[ so about like five or so hours after Dorian & Mark's conversation, he just sends Mark a text that's 100% just recommendations. ]
Important books: The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Lord Byron. Dracula, Bram Stoker. Anything by William Shakespeare, though I prefer Hamlet. Whatever John Keats poetry you can get your hands on. A note: Stoker's wrong about some aspects of vampirism but it's still a damn good read.
Books that I like that most people know nothing about: À rebours, Joris-Karl Huysmans. Manon Lescaut, Abbé Prévost. Mademoiselle de Maupin, Théophile Gautier. I'm sure you can find a decent translation somewhere. Otherwise, I hope you speak French!
Music: apologies in advance, this is all over the place. Everyone will tell you to listen to the Beatles but honestly, the Rolling Stones are better. The Beatles only are good near the middle of their run, early Beatles and late Beatles are absolute shit. Other good bands of note are the Kinks, the Who, Tom Jones, Dusty Springfield, and the Yardbirds. I've also got a slight soft spot for the 1980s, especially Talking Heads, Adam & the Ants and (don't laugh!) Culture Club. If you care to dip into opera, Wagner's Tannhauser is a classic.
Finally, I hope you have enough time to listen to this!
[ because attached to the text is a link to a knockoff spotify playlist that's just like the greatest hits of every band that Dorian rambled about as well as just some various 1960s and 1980s one-hit wonders, all exceedingly mod/British invasion or kind of ridiculous 1980s post-punk. ]
text, let's pop this contact post's cherry
Important books: The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Lord Byron. Dracula, Bram Stoker. Anything by William Shakespeare, though I prefer Hamlet. Whatever John Keats poetry you can get your hands on. A note: Stoker's wrong about some aspects of vampirism but it's still a damn good read.
Books that I like that most people know nothing about: À rebours, Joris-Karl Huysmans. Manon Lescaut, Abbé Prévost. Mademoiselle de Maupin, Théophile Gautier. I'm sure you can find a decent translation somewhere. Otherwise, I hope you speak French!
Music: apologies in advance, this is all over the place. Everyone will tell you to listen to the Beatles but honestly, the Rolling Stones are better. The Beatles only are good near the middle of their run, early Beatles and late Beatles are absolute shit. Other good bands of note are the Kinks, the Who, Tom Jones, Dusty Springfield, and the Yardbirds. I've also got a slight soft spot for the 1980s, especially Talking Heads, Adam & the Ants and (don't laugh!) Culture Club. If you care to dip into opera, Wagner's Tannhauser is a classic.
Finally, I hope you have enough time to listen to this!
[ because attached to the text is a link to a knockoff spotify playlist that's just like the greatest hits of every band that Dorian rambled about as well as just some various 1960s and 1980s one-hit wonders, all exceedingly mod/British invasion or kind of ridiculous 1980s post-punk. ]