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David Burge Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Book Cover for: On the Road, Jack Kerouac

On the Road

Jack Kerouac
David BurgeDavid Burge

So Wilbur had a nephew named Orville? These prehistoric beatniks are going On The Road Jack Kerouac/ Dean Moriarity style, in what is a very tough call. I'm 95% confident it's a 1912-13 Metz, with replacement gas tank. https://t.co/TNGsLEjdnK

Paperback, 1976

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Book Cover for: The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler

The Big Sleep

Raymond Chandler
David BurgeDavid Burge

I rewatched "The Big Sleep" last night with Bogie & Bacall, screenplay by William Faulkner adapting Raymond Chandler. Gotdang, now that there's some DIALOG. Absolutely crackles.

Paperback, 1988

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Book Cover for: Gidget, Frederick Kohner

Gidget

Frederick Kohner
David BurgeDavid Burge

*Malibu 1957 was Big Bang of surfing's entrance into American popular culture, with the publication of "Gidget" by Frederick Kohner. Based on his real life daughter Kathy (shown here at Malibu 1957), it was made into a 1959 movie starring Sandra Dee, and the rest is history. https://t.co/S7xo5NKtYG

Paperback, 2001

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Book Cover for: Parasite: A Graphic Novel in Storyboards, Bong Joon Ho

Parasite: A Graphic Novel in Storyboards

Bong Joon Ho
David BurgeDavid Burge

*It's very Bong Joon-ho-esque, kinda like Snowpiercer or Parasite, but really amps up the violence

Hardcover, 2020

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Book Cover for: Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories, Flannery O'Connor

Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories

Flannery O'Connor
David BurgeDavid Burge

3. Also, "Wildcat" was one of 6 stories included in Flannery O'Connor's 1947 MFA master's thesis from the University of Iowa Writers Workshop. Go Hawkeyes! 4. I attended the University of Iowa Drinkers Workshop. Go Hawkeyes!

Paperback, 1965

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Book Cover for: Activity Book For Kids: Car:: Mazes, coloring, Tracing Lines and letters, Count the number, Calculate, Find the shadow and more. (Activity boo, Happy Summer

Activity Book For Kids: Car:: Mazes, coloring, Tracing Lines and letters, Count the number, Calculate, Find the shadow and more. (Activity boo

Happy Summer
David BurgeDavid Burge

Happy Summer from #DavesCarIDService, brought to you today by the Sea Breeze Beach Club of Huntington Beach, and the all-new Marmon Model 74. Visit your local Marmon agency and find out why it's The Preferred Fine Car Investment of 1926! https://t.co/LiUdJcVjiZ

Paperback, 2018

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Book Cover for: Hollywood Babylon: The Legendary Underground Classic of Hollywood's Darkest and Best Kept Secrets, Kenneth Anger

Hollywood Babylon: The Legendary Underground Classic of Hollywood's Darkest and Best Kept Secrets

Kenneth Anger
David BurgeDavid Burge

RIP also to Kenneth Anger; pioneer experimental filmmaker, author of the fact/fiction-blending "Hollywood Babylon," openly and unapologetically gay decades before it was safe to be so. https://t.co/K5FH4TIGS1

Paperback, Mass Market, 1981

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Book Cover for: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: The Magical Car, Ian Fleming

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: The Magical Car

Ian Fleming
David BurgeDavid Burge

*fun fact: long before the movie, "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" was the name given to a series of race cars built by Count Zboroski in the early century. Ian Fleming used the name as an inspiration for his 1964 book.

Paperback, 2013

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Book Cover for: Deeper Thoughts: All New, All Crispy, Jack Handey

Deeper Thoughts: All New, All Crispy

Jack Handey
David BurgeDavid Burge

"I think in one of my previous lives I was a mighty king, because I like people to do what I say." -- Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts

Paperback, 1993

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