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Some enjoyable books I recently read/CD's I recently bought

Books	Music
Larry Baker - The Flamingo Rising	Moloko - "Statues"
Minette Walters - Acid Row	"Frida" Original soundtrack

Music

I like to listen to nearly all kinds of music: rock, pop, classic, jazz, folk music, hardrock, blues, trance,...what I usually don't like is rap, hip hop and r'n'b, exceptions are always possible of course. Here's a little overview of some of my favorite singers and bands:

Madonna
Melissa Etheridge
Joan Osborne
Janis Joplin
Aretha Franklin
Garbage
Hole
Catatonia
Anouk
Neneh Cherry
Morcheeba
Liz Phair
Cyndi Lauper
Janet Jackson
Alanis Morissette
Rammstein
Marylin Manson
Cher

Holly Cole
Diana Krall
Patricia Barber
Jane Monheit
Cesaria Evora
Silje Nergaard
Beady Belle
Moloko
Norah Jones
The Beautiful South
Erykah Badu
Sarah McLachlan
Tori Amos
Suzanne Vega
Bette Midler
Barbra Streisand
M People
Marla Glen

Bjork
Kid Rock
Die Toten Hosen
Guano Apes
Rosenstolz
Die Sterne
Tocotronic
Marlene Dietrich
Robbie Williams

Movies

Here are some of my favorite movies:

The talented Mr. Ripley
Heavy
Heavenly Creatures
La vita è bella (Life is beautiful)
Frankie & Johnny
Bound
A League Of Their Own
Pulp Fiction
Woody Allen movies
The Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane
Home For The Holidays
Little Man Tate
Hotel New Hampshire
Mars Attacks!
The Cement Garden
The Silence Of The Lambs
The Accused
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Interview With The Vampire
Secrets & Lies
Fish & Chips
The Sixth Sense
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Trainspotting
The Opposite of Sex
Billy Elliott - I will dance
The Others
Black Cat White Cat
Kolya
High Fidelity
The Lord of the Rings
Moulin Rouge

Books

I enjoy reading a lot, I mostly read novels, no special genre. I like any kind of good stories. The following are some of my favorite authors:

John Irving
Stephen King
Anne Rice
Rita Mae Brown (not those silly crime stories though)
Patricia Cornwell
Charles Dickens
Armistead Maupin
P.D. James
Martha Grimes
Elizabeth George
Jostein Gaardner
Anne Holt
H.G. Wells
Maarten 'T Hart
Patricia Highsmith
Douglas Adams
Barbara Kingsolver
Hannah Green
Nick Hornby
Ian McEwan
Minette Walters
Oscar Wilde
Henning Mankell