Your Top 5
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@jerkules loved Nova Swing, but haven't read that trilogy you mention. Thanks for the tip man.
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@flannel-slut they're my favourite books of all time. I've bought so many copies of TNotW as gifts over the years..
Most recently I listed to the Audio books on Audible, the voice acting was amazing and certain parts had subtle musical backdrops which really added to the immersion.
Beautiful is the best way I'd describe them too. Since learning about Rothuss' distain for the Kvoth character, I've reread with a more analytical eye, trying to understand why he feels that way, but I just can't...
The naive yet beautifully poetic passages around his feelings for Denna are just perfect. They capture exactly how somebody of his intelligence, wit and artistic prowess would see things, but clearly lack emotional intelligence, and a wisdom that can only be acquired by life experience, because at the end of the day, he's still a child.
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@T4920 ha! I gifted TNotW one of my good friends about 10, 15 years or so ago. Back when I was young and impressionable and believed authors to be good people who would never create such enjoyable works of art, earn legions can of fans and then abandon them
(that goes for you too GRR Martin cough)My apologies on the early morning rant!
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@flannel-slut I just knocked out 50 pages of The Name of the Wind — really killer so far, and I know I’m just getting started. Looking forward to getting into this one.
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@popvulture just put a big smile on my face. Enjoy your escape pal
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My top
53 x 5 music albums in no particular order.
Yes, I’m a hip hop head.Old School:
InI / Pete Rock - Center of Attention
Funkdoobiest - Brothas Doobie
Guru - Jazzmatazz Volume 1
A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
Pharcyde - Bizarre Ride IINew school
Yelawolf - Love Story
Dr Dre - 2001
Dem Atlas - Bad Actress
Eminem - The Eminem Show
Cunninlynguists - Will Rap for FoodDang, so many missing… Honorable mentions
Slick Rick - Behind Bars
Masta Ace - Disposable Arts
Poor Righteous Teachers - Black Business
Digable Planets - Reachin‘
Nas & Damian Marley - Distant RelativesCould go on for hours haha.. Any other Hip Hop heads here?
Use it or lose it.
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Operation Ivy - Energy (easily my top)
Sublime - Sublime
Leftöver Crack - Fuck World Trade
Against Me! - Reinventing Axl Rose
Modest Mouse - We Were Dead…. -
Top 5 fiction books ( this weeks choice at least ).
The New York Trilogy - Paul Auster
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
Perfume - Patrick Suskind
Snow falling on Cedars - David Guterson
Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami -
Top 5 Music Albums
- Outkast - Aquemini
- Killer Mike - Michael
- Rage Against the Machine - Evil Empire
- Kanye - Graduation
- Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
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Man I wouldn’t even know where to start with an ever list but I can get behind that one.
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Beastie Boys - Check Your Head
Cro Mags - Age of Quarrel
The Smiths - Louder Than Bombs
AZ - Doe or Die
Townes Van Zandt - Flying Shoes -
Not in order. Too hard.
PE - Nation of Millions
Coltrane - Supreme
Zep – Four
The garden – Badmotorfinger
Amos – To Venus and Back
Tool - Aenima
Tribe - Low End -
@weftyarn said in Your Top 5:
A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
This was next on my list. Masterpiece.
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Talking Dexter on the TV thread made me think how some of my favorite television started w some very high highs and ended with low lows… in no particular order, my top 5 TV bipolar runs:
Dexter
Game of Thrones
Lost
Carnival
Heroes -
@flannel-slut Heroes had so much potential! Man, that show had such a great first season.
