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Not my kind of books, but you'd probably want to check out "Jonathan Livingston Seagull", "Zen & The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance", "Life of Pi" and Gibran's "The Prophet".

That's probably the strangest story I've read on this board yet.

Tom Kristensen - Hærværk (there's an English translation under the title "Havoc". No clue how good it is). An excellent, odd, almost modernistic, novel about a journalist (book reviewer) who does his damndest to drink himself to death and generally ruin his own life. Note that he should not be...

Haven't seen the movie, but it's a rather good novel by W. Somerset Maugham. I don't recall if there was any direct reference to what it meant in the novel, but I'm sure it must be a allusion to Shelley's poem, which the book mirrors to a great extent: Lift not the painted veil which those...

Well, there's no video of it on the official site, but at least you can read the presentation speech and his Nobel lecture: http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1999/ Sorry, this is a discussion I'm not willing to take part in. I'll leave it at the fact that I consider...

Wie Bist Die Gewesen Vor Prohibition? (Where Were You Before Prohibition?) - Naftule Brandwein

I can do it, but I generally don't. If someone has music on that I'm not interested in, I can easily read and concentrate on that. But as far as music I like goes, I want to give it my full attention and not do other things while listening to it. I'm not a big fan of music as something that's...

Fond of programming, but don't do it for a job, unfortunately. Hopefully that will change within the next 6-12 months though. While I've messed about with a number of languages, some to a larger extent than others, my weapon of choice is Java, which I use whenever I need to create an application...

You may want to give Sladek's Roderick books a look. Here in Europe at least there's an omnibus available that collected both of them under the title "The Complete Roderick." I haven't read more than five pages of them myself, so I can't really say anything, except that they're generally fairly...

Take The A Train - Billy Strayhorn (as a member of the Duke Ellington Orchestra)

Big fat mamas are back in style again - Sam "The Man" Taylor

Got some stuff in the mail today and yesterday: Alamaailman Vasarat - Käärmelautakunta Naftule Brandwein - King of the Klezmer Clarinet Duke Ellington - Ellington At Newport 1956 (complete) Klezmer Conservatory Band - A Taste of Paradise Astor Piazzolla - The Rough Dancer And The...

Try Turki Al-Hamad while you're at it, I think he has three or four fatwahs on him. I've only read the first of the trilogy which got him in trouble, but it was excellent. "Adama" was the title of that first volume. Sorry, I don't know if it's available in English, but since it's been translated...

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Oh she's having a go at the Germans now!

Grant Green's Idle Moments. I've put this on repeat to play me along while I do the big Saturday crossword puzzle. I've not been a big fan of guitar in jazz, but this is one of the albums that's been instrumental (argh) in turning me around. The title track is one of the most beautiful songs I...

Anglophiles Anonymous The Cracked Spine (though I suspect you'd get some odd clientelle!) The Bookstore of Babel And, you may want to hold your nose for this last one: Storystore! Gack! Sorry!

Ooph! *staggers off*

I went to reading camp a few years ago. It was GREAT! We all got complimentary slippers and robes that we were encourged to wear at all times. We learned to drink hot toddies and smoke corncob pipes. We were told that as we get older, we ought to move on to snifters of brandy. Most of the...

I read my destiny in the US billboard charts. Let's see what this week has in store for me: First off, Daniel Powter - Bad Day. Oh no! This isn't very promising at all! Sean Paul - Temperature Well, that was kinda pointless of the charts to say, since it's very obvious that it's...