I would like to dedicate this thread to sharing our findings with one another and reccomending things to make life slightly more bearable…
I’ll start:
Books: On Free Will (Augustine), The Bible
Food: Krispy Kreme glazed donuts
TV: Don’t watch it
Music: Keane
Film: Lord Of the Rings Trilogy
Poetry: Vitae Summa Brevis
Favorite Quote: Be who you are and say what you think cause those that matter don’t mind and those that mind don’t matter.
Patrick Süskind - Perfume: Story of a murder
A must read.
Kesh!
I loved that book! I bought it just by chance when it first came out. I have read it a bunch of times and no almost no one that has.
Too many books to really think of, mostly light reading:
Koontz Frankenstein
Currently reading Dan Brown’s Digitial Fortress.
Other favorites:
Wouk
Michener
Uris
Cook
Critchton
John North
David Baldacci
Heinlein
Herbert
Cromwell
Rice
My books are currently four hours away and there are so many I cannot remember them all.
I’m gonna have to go with the mad russian…
Notes from the Underground - Dostoyevsky
Existentialism is hilarious.
Here are some books I read, or plan to read
Tom Clancy novels
-Hunt for Red October
-Red Storm Rising
-Debt of Honor
-Clear and Present Danger
-Sum of all Fears, that movie sucked
History
-Ambrose’s books
–Band of Brothers
–Citizen Soldier
–D-Day
-Other stuff
–1776
–A History of American People by Paul Johnson
–Born Fighting by James Webb
–The Great Escape by Paul Brickhill
Miscelanious
-Lord of the Rings By J.R.R Tolkien
-A Time to Kill By John Grisham
Cloud Atlas (which caused a big stir here in the UK a couple of years back) is bloody excellent, anything by Houellebecq if you can stomach the porn and violence, anything by David Lodge if you like openly philosophical novels, either of the Dice Man books by Luke Rhinehart.
TV - Anything written by Chris Morris or Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong
Music - the Alabama 3
Food - Cheeses
Quotation - see my signature
Film - too many to mention, but I’ve recently re-watched Rear Window by Alfred Hitchcock and that is a truly wonderful movie.
I’ll second Cloud Atlas. It’s a brilliant piece of literature.
Have you read Number9Dream? It’s similar to Cloud Atlas in that it is a jumble of voices, places, images, dreams, hallucinations, minature narratives and so on. Mitchell is ‘a Joyce for the cyberpunk generation’.
Hey, now your talking!
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And what do you mean by hilarious huh huh? It better be meant in a darkly brilliant way, or beware . . . I will come for you.
And damnit! My liver hurts!
Books: The Count of Monte Cristo (A classic worth every page – my teen favorite) and If on a Winters night, a traveler by Italo Calivno (very fun postmodern read)
Food: Black Cavier on white italian bread with butter and Pershokie (I’m a Russian with very opulent and esthete tastes =)
TV: Charlie Rose (PBS) Rome (HBO)
Music: John Lennon – Paint it Black by the Rolling Stones
Film: A Beautiful Life
Poetry: A poem which MUST be read outloud the very first time you read it. Howl by Allen Ginsberg. If you take my advice, that is, print it out and read it outloud, you’ll thank me. In fact, you could do a plus on me and smoke some pot before you do so (and man would I envy you).
Book: The Idiot (Dostoyevsky)
Food: surprise me
TV: hmm…, try Drawn Together
Music: The Rasmus
Poetry: Pushkin
Regards,
James
Songs: Fatal Tragedy - Dream Theatre
(Fuck Mike Portney is a good drummer… 
)
We all go a little mad sometimes…
…some more than others…
I think you get the ‘Most Random Post of the Day’ award. Congradulations.
Regards,
James
Underground, you didnt mention Howl was three miles long…and what the heck is Pershokie? And do Russians typically eat caviar?
Yes, we have all the Clancy books including the nonfiction. He is great fun and educational regarding military tactics. Cussler’s great fun, very camp and he is a bit sexist, but writes well.
Yes, very interesting read, too bad so many academics who cannot write interesting prose panned him, probably just jealous. A great loss when he passed.
I want to read 1776. Also, The First American regarding Ben Franklin is interesting. The Powerbroker is also interesting.
The trilogy and the Hobbit are great diversions. Read them as a child, around ten, along with the Wind in the Willows as a child. Mum’s a limey, and introduced me to scads of literature and music as a child.
Yes, Grisham usually writes very well.
My department chair enjoys Grimes, but I cannot find this author in bookstores? Anyone heard of Grimes.
I’m just past part two, the point at which Grenoullie has reached, what i can only describe to people here that hasnt read it before as: the most isolated place imaginable. A solitude of olfaction sublimity. Its already clear were the story is going, the fragrence of the girl and the mystery of the olfactory impairment which surrounds his own odourless fog. 
I want be back to see if im wrong or not.
Unremorseful from chapter to chapter. A similar impenitent style is Post Office by Charles Bukowski, who Sartre called “the best poet in America.” Worth checking out.
The first section in Notes from the Underground is a masterpiece. The rest is rubbish.