#bowiebookclub

[edclews]

Just a reminder I'll be at York Zine Fest this Saturday selling prints, cards and fluffy Bowies. #illustration #handmade #shopindie #justacard #bowie #BowieBookClub #prince #bigcartel (at The Crescent Community Venue)

[musicbyrikm]

Book 4 in the #bowiebookclub #downandoutinparisandlondon #georgeorwell #davidbowie #reading (at Church and Wellesley)

[osmar2186-blog]

Primer día de vacaciones, empiezo con el #BowieBookClub el primer libro que leeré es #Hawksmoor de #PeterAckroyd, tengo hasta el 1 de febrero para terminarlo. El inicio del #DAVIDBOWIESTOP100BOOKS

[mediatwin]

One of my New Year’s resolutions - read more books! So, as part of the Bowie Book Club, I’m starting with this... #hawksmoor #peterackroyd #bowiebookclub #novel #book #reading #bookstagram

[misasmemorandum]

"The Age of American Unreason in a Culture of Lies" Susan Jacoby

BowieBookClubの５月の本。まず２００８年に出版され、今年の頭に new updated edition が出た。２００８年版が図書館にあったので、まずそれを借りてイントロと結論の頭を読んで、著者がトランプについて、そしてトランプを選んだアメリカ国民についてどう書いているかを読みたくて２０１８年版を購入（1,807円也）。

すっごく興味深く非常に面白かった。

ただ、著者、ボキャブラリーが恐ろしく広く、わざと難しい単語を使うのに慣れ切っていて、また、長くてややっこしい文章を書く習慣がついているようで（私が学生の頃あんな文章書いたら、三つに切れと指導を受けていたような、世界で一番長くまどろっこしい言い回しの文章もあった）、本の半分くらいまで読みにくくて仕方なかった。久しぶりにこの手の本を読むからもあるだろうが、私個人に知識のある事柄についての章はまだ読みやすかったので、私の英語力と理解力に問題があるのではなく、内容と文章のタイプに問題があるのだと全部読んで思った。

で、トランプを選んでしまったのは、トランプに投票したタイプの人々は、トランプと同じタイプの人間で（彼はトランプを"one of us"と感じている）、トランプはTV好きで、本を読まず、何百ページにわたる資料をもっと短くできないのは無能だ的な反応をして読んでいるのか読んでいないのか、そして、ネットに流れるウソ情報の真偽を問わずに自分に都合のいいものを信じ、外国語を話す必要などなく、本と言うものを（娯楽小説すら）読まない、平たく言ってバカが、仲間のバカを選んだのだ。バカで知識人にアレルギーがあるのがmiddle of nowhereの平均的なアメリカ人なのだそうだ。

数学と科学の知識が低く、国の歴史を教える学校が少なく、音楽の授業はなく、アメリカの学校、全部が全部そうでないのはわかってるが、ひどいなぁ。ま、日本の公立学校も出来ない子はできないまんまだが。

ネットとポピュラー・カルチャーに関する下りは、考え方が既存のhigh artにとらわれ過ぎてると思った。今残っている歴史的芸術作品は、全て淘汰されて残ったもので、だから、その作品が生まれた当時にはピンからキリまで悪いのもたくさん巷にあり、鑑識眼がない人などが駄作でも有難がっていたと思われる。それに今残っている芸術作品のほとんどは、選ばれた人々（王族、貴族など裕福な層）だけのものだった。それがポピュラー・カルチャーは大衆のもので、そして、その中から大衆がよしとする芸術性の高いものが生まれて、そこから新しい芸術が生まれる可能性もあると思う。（実際は、現代芸術を借用する方が多いようだが）

文学と現代の娯楽小説を比べるのもおかしいと思う。『アンナ・カレリーナ』が出版され広く読まれていた当初も、大衆が気軽に読む小説があった筈だ。と、ここら辺が気になった。

しかし、この本、読むの疲れた。１８日に届いて、２７日に読み終えた。時間と体力のあるときは４時間近く読んだ日もあったかもしれない。平均、連日２時間はこの本を読んだ。（１日だけ疲れてしまって、１０ページしか読まない日もあった。）しかし、１日でも読まないと、もうこの本を手に取らなくなるかもしれないと思われて、急いで読んだ。

読んで良かったが、この著者の本をまた読みたいかどうかは非常に疑問だ。

[womanofinfluence-blog1]

#bowiebookclub #civilrights #jamesbaldwin next book to read. @manmademoon

[chialynn]

No #zombiesrun tonight—the original plan was to catch up with the #bowiebookclub and listen to #hawksmoor, but that requires more focus than I could muster while dodging Cambridge traffic in the dark. Settled in with the #spotify Women in Music playlist instead. . #sportsbrasquad #wholelifechallenge (at Cambridge, Massachusetts)

[musicbyrikm]

In the absence of a new selection for July's #bowiebookclub I've started reading "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao"... #reading #junotdiaz #thebriefwondrouslifeofoscarwao #davidbowie (at Toronto, Ontario)

[paperbackwriter45rpm]

I enjoyed reading Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd for Bowie Book Club. Another music link: this cover is by John Squire (Stone Roses). #bowiebookclub #penguinbooks #johnsquire

[misasmemorandum]

『パリ・ロンドン放浪記』ジョージ・オーウェル　小野寺健　訳

Down and Out in Paris and London (1933) by George Orwell

BowieBookClubの４月の課題本。

ボウイが選んだ１００冊にはないが、これ、ボウイがダンカンに読むようにと（自分が読んだと思われる本を）あげたようだ。

お金の心配などしなくても家族から援助が受けられる階級の生まれのジョージ・オーウェルが、自ら貧乏生活をした間のルポ的作品。貧困対策など提言もある。興味深い読み物になっていた。

ボウイが息子に読めと渡した気持ち、分かるような気がする。

このブッククラブ、１月のは読んだが、２月のはしんどくて読めず、３月のは日本になかったしで諦め、４月がこれで読んだ。半分だけしか読んでないが、私自身が選ぶ事がないかも知れない本ばかりだし、面白い。

[bowiebookclub]

The first #BowieBookClub pick #ClockworkOrange is on the list. #AnthonyBurgess said: 

“The book I am best known for, or only known for, is a novel I am prepared to repudiate: written a quarter of a century ago, a jeu d'esprit knocked off for money in three weeks,”

[getbeta]

DAVID BOWIE'S TOP 100 BOOKS

Interviews With Francis Bacon by David Sylvester Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse Room At The Top by John Braine On Having No Head by Douglass Harding Kafka Was The Rage by Anatole Broyard A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess City Of Night by John Rechy The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert Iliad by Homer As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner Tadanori Yokoo by Tadanori Yokoo Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin Inside The Whale And Other Essays by George Orwell Mr. Norris Changes Trains by Christopher Isherwood Halls Dictionary Of Subjects And Symbols In Art by James A. Hall David Bomberg by Richard Cork Blast by Wyndham Lewis Passing by Nella Larson Beyond The Brillo Box by Arthur C. Danto The Origin Of Consciousness In The Breakdown Of The Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes In Bluebeard’s Castle by George Steiner Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd The Divided Self by R. D. Laing The Stranger by Albert Camus Infants Of The Spring by Wallace Thurman The Quest For Christa T by Christa Wolf The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin Nights At The Circus by Angela Carter The Master And Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodieby Muriel Spark Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov Herzog by Saul Bellow Puckoon by Spike Milligan Black Boy by Richard Wright The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea by Yukio Mishima Darkness At Noon by Arthur Koestler The Waste Land by T.S. Elliot McTeague by Frank Norris Money by Martin Amis The Outsider by Colin Wilson Strange People by Frank Edwards English Journey by J.B. Priestley A Confederacy Of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole The Day Of The Locust by Nathanael West 1984 by George Orwell The Life And Times Of Little Richard by Charles White Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom: The Golden Age of Rock by Nik Cohn Mystery Train by Greil Marcus Beano (comic, ’50s) Raw (comic, ’80s) White Noise by Don DeLillo Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm And Blues And The Southern Dream Of Freedom by Peter Guralnick Silence: Lectures And Writing by John Cage Writers At Work: The Paris Review Interviews edited by Malcolm Cowley The Sound Of The City: The Rise Of Rock And Roll by Charlie Gillete Octobriana And The Russian Underground by Peter Sadecky The Street by Ann Petry Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon Last Exit To Brooklyn By Hubert Selby, Jr. A People’s History Of The United States by Howard Zinn The Age Of American Unreason by Susan Jacoby Metropolitan Life by Fran Lebowitz The Coast Of Utopia by Tom Stoppard The Bridge by Hart Crane All The Emperor’s Horses by David Kidd Fingersmith by Sarah Waters Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess The 42nd Parallel by John Dos Passos Tales Of Beatnik Glory by Ed Saunders The Bird Artist by Howard Norman Nowhere To Run The Story Of Soul Music by Gerri Hirshey Before The Deluge by Otto Friedrich Sexual Personae: Art And Decadence From Nefertiti To Emily Dickinson by Camille Paglia The American Way Of Death by Jessica Mitford In Cold Blood by Truman Capote Lady Chatterly’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence Teenage by Jon Savage Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh The Hidden Persuaders by Vance Packard The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin Viz (comic, early ’80s) Private Eye (satirical magazine, ’60s – ’80s) Selected Poems by Frank O’Hara The Trial Of Henry Kissinger by Christopher Hitchens Flaubert’s Parrot by Julian Barnes Maldodor by Comte de Lautréamont On The Road by Jack Kerouac Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonders by Lawrence Weschler Zanoni by Edward Bulwer-Lytton Transcendental Magic, Its Doctine and Ritual by Eliphas Lévi The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels The Leopard by Giusseppe Di Lampedusa Inferno by Dante Alighieri A Grave For A Dolphin by Alberto Denti di Pirajno The Insult by Rupert Thomson In Between The Sheets by Ian McEwan A People’s Tragedy by Orlando Figes Journey Into The Whirlwind by Eugenia Ginzburg

[musicbyrikm]

So who's still going strong with #bowiebookclub ? In the absence of a selection so far this month by @manmademoon may I suggest Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon? #reading #books #michaelchabon #wonderboys #bookclub #duncanjones #davidbowie (at Toronto, Ontario)

[elizabee]

It’s likely that most people reading this will have already seen either the original story on openbookstoronto.com last week, or a version of it referring back to that original list of “DAVID BOWIE'S TOP 100 BOOKS”. There have also been numerous suggestions of a Bowie Book Club to tackle each of the 100 volumes. However, there was a problem with that particular openbookstoronto.com feature in that only 75% of the books were actually listed! For anybody planning on completing this epic voyage of discovery, we’ve listed every single one of the 100 books here (in no particular order) for your reference.

You may have also noticed the two chaps in the middle of our montage. Well, it’s none other than David Bowie sporting a Clockwork Orange T-shirt (the book by Anthony Burgess is in the list) with his old chum, George Underwood. George kindly supplied the previously unpublished photograph, which according to him was taken aboard Amtrak somewhere between New Orleans and Chicago on the first US tour in 1972. And so, on to that COMPLETE list of David Bowie’s Top 100 (count 'em) Books. Interviews With Francis Bacon by David Sylvester Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse Room At The Top by John Braine On Having No Head by Douglass Harding Kafka Was The Rage by Anatole Broyard A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess City Of Night by John Rechy The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert Iliad by Homer As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner Tadanori Yokoo by Tadanori Yokoo Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin Inside The Whale And Other Essays by George Orwell Mr. Norris Changes Trains by Christopher Isherwood Halls Dictionary Of Subjects And Symbols In Art by James A. Hall David Bomberg by Richard Cork Blast by Wyndham Lewis Passing by Nella Larson Beyond The Brillo Box by Arthur C. Danto The Origin Of Consciousness In The Breakdown Of The Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes In Bluebeard’s Castle by George Steiner Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd The Divided Self by R. D. Laing The Stranger by Albert Camus Infants Of The Spring by Wallace Thurman The Quest For Christa T by Christa Wolf The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin Nights At The Circus by Angela Carter The Master And Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodieby Muriel Spark Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov Herzog by Saul Bellow Puckoon by Spike Milligan Black Boy by Richard Wright The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea by Yukio Mishima Darkness At Noon by Arthur Koestler The Waste Land by T.S. Elliot McTeague by Frank Norris Money by Martin Amis The Outsider by Colin Wilson Strange People by Frank Edwards English Journey by J.B. Priestley A Confederacy Of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole The Day Of The Locust by Nathanael West 1984 by George Orwell The Life And Times Of Little Richard by Charles White Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom: The Golden Age of Rock by Nik Cohn Mystery Train by Greil Marcus Beano (comic, ’50s) Raw (comic, ’80s) White Noise by Don DeLillo Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm And Blues And The Southern Dream Of Freedom by Peter Guralnick Silence: Lectures And Writing by John Cage Writers At Work: The Paris Review Interviews edited by Malcolm Cowley The Sound Of The City: The Rise Of Rock And Roll by Charlie Gillete Octobriana And The Russian Underground by Peter Sadecky The Street by Ann Petry Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon Last Exit To Brooklyn By Hubert Selby, Jr. A People’s History Of The United States by Howard Zinn The Age Of American Unreason by Susan Jacoby Metropolitan Life by Fran Lebowitz The Coast Of Utopia by Tom Stoppard The Bridge by Hart Crane All The Emperor’s Horses by David Kidd Fingersmith by Sarah Waters Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess The 42nd Parallel by John Dos Passos Tales Of Beatnik Glory by Ed Saunders The Bird Artist by Howard Norman Nowhere To Run The Story Of Soul Music by Gerri Hirshey Before The Deluge by Otto Friedrich Sexual Personae: Art And Decadence From Nefertiti To Emily Dickinson by Camille Paglia The American Way Of Death by Jessica Mitford In Cold Blood by Truman Capote Lady Chatterly’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence Teenage by Jon Savage Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh The Hidden Persuaders by Vance Packard The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin Viz (comic, early ’80s) Private Eye (satirical magazine, ’60s – ’80s) Selected Poems by Frank O’Hara The Trial Of Henry Kissinger by Christopher Hitchens Flaubert’s Parrot by Julian Barnes Maldodor by Comte de Lautréamont On The Road by Jack Kerouac Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonders by Lawrence Weschler Zanoni by Edward Bulwer-Lytton Transcendental Magic, Its Doctine and Ritual by Eliphas Lévi The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels The Leopard by Giusseppe Di Lampedusa Inferno by Dante Alighieri A Grave For A Dolphin by Alberto Denti di Pirajno The Insult by Rupert Thomson In Between The Sheets by Ian McEwan A People’s Tragedy by Orlando Figes Journey Into The Whirlwind by Eugenia Ginzburg #BowieBookClub

[criminalbookreviews]

God bless, sir. You will be sorely missed.

[musicbyrikm]

Reading The Age of American Unreason by Susan Jacoby for #bowiebookclub this month. #susanjacoby #theageofamericanunreason #reading (at Toronto, Ontario)