“Anyone who wants to join along, we are reading Peter Ackroyd's Hawksmoor, as an amuse cerveau before we get into the heavy stuff."Īmong the other novels featured on Bowie’s original list were George Orwell's “1984,” Jack Kerouac's “On the Road,” Anthony Burgess' “A Clockwork Orange” and John Kennedy Toole's “A Confederacy of Dunces.” Books about art, music, and history were included on the list as well. Jones went on to designate Ackroyd’s 1985 novel, “Hawksmoor,” as the club’s first assignment. I’ve been feeling a building sense of duty to go on the same literary marathon in tribute to dad. “One of his true loves was Peter Ackroyd’s sojourns into the history of Britain & its cities. “My dad was a beast of a reader,” Jones tweeted. After extensive interviews and essays on the nature of Orwell's seminal work, Burgess pens his own short novella, entitled 1985 (to avoid plagiarism, so he says. The idea stems in part from a 2013 post on Bowie’s website, wherein the late singer listed the 100 books that were most important to him. In this case Anthony Burgess, author of A Clockwork Orange and The Wanting Seed, evaluates and criticizes George Orwell's 1985. In the essay section of his novel 1985, Anthony Burgess states that Orwell got the idea for the name of Big Brother from advertising billboards for educational correspondence courses from a company called Bennett's during World War II. David Bowie’s son, Duncan Jones, has launched an online book club centered on his late father’s favorite works of literature. Big Brother (Nineteen Eighty-Four) Character origins.
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