25/03/2016
The Woman in the Dunes, Kobo Abe
Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
The Jolly Postman or Other Peoples Letters, Janet & Allan Ahlberg
The Wolves Of Willoughby Chase, Joan Aiken
The Wanderer, Alain-Fournier
Commedia, Dante Alighieri
Skellig, David Almond
The President, Miguel Angel Asturias
Alcools, Guillaume Apollinaire
It's Not About The Bike - My Journey Back to Life, Lance Armstrong
Behind The Scenes At The Museum, Kate Atkinson
The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
Jonathan Livingstone Seagull, Richard Bach
Go Tell It on the Mountain, James Baldwin
The Ghost Road, Pat Barker
Carrie's War, Nina Bawden
Molloy; Malone Dies; The Unnamable, Samuel Beckett
Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett
The Adventures of Augie March, Saul Bellow
G, John Berger
Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
Mister Magnolia, Quentin Blake
Forever, Judy Blume
The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
Five On A Treasure Island, Enid Blyton
The Enchanted Wood, Enid Blyton
A Bear Called Paddington, Michael Bond
Ficciones, Jorge Luis Borges
The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas, John Boyne
The Snowman, Raymond Briggs
Flat Stanley, Jeff Brown
Gorilla, Anthony Browne
The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck
The Pilgrim's Progress, John Bunyan
A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
Junk, Melvin Burgess
Would You Rather?, John Burningham
The Soft Machine, William S. Burroughs
The Way of All Flesh, Samuel Butler
Possession, A.S. Byatt
The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, Italo Calvino
Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino
The Stranger, Albert Camus
Oscar and Lucinda, Peter Carey
Nights at the Circus, Angela Carter
Looking For JJ, Anne Cassidy
Journey to the End of the Night, Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China, Jung Chang
Papillon, Henri Charriere
The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer
"Clarice Bean, That's Me", Lauren Child
I Will Not Ever Never Eat a Tomato, Lauren Child
Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Disgrace, J.M. Coetzee
Waiting for the Barbarians, J.M Coetzee
Princess Smartypants, Babette Cole
Nostromo, Joseph Conrad
The Public Burning, Robert Coover
Millions, Frank Cottrell Boyce
The Power Of One, Bryce Courtenay
That Rabbit Belongs To Emily Brown, Cressida Cowell
House Of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski
The Black Sheep, Honoré de Balzac
Old Man Goriot, Honoré de Balzac
The Second Sex, Simone de Beavoir
The Story of Babar, Jean De Brunhoff
The Little Prince, Antoine De Saint-Exupery
White Noise, Don DeLillo
Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Joan Didion
Sybil, Benjamin Disraeli
Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy, Lynley Dodd
The 42nd Parallel, John Dos Passos
The Brothers Karamzov, Fyodor Dostoevsky
An American Tragedy, Theodore Drieser
The Name Of The Rose, Umberto Eco
My Naughty Little Sister, Dorothy Edwards
Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
The Horse Whisperer, Nicholas Evans
The Siege of Krishnapur, J.G Farrell
The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner
"Absalom, Absalom!", William Faulkner
Light in August, William Faulkner
Take it or Leave It, Raymond Federman
Magician, Raymond E. Feist
Flour Babies, Anne Fine
Madam Bovary, Gustav Flaubert
A Passage to India, E. M. Forster
The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank
Cross Stitch, Diana Gabaldon
That Awful Mess on the Via Merulala, Carlo Emilio Gadda
JR, William Gaddis
The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman
One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
Maggot Moon, Sally Gardner
The Owl Service, Alan Garner
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country & Other Stories, William H. Gass
Coram Boy, Jamila Gavin
Once, Morris Gleitzman
The Conservationist, Nadine Gordimer
Asterix The Gaul, Rene Goscinny
The Tin Drum, Günter Grass
Sunset Song, Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Little Mouse's Big Book of Fears, Emily Gravett
Lanark, Alasdair Gray
The Quiet American, Graham Greene
Life and Fate, Vasily Grossman
The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time, Mark Haddon
Jude The Obscure, Thomas Hardy
The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A. Heinlein
The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway
The Old Man And The Sea, Ernest Hemingway
The Blue Lotus, Hergé
The Adventures Of Tintin, Hergé
The Glass Bead Game, Herman Hesse
Where's Spot?, Eric Hill
The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Odyssey, Homer
High Fidelity, Nick Hornby
Point Blanc, Anthony Horowitz
Skeleton Key, Anthony Horowitz
Dogger, Shirley Hughes
Journey To The River Sea, Eva Ibbotson
Little House In The Big Woods, Laura Ingalls Wilder
A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
Goodbye to Berlin, Christopher Isherwood
The Portrait of a Lady, Henry James
The Ambassadors, Henry James
Finn Family Moomintroll, Tove Jansson
Lost and Found, Oliver Jeffers
The Far Pavilions, M. M. Kaye
A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
The Tiger Who Came To Tea, Judith Kerr
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey
In Praise of Hatred, Khaled Khalifa
Gate of the Sun, Elias Khoury
It, Stephen King
The Queen's Nose, Dick King-Smith
The Sheep-Pig, Dick King-Smith
Diary Of A Wimpy Kid, Jeff Kinney
Kim, Rudyard Kipling
I Want My Hat Back, Jon Klassen
Darkness at Noon, Arthur Koestler
The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
The Milly-Molly-Mandy Storybook, Joyce Lankerster Brisley
Women in Love, D.H. Lawrence
Seven Pillars of Wisdom, T.E Lawrence
A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L'Engle
The Golden Notebook, Doris Lessing
Tristes Tropiques, Claude Lévi-Strauss
Pippi Longstocking, Astrid Lindgren
The Call of the Wild, Jack London
Nightmare Abbey, Thomas Love Peacock
Under the Volcano, Malcolm Lowry
The Good Soldier, Ford Madox Ford
The Cairo Trilogy, Naguib Mahfouz
The Naked and the Dead, Norman Mailer
Man's Fate, Andre Malraux
The Magic Mountain, Thomas Mann
Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel
The Road, Cormac McCarthy
The Kite Rider, Geraldine McCaughrean
The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers
"Not Now, Bernard", David McKee
Tent Boxing: An Australian Journey, Wayne McLennan
No One Sleeps in Alexandria, Ibrahim Abdel Meguid
A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry
The Cruel Sea, Nicholas Monsarrat
Private Peaceful, Michael Morpurgo
Beloved, Toni Morrison
Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami
Under the Net, Iris Murdoch
The Worst Witch, Jill Murphy
Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov
A Bend in the River, V.S Naipaul
Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
A Monster Calls, Patrick Ness
The Knife Of Never Letting Go, Patrick Ness
The Borrowers, Mary Norton
Master And Commander, Patrick O'Brian
The Silent Cry, Kenzaburo Oe
My Name is Red, Orhan Pamuk
Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
The Truth, Terry Pratchett
Witches Abroad, Terry Pratchett
Truckers, Terry Pratchett
Life: An Exploded Diagram, Mal Prett
Paroles, Jacques Prévert
The Shipping News, Annie Proulx
In Search of Lost Time, Marcel Proust
The Ruby In The Smoke, Philip Pullman
Eugene Onegin, Alexander Pushkin
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
Live and Remember, Valentin Rasputin
Witch Child, Celia Rees
Mortal Engines, Philip Reeve
Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady, Samuel Richardson
How I Live Now, Meg Rosoff
I Want My Potty!, Tony Ross
Portnoy's Complaint, Philip Roth
The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
Holes, Louis Sachar
Blindness, Jose Saramango
Being and Nothingness, Jean-Paul Sartre
Nausea, Jean-Paul Sartre
Austerlitz, W.G. Sebald
Revolver, Marcus Sedgwick
Where The Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak
The Silver Sword, Ian Serraillier
Katherine, Anya Seton
Come over to My House, Dr Seuss
Daisy-Head Mayzie, Dr Seuss
Great Day for Up!, Dr Seuss
Hooray for Diffendoofer Day!, Dr Seuss
Horton and the Kwuggerbug and More Lost Stories, Dr Seuss
Hunches in Bunches, Dr Seuss
I Am NOT Going to Get Up Today!, Dr Seuss
I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today! and Other Stories, Dr Seuss
I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew, Dr Seuss
My Book about ME, Dr Seuss
My Many Colored Days, Dr Seuss
"Oh, the Thinks You Can Think!", Dr Seuss
On Beyond Zebra!, Dr Seuss
The Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Stories, Dr Seuss
The Butter Battle Book, Dr Seuss
The Cat's Quizzer, Dr Seuss
The Pocket Book of Boners, Dr Seuss
The Seven Lady Godivas, Dr Seuss
The Shape of Me and Other Stuff, Dr Seuss
What Pet Should I Get?, Dr Seuss
You're Only Old Once!, Dr Seuss
Dr Seuss's Book of Bedtime Stories, Dr Seuss
Special shapes: A flip-the-flap book, Dr Seuss
Dizzy days: A flip-the-flap book, Dr Seuss
The Tale of Genji, Murasaki Shikibu
A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
"The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation", Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Memento Mori, Muriel Spark
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark
Heidi, Johanna Spyri
The Making of Americans, Gertrude Stein
The Charterhouse of Parma, Stendhal
"The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman", Laurence Sterne
Driving Over Lemons: An Optimist in Andalucia, Chris Stewart
Goosebumps, R.L. Stine
Ballet Shoes, Noel Streatfeild
The Home and the World, Rabindranath Tagore
The Arrival, Shaun Tan
The Secret History, Donna Tartt
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
Fathers and Sons, Ivan Turgenev
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
Froth on the Daydream, Boris Vian
Creation, Gore Vidal
Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut
The Color Purple, Alice Walker
Scoop, Evelyn Waugh
The War Of The Worlds, H.G. Wells
The Time Machine, H.G Wells
The Once And Future King, T.H. White
Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
The Illustrated Mum, Jacqueline Wilson
The Dare Game, Jacqueline Wilson
Bad Girls, Jacqueline Wilson
Lola Rose, Jacqueline Wilson
Girls In Tears, Jacqueline Wilson
Sleepovers, Jacqueline Wilson
Secrets, Jacqueline Wilson
Girls Out Late, Jacqueline Wilson
Dustbin Baby, Jacqueline Wilson
The Code of the Woosters, P.G. Wodehouse
Native Son, Richard Wright
Going Native, Stephen Wright
The Day Of The Triffids, John Wyndham
The Dream of the Red Chamber, Cao Xueqin
Red Sorghum: A Novel of China, Mo Yan
Revolutionary Road, Richard Yates
We, Yevgeny Zamyatin
Germinal, Emile Zola
Amazing Grace, Mary Hoffman & Caroline Binch
Horrid Henry, Francesca Simon & Tony Ross
Meg And Mog, Helen Nicholls & Jan Pienkowski
Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes, Mem Fox & Helen Oxenbury
The Elephant And The Bad Baby, Elfrida Vipont & Raymond Briggs
The True Story Of The Three Little Pigs, Jon Scieszka & Lane Smith
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It is #Molloy Monday and I am here to remind you that Daniel is featured most from 1975-1985 aka the Sluttiest Era of Modern Male Fashion.
Coming in HOT we have the cut off short shorts and cropped t-shirt or mostly unbuttoned button down combo. Daniel visited some warm climates during the chase years so I invite you to picture him in the tiniest ripped jean shorts sweating over whether or not that auburn haired lady down the street is actually Armand!!
Or going into the 80s sometimes the tops were REALLY cropped and exposed midrift and back!! Like just picture Daniel fucking around on Night Island in this, wow wow!!
But even when the pants were long the t-shirts were TIGHT, maximum pec definition through the shirt was a must.
If he didn't wanna show that much skin? That was fine because turtlenecks where IN baby!! These are basically vampire lingerie imo, covering up the most succulent part of the neck but still leaving a hint exposed below the jaw?? Armand had to have been dying of thirst!!!
(Also when it says Armand came to pick Daniel up from jail in a lawyer's tweed suit? He wasn't wearing no modern cut, he'd have been rocking the big lapels because this was the 70s tyvm)
Also important to note was that the 70s were the era of glam rock and androgyny, so picking a silky button down that looks like a women's blouse? Totally okay for men, very in style so long as you leave the top buttons undone to expose maximum chest.
Btw velour? Was IN. This is the 1979 equivalent of a juicy couture tracksuit which Armand could have snuggled right into while they were living in London.
And while the 80s sees the rise of a looser fit, that doesn't mean the crop top died or that people weren't still rocking a more form fitted jean when they were feeling casual.
This photo is from NYC in 1983 and shows that tight t-shirts and short shorts were still very much alive, just styled a bit differently! A tight top and looser straight leg jeans, or short bottom and a flowy open top took the place of all fitted looks.
Or that the mostly unbuttoned button down went away- if anything in the 80s the buttons went even LOWER and more revealing. Paired with a boxy linen suit this is essential 80s Miami aka Night Island looks.
and yeah that's spader, leave me alone, he's peak 80s here
This sweater is loose but it's got the deep V neck and a sheer knit, perfect for the beach!!
And yeah this is Sapder AGAIN but note the half open shirt, leather jacket, and jeans that get tighter near the ankle!! Classic 80s, baggy but still sexy, A+.
I SWEAR this is the last time I'm gonna use and abuse him but peep the muscle tank with the DIY cut edges on the arm holes! V neck! 80s!!!
Basically the takeaway here is that if you're putting them in the 80s and having them rock something baggy and double denim, the look still featured a tight waistline and rolled sleeves or rolled ankles to tighten the jeans. It wasn't just baggy all over!!
Here's some random images from the entire era to finish off:
So next time you're working on fic or art instead of just tossing Daniel into a regular old t-shirt and jeans consider doing some slutty 70s and 80s looks instead 😌
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Have you ever been reading Devil’s Minion and thinking to yourself, “damn, I just can’t nail down a face for Daniel”? Have you watched Interview with the Vampire and felt like neither Christian Slater nor River Phoenix hit the mark for you?
Allow me to introduce you to James fucking Spader.
Look at him! Is that not the face of Daniel, completely fed up with Armand feeding his cigarettes down the garbage disposal?
He’s got the naive and beautiful face but ALSO the defiant yet beseeching thing down! Also he was like 22 here, which is right around the age Daniel met Armand so he’s at peak Healthy, Pretty Molloy here. No wonder Louis decided to take him home!!
“Do you know what a zip code is, or a tax bracket? I’m the one who buys all the goddamned airline tickets. Millions. How are we going to get millions! Steal another Maserati and be done with it, for God’s sakes!”
Spader is the original 80′s pretty boy you’d assume starred as the leading man in some schmoopy romances or schlocky teen dramas and he did that for a minute. Like check him out in Pretty in Pink-
Is this not peak Night Island Daniel, in his Miami Vice looking bespoke suit ready to head out with Armand for the night?
Look at him snuggled into his blanket in Tuff Turf, like Daniel hungover and forcibly woken up to honky tonk piano tunes!
But the deliciousness doesn’t end at his looks. Because in true Molloy fashion that man said ‘you know what? I wanna make movies for freaks and weirdos only’
In Sex, Lies and Videotape he plays the sweetest pervert who loves interviewing women about their sex lives, video taping it, and then watching them back naked but not actually getting off! He’s impotent, he’s a gentle and lovely weirdo, there’s vampire!Daniel fodder for days in this one.
Crash is a horny flick that defies all explanation and really you need to go in blind if you’re gonna watch this one, but let me just say this: If Spader and his Wife in this film aren’t the most Daniel and Armand coded couple in cinema history I will eat my shoes. Also there’s tons of beautiful footage of him driving around at night with his blond hair ruffling in the breeze.
Your prefer your Daniel with glasses? Oh, perfect, because in Bad Influence he plays a sweet guy who gets into a fucked up situation with a toxic friend and a sex tape!
In Storyville he lets himself be thrown on the floor and lays there submissively before getting involved in yet another sex tape scandal!
Don’t even get me started on Dream Lover, another smut filled romp (with some filthy deleted scenes if you google the uncut version) which has the most Devil’s Minion promo photos of all time-
Like! Get the fuck out!
I could just go all day about his body of work but some of it you’ve just gotta see for yourself. In pretty much every film you’re guaranteed smut with him being deliciously submissive, extremely gentle with his hands, and down for all kinds of kink. And in most of his movies he gets bloody at least once, like-
this is a shitty picture i took of my laptop but look at the blood at the corner of his mouth! Vampire activities!
In summary, let me hit you with a photo dump:
Daniel laying in a cheap motel room during the chase years!
Daniel with delightful 70s hair!
More glasses!Daniel!
Daniel with a half-buttoned 80′s shirt looking so beautiful it’s no wonder Armand couldn’t NOT turn him!
It’s dark, he’s wet, he looks exhausted!
He’s the ideal beautiful Molloy Weirdo and I will not be accepting any other arguments, goodbye!!
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