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Brian’s favorite books

The Painted Word by Tom Wolfe

Chronicles, Volume One by Bob Dylan

Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein

The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein

The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff

Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung by Lester Bangs

Miles by Miles Davis

Air Guitar by Dave Hickey

A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein

The Mysticism of Sound and Music by Hazrat Inayat Khan

Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey

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Gödel, Escher, Ba...

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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

by Douglas R. Hofstadter

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Sun Ra Sundays

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by Rodger Coleman

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Vile Days: The Village Voice Art Columns, 1985-1988

by Gary Indiana

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