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PAUL "BLOWFISH" LOVELL

The Bedford Introduction to Literature     Ed Michael Meyer     2006     Course textbook. Many plays, poems and short stories.
Foo Fighters: Learning to Fly    Mick Wall     2015 Bio of David Grohl
Curious Man : The Strange and Brilliant Life of Robert 'Believe it or Not!' Ripley     Neal Thompson    2013    The Man was as much a phenomenon as "Believe it or Not!" was.
Diary of a Rock 'n' Roll Star  Ian Hunter  1974   Diary of 1972 Tour.
Chasing the Perfect     Natalia Ilyin    2006   Thoughts on Modern Design.
The Most Beautiful Walk in the World    John Baxter    2011    The interesting oddities of Paris.
Existence and the Existent    Jacques Maritain    1948     Didn't get it. Just tried.
El Sid : Saint Vicious     David Dalton   1997    Nothing new, but amped up descriptions are entertaining.
Add Some Music to Your Day  D.Cunningham/Blerel  1999   Analyzing the music of the Beach Boys.
Everything is Combustible   Richard Lloyd 2016   Lots of drug/alcohol talk, odd tidbits and then some Television stories.

In Sunlight or in Shadows  Various 2016    Stories inspired by The Paintings of Edward Hopper. Some authors: King/Oats/Lee Child.
American Axe: Roy Buchanan  Phil Carson 2001  An excess of talent and drugs.
Night of the Tories  J.M. Taylor 2013  Jim Thomson style crime novel with Boston back drop.
Almost Interesting  David Spade  2015   Actually only interesting when he writes about Saturday Night Live.
Man on the Run  Tom Doyles 2013  Story of Paul McCartney in the 70's. Good.
The Annotated Lolita  Vladimir Nabokov  1955/91    Still disturbing subject matter and amazing prose.
The Ragman's Memory  Archer Mayor  2007   Mystery situated in Brattleboro VT.
Astral Weeks: A Secret History of 1968  Ryan H. Walsh  2018 The culture/history of Boston at that time.
Under the Dome   Stephen King  2009   Novel. Audiobook.
The Killing Man   Mickey Spillane   1989   His final book.

Tristes Tropiques   Claude Levi-Strauss   1955   A most amazing book. Part Indiana Jones, Survivor, a travelogue, Anthropology, sociology etc...with lyrical descriptive passages.
Forbidden Knowledge - from Prometheus to Pornography Roger Shattuck 1966 Big ideas and deep insights.
Your Band Sucks: What I Saw at Indie Rock's Failed Revolution (But Can No Longer Hear)   Jon Fine   2015     Inside stories of a touring band in the 1980's
The Code    Shaun Tomson   2013 Surfer Shaun gives life lessons and inspiration from the surf life
How Proust Can Change Your Life Alain DeBotton 1997 Light but knowledgeable of Proust's thinking. Very enjoyable.
Bob and Ray: Keener than Most Persons    David Pollock   2013    Bio
Dante in Love   A.N. Wilson   2012 Dante's life, poems and historical context all come together to further Dante appreciation.
Harold Pinter: Collected Poems and Prose Harold Pinter 1996   Not big on this.
The Museum of Illusions: Optical Tricks in Art   Celine Delavaux     2012 Large format art book.
Poetry to Make You Smile Ed by Jane O'Wayne   1996 Fun read.

Punks, Poets and Provocateurs: NYC Bad Boys 1977-1982 Marcia Resnick/ V. Bockris 2015 Large format photo book.
The Collected Poems of A.E. Houseman    A.E. Houseman 1940 Included A Shropshire Lad.
Contemporary American Novelists of the Absurd Charles B. Harris 1971 Vonnegut/Pynchon/Heller. Dated.
The Reality Shows Karen Finley2011 She's always poking the bare nerves. Ultimately her scattershot style is unrewarding.
Sacred    Dennis Lehane   1997 Audio book. Mystery.
So We Read On   Maureen Corrigan   2014 An appreciation of the Great Gatsby.
Sputnik Sweetheart   Haruki Murakami   1999 Novel. Didn't like. Not a fan of this style of writing.
From Approximately Coast to Coast…it's the Bob and Ray Show B. Elliot/ R. Golding 1983 Collection of radio bits.
Green Day Faq Hank Bordowitz 2018 Bio of Band.
Mess: One man's Struggle to Clean Up His House and His Act Barry Yourgraw 2015 All about hording.

Purgatorio  Dante  1400 Classic
Descartes' Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict Between Faith and Reason Russell Shorto 2008 A wide ranging story. Interesting but would have been better with a tighter focus.
The Humbling Philip Roth 2009 Short Novel. Good enough.
Hit Parade Lawrence Block 2009 Short stories in "Keller" series. Alfred Hitchcock style twists.
Henry IV Part I Shakespeare 1600  Classic
The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald 1925 Classic.
The Stranger   Camus    1942 Classic.
Aquinas F.C. Copleston 1955 Not that I understand all the metaphysics but like reading about it.
The World is Flat Thomas Friedman 2005 Dated even now but still had a few things of interest.
American Masters Brian O'Doherty 1982 Deep analysis of Rothko, Cormell, Rauschenberg, Pollock and de Kooning.

Selected Poems: Wordsworth   William Wordsworth/Ed George Meyer  1950   Not overly impressed. Didn't relate to the material.
Over the Edge of the World   Lawrence Bergreen  2003   Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe. Very good book.
Wittgenstein's Poker   Edmonds/Eidinow   2001   Mainly a launching pad for bio on philosophers Wittgenstein and Popper .
Hush Money  Robert B Parker   1999  Spenser mystery.
Introvert: Survival Tactics    Patrick King  2018    I'm always looking for help with this.
The Human Factor    Graham Greene   1978    Low key spy novel.
After the Fall    Arthur Miller   1964     There is a character resembling Marilyn Monroe.
Magpie Murders     Anthony Horowitz     2017     Clever mystery.
Canterbury Tales     Geoffrey Chaucer  1400   An amazing accomplishment.
Chaucer's Major Tales     Hoy/Stevens    1969     Help to understand the novel.

Long Day's Journey into Night     Eugene O'Neill   1955     Hated it. Dysfunctional family wallowing in drugs, drink, bad health and a fatal disease. Whoopee!
The Price of Malice     Archer Mayor    2009     Mystery set in Vermont.
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test     Tom Wolfe   1968     Captures the psychedelic era perfectly.
'A' is for Alibi   Sue Grafton  1982   Mystery. Audio book. First Kinsey Millhone mystery.
Blood and Smoke     Stephen King    2000    Audiobook. 3 short stories. Read by S. King.
Thu the Underpass     Galen Rossop    2018    Story of Boston rock in 1968 by someone who was in the middle of it.
Unfamiliar Territory     Robert Silverberg    1973    Sci Fi short stories. .
The Kite Runner    Khaled Hosseini Lawrence   2005    Even though it's beloved by millions, I didn't take to this novel.
Everyday Zen     Charlotte Joko Beck    1989     The reasons and way of Zen.
The Nothing Man     Jim Thompson    1954     Suspense novel with the Thompson style.

The Ice Master     Jennifer Niven    2001     The Doomed voyage of the Karluk. Gruesome.
The President is Missing     Clinton /Patterson 2018 By the numbers. mainstream thriller.
Essays in Pragmatism   William James   1948   Understood just enough to make it worth reading.
A Spy in the House of Love     Chris Stamey    2018   Autobio of db's bandmate.
Our Man in Havana     Graham Greene    1958   Pleasant.
T.S. Eliot    Stephen Spender  1975   Superb critique of all of Eliot's works.
Pogie     Anonymous 2018 Unpublished novel by Boston rock musician.
Fletch     Gregory McDonald 1974 Smart aleck California detective. Made into a move with Chevy Chase.
Hamlet     William Shakespeare    1600   I come back to this often.
'Y' is for Yesterday    Sue Grafton 2017 Final novel in the alphabet entitled series. Grafton died before she wrote the Z book.

The Poincare Conjecture     Donald O'Shea    2007     The mathematics of topology
Face Time    Hank Phillippi Ryan 2009 Mystery with Boston background. Airplane read.
Catching the Big Fish    David Lynch  2006   Thoughts on meditation and creativity.
The End of the Affair     Graham Greene    1951   Liked the first half better than the last half.
I'm Chevy Chase and You're Not     Rena Fruchter    2007   Chevy was a victim of intense child abuse by both parents.
Indignation     Philip Roth   2008   Short novel.
Rat Girl    Kristin Hersh  2010   Memoir by Throwing Muses singer. Talks about being bipolar.
Jeopardy!     Harry Eisenberg 1995 All about the TV show.
The Simple Art of Murder     Raymond Chandler 1988 Short stories.
Neon Apocalypse    Jake tringali 2018 Poetry from Boston punk fan.

Stoked: A History of Surf Culture     Drew Kampion 1997 Enjoyable. Large format book.
Hundred-Dollar Baby     Robert B. Parker 2006 Spenser novel.
The Good Soldier     Ford Madox Ford 1927 Classic novel. I didn't like it much.

Short stories/plays or books I didn't give full attention to.

Into Disaster   Maurice Dlanchot 2014 French critic writings from 1941
Paul Klee   Sandra Forty 2013 Small art book.
New Directions in Literature   John Fletcher  1968
Never a Dull Moment: 1971 The Year that Rock Exploded David Hepnorth 2016
Gil Scott-Heron The Last Holiday" A memoir   Gil Scott-Heron 2012
It's Lonely in the Modern World Quinn/Talbott Quinn/Talbott Quinn/Talbott 2011 A humorous take on modernism.
The Masters of Cinema Roman Polanski David Ehrenstein 2012
Cliffs Notes Henry IV Part I
Cliffs Notes Tender is the Night
Passing Gas Gary Gladsone 2003 Story of odd town names.
The Homes of America Ernest Pickering1951 Early American architecture
A Fan's Notes Frederick Exley Stopped reading. Didn't like.