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CrispyQ

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2. Just this week I saw an FB post about David Bowie & that he was an avid reader. Fiction & non-fiction.

Reply to BlueWaveNeverEnd (Original post)

Sat Dec 14, 2024, 12:30 PM

Dec 2024

Apparently he made a list of the 100 most influential books that he'd read.

https://www.nypl.org/blog/2016/01/11/david-bowies-top-100-books

snip...

Though one of his songs is titled "I Can't Read", David Bowie was actually quite the voracious reader. In 2013, he posted a list of his top 100 favorite reads on his Facebook page and we're glad he did—Bowie's list of favorites is diverse and eclectic, ranging from poetry to comics to the kind of trippy reads you'd expect Ziggy Stardust to dig. In memory of one of the world's most iconic artists, put on some David Bowie tunes and crack the spine of one of the books that helped shape the legendary musician.

A list of books follows the above snippet. What an interesting man.

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I suspect women are better at launching computer based home gigs bucolic_frolic Dec 2024 #1

Just this week I saw an FB post about David Bowie & that he was an avid reader. Fiction & non-fiction. CrispyQ Dec 2024 #2

Interesting. I don't read a lot of contemporary fiction by men. LisaM Dec 2024 #3