books ive read 08-09
Explore a curated book list from 08-09 featuring iconic reads like Tom Wolfe's *The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test*, Kurt Vonnegut's *Breakfast of Champions*, and J.D. Salinger's *Franny and Zooey*. Dive into a mix of counterculture history, literary fiction, and personal memoirs from Henry Miller and Pattie Boyd in this collection of all-time greats.
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Wonderful Tonight
by Pattie Boyd
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ⢠For the first time, rock musicâs most famous muse tells her incredible story âA charming, lively and seductive book . . . The appeal of Wonderful Tonight is as self-evident as the seemingly simple but brash opening chord of âA Hard Dayâs Night.âââThe New York Times Book Review Pattie Boyd, former wife of both George Harrison and Eric Clapton, finally breaks a forty-year silence and tells the story of how she found herself bound to two of the most addictive, promiscuous musical geniuses of the twentieth century and became the most legendary muse in the history of rock and roll. The woman who inspired Harrisonâs song âSomethingâ and Claptonâs anthem âLayla,â Pattie Boyd has written a book that is rich and raw, funny and heartbreakingâand totally honest.
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Franny and Zooey
by J.D. Salinger
Two children of the Glass family appear in separate stories set in twentieth-century New York.
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Breakfast of Champions
by Kurt Vonnegut
âMarvelous . . . [Vonnegut] wheels out all the complaints about America and makes them seem fresh, funny, outrageous, hateful and lovable.ââThe New York Times In Breakfast of Champions, one of Kurt Vonnegutâs most beloved characters, the aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. What follows is murderously funny satire, as Vonnegut looks at war, sex, racism, success, politics, and pollution in America and reminds us how to see the truth. âFree-wheeling, wild and great . . . uniquely Vonnegut.ââPublishers Weekly
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Quiet Days in Clichy
by Henry Miller
"Quiet Days in Clichy is a novella written by Henry Miller. It is based on his experience as a Parisian expatriate in the early 1930s, when he and Alfred Perlès shared a small apartment in suburban Clichy as struggling writers (at 4 Avenue Anatole-France)." -- Wikipedia.com viewed May 6, 2021.
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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
by Tom Wolfe
Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test ushered in an era of New Journalism, "An American classic" (Newsweek) that defined a generation. "An astonishing book" (The New York Times Book Review) and an unflinching portrait of Ken Kesey, his Merry Pranksters, LSD, and the 1960s.
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Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch
by Henry Miller
Tells the story of Miller's life on Big Sur, a section of California coast where he lived for fifteen years.
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In Watermelon Sugar
by Richard Brautigan
iDEATH is a place where the sun shines different every day, and where people travel to the length of their dreams. Rejecting the violence and hate of the old gang at the Forgotten Works, they lead gentle lives in watermelon sugar. In this book, Richard Brautigan discovers and exprecesses the mood of a new generation.