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Zizzykitty

PostPosted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 7:25 pm


Do you ever associated a certain song with a book? Maybe an entire CD or genre even?

I'm just wondering since whenever I listen to the Killers' CD, Sam's Town, I think of The Relic by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child since I read the book right about the time I got the CD so I pretty much listened to that CD the entire time I was reading The Relic.

Or maybe you associate and song or CD to an entire seires. Like when I started reading the sequel to The Relic, The Reliquary, it didn't seem right when I read it while listening to anything but the Killers so I popped in the CD and everything seemed to fall into place.

I'm just one who has to listen to music while I read otherwise it's just too quiet but I guess there are other ways the association between book and song can take place.
PostPosted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 11:21 am


The only thing that comes to mind is when I was reading Ira Levin's Son of Rosemary years ago. I had my soundtrack to The General's Daughter playing in the background so I associate the track "O Fortuna" to the scene in the book where Rosemary finds her son crucified. It seemed so fitting.

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Eoinda

PostPosted: Fri Nov 16, 2007 7:03 am


I have this CD with Irish music that I allways listen to when I read fantasy booksso that would be it!
PostPosted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 7:03 pm


"Comfortably Numb" by Pink Floyd reminds me of Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

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