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- Posted: 03/18/2013 00:13
- Post subject: Books!
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Yeah, this is a music website, but books are a just as great medium (if not better, in my eyes), and I was just wondering what you guys liked to read. If you guys do read. Maybe when you pick up a book, you're like, "Oh, my bad, this isn't music!" and you put it down and run away. XD
Anywaaaaaaaaaays, my favorite books are as follows:
Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake (three books, but not really a trilogy, since the author died before finishing them)
Here, I can tie these books into music easily. Anyone heard The Drowning Man by The Cure? It is about a character and event from these books. It spoils something too! Robert Smith, you should've called that song "Spoiler!" Luckily I read the books before I had even listened to the Cure's music. XD I found the Cure via Gormenghast!
The Once and Future King by T.H. White
I am not aware of any musical connections to this book, sorry guys! 
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
The title of Pink Floyd's first (and best) album, Piper At The Gates of Dawn is named after an amazing and mystical chapter from the book. Also! Piper at the Gates of Dawn by Van Morrison
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Well, yeah. XD Listen to the Tolkien Ensemble, if you want to, though I think they mostly do LOTR songs. They're actually really good. Listen to Wight's Chant or Tom Bombadil's Song!
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- Posted: 03/18/2013 00:15
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The Catcher In The Rye
A Clockwork Orange
Les Miserables
Also Sprach Zarathustra
Aaaaaaand that's about it, I'm not getting along well with books
P.S.: Let me be the 1967th person to express this today from this forum... You seem like a cool guy.
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- Posted: 03/18/2013 00:16
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| useless wrote: | The Catcher In The Rye
A Clockwork Orange
Les Miserables
Also Sprach Zarathustra
Aaaaaaand that's about it, I'm not getting along well with books
P.S.: Let me be the 1967th person to express this today from this forum... You seem like a cool guy. |
I've been meaning to read, well, all of those!
Well thank you. 
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MrFrogger
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- Posted: 03/18/2013 00:17
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Hitchiker's guide to the galaxy
On The Road
A Song of Ice and Fire series
Off the top of my head
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- Posted: 03/18/2013 00:18
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| MrFrogger wrote: | Hitchiker's guide to the galaxy
On The Road
A Song of Ice and Fire series
Off the top of my head |
Hitchhiker's Guide is great! Haven't read the others.
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- Posted: 03/18/2013 00:18
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Oh! Useless, why did you say you weren't getting along well with books? Not finding anything good to read?
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Cymro2011
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- Posted: 03/18/2013 00:19
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| Brandon Raber wrote: |
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Well, yeah. XD Listen to the Tolkien Ensemble, if you want to, though I think they mostly do LOTR songs. They're actually really good. Listen to Wight's Chant or Tom Bombadil's Song! |
There are actually a few Led Zeppelin song with references to LOTR in case you didn't know. The Hobbit is awesome btw.
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- Posted: 03/18/2013 00:19
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| Cymro2011 wrote: | | There are actually a few Led Zeppelin song with references to LOTR in case you didn't know. |
Oh! I did know that, that just slipped my mind. XD Thank you.
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- Posted: 03/18/2013 00:20
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Here is a by no means conclusive list of a few books I love
The Lord of the Rings (any one of the trilogy) - J.R.R. Tolkien
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Douglass Adams
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
Dune - Frank Herbert
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
1984 - George Orwell
Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
I.Robot - Isaac Asimov
Stranger In a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein
The Time Machine - H.G. Wells
Flatland - Edwin A. Abbot
Harry Potter (any one, though my favorite would either be sorcerer's stone or deathly hallows) - J.K. Rowling
Inkheart - Cornelia Funke
The Amazing Adventures Of Kavalier and Clay - Michael Chabon
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
Farenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
The Count Of Monte Cristo - Alexander Dumas
Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
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- Posted: 03/18/2013 00:21
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| dividesbyzero wrote: | Here is a by no means conclusive list of a few books I love
The Lord of the Rings (any one of the trilogy) - J.R.R. Tolkien
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Douglass Adams
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
Dune - Frank Herbert
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
1984 - George Orwell
Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
I.Robot - Isaac Asimov
Stranger In a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein
The Time Machine - H.G. Wells
Flatland - Edwin A. Abbot
Harry Potter (any one, though my favorite would either be sorcerer's stone or deathly hallows) - J.K. Rowling
Inkheart - Cornelia Funke
The Amazing Adventures Of Kavalier and Clay - Michael Chabon
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
Farenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
The Count Of Monte Cristo - Alexander Dumas
Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson |
You seem to have really great taste! There are a plethora of books I plan to read among your list, and some I have read and enjoyed.
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