NP - Springsteen's Reading List

[David Morris]

Would it have been more amusing if he'd said he had, but hadn't?

Most people have only seen the film, which was a damned good one.  And I
have to admit that Steinbeck is not one of my favorite authors.

David Morris

On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 11:47 AM, Matthew Taylor <matthew.taylor923 at gmail.com
> wrote:

> I did find it amusing that he admitted to not having read *Grapes of
> Wrath *when he wrote "The Ghost of Tom Joad."
>
> On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 12:29 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Yeah, it seems Springsteen has good literary taste.
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 11:10 AM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Where's the "like" button here?
>>>
>>>
>>> On Monday, November 3, 2014, Jamie McKittrick <jamiemckit at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> > http://www.artgarfunkel.com/library/favorites.html
>>> >
>>> > On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 3:29 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> http://www.brainpickings.org/2014/11/03/bruce-springsteen-reading-list-favorite-books/
>>> >>
>>> >> Moby-Dick (free download; public library) by Herman Melville
>>> >> How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty
>>> Attempts at an Answer (public library) by Sarah Bakewell
>>> >> Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos: The Scientific Quest for the Secret of
>>> the Universe (public library) by Dennis Overbye
>>> >> Love in the Time of Cholera (public library) by Gabriel García Márquez
>>> >> Anna Karenina (free download; public library) by Leo Tolstoy
>>> >> Leaves of Grass (public library) by Walt Whitman
>>> >> The History of Western Philosophy (public library) by Bertrand Russell
>>> >> Examined Lives (public library) by Jim Miller
>>> >> American Pastoral (public library) by Philip Roth
>>> >> I Married a Communist (public library) by Philip Roth
>>> >> Blood Meridian (public library) by Cormac McCarthy
>>> >> The Road (public library) by Cormac McCarthy
>>> >> The Sportswriter (public library) by Richard Ford
>>> >> The Lay of the Land (public library) by Richard Ford
>>> >> Independence Day (public library) by Richard Ford
>>> >> A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories (public library)
>>> by Flannery O’Connor
>>> >> Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock ‘n’ Roll Music (public
>>> library) byGreil Marcus
>>> >> Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley (public library)
>>> by Peter Guralnick
>>> >> Chronicles (public library) by Bob Dylan
>>> >> Sonata for Jukebox (public library) by Geoffrey O’Brien
>>> >> Soul Mining: A Musical Life (public library) by Daniel Lanois
>>> >> Too Big to Fail (public library) by Andrew Ross Sorkin
>>> >> Someplace Like America: Tales from the New Great Depression (public
>>> library) by Dale Maharidge
>>> >> The Big Short (public library) by Michael Lewis
>>> >> The Brothers Karamazov (free download; public library) by Fyodor
>>> Dostoevsky
>>> >> Great Short Works (public library) by Leo Tolstoy
>>> >> The Adventures of Augie March (public library) by Saul Bellow
>>> >> The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (public library) by L. Frank Baum
>>> >
>>>
>>
>>
>
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