Books Brian Wilson Read Pre-1967?

[rab2591]

Arthur Koestler's The Act Of Creation is the only one to come to mind. There's also a picture of him holding the book 'Psycho-Cybernetics' - though not sure if he actually read it.

I guess he also read poetry (William Wordsworth)

My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky:
So was it when my life began;
So is it now I am a man;
So be it when I shall grow old,
Or let me die!
The Child is father of the Man;
I could wish my days to be
Bound each to each by natural piety.
                                                   

Anyone know what other books Brian was into pre-1967, even before The Beach Boys were formed? (I'm trying to amass a small library of books he would've read when he was younger).

[Andrew G. Doe]

Pretty much anything by Edgar Allan Poe (pre-BB)... The Prophet and The Little Prince in 1966, according to Tony Asher. The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception in about 1962 via JoAnn Marks.

[rab2591]

Thanks AGD!

Another I forgot: Brian was heavy into the I Ching during the Smile era, according to Derek Taylor.