books ive read 08-09

Explore my curated list of books read in 08-09, featuring top titles and hidden gems across genres. Discover must-read recommendations and personal insights.

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Wonderful Tonight

by Pattie Boyd

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • For the first time, rock music’s most famous muse tells her incredible story “A charming, lively and seductive book . . . The appeal of Wonderful Tonight is as self-evident as the seemingly simple but brash opening chord of ‘A Hard Day’s Night.’”—The 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 Harrison’s song “Something” and Clapton’s anthem “Layla,” Pattie Boyd has written a book that is rich and raw, funny and heartbreaking—and totally honest.
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Nine Stories

 

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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

“Marvelous . . . [Vonnegut] wheels out all the complaints about America and makes them seem fresh, funny, outrageous, hateful and lovable.”—The New York Times In Breakfast of Champions, one of Kurt Vonnegut’s 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. “Free-wheeling, wild and great . . . uniquely Vonnegut.”—Publishers 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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Post office

 

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Notes of a dirty old man.

 

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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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Filth

 

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Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour

 

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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.