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Have you ever matched a book with an album? So the music becomes part of the world of the book

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HumphreyCobbler · 18/07/2009 20:05

and you think of one when you read or listen to the other?

I did this with Ursula Le Guin's Tombs of Atuan and Dead Can Dance's Into the Labryinth.

Or am I just a bit odd?

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ohfuschia · 18/07/2009 21:46

My username comes from a Cure song 'The Drowning Man' which is based on Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake so now I can't listen to/read one without thinking of the other (not quite the same as completely unrelated ones I know but I first read the Gormenghast trilogy as a tortured teen without knowing about the song, though as a huge Cure fan I guess it was only a matter of time )

paisleyleaf · 18/07/2009 21:38

It was a nice summer that

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HumphreyCobbler · 18/07/2009 21:37

ooh, good match paisleyleaf!

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paisleyleaf · 18/07/2009 21:33

Enya's first album (album....that's how long ago I'm talking) with Mists of Avalon

totalmisfit · 18/07/2009 20:43

only with Wuthering Heights and the shrieky 'Heathcliffe it's me, its
Cathy, i've come home' Kate Bush song!

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HumphreyCobbler · 18/07/2009 20:34

It was in the same vein as The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat by Oliver Sachs.

I remember that the man from the title was cooking soup and added salt as it was too 'square'

UnquietDad I bet you know that from experience..

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janeite · 18/07/2009 20:22

Ooh - please tell me more about The Man Who Tasted Shapes: what a fab title.

UnquietDad · 18/07/2009 20:21

Apparently if you listen to Dark Side of the Moon and watch The Wizard of Oz, the visuals reflect the images... No idea if it works with the book...

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HumphreyCobbler · 18/07/2009 20:20

I actually took acid in the hope it would induce synesthesia. It didn't.

I had been reading The Man Who Tasted Shapes.

Will look up that book, it is a fascinating condition. I have always been jealous of those who have it.

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janeite · 18/07/2009 20:17

Thanks

No - the one informs the other. I always sort of wished that I had that thing where the senses mix up. There is a really good novel called Mondays Are Red iirc about synasthaesia (is that it?).

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HumphreyCobbler · 18/07/2009 20:10

That is interesting. Do you hear it when you read the book? Or is that one informs the other, rather than being each being part of the other (in your head of course). I tend to imagine the music actually being played at key parts of the book iyswim.

I wish you had been my teacher though.

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janeite · 18/07/2009 20:06

Not at all odd. I used to teach 'Sense And Sensibility' beginning with playing 'The Whole Of The Moon' by The Waterboys.

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