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

[Melusine]

I know it's a huge cliché, but still, I always think this is a great way of getting to know people better, and of finding people with similar tastes to your own.

So please list the
- last ten books you read (and finished!).
- last ten movies you saw, whether at home or at a cinema.
- last ten CDs (or MP3s) you listened to.

Note: it's NOT about your top ten lists of all time favourites, just the last ones you read/saw/listened to, whether you enjoyed them or not. [img]smile.gif[/img]

[ 08-12-2003, 03:48 PM: Message edited by: Melusine ]

[shadowhound]

Geez I cant remember the last ten books... lets see

1. (book I am currently reading) George R R Martin - A clash of Kings
2. George R R Martin - err, the first Song of Ice and Fire book
3. Douglas Adams - Dirk Gently's Holocostic Detective Agency
4. George R R Martin - Songs the Dead Man Sing

Thats as far as I can remember

Movies
(I hired the first 4 movies on DVD recently so thats why they are older ones)
1. Bram Strokers Dracula
2. Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl
3. What's the worst that could happen
4. Texas Chainsaw Massacar
5. Just Married
6. Stir of Echos

Music
1. The Vines - Get Free (MP3)
2. Meatloaf - Bat out of hell (CD)
3. Cameltoe Song (MP3)
4. Andrew Lloyd Webber - Phantom Of The Opera (CD)

I cant remember any more then that

[johnny]

Books

1 Die verratene Armee- Heinrich Gerlach
2 Run silent, run deep- Edward L. Beach
3 Into the storm- Tom Clancy
4 Monsoon- Wilbur Smith
5 Icon- Frederick Forsyth
6 The Brethren- John Grisham
7 Generalen SS- Sven Hassel
8 Twilight eyes- Dean Koontz
9 War of the rats- David L. Robbins
10 The heat of Ramadan- Steven Hartov

Movies

1 National Lampoon's Vacation
2 Chain of fools
3 Vanilla sky
4 Zoolander
5 Doc Martin and the legend of the Cloutie
6 Betelnut Beauty
7 Training day
8 Behind enemy lines
9 D-tox
10 Captain Morelli's mandolin

I can't remember the musicpart, so forgive me on that account. I'm listening to streaming music on Kazaa all the time, and even while i'm typing this, and i'm not keeping track of what comes by.

[Melusine]

Cool, thanks guys! I love reading about other people's reading/listening tastes. Will list my own as soon as I can remember them exactly. Maybe top fives would have been better for most people's memory spans. [img]graemlins/uhoh1.gif[/img]

[johnny]

Not in my case, i just went through my bookcase, and could easily find the most recently read books, same thing with movies, i have canal +, and i always mark the "must see movies" in the programguide, so i picked them from there. I could have provided you with a top 25 just as easy. [img]tongue.gif[/img]

[Melusine]

Johnny, fair enough, but if you could see the combined bookcases of my boyfriend and I that I choose my books from, you'd understand my problem. And as for movies, most of them are rented and when I return them, I sort of forget.
Anyway, I'll take a stab at it. [img]smile.gif[/img]

<font color="FF99FF">Books

1. (now reading) E.D. Eddison - The Worm Ouroboros
2. (also still reading) Roddy Doyle - A Star Called Henry
3. Gabriel García Márquez - Chronicle Of A Death Foretold
4. Sebastian Faulks - Birdsong
5. Italo Calvino - The Castle Of Crossed Destinies
6. Ian McEwan - Black Dogs
7. Ian McEwan - The Innocent
8. Umberto Eco - The Island Of The Day Before
9. C.S. Lewis - The Chronicles Of Narnia
10. Zadie Smith - The Autograph Man
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<font color="CC99FF">Music

1. Rossini - Petite Messe Solennelle
-with Lucia Popp (soprano), Brigitte Fassbaender (contralto),
Nicolai Gedda (tenor), Dmitri Kavrakos (bass), Marielle & Katia Labèque
(piano), Choir Of King's College, cond. Stephen Cleobury
2. Vivaldi - Stabat Mater, Salve Regina and others
-with Jochen Kowalski (alto), Nico van der Meel (tenor), John Constable,
Raphael Alpermann (organ), Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra, cond. Vittorio
Negri
3. Natalie Dessay - Mozart Heroines
-with Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, cond. Louis Langrée
4. Mozart - Die Entführung Aus Dem Serail (highlights)
- with Fritz Wunderlich (tenor), Erika Köth (soprano), Lotte Schädle
(soprano), Friedrich Lenz (tenor), Kurt Böhme (bass), Chor und Orchester der
Bayerischen Staatsoper, cond. Eugen Jochum
5. Ralph Vaughan Williams - Dona Nobis Pacem and other works
-with Sheila Armstrong (soprano), John Carol Case (bass), London
Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra, cond. Sir Adrian Boult
6. Several songs from different artists on tape, for my mother to play in the
car. Songs listened to were: Hugh Wilson - Here We Go, Pouration;
Pavement - Carrot Rope; Portishead - Glorybox; Michel Camilo/Anthony Jackson/
Dave Weckl - From Within; Garbage - Cherry Lips.
7. The Cult - Beyond Good And Evil
8. Orgy - Vapor Transmission
9. Guns N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction
10. Nevermore - Enemies Of Reality
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<font color="33CCFF">Movies

1. A Life Less Ordinary
2. Uh... I should have remembered about this one before I started up my
topic... [img]graemlins/blush.gif[/img] One of Blake's movies.. sadly that's not William
Blake. [img]graemlins/uhoh2.gif[/img] [img]tongue.gif[/img]
3. VHS of Blackadder episodes
4. Nine Queens
5. Austin Powers - Goldmember
6. Insomnia
7. In The Name Of The Father
8. Minority Report
9. Spider
10. A Beautiful Mind
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I had a lot of trouble remembering all movies I saw on the telly, so I just ignored those. I think I got the books and CDs right though, give or take one forgotten title.

[ 08-10-2003, 11:15 AM: Message edited by: Melusine ]

[Grojlach]

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

As for music... Erm, difficult to say, as I more or less listen to music constantly in my spare time. I'll just list some of my recent buys (or actually not too recent, haven't bought any in a while):

* Manitoba - Up in Flames
* The Flaming Lips - Transmissions from the Satellite Heart
* Broken Social Scene - You Forgot it in People
* John Zorn - Naked City
* Glenn Branca - The Ascension
* Maestro Echoplex - Tonight I saw God on the Dance Floor
* Die Anarchistische Abendunterhaltung (DAAU) - Life Transmission
* Pinback - Offcell EP
* Motorpsycho - The Tussler Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
* And you will know us by the trail of dead - The Secret to Elena's Tomb
* Roxy Music - Roxy Music

[ 08-10-2003, 02:21 PM: Message edited by: Grojlach ]

[Grojlach]

Originally posted by Melusine: Pavement - Carrot Rope

*gets all mushy* [img]graemlins/blueblink.gif[/img]


Oh, and regarding the non-CD-music I listen to from my PC, I mostly listen to a sample compilation I've made (though not yet burned) for a friend of mine, some mp3s of music I'm curious about (at this point some yet-to-be-released music by Beulah and Enon) and some classical music (Rachmaninov at this moment, thanks to Melusine [img]graemlins/thumbsup.gif[/img] ).

[ 08-10-2003, 03:21 PM: Message edited by: Grojlach ]

[Chewbacca]

Books- The last three. I was uninspired to read for months before this summer.

Stranger in a Strange Land- Rober Heinlein (I Read it every summer)
Crossroads of Twilight- Robert Jordan
Idiot's guide to buying and selling a home (next logical step after getting married)

Movies- Off the top of my head

LOTR The Two Towers- illegal bootleg copy left by a friend
Babylon 5 season 2 on DVD
Star Trek -latest film on pay-per-view
Hulk movie
Minority Report
Southpark the Movie
Star Wars Clone Wars
To Kill a Mockingbird
Princess Bride
Pulp Fiction

Albums- Probably more than this, but only ten was requested..

Beastie Boys- Check Your Head
John Coltrane- Love Supreme
Pearl Jam- 10
Jimi Hendrix- Electric LadyLand
AudioSlave- Same
A Tribe Called Quest- Low End Theory
Pearl Jam- Live in Boston 07-11-03 ( 3 hrs + 1 hr acoustic set)
Dreams of Freedom-Ambient Translations of Bob Marley in Dub
Janes Addiction- Nothings Shocking
Flaming Lips- Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

[ 08-11-2003, 02:46 AM: Message edited by: Chewbacca ]

[Melusine]

Whoops, I forgot Southpark and Battle Royale in my list of movies! Knew it was inaccurate...

Oh, and I watched Event Horizon yesterday and have The Virgin Suicides and The Usual Suspects still sitting on the shelf, since the video rental shop had an offer of three for the price of two.