old-brown-shoe
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I love Final Fantasy, I listen to Nobuo Uematsu regularly. I have trouble deciding if 7, 8 and 10 but I think 10 is probably my favourite, mainly for the environment.
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I love his knowledge of cinema trivia, and a passion we both share for b grade horror films from the 30s/40s/50s
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I would recommend anything by Diana Wynne Jones to all who like Harry Potter. Particularly Howl's Moving Castle and another called Dark Lord of Derkholm
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I knew that. Apparently a lot of the chapters each week were improvised which just comes to show how brilliant he was.
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My favourite work of Dickens, it's such a nice uplifting story. I liked Marley, particularly the scene he appeared in anyway, I was always freaked out when Scrooge hears the chains being dragged up the stairs.
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I like my big chunky sword that takes a day to swing, but really makes a mess when it finally does
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I like to jot down nonsense poems and short stories, kind of like Edward Lear or Lewis Carroll. I have a fondness for absurdism
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Skyrim is brilliant. I can wander about that world entranced for ages
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Yeah him and Rubin are pals, the rest of the world's translations use the English versions as their source, so it has to be done efficiently.
I have read quite a few of his other works (and loved them generally), Norwegian Wood is really the only one that is completely realistic, the rest of his books have a bizarre surrealism where you wonder if the character is delusional or strange things really are happening. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is indeed a good read, but there are a lot of chapters which don't seem to have any significance or are just unexplained. I would say the standouts so far for me were Sputnik Sweetheart and Hard Boiled Wonderland, so if you haven't tried those I strongly recommend, especially if you're enjoying Norwegian Wood.
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ahh I love Norwegian Wood, Murakami is amazing. What's wrong with Jay Rubin's translation ?
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami (sadly not the Birnbaum translation). I recently gave A Prayer for Owen Meany (the novel that the film Simon Birch was based on) the old college try but it was so boring it made me want to develop psychic powers for the sole purpose of telekinetically falcon punching John Irving in the reproductive organs so hard that it would cause a shockwave that would travel back in time and kill him and all his ancestors in the womb generation by generation all the way back to Noah so that everyone would wind up dying in the flood.
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Classical is awesome, have been listening to a lot of Schubert and Purcell lately.
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The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
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Breaking Bad
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The Mighty Boosh
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Great Expectations, Dickens.
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The Beatles
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They make me happy to be alive. They were and still are the kings of the arts. They nailed music, film and literature.
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Manga
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I've read quite a few and the best so far has easily been Berserk. It's pretty extreme so I wouldn't recommend it to everybody, but if you're tough and love fantastic storytelling then do check it out.
The Beatles
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What do you think of this Beatles Next Generation thing? I wish they would just make a new name rather than cash in on the success of their fathers