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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/david-bowie-the-man-who-loved-books/

>> No.11455922

>>11455832
All of them

>> No.11455953

>>11455832
>Not a single book from before the 1900s
>No Mein Kampf or occult books from his White Duke fase
I'm sort of disappointed

>> No.11455966

>>11455953
>>No Mein Kampf...
it's not even funny anymore

>> No.11455990
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11455990

>no culture of critique

>> No.11456007

>>11455953
>>11455990
I think you should start browsing other boards

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>>11456007

>> No.11456044

>>11455966
>>11456007
it's not supposed to be funny

In later years, Bowie called the period from about late 1974 until early 1977 "the darkest days of my life" due to "astronomical" usage of cocaine and other drugs.[9] He blamed his erratic statements and behaviour and his temporary fascination with Nazi and occult symbols during that time on his precarious mental state, and claimed that he could not even remember the late-1975 recording sessions for Station to Station

>> No.11456094

>>11455953
His fashy goy phase was short lived and influenced by drug addiction.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZGiVzIr8Qg

Props to MTV for uploading this.

>> No.11456110

>>11456094
eyes like daggers at the end there

>> No.11456126

>>11456094
I know, it was sort of a joke.
Everyone is really susceptible

>> No.11456189

>>11455953
>occult books
he has a list of recommendations

>> No.11456195

Not that many just because no one here knows or talks about them. Sounds like he really carved out his own taste.

>> No.11456200

Oscar Wao discredits the whole list. He could have liked it from some sentimental level but its on the literary level of Harry Potter.