/lit/ - Literature

>>9060468
also wtf edition is that

>>9060468
You know those huge cases of books they bring to schools? He used to bring loads of books with on tour in those

>>9060468
Rock music is degenerate and rock musicians are dysgenic

Holy shit I love the man so much

>>9060468
>David Bowie put out super experimental stuff he knew wouldn't sell just to spite some asshole who fucked him over in a contract
I love David Bowie.

>>9060476
You're fun

>>9060486
>David Bowie
>super experimental
rockfags have brain damage

>look how smart I am, I read buks
>please take a picture

I hate that faggot. So fucking stupid.
Glad he is dead. Good riddance.

>>9060505
same

>>9060468
Is that his little China gril?

>>9060496
This
Fucking obnoxious

>>9060496
he's just like all of us !

>reddit; the post with reddit; the picture
fuck you

>>9060523
fart fetish like thunder

The kind of person that projects arrogance onto anyone in the public light for little no reason disgusts me and I believe it is born out of jealousy and a love of being on the contrary

>>9060564
And I'd also like to point out that those of you who are doing this are no better than anons from other boards who are convinced we only pretend to like books and that we're only here to pretentiously flaunt our intelligence

Same shit.

>>9060564
you idiots realize if he wasn't famous he would still be there with his book and no pictures would be taken right?

>>9060577
Still a pseud.

Unironically cool as heck

>>9060473
Random House/Modern Library 1946

>>9060494
Says you. You have to apply the times to the art. This all happened in the 70s, smartass.

>>9060496
ONE OF US! ONE OF US! ONE OF US!

>>9060564
>>9060573
>unironically defending dead celebrities
fucking lmao, consumerist retard

>>9060660
I have never purchased a single digital or physical item having anything to do with David Bowie

>>9060468
Iggy is pretty /lit/ too. Wrote an album about a Houellebecq novel and published his thoughts on Gibbon's Decline of the Roman Empire in an academic journal.

>>9060577
I doubt it. I think it's more like an accessory used by Bowie, Pop and/or the photographer to create a certain image.
I mean, if you bring a book to a dinner you either plan to read it while you're waiting for others or you want to show someone something in the book. If you read it while waiting, you will put it back into a bag or something and don't let it lie at the table. If you want to show someone something... well, you normally have the book turned to yourself or the one you want to show that certain something - but the book is turned to the camera, so everyone and his grandmother is able to see the title. So the one they want to show something is noone but the viewer of the picture.

>>9060505
bleeding edge

>>9060494
>>9060651
i love me some Berlin Bowie. those first two Iggy albums along with Low, Heroes, and to a lesser extent, Lodger, are the pinnacle of both careers. they were definitely experimental but within the pop spectrum of the day. the only other album that compares by Bowie is Outside, which he also did with Eno. Eno's Another Green World is up there, too.

>>9060564
>projects arrogance onto anyone in the public light for little no reason
they had a reason, mate. proof? Bowie's estate and Iggy's condos and convertible Rolls Royce he's often spotted being chauffeured in Miami.

>>9060651
>acting like Trout Mask Replica didn't drop in '69

>>9060787
OI. I'm not wrong. I didn't look this stuff up, all of my shit posting I do from memory.

>>9060787
>TRM
>That experimental
nah, just (very good) quirky blues.

But Bowie wasn't that expermintal too

>>9060468
>tfw he turned it around to show even to the more unattentive fan that yes, he is reading Ulysses by Jame Joyce

what a fucking pseud

you are all losers. just thought you should know

>>9060878
t. David Bowie

>>9060676
>well, you normally have the book turned to yourself or the one you want to show that certain something - but the book is turned to the camera,

which makes it the photographer's book, then.

>>9060493
This saying is the new liberal buzzword. Hello R*ddit

>>9061049
I'll just call you a retard then

>>9060468
that must be the vietnamese girl that inspired iggy for the song China girl

based bowie, the haters in this thread are pathetic
>muh books are le super secret club!

>>9060660
>gomunist """"""""""intellectuals"""""""""""

>>9060884
That's a Zappa quote, actually.

>>9061062
Thanks for responding for me
>>9061049
Nice argument also nice to the worst Bowie releasing have more artistic merit than anything you'll ever shit out

>>9060641
excuse me. that's 1942, not 46

his pupils are dilated as fuck

>>9060555
Sooo true , it hurts

>>9061629
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mydriasis

>>9061629
>>9061977
he got in a fight in elementary school, and got punched in one of his eyes. It was permanently dilated.

>>9061977
>>9062009
did he do heroin to compensate or does that not work either?

>>9062596
Nah Bowie did coke, not heroin

>>9063113
Oh, he did. Thin white duke, rings a bell?

>>9060564
This.

>>9062009
*cough* primary school *cough*

remember when david bowie was a fascist then he claimed it was because of the drugs?

>>9063885
Eh, he was an actual raging, narcissistic cokehead with a international cult going on, it's not so unreasonable as an excuse.

>>9063885
His actual excuse for that photo was that he was waving to them and every wave looks like that salute in the middle.

>>9060805
TRM is definitely an Experimental Rock record, both in sounds and spirit. Bowie is pure pop, through and through, even at his most "daring".

>>9063142
"That was my first attempt to kick cocaine, so that was an awful lot of pain. And I moved to Berlin to do it. I moved out of the coke centre of the world [i.e. Los Angeles, where Station to Station was recorded] into the smack centre of the world. Thankfully, I didn't have a feeling for smack, so it wasn't a threat."

>>9063885
He was in it for the aesthetics

>>9060468
>James Joyce fan

no wonder he was successful

>>9060486
What Bowie album was this? Sounds more like the story of Metal Machine Music.

Bowie always struck me as a tryhard.

>>9060564
>on 4chan
>not being a contrarian

K.

>>9060669
>ywnb friends with the lizard people

>>9063885
he did no such thing. he claimed he was caught midwave. he was flirting around with fascism back then, big time, but no doubt it was him hamming it up for record sales. dude was an astute business man and was even on those wealthiest Forbes lists back in the late 90's or early 00's.

>>9063142
Bowie was never a dope fiend. as mentioned already, he was a coke addict. he eventually kicked the habit, with minimal relapse, and continued to have a successful career, even after a pair of dull 80's records. dude's a fucking success story and was a literate mofo, to boot. he released a list of his favorite books a decade or so ago, which i dare say reads a lot better than some of the schlock i see around here.

David Bowie's Top 100 books

* The Age of American Unreason, Susan Jacoby, 2008
* The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Díaz, 2007
* The Coast of Utopia (trilogy), Tom Stoppard, 2007
* Teenage: The Creation of Youth 1875-1945, Jon Savage, 2007
* Fingersmith, Sarah Waters, 2002
* The Trial of Henry Kissinger, Christopher Hitchens, 2001
* Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder, Lawrence Weschler, 1997
* A People’s Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1890-1924, Orlando Figes, 1997
* The Insult, Rupert Thomson, 1996
* Wonder Boys, Michael Chabon, 1995
* The Bird Artist, Howard Norman, 1994
* Kafka Was The Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir, Anatole Broyard, 1993
* Beyond the Brillo Box: The Visual Arts in Post-Historical Perspective, Arthur C. Danto, 1992
* Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson, Camille Paglia, 1990
* David Bomberg, Richard Cork, 1988
* Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom, Peter Guralnick, 1986
* The Songlines, Bruce Chatwin, 1986
* Hawksmoor, Peter Ackroyd, 1985
* Nowhere To Run: The Story of Soul Music, Gerri Hirshey, 1984
* Nights at the Circus, Angela Carter, 1984
* Money, Martin Amis, 1984
* White Noise, Don DeLillo, 1984
* Flaubert’s Parrot, Julian Barnes, 1984

the rest:

# The Life and Times of Little Richard, Charles White, 1984
# A People’s History of the United States, Howard Zinn, 1980
# A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole, 1980
# Interviews with Francis Bacon, David Sylvester, 1980
# Darkness at Noon, Arthur Koestler, 1980
# Earthly Powers, Anthony Burgess, 1980
# Raw (a ‘graphix magazine’) 1980-91
# Viz (magazine) 1979 –
# The Gnostic Gospels, Elaine Pagels, 1979
# Metropolitan Life, Fran Lebowitz, 1978
# In Between the Sheets, Ian McEwan, 1978
# Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, ed. Malcolm Cowley, 1977
# The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, Julian Jaynes, 1976
# Tales of Beatnik Glory, Ed Sanders, 1975
# Mystery Train, Greil Marcus, 1975
# Selected Poems, Frank O’Hara, 1974
# Before the Deluge: A Portrait of Berlin in the 1920s, Otto Friedrich, 1972
# In Bluebeard’s Castle: Some Notes Towards the Re-definition of Culture, George Steiner, 1971
# Octobriana and the Russian Underground, Peter Sadecky, 1971
# The Sound of the City: The Rise of Rock and Roll, Charlie Gillete, 1970
# The Quest For Christa T, Christa Wolf, 1968
# Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom: The Golden Age of Rock, Nik Cohn, 1968
# The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov, 1967
# Journey into the Whirlwind, Eugenia Ginzburg, 1967
# Last Exit to Brooklyn, Hubert Selby Jr., 1966
# In Cold Blood, Truman Capote, 1965
# City of Night, John Rechy, 1965
# Herzog, Saul Bellow, 1964
# Puckoon, Spike Milligan, 1963
# The American Way of Death, Jessica Mitford, 1963
# The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea, Yukio Mishima, 1963
# The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin, 1963
# A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess, 1962
# Inside the Whale and Other Essays, George Orwell, 1962
# The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark, 1961
# Private Eye (magazine) 1961 –
# On Having No Head: Zen and the Rediscovery of the Obvious, Douglas Harding, 1961
# Silence: Lectures and Writing, John Cage, 1961
# Strange People, Frank Edwards, 1961
# The Divided Self, R. D. Laing, 1960
# All The Emperor’s Horses, David Kidd, 1960
# Billy Liar, Keith Waterhouse, 1959
# The Leopard, Giuseppe Di Lampedusa, 1958
# On The Road, Jack Kerouac, 1957
# The Hidden Persuaders, Vance Packard, 1957
# Room at the Top, John Braine, 1957
# A Grave for a Dolphin, Alberto Denti di Pirajno, 1956
# The Outsider, Colin Wilson, 1956
# Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov, 1955
# Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell, 1949
# The Street, Ann Petry, 1946
# Black Boy, Richard Wright, 1945

>rapist

>>9066121
How in the fuck's name is looser pop, literary? Kiedis is the lightbearer all intellectualism?
Demonjohn is the second pope?
Cedricbikler jesus himself?
It's really gone to their heads, hasn't it?
PippiPikkiejeremyeccehuomo
It's really gone to their heads, hasn't it?

>>9060493
He is fun though.

>>9066187
>>9066195
>Flaubert’s Parrot
>Darkness at Noon
>The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea
MEIN

>>9066238
how's Flaubert's Parrot? had an ex recommend it a few years back but never got around to reading it. Mishima, on the other hand, is always a good read.

>>9061049
When is the buzzword meme going to die?

I read that Iggy's parents were both professors, and that his dad specifically was a literature professor. Iggy was reading Dostoevsky by his early teens or something.

Iggy is pretty /lit/

>>9060878
how dare you

>>9060523
>>9061065
That is Ronnie Spector, lead vocalist of The Ronettes. She is half Black half Cherokee.

>>9060476
You must become a degenerate before you become a sage