Photo:Tina Fineberg/APThanks to the gaol house blog for noticing the rather astonishing list on Art Garfunkel's official website of every book he has read in the last 30 years as a "voracious reader".
There must be some 1,000 books on the "Garfunkel library", which carefully records when the singer/songwriter/poet/actor read each book.
Whether or not you think the list is a work of slightly scary/sad obsession, you have to be impressed at how many highbrow works of literature or philosophy are in there. Shakespeare, Milton, Proust, Dostoevsky and Tolstoy all make the list, alongside a sprinkling of more modern books: an Arthur C Clarke, a Tom Wolfe, an Anne Rice.
Clicking through, I was feeling a little down at how cerebral the curly-haired one was and then I spotted what I had been looking for. The shaming entry for February 2004: Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code.
Goodness knows what a reader of Garfunkel's erudite tastes thought of it, or, for that matter, what he made of his apparently solitary exposure to the talents of Jeffrey Archer. Neither Archer or Brown are on his favourites section though, I barely need to tell you.
