Bad Wisdom
By: Bill Drummond
3.89
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Having exhausted (and been exhausted by) the young man's religion of rock and roll, the authors und…
Want to Read"This was the plan: we would take a holy and sacred picture of the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll, Elvis Presley, to the very summit of the earth; once there, we would place it with sincere reverence amongst the chimerical shimmering palaces of ice and snow and then (accompanied by some weird Zen magic) we would light joss sticks, dance about making screechy kung-fu noises, get off our faces, and that would be it: Planet Earth saved. Simple."-Bill Drummond, Bad Wisdom
"This was the plan: we would take a holy and sacred picture of the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll, Elvis Presley, to the very summit of the earth; once there, we would place it with sincere reverence amongst the chimerical shimmering palaces of ice and snow and then (accompanied by some weird Zen magic) we would light joss sticks, dance about making screechy kung-fu noises, get off our faces, and that would be it: Planet Earth saved. Simple."-Bill Drummond, Bad Wisdom
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4.23
Format: 282 pages, Paperback
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"When you're dead you're dead."-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Mother Night
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2. A Prayer for Owen Meany
By: John Irving
4.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
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3. Waiting for Godot
By: Samuel Beckett
3.63
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
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4.12
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5. KLF: Chaos Magic Music Money
By: J.M.R. Higgs , John Higgs
3.32
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
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By: Leopold von Sacher-Masoch , Joachim Neugroschel , Larry Wolff
3.59
Format: 370 pages, Paperback
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7. Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture
By: Douglas Coupland
3.82
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By: Iain Banks
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
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By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.48
Format: 334 pages,
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3.95
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4.17
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4.34
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4.29
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
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4.06
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4.33
Format: 323 pages, Hardcover
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3.95
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3.88
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
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3.94
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3.68
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25. Bad Wisdom
By: Bill Drummond
3.89
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
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"This was the plan: we would take a holy and sacred picture of the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll, Elvis Presley, to the very summit of the earth; once there, we would place it with sincere reverence amongst t…"-Bill Drummond, Bad Wisdom
