David Bowie's 100 Favourite books: How many have you read?

[Ravenshire]

I've read four and have another half-dozen or so on my long list.

[Whateverist]

I'm intrigued enough by the book The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind to want to read it myself. I've started a thread in the hopes of starting a group to discuss it with here http://atheistforums.org/thread-45236.html

Any takers?

[Banjo]

A dear friend of mine worked with David for 8 years, Dennis Davis. Played drums on Heroes for example. He said David was always funny and nice.

I don't care what he read.

Both are now dead. And I am just sad.

[Bunburryist]

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner  (Fantastic movie version - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1807944/)
The Origin Of Consciousness In The Breakdown Of The Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes  (Clever idea, but, meh.)
The Divided Self by R. D. Laing
The Stranger by Albert Camus
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov  (Try - Reading Lolita In Tehran)
Black Boy by Richard Wright  (One of my favotites)
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 
1984 by George Orwell  (Absolute must-read!!!!)
On The Road by Jack Kerouac (Just didn't get it at all.)

[Fake Messiah]

Well I see he has on the list "The Master And Margarita" by Mikhail Bulgakov which is the book that I've heard is on the favorite list of many people's books, especially as a funny book. I remember I once tried reading it and it first part takes place on some square with some two guys talking. It seemed so boring to me that I stopped. Maybe someone can tell me what's so funny about this book?

And speaking about classics too bad there isn't Thomas Mann's "The Magic Mountain" because that book seems to me the most prophetic one of our times, more then cyberpunk books. It's a book about group of people in a sanatorium surrounded with presumably latest achievements in technology and they just yap away for many, many hundreds of pages. It's just these stupid conversations like Christopher Columbus was an Asian and they flirt with each-other and have these romances which lead nowhere since they're sick, similar like forums all over internet where people just yap and yap and even get fond of each-other but since they're invalided by their geographical distances it's just appalling sometimes to watch and some other stuff to painful to mention.

[NaughtyButNice]

I've read 1984, A Clockwork Orange and The Great Gatsby.

[Rev. Rye]

Well I see he has on the list "The Master And Margarita" by Mikhail Bulgakov which is the book that I've heard is on the favorite list of many people's books, especially as a funny book. I remember I once tried reading it and it first part takes place on some square with some two guys talking. It seemed so boring to me that I stopped. Maybe someone can tell me what's so funny about this book?

I think you really have to be familiar with life in the Stalin-era Soviet Union (and less the great purges and more the insane bureaucracy that was everywhere) to appreciate it. Also, it's kind of slow to start, especially since it takes a long time for either title character to come in. Also, you probably stopped before you found out about Behemoth. Who is Behemoth you may ask? A giant talking cat who loves vodka, chess, and snark. Say what you will about that, but it's not boring.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Why on earth would I give two steaming shits as to whether or not I've read something on David Bowie's list? I'm sure he didn't fret over whether or not he'd read some of my favourites.

Boru