The Divine Comedy - The Booklovers

[xistentialkid]

OMG! I love that the "AAARRGGHHH!" was for Poe and Ellis.  Fitting :)

[jeremyshambles]

christopher hitchens rest in peace

[2205923358]

I have to read more...

[carpediem241124111]

Genius, pure genius! 

[AlejandroBalzac]

And Julio Cortázar?

[lismcorb]

dammnit baldwin..baldwin must be in

[raisinfuntime]

I love this whose the guy who burps?

[hulabees]

and the voice of "the name will live forever" is by graham chapman...

[aloyvender]

How come García Marquez talks in spanish and Cervantes does it in english?



[garbatella91]

what about Anton Chekhov? he was such a notable author! George Orwell either! they should be mentioned! Anyway i just love this song! The Divine Comedy are absolutely perfect!

[emmahke]

I've found a snail! :)

[MarchangelMiquel]

The best chorus ever.

[Staminalis]

@MarchangelMiquel : Hannon is paraphrasing ''Happy the man'' by the Latin poet Horace :)

[MarchangelMiquel]

@Staminalis Can you tell me in which of his books that phrase is? But it's greatness isn't only the words, but also the melody.

[Staminalis]

@MarchangelMiquel : I agree with you. The poem appears in Horace's Odes, Book III

@clarty01: thnx for the nice vid

[wpmurdoch]

I loved the voice responses to D H Lawrence and E M Forster - "Never heard of it!" That's Simon Callow speaking as the Reverend Beebe in "A Room with a View" - great film!

[churlishbeardo]

Rats. Is it great? Sure. But I really hoped this would be a cover of the similarly-titled Broadcast song, which would have been.... wow.

[Rumpio]

And John Cleese as the insane chef in the Monty Python sketch 'Dirty Knife' - Oh it makes me mad! 04:59

[Rumpio]

OH! That's Michael Palin as Cardinal Richeliu in Monty Python at 1:29!  Nice!

[cofpaddy]

James Joyce, Virgina Wolff, Marcel Proust, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Hermann Hesse

[DaddyWalrusguy]

Wheres C.S. Lewis and where the hell is Dante Alighieri?

[feewaybilz]

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[doctawho42]

too orangey for crows made me snort, and Martin Amis' "burp"

[swallace18]

Where's oscar wilde? I would imagine Wilde wasn't included in the list because he was a playwright not a novelist, all the rest are novelists

[philipperholland]

@swallace18 dorian grey is a novel

[philipperholland]

@swallace18 also did poe write a novel?

[reignbeauconnection]

@philipperholland Poe wrote novels too

[FrauofGermany]

@swallace18

But Dorian Grey...

[HomemTrapo]

now, one about something that is not that boring: baroque composers for example.

[elypsys]

Se requiere la 2a parte. Maravillosa!

[gi880ngommit]

a little birdd told me: someone slipped and clicked the dislike button

[CharlyXD09]

Where's Robert Louis Stevenson And A.C Doyle? :O Hehe i love this song

[Glaucus08]

I love the Brontë bit

[jonesd4291]

See 2:17

Beautiful words in the chorus. :)

[Irarelycommentbut]

Saul Bellow? Philip Roth? JG Farrell? George Orwell? Truman Capote? Aldous Huxley? Thomas Pynchon? Wonderful song, incredibly clever.

[ocsdct]

And where's Borges!? Anyway, a great song from a great artist. This song open my mind definetly to good reading, thank you very much, Neil!

[gouberville]

T.H.A.N.K.S

[strangeloved]

fab song , but where's Oscar Wilde? :)

[GolfinhU]

@strangeloved "Keats and Yeats are on your side But you lose because Wilde is on mine" - The Smiths, "Cemetry Gates" That`s where he is :)

[strangeloved]

@GolfinhU "'Ere thrice the sun done salutation to the dawn" ;)

[clarty007]

@strangeloved I guess he was a playwright and didn't qualify.

[didoma73]

Nothing short of genius

[Leotie100]

omg so many books so little time :-(

[toeragtoolbox]

Brilliant, back in the day doing Arts,.......great auld times!!

[varinog]

Divine!!!

[TheOtherMic]

Awesome, thanks!