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Kevman
 Post subject: Pearl Jam Book club
PostPosted: Fri Feb 12, 2010 3:36 am 
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Anyone want to list titles of books that the band has mentioned in interviews or was the inspiration for a song or album? I'm not sure how much legs this thread has. I know do the evolution was influenced by "ishmael"

What else is out there? Curious.

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-Ishmael by Daniel Quinn (Inspiration for Do The Evolution)
-You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A personal history of our times by Howard Zinn (mentioned in Down)
-Master and the Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (recommended by Jeff)
-The Old Leather Man by Dan DeLuca (recommended by Ed)
-Moby Dick by Herman Melville (recommended by Stone)
-Race Matters by Cornell West (recommended by Stone)
-Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco (recommended by Ed)
-A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving (quoted in Even Flow)
-Terrorism and War by Howard Zinn (recommended by Ed)
-A People's History of the US: 1492 to Present by Howard Zinn (recommended by Ed)
-Stupid White Men by Michael Moore (recommended by Ed)
-Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser (recommended by Ed)
-Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure by Daniel Quinn (recommended by Ed)
-The Ralph Nader Reader by Ralph Nader (recommended by Ed)
-Crashing the Party: How to tell the truth and still run for President by Ralph Nader (recommended by Ed)
-The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (recommended by Ed)
-Power Politics by Arundhati Roy (recommended by Ed)
-9-11 by Noam Chomsky (recommended by Ed)
-The Hydrogen Economy by Jeremy Rifkin (featured in Newsletter #22)
-Religion and Sexuality by Lawrence Foster (featured in Newsletter #22)
-Chaos Gaia Eros by Ralph Abraham (featured in Newsletter #22)
-In Praise of Nepotism by Adam Bellow (featured in Newsletter #22)
-How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom (featured in Newsletter #22)
-Bodies in Motion and at Rest by Thomas Lynch (featured in Newsletter #22)
-The Divine Right of Capital by Marjorie Kelly (featured in Newsletter #22)
-The Middle Mind by Curtis White (featured in Newsletter #22)
-Into The Wild by John Krakauer (movie by Sean Penn/soundtrack by Ed)
-Big Fish: A novel of mythic proportions by Daniel Wallace (Pearl Jam featured on movie soundtrack)
-How We Are Hungry by Dave Egger (recommended by Jeff)
-Scarred for Life by Keith Hamm (recommended by Jeff)
-Collapse by Jared Diamond (recommended by Jeff)
-Apocalypse Then by Rick DeMarini (recommended by Jeff)
-Jesus and Yahweh by Harold Bloom (recommended by Stone)
-Blood and Oil by Michael Klare (recommended by Stone)
-The Man Who Knew Too Much by Michael Leavit (recommended by Stone)
-The Ruin of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Priscilla J. McMillan (recommended by Stone)
-Henry Luce, Time, and the American Crusade in Asia by Robert Herzstein (recommended by Stone)
-Straw Dogs: Thoughs on humans and other animals by John Gray (recommended by Stone)
-Democracy Matters by Cornel West (recommended by Stone)

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-Charles Bukowski (inspiration for In Hiding)
-Mark Twain (featured in Newsletter #19)
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Jeff recommended Master and the Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov.

And a while ago Ed recommended The Old Leather Man by Dan DeLuca:

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This seems a little too fanboy-ish for my tastes.

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fan boyish is 'what kind of shoes are eddie wearing' or 'what kind of wine does he drink'. This isn't any different than checking out an artist the band reccomends.

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This seems a little too fanboy-ish for my tastes.

Chud, you have over 40000 posts on a PJ message board.

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mastaflatch wrote:
cutuphalfdead wrote:
This seems a little too fanboy-ish for my tastes.

Chud, you have over 40000 posts on a PJ message board.


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enimmi wrote:
Jeff recommended Master and the Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov.

And a while ago Ed recommended The Old Leather Man by Dan DeLuca:


Master and Margarita was sort of the inspiration for Pilate.

Howard Zinn has a book (is it a memori? I've never read it) called You can't Be Neutral On A Moving Train
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mray10 wrote:
enimmi wrote:
Jeff recommended Master and the Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov.

And a while ago Ed recommended The Old Leather Man by Dan DeLuca:


Master and Margarita was sort of the inspiration for Pilate.



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Which 10C newsletter was it where Stone had a list of book recomendations? Moby Dick was one of them. That's all I can remember.
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Race Matters by Cornell West was in that recommendation list. I really enjoyed that one.

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mastaflatch wrote:
cutuphalfdead wrote:
This seems a little too fanboy-ish for my tastes.

Chud, you have over 40000 posts on a PJ message board.

Yeah, and like 90% of those posts are in GD where we can't talk about Pearl Jam.

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In Hiding was inspired by Charles Bukowski I think

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In Hiding was inspired by Charles Bukowski LSD I think

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In Hiding was inspired by Charles Bukowski LSD I think

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I picked up Ishmael because of this band. I was pretty pissed off when I found out it was about some talking fucking gorilla.
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mray10 wrote:
Howard Zinn has a book (is it a memori? I've never read it) called You can't Be Neutral On A Moving Train


I thought that was a line from "People's History of the United States."

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not really mentioned in an interview... but doesn't ed quote some lines from "A Prayer for Owen Meany" at the end of the even flow video?
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