There are a number of books that, while I read them, I listened exclusively to one cd. Does anyone else do that? Here are the ones I remember.

"It" - Stephen King: I listened to Live's album "Throwing Copper" while reading this long novel in the sometime during my early teens.

"Peralandra" and "The Hideous Strength" - C.S. Lewis: While reading these final two books in Lewis's Space Trilogy, I listened to Holst's "The Planets"

"Into the Wild" - John Krakauer: This may have been the most perfect fit. I listened to Cat Stevens' Greatest Hits. Songs like Wild World, Oh Very Young, Father and Son and really just about every other track could have been on a soundtrack for a movie based on the book.

"The Rasputin File" - Edvard Radzinsky: I listened to Live's "The Distance to Here" while reading this book. Both the book and cd are very spiritual and haunting.

These are my best matches; the ones that when I hear a song off the corresponding album, it can bring back powerful memories and images from the book.

Wilco Book and um...

Wilco? I didn't know Wilco had a book.

Here's another one I think was a good match.

"The Devils" - Dostoevesky: I listened to "Natural Mystic" by Bob Marley. "There's a natural mystic blowing through the air. If you listen carefully now you will hear." The first song fits the tone of the book quite well.

I don't purposfully put a specific cd on when I read but certain songs remind me of specific books all the time.

When reading science fiction, I often put on the Blade Runner s'track.

Wanna hear an odd choice? I played "The Magic Position" through my entire reading of Crime and Punishment...

having read Crime & Punishment, and knowing some Patrick Wolf, it is indeed odd, but what would life be if we all read Bridget jones diary, and listened to Dido?, or some other predictable combo...

come to think of it...mine's pretty predictable.

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Originally posted by Ishmaels coffin:
what would life be if we all read Bridget jones diary, and listened to Dido?

Wait, are you saying you didn't listed to Dido while reading Bridget Jones' Diary?


If I have ever exclusively listened to one album while reading a book, I don't remember what it was. Most of the time if I'm reading, I listen to classical. That choice of genre is probably pretty predictable.

Another incongruous choice I have made was playing Battles' "Mirrored" all through reading R Graves' "I, Claudius".

Keep 'em coming, Sin.

Battles bashing and squelching beside the dry wit of Graves?!!
Actually, since I Claudius is mostly about war and sex, Battles ain't a bad choice.

I love it!!

Hahahaha!
Also: the poppy goodness of Of Montreal with the wit of William Blake.

Ooooooh!

The demons of Blake's universe aren't gonna be happy. Poppy power chords? Delightful squealing?

You need to be playing Nick Cave or something like that surely?

A little more fitting here, I think:
Future Kings of England + The Idiot

Double post for me. It would be interesting to market an album and a book together, no? Like, make a "bundle deal" for selling music and books that go together well.

Well I got no fancy way to flair this, but I find that listening to the soundtrack to the Lord Of the Rings adds an interesting effect to most high fantasy novels. One series in particular, is the Wheel Of Time by Robert Jordan. Ironically, I have yet to actually try this out on the actual Lord The Rings series.

So, Zatoichi, why don't you try it, at least a bit, with Tolkien? Or, at least, tell us what's going on with your spine in the combo you mentioned. Try to play the hairs on your head and the nerves in your back as a musical instrument!

Welcome to the site!

I'm not sure why, but while I've been reading Roberto Bolano's novel 2666, I've been listening to William Basinski's Disintegration Loops.

I'm reading Alan Dershowitz's The Case For Israel right now, and I have John Zorn's soundtrack to Hiding and Seeking playing in the background.

While reading "Inherent Vice" today I have been listening to Warren Zevon's self-titled album. Perfect fit. Both set in L.A. and portray a city brimming with sin and sensuality.

I think Warren Zevon is great, esp Splendid Isolation.

Will you consider trying Against The Day by Pynchon?