 | Love And Theft by Bob Dylan
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.99 2001's masterpiece, which contains lyrics similar to words found below:
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 | Confessions of a Yakuza: a Life in Japan's Underworld by Jun'ichi Saga
Buy new: £4.94 / Used from: £0.98 Dylanologists have identified lines in several L&T songs! What does it mean? Er, Dylan read this book?
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 | The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
Buy used from: £0.01 Graham Greene's wonderful novel in this budget edition....
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 | This Is How It Feels by The Golden Palominos
Buy new: £7.98 / Used from: £5.00 & this Golden Palominos LP that nods to The End of the Affair.
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 | A Walk Across the Rooftops by The Blue Nile
Buy new: £5.78 / Used from: £2.59 Richard Yates is nodded to with the song-title 'Easter Parade', though The Blue Nile get their name from:
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 | The Blue Nile by Alan Moorehead
Buy used from: £7.31 ...I'd imagine.
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 | The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Buy new: £5.74 / Used from: £2.11 A brilliant novel (& a brilliant film too....)
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 | The Ghost of Tom Joad by Bruce Springsteen
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £1.79 & Springsteen, influenced by Ford's film & Steinbeck's novel offered this- his best LP since Nebraska (1982)
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 | The Velvet Underground & Nico by The Velvet Underground
Buy new: £15.07 / Used from: £8.00 That classic debut, Reed influenced by people like Algren & Selby Jr. Listen to the lyrics of Heroin
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 | Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson
Buy used from: £7.08 & see where Denis Johnson got the title to his great collection of short-stories that were made into a great film a few years ago.
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 | Repetition by Alain Robbe-Grillet
Buy new: £7.14 / Used from: £2.99 This Robbe-Grillet book was picked out by John Cale on Desert Island Discs
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 | 5 Tracks by John Cale
Buy used from: £5.45 & found itself quoted here on this excellent e.p.
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 | The Correct Use of Soap by Magazine
Buy new: £6.98 / Used from: £3.69 The last great Magazine LP, which features A Song from Under the Floorboards
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 | Notes from Underground and The Double by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Buy new: £5.18 / Used from: £0.01 , which quotes from Notes from the Underground (which was also a source for films like The Cabinet of Dr Caligari & Taxi Driver. Pickpocket also?)
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 | A Scanner Darkly (S.F. Masterworks) by Philip K. Dick
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £0.12 This novel gave a title to a Primal Scream instrumental a few years ago...
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 | Sister by Sonic Youth
Buy new: £11.17 / Used from: £3.02 But this classic Sonic Youth LP is almost a concept LP about Dick, whose works were much harder to find then...
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 | Alice by Tom Waits
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £4.98 Waits has been quoted in novels (e.g. Already Dead) & nodded to Buchner's Woyzeck with Blood Money; this nods to:
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 | The Annotated Alice: "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" AND "Through the Looking Glass": The definite Edition. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland an Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
Buy new: £7.18 / Used from: £5.00 This fantastic work of greatness (or great work of fantasticness???)
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 | The Fall (Penguin Modern Classics) by Albert Camus
Buy used from: £3.24 Camus' works have been quoted by such acts as The Cure, Echo & the Bunnymen & The Fall
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 | Grotesque (After The Gramme) by The Fall
Buy new: £3.48 / Used from: £3.50 Here is another brilliant Fall reissue from the Riley-era with bonus joys like City Hobgoblins & Totally Wired...
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 | Gone to Earth by David Sylvian
Buy used from: £6.95 I suppose this nods to the following book- or the Powell-adaptation? (Surely not the Barclay James Harvest LP?)
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 | Gone to Earth (Virago modern classics) by Mary Webb
Buy new: £7.09 / Used from: £0.01 I've only seen the film- this is on that endless list though!
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 | Less Than Zero (Picador Books) by Bret Easton Ellis
Buy used from: £0.01 Ellis' debut takes its title from a track from the following LP:
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 | My Aim Is True by Elvis Costello
Buy used from: £10.94 - which I think he made with members of The News of Huey Lewis fame!
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 | Prison Notebooks: Selections by Antonio Gramsci
Buy new: £14.77 / Used from: £8.00 Scritti Politti took their name from a book by this dead guy; they also wrote a song about Jacques Derrida! I kid you not...
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