Adam Buxton
Book Shambles Live at the Royal Albert Hall
The last recorded, but the first released, of the four episodes we recorded live at the Royal Albert Hall in June. Robin is joined by guest co-host Sarah Kendall and special guest comedian and broadcaster Adam Buxton. They chat about David Bowie’s top 100 books, Viz, faking a book report, Judy Blume and more.
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Reading List
Adam recommends:
Raw – The Graphix magazine
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
The Magus by John Fowles
Consider Phlebas by Iain M Banks
The work of James Herbert
The Man Who Fell to Earth by Walter Tevis
Awopbopaloobop alopbamboom by Nick Cohn
Ziggyology by Simon Goddard
The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis
I’m a Joke and So Are You by Robin Ince
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Robin recommends:
The Viz comics
Drunken Baker by Barney Farmer
Black Hole by Charles Burns
The Brutality of Fact: Interviews with Francis Bacon by David Sylvester
Who on Earth is Tom Baker by Tom Baker
David Bowie Made Me Gay by Darryl Bullock
Shock of the Fall by Nathan Filer
Kinski Uncut by Klaus Kinski
The Making of Doctor Who by Malcom Hulke and Terrance Dicks
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adam
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ by Sue Townsend
The Rutland Dirty Weekend Book by Eric Idle
The work of Guy N Smith
The Hustler by Walter Tevis
Strange Stars by Jason Heller
How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan
Sarah recommends:
Forever… by Judy Blume
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
Blink by Malcom Gladwell
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