the rabbit by Finnish author Arto Paasilinna. Highly recommended.

Bjornulf

Mario Puzo, Salman Rushdie, Stephen Fry, Håkan Nesser, Dan Brown, Alexander McCall Smith, Arto Paasilinna, etc etc...