who are your favorite writers?

[Bobby D]

add to this "The Real Frank Zappa Book"



....should be required reading for musicians!

[huckleboogie]

ahhh, what a great book:-)

[huckleboogie]

for me, they would be:

philip k dick

kurt vonnegut

hermann hesse

randy wayne white (a good friend, and great florida mystery fiction writer)

theodor adorno

robert pirsig

ikkyu, the crazy zen poet

last week, killing time at Budapest Airport i browsed thru the bookstore, and came across Kurt Vonnegut's "Timequake". i had never read anything by him, but i was familiar with the name and remember You mentioned him in this thread. so i bought it and wow - one of my greatest discoveries ever! just like when i heard "Deacon Blues" for the first time many years ago great to know one never gets too old to discover absolutely mindblowing stuff.
so, i ordered a couple more of his books already!

[micki001]

Science
Jared Diamond Collapse, Guns, Germs and Steel
Brian Greene The Elegant Universe
Alan Lightman Einstein's Dreams
Bill Bryson A Brief History of Nearly Everything
Alan Guth The Inflationary Universe
Paul Davies Other Worlds

Literature, History & Politics
George Orwell 1984
Richard Wright Native Son, Black Power
James Baldwin Another Country
Henry David Thoreau Walden & On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
Alexis DeTocqueville Democracy In America
Victor Klemperer I Will Bear Witness (1933 to 1941), To The Bitter End (1942 to 1945) and The Lesser Evil (1945 to 1959)
Tim Weiner Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
Daniel Jonah Goldhagen Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust
Bethany McLean, Peter Elkind The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron
Susan Jacoby The Age of American Unreason

Music & Culture
Miles Davis Autobiography
Nathaniel Mackey ATET A.D.
Samuel Delany Stars in my Pocket like Grains of Sand
Ishmael Reed Mumbo Jumbo
Oliver Sacks Musicophilia
David Hajdu Lush Life: the Story of Billy Strayhorn
Jean Toomer Cane