Lolita by Vladamir Nabakov

Welcome to another episode of the Bowie Book Club, where wild speculation and grasping for straws about Bowie’s favorite books has reigned supreme since 2016. This time, we read a book about a creepy, creepy man with a creepy, creepy plan, Lolita by Vladamir Nabakov.

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Stuff We Mentioned

• Don't Stand So Close to Me

• Minneapolis' largest independent bookstore, Magers and Quinn

• The Sopranos

• Florence Sally Horner, whose abduction was mentioned in Lolita (and was said to be the inspiration for the book)

• Reading Lolita in Tehran

• Lori Mattix

• Video Music Channel interview with lots of David Bowie hitting on the interviewer.

• Labyrinth

• The Hunger

What's Up Next?

• Herzog by Saul Bellow

What Song Did We Choose?

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

Welcome to another episode of the Bowie Book Club, where wild speculation and grasping for straws about Bowie’s favorite books has reigned supreme since 2016. This time, we read a book that's about bridges: literally, figuratively, and dentally - As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner.

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Stuff We Mentioned

• The Movie that Kristianne has Never Heard Of, so it clearly doesn't exist

• The Most Faulknery Metal Band of All)

• Books Inc, in lovely Santa Clara, CA

• Whereas, I Have a Ham Dinner With Mayonaise

• White Trash by Nancy Isenberg

• Hillbilly Elegy by JD Vance

• Don't Stand So Close To Me

• The Goodreads Bowie Book Club

The 2017 List - Powered by Dipsomancy!

• Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
• Herzog - Saul Bellow
• Maldoror - Comte de Lautreamont
• The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz
• City of Night - John Rechy
• Selected Poems - Frank Ohara
• The Bridge - Hart Crane
• The Origin of Consciousness In the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind - Julian Jaynesz
• Passing - Nella Larson
• Before the Deluge - Otto Friedrich
• Inside the Whale & Other Essays - Orwell

• Help Us Pick Books!

What's Up Next?

• Lo-lee-ta

What Song Did We Choose?

• A Bouncy Wagon Ditty

The Outsider by Colin Wilson

Welcome to another episode of the Bowie Book Club, where wild speculation and grasping for straws about Bowie’s favorite books has reigned supreme since 2016. This time, we read a book meant to entrance budding existentialists with its gloominess - The Outsider by Colin Wilson

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Stuff We Mentioned

• The Outsiders (The Greatest Book of All Time) by SE "Southeast" Hinton

• Colin Wilson's not-obituary in the Guardian

• Bowie and Burroughs

• a guy who plays the hurdy gurdy whose name is Jeff

• Richard Wright's The Outsider

• The King of Glum - Morrissey

• Batman and the Outsiders)

• The Outsider (2002 movie)

• The Outsider (story by HP Lovecraft)

• The Outsider (2017 movie)

• Sodapop Cat

• The Complete Bowie

• So many versions of All the Young Dudes!

• The Last Drop bottle shop

What's Up Next?

• As I Lay Dying

What Song Did We Choose?