David Bowie Top 100 books

drofgnal · Today, 03:23 AM

My wife knowing I was a big Bowie music fan showed me an instagram post about Bowie being a voracious reader. It had a link to his top 100 books from the NY public library. I've read a handful of these and may explore a few more on the list. It's an interesting collection of books.

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

Number9 · Today, 04:09 AM

There's also a book written on the subject!

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B07QH...8355624&sr=8-1

And here:

https://www.kobo.com/se/sv/ebook/bow...9thKHKg&cPos=1

Quoth · Today, 08:34 AM

How does the top 100 from a library work?
In fact it's a copy of Bowie's own list posted by Bowie himself on Facebook, so it's actually nothing to do with the NYPL. Using Facebook is poor judgement. The entirely of Zukerberg's sites are exploitive cess pits.

It might be brilliant or not, but generally the opinions of celebrities are worthless. See Stephen Fry's comments.
What a celebrity is good at, or famous but not good at*, is mostly irrelevant to some other field.

[* David Bowie seems to have deserved pop fame more than most and seems to have been decent to work with]

Today, 03:23 AM	#1
drofgnal Wizard Posts: 1,421 Karma: 10519918 Join Date: Dec 2009 Device: Ipad Pro/Kindle Oasis 3/iPhone 13 Pro Max	David Bowie Top 100 books My wife knowing I was a big Bowie music fan showed me an instagram post about Bowie being a voracious reader. It had a link to his top 100 books from the NY public library. I've read a handful of these and may explore a few more on the list. It's an interesting collection of books. https://www.nypl.org/blog/2016/01/11...-top-100-books

Today, 04:09 AM	#2
Number9 Dude Posts: 216 Karma: 2184130 Join Date: Feb 2014 Location: Dobbstown Device: Kobo Aura One; Kobo Aura H2o; Sony Reader PRS-T3	There's also a book written on the subject! https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B07QH...8355624&sr=8-1 And here: https://www.kobo.com/se/sv/ebook/bow...9thKHKg&cPos=1 Last edited by Number9; Today at 04:11 AM.

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Quoth Still reading Posts: 14,617 Karma: 108669873 Join Date: Jun 2017 Location: Ireland Device: All 4 Kinds: epub eink, Kindle, android eink, NxtPaper	How does the top 100 from a library work? In fact it's a copy of Bowie's own list posted by Bowie himself on Facebook, so it's actually nothing to do with the NYPL. Using Facebook is poor judgement. The entirely of Zukerberg's sites are exploitive cess pits. It might be brilliant or not, but generally the opinions of celebrities are worthless. See Stephen Fry's comments. What a celebrity is good at, or famous but not good at, is mostly irrelevant to some other field. [ David Bowie seems to have deserved pop fame more than most and seems to have been decent to work with]

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