Welcome to another episode of the Bowie Book Club, where wild speculation and grasping for straws about Bowie’s favorite books has reigned supreme since 2016. This time we read The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky, which suprisingly ISN'T about Iggy Pop!
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Stuff We Talked About
Our cast for The Idiot! Tell us yours!
- Rogozhin - "Aragorn" aka Vigo Mortensen
- Lebedev - Philip Seymour Hoffman
- Ganya - Jeff Goldblum
- Kolya - John Cusack
- Gen. Ivolgin - Harry Dean Stanton
- Ippolit - Robert Smith
- Burdovsky - Crispin Glover
- Keller - Dave Bautista
- Prince - Timmy Chalamet
- Agalya - Scarlet Johansen
- Lisaveta - Katheryn O'Hara
- Varvara - Annie Murphy
- Gen. Epanchin - Eugene Levy
- Totsky - Matt Berry
- Evgeny Pavlovich - Dan Levy
- or just the Hot Priest from Fleabag as everybody?
Pushing Ahead of the Dame on our song for the month
What Are We Reading
Greg's Current Reads
- City of Nets by Otto Friedrich
Kristianne's Current Reads
- The Crane Husband by Kelly Barnhill
- Silver in the Wood and Drowned Country by Emily Tesh
Kristianne's top 5 for 2024
- Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
- James by Percival Everett
- In The Distance by Hernan Diaz
- Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher
- Grief is for People by Sloane Crossley
- Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
Greg's Top 5 for 2024
- North Woods by Daniel Mason which reminded Greg of Here by Richard McGuire (but he got the author name wrong!)
- The Secret Historyby Donna Tartt
- The Upstairs Delicatessen by Dwight Garner
- Moonbound by Robin Sloane
- Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
And Orlando has to be in there too!
What Song Did We Choose?
What's Up Next
The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner