Post 3 cult books everyone should read:
This is Memorial Device by David Keenan
Jolly Lad by John Doran
The Giro Playboy by Michael Smith
This is Memorial Device by David Keenan
Jolly Lad by John Doran
The Giro Playboy by Michael Smith
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Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists - Robert Tressell
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Giro-Playboy-Michael-Smith/dp/0571230873/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2L90S7LDHN26T&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.whqcF0se28GN5pzUSr9nsw.CFR8LJpF80RmSI48iPa_J_LvgJsUXdPYO2knYbl4mNg&dib_tag=se&keywords=The+giro+playboy&nsdOptOutParam=true&qid=1731866557&s=books&sprefix=the+giro+playboy%2Cstripbooks%2C86&sr=1-1
The Dice Man
Kitchen Confidential
The Psychedelic Experience by Timothy Leary
The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
(*anything by Angela Carter)
Sombrero Fallout - Richard Brautigan
Ask The Dust - John Fante
A Walk On The Wild Side - Nelson Algren
Ps currently reading Giro Playboy on your recommendation.
I’ve written 20 Tom Cruise stories.
One is a Minority Report / Berg mashup. (Not published (yet 🤞🏻)
Some of the others are:
https://linktr.ee/ThatCruiseBook
Grits by Niall Griffiths
A Fan's Notes by Frederick Exley
The Easter Parade by Richard Yates
Quadrophenia - Alan Fletcher
Skinhead - Richard Allen
H2G2 always at the top, and all six read annually.
Revenge of the Lawn - Richard Brautigan
Cains Book - Alexander Trocchi
Snowblind - Robert Sabbag
Never Hit the Ground - Kirk Lake
Under the Volcano - Malcolm Lowry
Kenneth Cook - Wake In Fright
Steve Ericksen - Arc D'X
MIrcea Cartarescu - Solenoid
Lanark - Alasdair Gray
So The Wind Won't Blow it All Away - Richard Brutigan
Billy and the Devil - Dean Lilleyman
The last one is more 'should be a cult classic'
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Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut.
The Minotaur Takes A Cigarette Break - Steven Sherrill
(Not just saying that because I’ve adapted it but…)
Testimony by Robbie Robertson
Clothes, Music, Boys by Viv Albertine
Now and Then by Gil Scott-Heron
Walking On Glass - Iain Banks
The Manual by Jimmy Cauty & Bill Drummond
(And of course This Is Memorial Device....)
Did some fantastic pieces on the culture show years back. His Nan singing La Marseillaise a particular favourite.
'Minor Characters' Joyce Johnson
'Revenge of the Lawn' Richard Brautigan.
Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon
Dreams of Sex & Stage Diving - Martin Millar.( which is a great companion piece to TiMD by the way if you've not read it)
The Motel Life - Willy Vlautin
Alasdair Gray - Lanark
John Fowles: The Magus
Danny Sugarman: Wonderland Avenue
The F*ck-It List - John Niven
Test Kitchen - Neil D. A. Stewart
Vurt by Jeff Noon
The colour of Memory by Geoff Dyer
A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing - Eimear McBride
The Outsiders - SE Hinton
The Christy Moore Songbook
The Truth And Other Stories by Sara Clancy
Haruki Murakami - 1Q84
Jack Kerouac - On The Road
1. Berg by Ann Quin
2. Sombrero Fallout by Richard Brautigan
3. Ask the Dust by John Fante.
The Big Midweek: Life Inside The Fall by Olivia Piekarski and Steve Hanley
Our Band Could Be Your Life by Michael Azerrad
Dispatches by Michael Herr
Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household
Down By The River Where The Dead Men Go by George P. Pelecanos
2) Head On - Julian Cope
3) The Scarecrow - Ronald Hugh Morrieson
last exit to Brooklyn, Hubert Selby Junior
Post Office - Charles bukowski
Leonard and Hungry Paul - Ronan Hession
But I’m also happy to add 103 others if that’s allowed????? 😜
New York Trilogy - Auster
Wasp Factory - Banks
I am also still really sad, but hugely grateful for him.
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
Milk, Sulphate and Alby Starvation - Martin Millar
"Women" - Charles Bukowski
"Just Kids" - Patti Smith
and "Memorial Device", of course.
The Shoe - Gordon Legge
Recently republished classic Japanese crime fiction.
Tokyo Express - Seicho Matsumoto
Unputdownable horror of auto genocide in Cambodia.
The Gate - François Bizot
The Illuminatus! Trilogy - R. Shea & R. Wilson
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
My hardbacks shelf.
2- Fear and Loathing in Las Vagas - Hunter S Thompson
3- Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Roberto Bolaño - The Savage Detectives
Emmanuel Carrère - Liminov
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers
Motherless Brooklyn - Jonathan Lethem 💥
Howie Makem !
Hopefully there’ll be a bookmark option soon,
https://getdewey.co/bluesky/
Papillon by Henri Charriere
The road by Cormac Mccarthy
Crow Road Iain Banks
One fine day in the middle of the night Chris Brookmyre
Martin Amis - Dead Babies
Riddley Walker - Russell Hoban
The Hill of Dreams - Arthur Machen
Lanark - Alasdair Gray
As Serious As Your Life - Val Wilmer
The Book Of Disquiet - Pessoa
On Poetic Imagination & Reverie - Bachelard
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David Niven - The Moon is a Balloon
Michael Bracewell - Souvenir.
Apocalypse Baby, Virginie Despentes
The Mad and the Bad, Jean-Patrick Manchette
...and I'll throw in Richard Stark's Parker novels, all 24 of them, as a bonus (I've finished 21 so far, just 3 to go.)
every thing is happening too fast here
people are posting their lunch before I've had my first paracetomol of the day
This is one cult book & a love story in 3 parts
1: THE book.
2: Me & my lovely, lovely regret; Adina from Colne, East Lancs.
3: A farewell blimp, smoked on the book
Anyway, I thought I’d add you to the list of cult novels, though you might prefer to be on a bestseller list instead.
Thoroughly enjoyable Dreamworld of The Shift in The Castle Omnibus by Steph Swainston
My estranged son, Jez Dunn has written a book about an accidental football manager - The Amateur.