Top tens of recent books/movies/music - POST YOUR LISTS!

[Grojlach]

Originally posted by Grojlach: </font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Melusine: 1. A Life Less Ordinary

The only recently seen movie I can actually recall... But I haven't been to any cinemas in a while.


As for novels:

1. T. Coraghessan Boyle - The Road to Wellville (currently reading)
2. Umberto Eco - The Island of the Day Before (also currently reading)
3. Anthony Burgess - Earthly Powers
4. Iain Banks - The Crow Road
5. Terry Pratchett - Men at Arms
6. Salman Rushdie - Shame
7. Tad Williams - Memory, Sorrow and Thorn series (4 novels)
8. Terry Goodkind - Wizard's First Rule (which was very, very bad)
9. Iain Banks - Espedair Street
10. Ian McEwan - Atonement
</font>[/QUOTE]Trying to reconstruct this list from memory, but I think these are the novels I've read since the last time I posted in this topic (not counting the many reading assignments of poems, short stories and academic texts I've had for my studies):

Terry Pratchett - Feet of Clay
George Orwell - 1984
George Orwell - Animal Farm
Paul Auster – Timbuktu
Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World
Kazuo Ishiguro's The Unconsoled
Ian McEwan's The Comfort of Strangers
Robert Rankin - The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse
Will Self - Great Apes
Arthur Miller - Death of a Salesman
Terry Pratchett – Nightwatch
Iain M. Banks – Consider Phlebas
John Steinbeck – Of Mice and Men
Terry Pratchett – The Light Fantastic
Iain M. Banks – The Player of Games
Gabriel Garcia Marquez – Love in the time of cholera
Charlotte Brontë – Jane Eyre
Samuel Beckett – Waiting for Godot
Hermann Hesse - Rosshalde
Joseph Conrad – Heart of Darkness
Mark Twain – The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Chino Achebe – Things Fall Apart
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev – Fathers and Sons
Gabriel Garcia Marquez – Chronicle of a death foretold (great novel, Mel! Thank once again. [img]graemlins/thumbsup.gif[/img] )

Currently reading Plato's Symposium, by the way. And the pile of books I've started to read but are as of yet far from being finished by me is ever growing, unfortunately (featuring novels by Eco and Conrad ).

[ 04-25-2004, 02:48 AM: Message edited by: Grojlach ]

[Jaradu]

Books:
Dead Famous, by Ben Elton
Making History, by Stephen Fry
LOTR TTT, by Tolkien
LOTR FOTR, by Tolkien
Narnia Books, C.S.Lewis
Macbeth, by Shakespeare (does that count? We're doing it at school...)
... Can't remember any more...

Movies:
The Gamers
Don't Say A Word
8 Mile
Minority Report
Return of the King
The Two Towers
Attack of the Clones
Fellowship of the Ring
(Last few are probably not in right order, and I can't think of any more)

Music:
Red Hot Chili Peppers - By the Way (Album)
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication (Album)
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magic (Album)
Red Hot Chili Peppers - One Hot Minute (Album)
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Greatest Hits (Album)
N.E.R.D - She wants to move
The Rasmus - In the Shadows
Gorillaz - Clint Eastwood
D12 - My Band
Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out

All your choices seem really good, I'l have to check some of them out soon. Great Idea, Mel!

[The Hierophant]

Hmmm, alright...

Last 10 Albums:
Opeth - Damnation
Vision of Disorder - From Bliss to Devastation
Secret Chiefs 3 - Second Grand Constitution and Bylaws
Fantomas - The Director's Cut
Pantera - Far Beyond Driven
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Superjoint Ritual - A Lethal Dose of American Hatred
Muse - The Origin of Symmetry
Masters of Reality - Flak N Flight
Tool - Lateralus


Books
Now reading Heretics of Dune by Frank Herbert
Charles Dickens - A Tale of Two Cities
Pamela Stevenson - Billy
Frank Herbert - God Emperor of Dune
Charles Dickens - Great Expectations
Fyodor Dostoevsky - Crime and Punishment
Frank Herbert - Children of Dune
Frank Herbert - Dune Messiah
Chuck Palaniuk - Fight Club
Terry Pratchett - Jingo

and now, the Movies
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (on DVD)
Cats and Dogs (on TV)
Chocolat (on TV)
Children of Dune (on DVD)
Fat Pizza (on illigeal substances, it was really really really funny )

and that's as far as I can accurately remember (ie; those are the ones from within the last week or so, I gotta get off the ganja... ).

[ 04-25-2004, 07:04 AM: Message edited by: The Hierophant ]

[Saturos]

Ok, my input:

Last books
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• David Eddings: "The Shining Ones"</font>
• David Eddings: "Domes of Fire"</font>
• David Eddings: "The Sapphire Rose"</font>
• David Eddings: "The Ruby Knight"</font>
• David Eddings: "The Diamond Throne"</font>
• Raymond Feist: "Prince of the Blood"</font>
• Raymond Feist: "The King's Buccaneer"</font>

Last movies:
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• "Zatoichi"</font>
• "21 grams"</font>
• "Willow"</font>
• "The Story of David Gale"</font>
• "The Italian Job"</font>
• "Once Upon a Time in Mexico"</font>
• "Pirates of the Caribbean"</font>

Last music: (mp3's, and not very specific [img]tongue.gif[/img] )
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• Much Metallica</font>
• Some Megadeth</font>
• Some Iron Maiden</font>
• Some Led Zeppelin</font>
• Some Bad Religion</font>
• Some Rancid</font>

[Vailynn]

Had some trouble posting earlier...

Let's try this again! Here are my lists but the stuff I have listed is not in chronological order.

BOOKS:

1. The Hobbit
2. The Fellowship of The Ring
3. The Two Towers
4. The Return of The King
5. Ghost Stories ( a nice leather-bound collection
by various authors)
6. Interview With A Vampire
7. The Vampire Lestat
8. The Queen of The Damned
9. The Tale of The Body Thief
10.Memnoch The Devil (currently reading)

MOVIES:

1. Kill Bill
2. Pirates of The Carribean
3. 2 Fast 2 Furious
4. The Matrix: Revolutions
5. A Beautiful Mind
6. The Return of The King
7. The Ring
8. What Dreams May Come
9. The Italian Job
10.James Bond: Die Another Day

MUSIC:

1. Mudvayne - A World So Cold
2. Opeth - Blackwater Park
3. Nine Inch Nails - The Great Below
4. 16 Volt - At The End
5. 16 Volt - Perfectly Fake
6. Alice In Chains - Would
7. Godsmack - I Stand Alone
8. The Gathering - Second Sunrise
9. Type O Negative - In Praise of Bacchus
10.Finger Eleven - Sad Exchange

I lsten to music almost constantly, but these were the last songs I remember hearing last night... [img]smile.gif[/img]

[SomeGuy]

I don't even know if I can remember then all...

Books

1. The Two Towers
2. Fellowship of the Ring
3. The Hobbit
4. Dark Elf Trilogy
5. Icewind Dale Trilogy
6. The Legacy
7. Artemis Fowl
8. The Westing Game
9. The Witch of Blackbird Pond
10. See Spot Run ( )

Movies

1. Fellowship of The Ring
2. The Two Towers
3. The Ring
4. Gothika
5. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre(new one)
6. The Passion of The Christ
7. Finding Nemo
8. Terminator 3
9. Mr. Deeds
10. Dogma

CDs

1. Staind- Break The Cycle
2. P.O.D.- Payable On Death
3. Switchfoot- The Beatiful Letdown
4. Pillar- Fireproof
5. LostProphets- StartSomething
6. Disturbed- The Sickness
7. P.O.D.- Satellite
8. New Found Glory- Sticks and Stones
9. Creed- Weathered
10. Creed- My Own Prison

There [img]tongue.gif[/img]

[ 04-25-2004, 01:32 PM: Message edited by: SomeGuy ]

[Melusine]

Cool, my topic resurrected! Thanks Groj! Glad you liked Chronicle. Amazing how Marquez tells you in the first line that his protagonist is going to die, and yet manages to keep the tension and disbelief constant throughtout the novella. I think it's an astounding piece of work, like all his books that I've read so far.

Anyway, I'll do a list update as well, though I wouldn't be able to list all the books I've read in the in-between months, and I'm not sure if I'll be able to remember all movies, and certainly not in the correct order. I know the music part though, just back-skipping through Winamp (I've ripped most of my favourite CDs to MP3 [img]smile.gif[/img] ). Oh well, here goes.

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BOOKS

1. Hermann Hesse - Demian
2. Italo Calvino - Short stories
3. Friedrich Nietzsche - Also Sprach Zarathustra
4. A. F. Th. van der Heijden - De Sandwich
5. A. F. Th. van der Heijden - Asbestemming
6. A. F. Th. van der Heijden - De Gevarendriehoek
7. A. F. Th. van der Heijden - Onder Het Plaveisel Het Moeras
8. Will Self - Grey Area
9. Brian Friel - Translations
10. Thomas Rosenboom - Spitzen
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<font color="deeppink">MOVIES

1. The Life of David Gale
2. Ali G in da House
3. Finding Nemo
4. Lord Of The Rings - The Return of the King
5. About Schmidt
6. Passolini's Gospel According to St. Matthew
7. Jude
8. Donnie Darko
9. Fargo
10. I'll have to think about that last one... no freaking clue!
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MUSIC

1. Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Blaise Bailey Finnegan III
2. Elvis Costello - I Want You
3. Placebo - Pure Morning
4. Justin Timberlake - Like I Love You [img]graemlins/blush.gif[/img]
5. Nick Cave - God Is In The House
6. Theatre Of Tragedy - Musique
7. Manuel de Zumaya - Celebren, publiquen
8. Vertigo - Feel The Love
9. Dead Can Dance - Radharc
10. The Mission - Deliverance
11. VNV Nation - Beloved [Hiver & Hammer UK Dub Mix]
12. Jacques Brel - Vesoul
13. Nightwish - Deep Silent Complete
14. Arvo Pärt - Gloria
15. Urmas Sisask - Kyrie
16. Joseph Haydn - Symphony No.69 in C major
17. Travis Morrison - The Word Cop
18. Thievery Corporation - Lebanese Blonde
19. Orgy - Eva
20. Aghora - Transfiguration
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[ 04-25-2004, 06:03 PM: Message edited by: Melusine ]

[Aelia Jusa]

Books I've read recently, in no particular order:
The Jansen Directive, Robert Ludlum
Where is Everybody, Stephen Webb
Stalingrad, Antony Beevor
The Touch, Colleen McCollough
Behind Deep Blue, Feng Hsiung-Hsu
Morgan's Run, Colleen McCollough
Stupid White Men, Michael Moore
Apocalypse Watch, Robert Ludlum

Movies I've seen:
Pirates of the Carribean
Matrix Reloaded
Bridget Jones's Diary
The Opposite of Sex
Office Space
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

And music I've listened to (I've been going through a classical phase ):
Brahms, various symphonies
Tchaikovsky, symphonies
Beethoven, symphonies

[Melusine]

Originally posted by Aelia Jusa: And music I've listened to (I've been going through a classical phase ): Brahms, various symphonies Tchaikovsky, symphonies Beethoven, symphonies

[joey voice]Niiiice! [img]graemlins/thumbsup.gif[/img] [/joey voice]

[dplax]

Books:
reading Catch 22
the last book by Jeffery Deaver (can't remember the title)
The Godmakers by Frank Herbert
The Santaroga Barrier by Frank Herbert
Hellstrom's Hive-by Frank Herbert
Dune-The Machine Crusade
Dune-The Butlerian Jihad
Bringing the House Down (book about blackjack)
Silmarillion
can't remember the rest sorry. And yes anyone who guessed that Frank Herbert is my favourite author is right.

Films:
Matrix Revolutions
Matrix Reloaded
Minority Report
Fight Club
Final Fantasy
Oceans Eleven
Basic Instinct
Gladiator
Seven
The Usual Suspects
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Snatch
.
.
.

Music:

All albums
Lost Horizon: Awakening the World
Pain of Salvation: One Hour by the Concrete Lake
Enchant: Juggling 9 or Dropping 10
Ark: Burn the Sun
Dream Theater: Train of Thought
Enchant: Blink of an Eye
Evergrey: Solitude Dominance Tragedy
Evergrey: The Dark Discovery
Magnitude 9: Decoding the Soul
Pain of Salvation: The Perfect Element Pt. 1