Michael Jackson, Bookworm. Who Knew??

Just doing my bit to add to the overkill about Michael Jackson.  This bit from the LA Times.

Largely an autodidact, Jackson was quite well read, according to Jackson’s longtime lawyer. “We talked about psychology, Freud and Jung, Hawthorne, sociology, black history and sociology dealing with race issues,” Bob Sanger told the LA Weekly after the singer’s death. “But he was very well read in the classics of psychology and history and literature . . . Freud and Jung — go down the street and try and find five people who can talk about Freud and Jung.”

Hours after his death, Jackson’s 1988 autobiography, “Moonwalk,” despite being out of print, entered the Amazon bestseller list for biography and memoir at No. 25.

“I’ve always wondered if there was a library in Neverland,” Doug Dutton mused. Indeed there was — Sanger told LA Weekly that Jackson’s collection totaled 10,000 books.

Alas, I couldn’t find a single image of Michael reading a book, but maybe they are out there.




1 thought on “Michael Jackson, Bookworm. Who Knew??

  1. Kristina

    Here is a great picture of him reading, and if you look closely, of his bare feet which appear to show the signs of vitilio. http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://meetthefamily.online.fr/images/house9.gif&imgrefurl=http://meetthefamily.online.fr/album3.htm&usg=__Cj8hyouMDtcjObZsZ6VjjDLKYCE=&h=130&w=175&sz=22&hl=en&start=4&um=1&tbnid=BYZKaOEy9cFaHM:&tbnh=74&tbnw=100&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dhayvenhurst%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1W1TSHB_enUS330US330%26sa%3DN%26um%3D1

    Kristina, Candia, NH

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