#(there will always be a vengefully angry little 13 year old girl inside of me. that’s so mad about being forced to spend any time reading

[waugh-bao]

I’m with Charlie on this. Wodehouse’s books are great, especially the Jeeves ones! I know I’ve seen him mention Graham Greene too, who I also love. As with everything else, Charlie had good taste in books! (To be fair I don’t really think it’s possible to have bad taste in books. Just read what you like.)

Charlie definitely had interesting taste in literature. Wodehouse (I knew I misspelled that when I was transcribing and I was too lazy to check) and Graham Greene, like you mention, but he was also really into poetry. Off the top of my head I can recall him mentioning Dylan Thomas and Auden, I know there were some others as well. He was hugely fond of mid-century/old school noir detective thrillers, too.

The most surprising one is definitely still this (from the same interview/article):

“He is an expert on Georgian silver, the American Civil War, Nelson memorabilia, rare books, antique firearms, 18th-century erotic literature and jazz photographs.”

I mean, I know Keith loves 18th century and Napoleonic era naval literature (bless a man who doesn’t fall asleep at the endless descriptions of ship rigging in a Patrick O’Brian novel), but that one is leagues more out of left field. Especially because the first thing that comes to mind in that genre is the Marquis de Sade.

#not going to lie #I do believe in bad taste in books #but I generally try to keep my thoughts on that to myself #I will say that any reading is better than none #and I’ve read my fair share of crap for a variety of reasons #(there will always be a vengefully angry little 13 year old girl inside of me. that’s so mad about being forced to spend any time reading #bad YA novels about princesses and first boyfriends. when all I wanted was to read Nabokov and Bellow and a translation of the Egyptian Book #of the Dead. I was an odd and off putting child) #the rolling stones #charlie watts #old married band #quote #ask response #anonynous