tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19662178.post3343097693539840568..comments2023-04-09T16:07:39.987+01:00Comments on Wrinkled Weasel's World: Essential Cool Part Six - BooksWrinkled Weaselhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05291551539649118631noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19662178.post-39836213559965868742010-11-08T21:25:49.876+00:002010-11-08T21:25:49.876+00:00what? Katie Price not on your list? Damn, that was...what? Katie Price not on your list? Damn, that was the only book I knew about......<br /><br />Joking aside, you have too many cooking and gardening/self sufficiency books for my taste.<br /><br />I do like music biographies though<br />My White Bicycles by Joe Boyd<br />Black Vinyl White Powder by Simon Napier Bell<br /><br />Plus<br />A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess<br />Brave New World by Aldous Huxley<br />Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut Jnr<br />Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand<br />Down and out in Paris and London by George Orwell<br />Stranger in a strange land by Robert Heinlein<br /><br />Just a few on my bookshelf that I've enjoyed over the last yearDavehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00448711775318691029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19662178.post-74625087594296194322010-11-03T14:16:48.286+00:002010-11-03T14:16:48.286+00:00Ruth, you must submit your own suggestions, but fo...Ruth, you must submit your own suggestions, but four off that very selective list is rather good, don't you think?Wrinkled Weaselhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05291551539649118631noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19662178.post-82076391748148196652010-11-02T15:27:50.506+00:002010-11-02T15:27:50.506+00:00Ok... well... that's all right then.
But:
...Ok... well... that's all right then. <br /><br /><br />But:<br /><br />There's no 'a' in Hemingway's first name. <br /><br />On the other hand, there is a 'g' in his second.<br /><br />So - technically - we're quits. <br /><br />(Has another look along his bookshelves - hmmm - awful lot of political biographies there - dictators, American presidents, Huey P. Long...).<br /><br />Nah. They're 'worthy' rather than 'cool' under the terms of the act - none about Katie Price neiver.Jim Baxterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10817293012642419524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19662178.post-86506662824972082942010-11-02T14:52:34.134+00:002010-11-02T14:52:34.134+00:00Jim. Your titles have been investigated and assess...Jim. Your titles have been investigated and assessed under the rules for inclusion under the Cool Canon, paragraph three, subsection five, of the Weasel Amendment Act (1993) and found to be perfectly sound.<br /><br />However, one or two titles may require further investigation on the basis that I don't appear to have read them.Wrinkled Weaselhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05291551539649118631noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19662178.post-41539177608871251572010-11-02T14:19:42.834+00:002010-11-02T14:19:42.834+00:00Cool books eh?
Well, none of the above for starte...Cool books eh?<br /><br />Well, none of the above for starters. Kerouac? BEOWULF?<br /><br />Kerist!<br /><br />Now, these are cool. <br /><br />The First Three Minutes - Steven Weinberg.<br /><br />Parallel Worlds - Michio Kaku.<br /><br />Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman - Richard Feynman.<br /><br />Then for relief from light (and its speed):<br /><br />Hunger - Knut Hamsun<br /><br />Death in the Afternoon - Ernest Heminway<br /><br />Der Steppenwolf - Hermann Hesse<br /><br />Hells Angels - Hunter S Thompson<br /><br />Journey to the End of the Night - L.F. Celine.<br /><br />The Third Policeman - Flann O'Brien.<br /><br />Raymond Chandler - The Long Goodbye.<br /><br />Twenty Letters to a Friend - Svetlana Alliluyeva.<br /><br />The Undertaking - Thomas Lynch.<br /><br />The Red Hourglass - Gordon Grice.<br /><br />The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake.Jim Baxterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10817293012642419524noreply@blogger.com