At the moment I'm reading a book:

"The jukebox blared "Little Red Corvette" by Prince. Or was it by the Artist Formerly Known As Prince? Wasn't that what he called himself now? But of course when "Little Red Corvette" had been released he had been Prince. So which was it? Myron tried to reconcile this crucial dilemma, but it began to confuse him like one of those time paradoxes in the Back to the Future movies so he gave up. ..."

The novel is Fade Away by Harlan Coben, one of the Myron Bolitar novels (Go and read them all !).

Are there anymore novels out there that mention Prince in any way ?

Yours,
Jan

Prince and Back To The Future in the same passage? I need to get this book...

Prince is mentioned in The black Album by Hanif Kureshi.

For any Bowie fans, These are a list of books Bowie is mentioned in.

http://www.teenagewildlif...iterature/

booyah said:

... that just made my day, u have no idea ...
Back 2 The Future & Prince "gr8 Scott ... this is heavy" hehehe ...

*lowers head* ... um no im not kiddin

Seriously ... this is almost as painstakingly jocular as the correlation made between Prince & literature ... u know never mind the poetry i just can’t c him beside himself in writing, feathered pen n all; wrapped up in a princely 'lace lovers' Shakespearean collar--- oh hell ... wait a minute ... :p

*ee...rie ...pict..ure...accum...ulating* the things that speak 2 me ... yikes ... ANYBODY ELSE LOVIN GROWTH!!!!!
[This message was edited Fri Oct 25 9:06:01 PDT 2002 by harmony]

yes, I have read many books that in some way mention Prince. The first one that comes to mind is Michael Ondatje's "Anil's Ghost". The main character puts on her Prince t-shirt.

In the early 90's I read a collection of short stories called "Did Gustav Mahler Ski?" One story had a Prince reference, I think it also was something about "Little Red Corvette."

http://www.booksfree.com/...0811211630

(If you want a traduction, send me a mail)

A Prince le gusta la Ciencia Ficción y a los libros de ciencia ficción les gusta nombrar a Prince, pues qué bien:)También se le ha nombrado en algún comic, en los Simpsom, se le parodia en la película "Aterriza como puedas"...En algún sitio más? Supongo que si. Esta claro que es una referencia de nuestra época y parece que también para épocas venideras y me alegro por ello.
Besos desde España
Alice7

Another one...in Stephen King's "It", one of the characters is shopping (IIRC) and the radio station that the store is playing announces that the station is giving away the new Prince album to whoever calls in and names the actor that played the big brother on "Leave It To Beaver". The character (Ben I believe his name was) does know the name of the actor (TOny Dow) but does not want the new Prince album (pretty much how it's written). This book came out in 1986 or 87 so the "new album" may have been ATWIAD or Parade (or neither!) but I just remember being so amused that King had put Prince in a novel (and I'm assuming he's not a fan!)

I read "It" a long time ago and can't remember. Probably getting old *ggg*.

Jan

Hi,

is it just me ? I found another one, this time in "Sanibel Flats" by Randy Wayne White:

Scene :

"My God, they're playing Twisted Sister. They are playing Van Halen. They're playing PRINCE, man. Rot their damn brains, listening to junk like that. ... "

The book is wonderful Go and read it.

Yours,
Jan

There's one book by Belgian writer Herman Brusselmans (I think it's Guggenheim Wast Witter) in which the main character and his psychotherapist are both obsessed by Emacipation-era Prince. He even drinks a cocktail of his own design called Prince on every other page.

there is a lesbian novel a friend of mine was reading and she shared with me that the author mentioned prince in one of the fantasies...something about a yellow brick road leading to erotic city...and prince music was playing.