The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand: “It’s about two architects, one who’s obsessed with this dream and one who wants to be an artist. It’s fucking amazing.”
“A book that changed me… Catch 22 was one of the first books I read that I really lost myself in. Having only read it once, I find that I still miss the characters to this day.”
“Every man should have the collective works of Saki on his bookshelf – a very unsung hero – written in such a tongue-in-cheek way, the epitome of Edwardian splendour.”
“I found Catcher In The Rye a little whingey and phoney.”
Q: “ what is your favourite book?” Carl:“ not now bernard…?
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Peter:
“Books filled my shelves, like a madman, I collected them in flea markets: everything from Graham Greene, Oscar Wilde, Evelyn Waugh. I even began Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre, when I was 14.”
What is your favourite book? “Crime And Punishment.”
“I’ve got a shelf full of books with HMP Pentonville, HMP Wandsworth on them, smuggled ‘em out, yeah. Crime and Punishment I read! Except my cellmate at the time kept on pulling his shorts down and getting his knob out, and going, ‘Is this normal, Pete?’ And I’m trying to read.“
“When i was 15 i read Oscar Wilde’s Picture of Dorian Gray. Wonderfully written. Very poetic and powerful. Quite sinister as well. It was so far removed from what i was going through at the time. This book was bursting with descriptions of this very liberated individual, who could do whatever he wanted, whenever he wanted. It was like i was in a trance when i was reading it.”
Also advice from Carl: twenty thousand streets under the sky, diary of a nobody, the narrow road to the deep North (source: https://twitter.com/carlbaratmusic/status/615697262224756736)
Also he mentioned ‘Master and Margarita’ as one of his favorites during facebook q&a thing.
And he enjoyed Ulisses, but told that it ‘took some work to read this one’
I was in a vintage shop yesterday and they had all sorts of postcards of literary figures, including Ayn Rand and Saki. I should go back and pick them up for Carl, heh.
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