I saved up for this in the early days of my Dylan mania, never imagining a Nobel Prize in his future. This was well before you could look up the lyrics to any song on the internet, and none of his albums included the lyrics, so I spent hours and hours poring over these. It also includes his drawings, which are interesting, but mostly forgettable. ( )

En vacker volym med texterna till Bob Dylans sånger - så långt han hade hunnit år 1973 ;-)) ( )

It i hard to "read" these without hearing that voice behind the words. My edition is 1973, so this is a very incomplete record of his work, but good as far as it goes. It has some work that was unpublished back then, but most of it has been released since.

Whitman he ain't, but Dylan he is, and reading his stuff will give you a greater appreciation of what it means for Bob to be Bob. ( )

a serendipitous find - I owned this book long ago and my husband gave it to a charity shop when we moved; I always regretted it. Today I found it by chance in my local second-hand bookstore when I was looking for something else. ( )