I was searching for bowie's list coz i love him but i am glad I've found you, I'd listen to you talking all day without getting bored, i am amazed by how much amazing books you've read yourself so you can talk about artists' lists like bowie's

@hardcoreliterature9696

3 жыл бұрын

Aw, thank you very much!!! Glad you enjoyed it :)

Bob Dylan would be interesting for sure, if you ever come back to doing these.

@shiven513

2 ай бұрын

Had to do some research on these: Bob Dylan’s 40 favourite books: The Life and Times of Sonny Barger and the Hell’s Angels Motorcycle Club by Sonny Barger War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63 by Taylor Branch Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller Stories by Anton Chekhov On War by Carl von Clausewitz Victory by Joseph Conrad The Complete Poetry and Prose by John Donne The Anchor Anthology of French Poetry by Angel Flores Jerry Garcia: The Collected Artwork by Jerry Garcia One Hundred Dollar Misunderstanding by Robert Gover The White Goddess by Robert Graves Ringolevio: A Life Played for Keeps by Emmett Grogan Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley by Peter Guralnick Bound for Glory by Woody Guthrie The Odyssey by Homer Mexico City Blues by Jack Kerouac On The Road by Jack Kerouac Backstage Passes and Backstabbing Bastards by Al Kooper The Land Where the Blues Began‘ by Alan Lomax Mister Jelly Roll: The Fortunes of Jelly Roll Morton, New Orleans Creole and “Inventor of Jazz”‘ by Alan Lomax Girl from the North Country by Conor McPherson Moby Dick by Herman Melville The Blues Line: A Collection of Blues Lyrics by Eric Sackheim Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs Woody Guthrie: Radical American Patriot by Bill Nowlin Deep Blues: A Musical and Cultural History of the Mississippi Delta by Robert Palmer All Access: The Rock ‘n’ Roll Photography of Ken Regan by Ken Regan All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque The Oxford Book of English Verse by Christopher Ricks A Season in Hell & The Drunken Boat by Arthur Rimbaud Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg Confessions of a Yakuza by Junichi Saga The American Songbag & Selected Poems‘ by Carl Sandburg Honkers and Shouters: The Golden Years of Rhythm and Blues by Arnold Shaw The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck The Dave Stewart Songbook: The Stories Behind The Songs by Dave Stewart Thucydides: The War of the Peloponnesians and the Athenians by Thucydides Poems by Henry Timrod The Conscience of the Folk Revival: The Writings of Israel “Izzy” Young by Scott Barrett

Of course Bowie read 1984-his Diamond Dogs album.

I’m not surprise Bowie was a fan of Mishima. Mishima was very interested about the aesthetic of masculinity vs feminity, about ambiguous sexuality…and maybe he saw the very artistic movie from Paul Schroeder ( 1984) about Mishima ( give it a try, its amazing)…add it he was into gay berlin of ‘70 where any gay artist was famous because so uncommon

Great video benjamin. Namaskaram I am a big fan of yours. Love from India.

great video! really interesting

@hardcoreliterature9696

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you, Robert!

Back at Uni I did a little course on lyrics. We looked at Bowie, Dylan, Danzig and others. Lyrics are just sung poems.

Can't find your videos of Marylin Monroe's and Jim Morrison's favorite books. Can you give a link to those? Thanks for all your great content.

please make that morrison list video

your eyes

Hi, had to comment about what you said about the language in “the clockwork orange” by Anthony burgess. Maybe for him it was invented but not really, it’s a language or I would say more like a dialect of sorts that is actually used by Russian immigrants all over the world . When depending on you knowledge of either Russian or English you will use either one of the two as a base language. It’s actually called a creole and is usually develope in situations of contact between languages such as immigration from a different country.

David Bowie is the modern day Soren Kierkegaard, there are a lot of similiarities between David Bowie and Soren Kierkegaard.

you say you did a video about the reading lists of Marilyn Monroe and Jim Morrison at the beginning, where can I find them??

@hardcoreliterature9696

3 жыл бұрын

They're currently just in article form, but I have the video versions coming out soon :) Here's the Morrison article: benjaminmcevoy.com/jim-morrison-reading-list-read-like-rockstar/ And here's the Monroe one: benjaminmcevoy.com/marilyn-monroe-reading-list-read-like-movie-star/

Please, the link of Jim Morrison's reading list.

He has A Confederacy Of Dunces by J K Toole. I tell everyone to read Confederacy Of Dunces. It's even better if you like New Orleans. Funny and brilliant.

You're great speaker, but do so a bit slowly for better comprehension by non-English speakers. Also do publish a list of great books you think are generally worthy. Thanks.

@crabbyappleseed8190

7 ай бұрын

You can slow down the video in the KZread settings.

5:30 I never knew I was a synesthete ;)

This is a book list that only a well read man could arrive at. It's very impressive, but wouldn't be the same 100 that I would recommend to someone who hasn't read many other things.

omg how did you tube wait so long to show me this?

I don't think a person is well read if his 100 list is most by English speaking male authors