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This stems from the food topic but I am curious. What music do you all like to listen to while reading? Something that fits the general mood of the book or perhaps just your favorite son or what?

Normally I pick an album to listen to while I read the entire book. I did that back in high school and now I can't listen to P.O.D. without reliving the entire Abhorsen trilogy.

Mostly its like what you said, I read a few chapters, then I make a generic playlist for my iTunes with a feel for the book and go from there. I'm not one to go hunting for that perfect song for each scene, that's a bit extreme sweatdrop .

the Lion

I can't listen to music while I read it distracts me sweatdrop

Anything from the bg inturmentals from Sailor Moon to the screaming dethvocals of Dethklok from Metalocalypse (or from Cannibal Corpse(<3 Corpsegringer Fisher), Amon Amarth(<3 Johan Hegg), or any other Death Metal / Metal in general band(<3 all of Dimmu Borgir)) to the hip-shaking beats of the Middle East (or even the music that draws on them such as Loreena McKennit, who I always want to dance to) to the wondrous sounds of foreign folk rock such as the Irish band Cruachan, and even Scandinavian Country Music (which is the only type of Country Music I can actually listen to, because the Scandinavians make everything good) such as The Hellbillies (my favorite is Lakafant) to hard core Underground Industrial (like Proton 42 (who is you like, you should visit his message board, because he's a good friend of mine)).

The type of music I listen to depends entirely on the book I'm reading.
For something like The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher or the Nightside series by Simon R. Green, I listen to rock & roll; for a good horror novel, I might listen to a horror film soundtrack such as the music from Phantasm.
For epic fantasy or science fiction, I often listen to movie soundtracks such as Superman: the Movie, Raiders of the Lost Ark, or Stargate.

What do I like to listen to while reading? The Soundscapes Channel!

New Age, Variations of Classical, Asian and European Folk (lots of Irish, Gaelic, Celtic, and Tibetian), and all sorts of Easy Listening stuff.

Gods, that's where I found Jim Brickman! *Sighs and clutches Love Songs and Lullabies* *Cupid restocks quiver with a sigh*

Love and Vale,
-LD

Depending on the books mood I listen to different songs, I try and choose a certain song to listen to througout the whole book because whenever I listen to that song, it'll remind me of the way I was feeling while I read the book, so if I was listening to All American Rejects while reading about an intence battle, when I hear the song again I'd be tence...its kinda weird but thats the way it is for me =p

What I listen to really depends on my mood and what CD I have in my CD player at the time.