Writings on Music, 1965-2000
By: Steve Reich
4.21
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
In the mid-1960s, Steve Reich radically renewed the musical landscape with a back-to-basics sound t…
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1. How Music Works
By: David Byrne
4.00
Format: 345 pages, Hardcover
How Music Works is David Byrne’s remarkable and buoyant celebration of a subject he has spent a lif… read more
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"Performers try harder."-David Byrne, How Music Works
"You might say that the universe plays the blues."-David Byrne, How Music Works
"The radio was shouting at you, pleading with you, and seducing you."-David Byrne, How Music Works
"I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea-- do I have to choose between the two?"-David Byrne, How Music Works
2. Silence: Lectures and Writings
By: John Cage
4.22
Format: 276 pages, Paperback
John Cage is the outstanding composer of avant-garde music today. The Saturday Review said of "Cag… read more
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"The world is teeming; anything can happen."-John Cage, Silence: Lectures and Writings
"If my work is accepted, I must move on to the point where it is not."-John Cage, Silence: Lectures and Writings
"The emotions - love, mirth, the heroic, wonder, tranquility, fear, anger, sorrow, disgust - are in the audience."-John Cage, Silence: Lectures and Writings
"...for we have found that by excluding we grow thin inside even though we may have an enormous bank account outside."-John Cage, Silence: Lectures and Writings
3. The Little Prince & Letter to a Hostage
By: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry , T.V.F. Cuffe
4.40
Format: 118 pages, Paperback
The Little Prince is the most translated book in the French language. With a timeless charm it tell… read more
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"I wonder,"-Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince & Letter to a Hostage
"Where are the men?"-Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince & Letter to a Hostage
"Where are the people?"-Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince & Letter to a Hostage
"Love is worth everything. EVERYTHING"-Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince & Letter to a Hostage
4. Slowness
By: Milan Kundera , Linda Asher
3.62
Format: 156 pages, Paperback
Milan Kundera's lightest novel, a divertimento, an opera buffa, Slowness is also the first of this … read more
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"الألم هو المفهوم الجوهري لمذهب المتعة"-Milan Kundera, Slowness
"في المستقبل يكمن مصدر الخوف ، ومن تحرر من المستقبل لا يبقى لديه ما يخشاه"-Milan Kundera, Slowness
"هناك حالة يكون فيها الصوت الأشد ضعفاً مسموعاً وذلك عندما ينطق بأفكار تزعجنا."-Milan Kundera, Slowness
"Hay un vínculo secreto entre la lentitud y la memoria entre la velocidad y el olvido"-Milan Kundera, Slowness
5. Nausea
By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Lloyd Alexander , Hayden Carruth
3.94
Format: 178 pages, Hardcover
Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In… read more
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"It was true, I had always realized it—I hadn’t any “right"-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
"Then time started flowing again and the emptiness grew larger."-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
"I see the insipid flesh blossoming and palpitating with abandon."-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
"My existence began to worry me seriously. Was I not a simple spectre?"-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
6. Naked Lunch
By: William S. Burroughs , Barry Miles , James Grauerholz
3.46
Format: 289 pages, Paperback
The book is structured as a series of loosely connected vignettes. Burroughs stated that the chapte… read more
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"Exterminate all rational thought"-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
"O death where is thy sting? The man is never on time..."-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
"When he smiled the fear flew away in little pieces of light..."-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
"And all that I was before is out there in the darkness looking for me."-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
7. The Elementary Particles
By: Michel Houellebecq , Frank Wynne
3.80
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
An international literary phenomenon, The Elementary Particles is a frighteningly original novel–pa… read more
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"He doesn't know it yet, but the infinity of childhood is brief."-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles
"It's a curious idea to reproduce when you don't even like life."-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles
"The world outside had its own rules, and those rules were not human."-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles
"J'aurais pu adhérer au Front National, mais à quoi bon manger de la choucroute avec des cons?"-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles
8. Four Quartets
By: T.S. Eliot
3.67
Format: 230 pages, Paperback
The Four Quartets is a series of four poems by T.S. Eliot, published individually from 1936 to 1942… read more
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9. Maurice
By: E.M. Forster
3.65
Format: None pages, Paperback
Set in the elegant Edwardian world of Cambridge undergraduate life, this story by a master novelist… read more
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10. Waiting for Godot
By: Samuel Beckett
3.63
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Cuando en 1953 se estreno en Paris Esperando a Godot, casi nadie sabia quien era Samuel Beckett, sa… read more
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11. Give My Regards to Eighth Street: Collected Writings
By: Frank O'Hara , Morton Feldman , B.H. Friedman
3.70
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
Morton Feldman (1926-1987) is among the most influential American composers of the twentieth centur… read more
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- music
- nonfiction
12. Absolutely on Music: Conversations with Seiji Ozawa
By: Haruki Murakami , Seiji Ozawa
3.70
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
A deeply personal, intimate conversation about music and writing between the internationally acclai… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
13. The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
By: Alex Ross
3.00
Format: 76 pages, Hardcover
The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Centuryis a voyage into the labyrinth of modern music… read more
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14. The Loser
By: Thomas Bernhard , Jack Dawson
3.34
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Thomas Bernhard was one of the most original writers of the twentieth century. His formal innovatio… read more
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- music
15. Concrete
By: Thomas Bernhard , David McLintock
3.34
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Instead of the book he's meant to write, Rudolph, a Viennese musicologist, produces this tale of pr… read more
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- music
16. Between the Acts
By: Virginia Woolf
4.06
Format: None pages, Paperback
In Woolf's last novel, the action takes place on one summer's day at a country house in the heart o… read more
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17. Words Without Music: A Memoir
By: Philip Glass
3.99
Format: 380 pages, Paperback
Philip Glass has, almost single-handedly, crafted the dominant sound of late-twentieth-century clas… read more
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18. 2666
By: Roberto Bolaño
4.21
Format: 1128 pages, Paperback
A cuatro profesores de literatura, Pelletier, Morini, Espinoza y Norton, los une su fascinación por… read more
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"Nothing is ever behind us."-Roberto Bolaño, 2666
"Reading is never a waste of time."-Roberto Bolaño, 2666
"Every hundred feet the world changes"-Roberto Bolaño, 2666
"The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower."-Roberto Bolaño, 2666
19. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver
3.90
Format: 216 pages,
If on a Winter's Night a Traveleris a marvel of ingenuity, an experimental text that looks longingl… read more
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20. Ulysses
By: James Joyce
3.75
Format: 925 pages, Paperback
Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It was first serialized in parts in the A… read more
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"Shite and onions!"-James Joyce, Ulysses
"Let my country die for me."-James Joyce, Ulysses
"Be just before you are generous."-James Joyce, Ulysses
"no more pain. wake no more. nobody owns"-James Joyce, Ulysses
21. The Rings of Saturn
By: Michael Hulse , W.G. Sebald
3.94
Format: 128 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The Rings of Saturn- with its curious archive of photographs - records a walking tour of the east c… read more
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22. Dubliners
By: James Joyce , Jeri Johnson
3.44
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
This work of art reflects life in Ireland at the turn of the last century, and by rejecting euphemi… read more
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23. Paradise Lost
By: John Milton , John Leonard
3.84
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
John Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the… read more
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"What hath night to do with sleep?"-John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Solitude sometimes is best society."-John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n."-John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss."-John Milton, Paradise Lost
24. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
By: Rory Stewart
4.36
Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition
A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more
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"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
25. The Creative Act: A Way of Being
By: Rick Rubin
4.04
Format: 406 pages, Hardcover
From the legendary music producer, a master at helping people connect with the wellsprings of their… read more
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"Find the sustainable rituals that best support your work."-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
"In terms of priority, inspiration comes first. You come next. The audience comes last."-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
"When it comes to the creative process, patience is accepting that the majority of the work we do is out of our control."-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
"Turning something from an idea into a reality can make it seem smaller. It changes from unearthly to earthly. The imagination has no limits. The physical world does. The work exists in both."-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
26. The Years
By: Annie Ernaux
4.17
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist’s defining work and a breakout bestseller when… read more
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"Sauver quelque chose du temps où l'on ne sera plus jamais."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
"La profusion des choses cachait la rareté des idées et l'usure des croyances."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
"The profusion of things concealed the scarcity of ideas and the erosion of beliefs."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
"Je ne suis nulle part dans le temps. Il est l'ange qui fait revivre le passé, rend éternel."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
27. The Salt Path
By: Raynor Winn
4.02
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Just days after Raynor learns that Moth, her husband of 32 years, is terminally ill, their home and… read more
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"It’s six hundred and thirty miles and we’ll have to camp all the way."-Raynor Winn, The Salt Path
"Give time for what you know you must do and you will have what you desire the most."-Raynor Winn, The Salt Path
"Refugees from western civilisation, cut adrift from life in a boat that rarely finds a harbour."-Raynor Winn, The Salt Path
"We had lost everything except our children and each other, but we had the wet grass and the rhythm of the sea on the rocks."-Raynor Winn, The Salt Path
28. Writings on Music, 1965-2000
By: Steve Reich
4.21
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
In the mid-1960s, Steve Reich radically renewed the musical landscape with a back-to-basics sound t… read more
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29. Modern Music: A Concise History (World of Art)
By: Paul Griffiths
3.97
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Beginning at the threshold of the modern era, with the late Romanticism of Debussy and Mahler, the … read more
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30. Minimalists (20th Century Composers)
By: K. Robert Schwartz
3.72
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
This accessible yet informative book, the first in its area aimed at a general readership, offers a… read more
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31. American Minimal Music: LA Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Philip Glass
By: Wim Mertens
3.75
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
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