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1997
George Orwell - 2+2=5 (The Lukewarm), Sit Down, Stand Up (Snakes
& Ladders)
V. by Thomas Pynchon - Fog, Scatterbrain (As Dead As Leaves),
The Gloaming (Softly Open Our Mouths In The Cold), Backdrifts
(Honeymoon Is Over)
A Brave New World by Aldous Huxley - OK Computer (album in general)
Age of Consent, The by George Monbiot - I Will
Animal Farm by George Orwell - Optimistic
Captive State by George Monbiot - No Surprises was dedicated
to this book once. Thom loves Monbiot.
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut - (Nice Dream)
Chicken Licken - 2+2=5
Crying of Lot 49, The by Thomas Pynchon - W.A.S.T.E.
Divine Comedy, The by Dante Alighieri - Pyramid Song
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury- Amnesiac, Myxomatosis (Judge,
Jury & Executioner)
Famished Road, The by Ben Okri - Street Spirit (fade out)
Generation X by Douglas Coupland - Possibly some stuff off the
Eraser and Ok Computer... he brings this one up occasionally.
Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made
Landscape by James Howard Kunstler - LP7
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift - Go To Sleep (Little Man
Being Erased)
Heaven's Mirror: The Quest for the Lost Civilization by Graham
Hancock - Pyramid Song
Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams - Paranid Android,
OK Computer
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski - Morning Bell, Morning
Bell/Amnesiac
How To Disappear Completely and Never Return - How To Disappear
Completely
Inferno, The by Dante Alighieri- 2+2=5 (The Lukewarm), Pyramid
Song, In Limbo, There There (The Boney King Of Nowhere)
Long Rain by Ray Bradbury, The - Sit Down, Stand Up (Snakes
& Ladders)
Lord of the Flies, The by William Golding - Kid A
Monkey Wrench Gang, The by Edward Abbey - quoted in the Radiohead
scrapbook
No Logo by Naomi Klein - Kid A marketing/touring strategy
Notes From Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky - 2+2=5 (The Lukewarm)
One Hundred Years Of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Banana
Co
Revolution in the Head by Ian MacDonald - Kid A/Amnesiac recording
process
Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare - Exit Music (For
A Film)
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse - Pyramid Song
Slowly Downward by Stanley Donwood
Stepford Wives, The by Ira Levin - A Wolf At The Door (It Girl.
Rag Doll)
Techgnosis by Erik Davis - Kid A
There Were Ten in the Bed - Cymbal Rush
Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There by Lewis
Carroll - Pull/Pulk Revolving Doors
Tibetan Book of the Dead - Kid A, Amnesiac
Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, The - Ok Computer
Unlimited Dream Company by J.G. Ballard, The - Lucky
Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, The by Haruki Murakami - A Wolf At The
Door (It Girl. Rag Doll), The Gloaming (Softly Open Our Mouths
In The Cold)
i copied most of these from a thread in classics. i thought
it would be a good idea to have this in this forum. please tell
me if you know of any more books that have references that thom
has used in his lyrics.
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