Birthday today!
Cathythoughts Bob ❤️ 2y
DivineDiana Loved Chronicles! Finally, got to see him in concert a few years ago! ❤️ 2y
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Chronicles (Revised) | 
Birthday today!
Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.
Bob Dylan is 80 today ✌🏻
pickNever less than fascinating, here Dylan brings the same effortless lyricism to his life as he does to his songs. Volume Two long mooted but yet to materialise so for now this is as candid as it gets. Highly recommended.
Hoping this gives an insight into the great man. Cutting down to two books at a time.
Dylan is always interesting.....glad I'm finally able to read it. I'm going to start it later....has anyone read it??
pickI loved this autobiography, Dylan has often struggled with being #famous and being called the voice of his generation. This book reads like a long poem with a song-like rhythm. It is beautiful and gives insight into his writing process and view of himself. Dylan has been a favorite of mine from the time I was 6 or 7 years and old and my dad introduced me to his music. #aprella
pickI‘m a huge fan of this Nobel-prize winner, and I do love this book, in part because it is a testimony to how deeply Dylan respects and treasures literature and reading. He says something in here along the lines of how he wishes he could read all day and that would be the bright side of being in a nursing home. I love that! 😊
So, I am on vacation and so prefer books in print! I can‘t stand reading on my iPhone so now, on last day before flying home early tomorrow, I find THIS on my friend‘s shelf. I own this book - it‘s in a box I will have trouble unearthing but oh well. I need a print book. I will read until I leave (or smuggle it home and send it back?!)
panBiography was all over the place. Started out with his recollections of NYC in the early 60s and the next thing I knew he was talking about touring with Tom Petty in the 80s. No recounting his songwriting which is disappointing.
Dylan has a way with words when it comes to sin and virtue ... #mercy #Augustgrrrl
Background photo: Ken Regan
I loved this autobiography, which reads almost like a book length poem. This is the copy I got my dad who introduced me to Dylan when I was about 5 or 6 years old. #deckleedge #feistyfeb #dadsreadinglist @RealLifeReading
pickAll hail the Mighty Bob. May he rule forever and ever, amen.
This book is poetry and song and music and stories and love brought by a humble artist. An artist who never asked to be made into an icon; a person who knows himself and doesn't need anything more. Absolutely wonderful.
Perfect sunny and chilly afternoon at a cafe in Shoreditch with some wonderful reading :) I struggled with his writing at first but I'm more used to his style now and I can't stop! 🎼🎼🎼🎼🎸🎸🎸🎸
#ReadJanuary #Recommendedby
My sister just read this book for her bookclub with his music playing in background- recommended this to me. Good Pair with Patti Smith's Just Kids
@RealLifeReading
Saturday night chill with my charity shop haul from today!!! So Excited to find Bob Dylan I've been looking for this baby forever!!
There's no right or wrong answer necessarily, lol, so what are your thoughts on Bob Dylan being 2016's recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature?
Checking out the Nobel Prize in Literature Winner at Desert Trip. Couldn't get a pic of him on stage because he's him, and there were no shots of his face on the screens. The people in the pic are not me. Up next: The Rolling Stones! 👍🏼😎
Congrats to Bob Dylan, the first American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature since Toni Morrison in 1993! Celebrating his influential & timeless "poetic expressions within the great American song tradition". ??
The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2016 is awarded to Bob Dylan.
Oh snap. #bobdylan #nobelprize
Take me disappearing through the smoke rings of my mind
Down the foggy ruins of time
Far past the frozen leaves
The haunted frightened trees
Out to the windy bench
Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow
Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky
With one hand waving free
Silhouetted by the sea
Circled by the circus sands
With all memory and fate
Driven deep beneath the waves
Let me forget about today until tomorrow...
Listening to Nobel Prize winner Bob Dylan as I get all my lessons ready for the day. That was a surprising announcement to wake up to. I love his music but a Nobel Prize in literature? Okay. Congratulations, Bob Dylan! 🎸
Dostoevsky, too, had lived a dismal and hard life. The czar sent him to a prison camp in Siberia in 1849. Dostoevsky was accused of writing socialist propaganda. He was eventually pardoned and wrote stories to ward off his creditors. Just like in the early '70s I wrote albums to ward off mine.
And songs, to me, were more important than just light entertainment. They were my preceptor and guide into some altered consciousness of reality, some different republic, some liberated republic.
What was the future? The future was a solid wall, not promising, not threatening - all bunk. No guarantees of anything, not even the guarantee that life isn't one big joke.
All I'd ever done was sing songs that were dead straight and expressed powerful new realities. I had very little in common with and knew even less about a generation that I was supposed to be the voice of.
It seemed I'd always been chasing after something, anything that moved - a car, a bird, a blowing leaf - anything that might lead me into some more lit place, some unknown land downriver. I had not even the vaguest notion of the broken world I was living in, what society could do with you.
I really was never any more than what I was -a folk musician who gazed into the gray mist with tear-blinded eyes and made up songs that floated in a luminous haze.
Everything in New Orleans is a good idea. Bijou temple-type cottages and lyric cathedrals side by side. Houses and mansions, structures of wild grace. Italianate, Gothic, Romanesque, Greek Revival...Roman Catholic art. Sweeping front porches, turrets, cast-iron balconies, colonnades- 30-foot columns, gloriously beautiful- double pitched roofs, the architecture of the whole wide world...All that and a town square where public executions took place.
Some of my favorite lyrical poetry by the #NobelPrize winner, Bob Dylan! That sure was a surprise, huh?
Nobel in Literature? Congrats anyhow and this was a fun read!
What the junk?! Bob Dylan is the first US citizen in over 20 years to win the Nobel Prize in Literature! That's crazy and kinda awesome. I've been a fan and devotee of Dylan's since high school, and this feels absolutely deserved - his lyrics stand alone, and are part of some of the most iconic references/images of our time. I highly recommend his 80s and 90s stuff, and, of course, Blood on the Tracks.
YES!
so-soWhy won't you spill your soul to me, Bob? Tarantula was more revelatory.
