If you are at a loss for what book to read, check out Art Garfunkel's list of over 1000 books he's read, from June 1968 to present.
Since the 1960's, Art Garfunkel has been a voracious reader. We are pleased to present a listing of every book Art has read over the last 40 years. To view a list of Art Garfunkel's favorite books, go to Favorites. This book list has been divided into several pages to allow easy downloading. Each page indicates the author, title, date of publication and number of pages (when available).
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Oh my, another "voracious reader". I wonder if he is also an incurable romantic
Awesome it has Wuthering Heights under his favorites. For anyone who hasn't read that book I totally recommend it. Its like the most awesome Soap Opera for the Literati set. I mean its has brooding, moors (all books need more moors), Love quadrangles, and children's adventures, oh and the mood is like southern gothic -southern. Its also has awesome death scenes and a ghost. I have never seen a good film adaptation so you still have to read it in the book form. Oh and I put the first chapter of it on the bottom of the Untitled 1 thread mostly because I could.
Garfunkel seems to have an incurable desire to prove his exhaustiveness, more like. He's also been walking across the country in small increments for years. (Is he done yet?)
Hey cool. Just 2 weeks ago I made a list of all the books I have ever read (that I could remember).
1023 books over 40 years is certainly someone who reads, but I'm not sure I'd qualify it as 'voracious'... I manage 3-4 a week on average, a bit less if it's a longer or more complex book, or I'm busy, more if it's simpler or I have a hard time putting it down. But it's a bit lighter on classics than his list, since I read most of those back when I was in high school and obsessed with enthusiastic about the idea of getting into St. John's College and their Great Books program.
I started making a list for just this year and I was up to 50 by April. And that wasn't atypical.
1000 books in 40 years? I don't know if I'd call that "voracious", but maybe he didn't list them all. I gave up after only 4 months.
I note that he lists a chapter of Will & Ariel Durant's excellent History of Civilization and calls it a whole book, even though he does list it as being only 74 pages. Each of those books are about 800 pages.
@#5 -- Apparently "you may use HTML tags for style" doesn't extend to the strikeout tag... Ah well. Pretend "obsessed with" has a line through it. :)
The neat thing about Art Garfunkel is that he could post a list of the 1,043 student nurses he's ritually murdered since June 1968 and it would come across just as harmlessly cute. It's a major accomplishment to be so mild-mannered and nebbish as to make Paul Simon look like the edgy "artiste" in your folk duo.
Fun Garfunkel fact: he got a Master's degree in math from Columbia back before S&G took off, and is NOT the mathematician Garfunkel for whom Garfunkel's Inequality is named. (But if he has a brain left in his fuzzy little head, that'll be the title of his next album.)
Hmmm... I wonder if something happened around 1968/69 that suddenly freed up a lot of time for Mr. Garfunkel.
He has these and his poetry to protect him.
WTF!! NO WATERSHIP DOWN!!! For God sakes man you wrote and sang a song for the cartoon movie!!
This just make me wanna puke. Long live Simon!
You know, it has to be sweet to be Art Garfunkel. I'll bet he has a great life. He made enough money, he sits around and reads, maybe writes a song once in a while, ritually murders nurses. It's all good.
Um, that's no voracious reader. I was *born* in 1968 and I've read slightly under 3 thousand books. Garfunkel is a slacker... or a slow reader ... or, unlike me, has a life.
What a great list -- well-rounded and high-aiming. I love lists of books (librarything rocks) and personal libraries.
I'm fascinated with speculating as to how the list got put together and posted. Did he hire a temp? Did the temp frequently grill him, "You really read "The Brothers Karamazov?" Explain why Ivan related the story of the Grand Inquisitor." If he started a book on Oct. 15 1964 and finished on Nov. 14 1964, which month is used? Why more than 13 years to read Proust? Why no crappy books?
To those who doubt his voraciousness: he may spend a lot of time reading newspapers and magazines in addition to books.