i really like charles bukowski, so anything by him. it's so dark and twisted and sad (and entirely autobiographical) but its fascinating and interesting to observe pretty much the lowest form of american living. also interesting are: 'please kill me' by legs mcneil (its about where punk came from, starting out in newyork and then goes over the oceans to london with vivienne westwood and malcolm maclaren, etc - it's interesting not only for music or fashion but politics and society). 'life of pi' by yann martel is one of the best books i have ever read. ever. you definately need to get this one! its won a lot of awards and shit but its soooo inspiring and life-changing. 'high fidelity' by nick hornby - great movie better book!
you're looking great sie, good luck with all your folio work. mine is due on friday so ive been flat out too, never spent so much time running around as i have this last week. you'll be super though, im absolutely 100% sure of it.
I'm halfway through The Geography of Nowhere (The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape) by James Howard Kunstler, and i'm really loving the tone of his writing. This is an author/book I have never heard of before seeing a quote from one of it's chapters, and it was enough to compel me to read the entire thing. it's very interesting. The quote gives you a good idea of what the book is about too: "The spread of slums, the hypergrowth and congestion of manufacturing cities, the noise and stench of the industrial process, debased urban life all over the western world and led to a great yearning for escape … in America, with its superabundance of cheap land, simple property laws, social mobility, mania for profit, zest for practical invention, and bible drunk sense of history, the yearning to escape industrialism expressed itself as a renewed search for Eden. America reinvented that paradise, described so briefly and vaguely in the book of Genesis, called it suburbia, and put it up for sale."
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also interesting are:
'please kill me' by legs mcneil (its about where punk came from, starting out in newyork and then goes over the oceans to london with vivienne westwood and malcolm maclaren, etc - it's interesting not only for music or fashion but politics and society).
'life of pi' by yann martel is one of the best books i have ever read. ever. you definately need to get this one! its won a lot of awards and shit but its soooo inspiring and life-changing.
'high fidelity' by nick hornby - great movie better book!
you're looking great sie, good luck with all your folio work. mine is due on friday so ive been flat out too, never spent so much time running around as i have this last week.
you'll be super though, im absolutely 100% sure of it.
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"The spread of slums, the hypergrowth and congestion of manufacturing cities, the noise and stench of the industrial process, debased urban life all over the western world and led to a great yearning for escape … in America, with its superabundance of cheap land, simple property laws, social mobility, mania for profit, zest for practical invention, and bible drunk sense of history, the yearning to escape industrialism expressed itself as a renewed search for Eden. America reinvented that paradise, described so briefly and vaguely in the book of Genesis, called it suburbia, and put it up for sale."
I also second "Please Kill Me"!
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