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PAUL "BLOWFISH" LOVELL

1 - The Best American Poetry Ed by Hass/Lehman 2001 With Bishop/Bly/Creeley/Pinsky
2 - Selected Translations by Ted Hughes 2006 Wide ranging selection of Poetry over a long time period.
3 - The Given Day Dennis Lehane 2008 There is some interesting Boston history in the story. Audiobook.
4 - The Road Not Taken David Orr 2015 All about the Robert Frost poem. Very Good.
5 - Sons of Sam Spade David Geherin 1982 The private eye novel in the 70s.
6 - Being and Nothingness Jean-Paul Sartre 1943 Got enough out of it to make it worthwhile but that is one hard book.
7 - A Commentary on Being and Nothingness Joseph D. Catalano 1980 Help with the Sartre.
8 - The Boston Copycat Killer Johnny Barnes 2018 ½ about serial killers through history and ½ crime story happening now.
9 - Outside is America - U2 in the US Carter Alan 1992 From the early days to stardom by WBCN DJ.
10 - Rilke's Book of Hours Translated by Barrows/Macy 2005 Poems from 1905. Calming and spiritual.

11 - Sonnets to Orpheus   Rainer Maria Rilke  1920   About living in nature and not forgetting death.
12 - Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties   John JL Mood  1975   Some of Rilke's work and some commentary.
13 - The Bedwetter   Sarah Silverman  2018   A lot of edgy and uncomfortable subject s, as one would expect.
14 - Mario and the Magician and Other Stories   Thomas Mann  1952   Some nice sections.
15 - Rabbit Redux   John Updike  1971   A lot about the 1969 zeitgeist
16 - Nirvana - The Biography   Everett True  2003   Large book manages to show Kurt's lifestyle, life and career.
17 - Matisse   Noel Bernard  1987   Short but substantive explanations of Matisse's theory on creating his art.
18 - The World of Copernicus   Angus Armitage  1951   About life and work.
19 - Who is Teddy Villanova?   Thomas Berger  1977   Parody of detective novel. Stupid, waste of time.
20 - Modern Artists on Art   Robert L Hervert   1964   10essays by artists like Mondrian, Klee and Kandinsky. Very good.

21 - Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals   Immanuel Kant  1948   About the categorical imperative
22 - Murder Below Montparnasse   Cara Black  2013   Murder mystery with Paris setting. Not so good.
23 - The Subterraneans   Jack Kerouac  1958   Novel. I liked getting back into the beat world.
24 - Silence in the Snowy Fields   Robert Bly  1962   First book of poems by Bly. Midwest nature is the common subject.
25 - David Lynch: The Man From Another Place   Dennis Lim  2015   Career overview.
26 - Assault and Beret   Jenn Mc Kinlay  2017   Lightweight mystery with Paris setting.
27 - Concerts Conversations   Joseph Kerman  1999   The Structure of Concertos (from lectures)
28 - Perfume   Patrick Suskind  1986   Murder mystery.
29 - Plato and a Platypus walk into a Bar…   Cathcart/Klein  2009   Using jokes to explain philosophy. Light reading.
30 - Inside Seal Team Six   Don Mann/Pezzulo  2011   Audiobook. Mostly Seal training stories. They are a different breed.

31 - Tough Guys Don't Dance   Norman Mailer  1984   Didn't like. Some cringe worthy moments.
32 - How to Stop Worrying and Start Living   Dale Carnegie  1948   Keep busy and have positive thinking is the gist. Fun read. Common sense.
33 -The Iceman Cometh   Eugene O'Neil  1940   Everyone's dream dies in this depressing play.
34 - God Bless John Wayne   Kinky Freedman  1995   Mystery novel.
35 - Mao II   Don DeLillo  1991   Novel dealing with terrorism. Modern problems.
36 - Satori in Paris   Jack Kerouac  1966   Stories from a short trip to France.
37 - Crimson Joy   Rrobert B. Parker  1988   A Spencer novel
38 - Alan McGee & the Story of Creation Records   Paolo Hewitt   2000   95% of the stories are about drugs and partying. Waste of time.
39 - Why A Duck?   Ed Richard Anobile  1971   Dialog from Marx Brothers Movies.
40 - The Doom That Came to Sarnath   H.P. Lovecraft  1930   Oh, the creepy goings on!

41 - Beware Beware   Steph Cha  2014   Mystery. Just alright.
42 - Prolegomena to any Future Metaphysics   Immanuel Kant  1983.   Beyond me.
43 - Down the Darkest Street   Alex Sequra  2016   Mystery novel. Waste of time.
44 - Rickles' Book   Don Rickles/Ritz  2007   Autobio - breezy.
45 - Claire DeWitt and the Bohemian Highway   Sara Gran  2013   Mystery novel. Waste of time.
46 - The Secret Life of Introverts   Jenn Grannemman  2017   All about introvert psychology. Wish I had read this 50 years ago.
47 - On Celestial Music   Rick Moody   2012   Rock critic. Some interesting insights.
48 - California Dreaming   Andrew Hickey  2015   The LA pop music scene and the 60s. Good.
49 - Rabbit is Rich   John Updike  1981   Novel reflecting the 70s.
50 - Rabbit at Rest   John Updike  1990   Final book in series (of 4). Liked this one the best. Set in the 80s.

51 - Semiotics and Interpretations   Robert Scholes  1982   Applying Semiotics to get insights into literature.
52 - Clothes, Clothes, Clothes, Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys   Viv Albertine   2014   Member of the Slits. She was right in the middle of the English Punk explosion. Interesting viewpoints.
53 - Chance   Robert B. Parker  1996   Spencer novel.
54 - Rocks: My Life in and Out of Aerosmith   Joe Perry  2014   Audiobook. The endless drama and dysfunction of Aerosmith.
55 - Americana   Don DeLillo  1971   His first book. Hard to read. Fragmented, with no big point. All ideas, no focus.
56 - The Friends of Eddie Coyle   George V. Higgins  1970   It's all about the wise guy dialog.
57 - The Perfect Theory   Pedro G. Ferreira  2014   Astronomy, dealing with Einstein's General Theory of Relativity.
58 - The Seventh Function of Language   Laurent Binet  2015   Murder mystery that involves French Philosophes (circa 1980). Ambitious but didn't work.
59 - Stages of Grey   Clea Simon  2014   Mystery set at Harvard University.
60 - Slowness   Milan Kundera  1995   Novel. Didn't like. Slim. Compares different eras.

61 - The Pound Era   Hugh Kenner  1971   Enjoyed some parts but didn't have the knowledge of the Cantos to fully get this.
62 - Whatever Happened To Good and Evil   Russ Shafer-Landaw  2004   Excellent. Clear writing on relativism and objectivity in morals.
63 - Born to Drum   Tony Barrell  2015   e-book. Very general overview of drummers. Waste of time.
64 - Art Deco: Flights of Artistic Fancy   Susan A. Sternau   1997   Coffee Table book.
65 - Timequake   Kurt Vonnegut  1997   Has all the Vonnegut touches but a bit too cranky at points.
66 - Philosophy Bites   Edmond /Warburton  2010   Interviews w/ 25 philosophers on intriguing topics. Plain speaking and to the point.
67 - Motherless Brooklyn   Jonathan Letham  1999   Novel. Fun.
68 - Bono   Michka Assayas  2005   Full book interview w/ Bono, who is not just a vapid rock star.
69 - Music Adventures in Listening   Joseph Machlis  1968   School course book on classical music. I used YouTube to supply musical examples.
70 - Drift Away   Kerry Tucker  1994   Mystery situated in Boston. Terrible.

71 - A Town Called Malice   Adam Abromowitz  2119   Mystery situated in Boston w/ Boston Rock as background subject matter.
72 - Keys to Infinity   Clifford A. Pickover  1995   Mathematical oddities dealing with Infinities: Fractals, for instance.
73 -A Case of Vineyard Poison   Philip R. Craig  1995   Murder set on Martha's Vineyard. This is a series with 21 books I've read many and I'm finishing the series this year.
74 - Bobby Darin   Michael Sith Starr  2004   Bio. Bobby didn't realize till late in life that the person who he thought was his sister was actually his mother. Had a bad heart his whole life.
75 - Bosstown   Adam Abramowitz  2017   Predecessor to A Town Called Malice.
76 - Vineyard Shadows   Philip R. Craig  2001   Mystery with Martha's Vineyard setting.
77 - Skeleton Man   Tony Hillerman  2004   Mystery.
78 - Music and the Mind   Anthony Storr  1992   A wide ranging analysis of why we like music.
79 - The Hardest Working Man   James Sullivan  2008   About the James Brown Boston Garden show of 1968, the day of Martin Luther King's assassination. A look at JB's career and black politics of 60s 70s and 80s.
80 - A Poem Worthy Place   Kendal Hippolyte Ed  2011   Bermuda Anthology of Poetry Vol II.

81 - Even Cowgirls Get the Blues   Tom Robbins  1976   Fanciful writing. Playful novel.
82 - A Vineyard Killing   Philip R. Craig  2004   Mystery on Martha's Vineyard - 3 more books in 21 book series.
83 - It Happened in Boston?   Russell H. Greenan  1968   Unusual novel of some acclaim. Enjoyed this a lot.
84 - Second Sight   Craig/Tapply  2005   Martha's Vineyard Mystery. 2 more books to go to finish series.
85 - A Judgement in Stone   Ruth Rendell  2000   Did not like. I like her early books better.
86 - Third Strike   Craig/Tapply  2007   Martha's Vineyard mystery. 1 more book to go in series.
87 - 1970: The Hulton Getty Picture Collection    2001   Over 300 photos.
88 - Vineyard Chill   Philip R. Craig  2008   Finally, the last book in series. Craig died in 2016 
89 - The Annotated Big Sleep   Chandler/Hill/Jackson/Rizzuto  2018   Fantastic. Text is explained and contextualized.
90 - The Photo Book   Phaidon Press   1997   500 Photos from 500 photographers.

91 - Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles   Ward/Silver  1987   Photos/excerpts/essays.
92 - Dark Horse   Rory Flynn  2016   Crime novel happening in Boston.
93 - Once a Rocker, Always a Rocker   Mach Bell  2019   Tour diary of Mach's time with the Joe Perry Project. I'm mentioned in this.
94 - The Consolations of Philosophy   Alainde Botton 2000   Easy to overview of Socrates, Seneca, Montaigne, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche.
95 - From Doon with Death   Ruth Rendell  1978   English mystery novel. Rendell's first.
96 - Words Without Music   Philip Glass  2015   Autobiography. Interesting.
97 - How Things Exist: Teaching on Emptiness   Lama Zopa Rimpoche 2008 Some Buddhist thought.
98 - World Enough   Clea Simon  2017   Mystery happening in the Boston Club scene.
99 - Andrew's Brain   E.L. Doctorow  2014   Novel. Some interesting twists and bits. Audiobook.
100 - The Expressionists   Wolf- Dieter Dube  1972   Mostly "The Bridge" and "Blue Rider" movements.

101 - The Next Elvis   Barbara Barnes Sims  2014   Remembrances of the publicity person at Sun Records.
102 - Selected Poems of Octavio Paz   Ed by Eliot Weinberger  1984   Very surrealistic.
103 - The War Against Clicks   Martin Amis  2001   Essays and reviews 1971 to 2000
104 - The Art Institute of Chicago   John Maxon  1970   Overall look at the museum collection circa 1970.
105 - Spade & Archer   Joe Gores  2009   A prequel to the Maltese Falcon. Surprised I liked this as much as I did. Good job by Gores.
106 - Pride and Prejudice   Jane Austin  1813   Classic.
107 - Early Autumn   Robert B. Parker  1981   Spenser mystery.
108 - Little Richard: the Birth of Rock'n Roll   David Kirby  2009   Not very good.
109 - The Sinister Pig   Tony Hillerman  2003   Mystery novel.
110 - Ripped   Greg Kot  2009   Good review of how the music industry has changed in the last few decades.

111 - Literature and Evil   George Bataille  1957   Hard to follow. Talks about Proust, Blake, Genet, Kafka and more.
112 - Rhyming and Stealing   Angus Batey  1998   A history of the Beastie Boys.
113 - Marcel Proust   Edmund White  1999   Life and works.
114 - The Grim Phoenix: Reconstructing Thomas Pynchon   William M. Plater  1978   Very in depth analysis. Insights into the underpinnings of Pynchon's writing.
115 -Cell   Stephen King  2006   Audio book. Cell phone zombies rule in this one.
116 - The Education of Henry Adams   - Henry Adams  1907   Great grandson of John Adams. Look at the world from Civil War to WW1. Well thought of book with an unusual tone especially for its day.
117 -Surfing with Sartre   Aaron James  2017   Real philosopher and real surfer combines both practices.
118 - Bowie, Bolan and the Brooklyn Boy: An Autobiography   Tony Visconti  2007   Lots of Bowie/T Rex tales and the his life in the recording studio.
119 -The Art of T.S. Eliot   Helen Gardner  1949   A lot in this. I'm holding on to it to reread some sections again.
120 -The Spitboy Rule   Michelle Cruz Gonzales  2016   Story of a female punk rock band.

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

Klee   Milton Foz 1961  Small art book
The Facebook Marketing Book   O'Reilly 2011
The Singer   Cathi Unsworth   2007Mystery with English punk as background. Blah.
Guitars David Schiller 2008 500 guitars - mostly photos.
Survey of Early American Design   Whitehead/Brown 1987
Star Making Machinery Geoffrey Stokes 1976 A look inside the record industry.
Alexander Hamilton Silver Burdett 1967 Short bio.
The Onion: Our Front Pages Funny.