Name some books and movies you really liked, then recommend books/movies for others

[XemaSab]

Movies:

Shallow Grave
Mulholland Drive
Fight Club
Talented Mr. Ripley
Sneakers
Dr. Strangelove

Books:

The Secret History
No Night is Too Long
Harry Potter
Poisonwood Bible
Lolita
The Golden Compass
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Pelican Blood (I'll be shocked if anyone here has read that one)

Can anyone suggest more books or movies they think I would like? :shrug:

And please share some books and movies you like! :hi:

[Forkboy]

1. Ok

Movies:

Stalingrad
Grave of the Fireflies
Tapeheads
Snatch
Patton
Das Boot
Good Night And Good Luck

Books:

The Years Of Rice And Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson
Red Mars/Green Mars/Blue Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson
Hitler's Peace by Philip Kerr
The Watch by Dennis Danvers
Let's Hear It For The Deaf Man by Ed McBain
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan
The Trigger by Arthur C. Clarke and Michael P. Kube-McDowell

[Rhythm]

2. My one biggie...

"Good Omens."

I cracked up when i read the introduction to the hardcover reprints, where the authors mentioned that the reason the book had sold so well over the past 16 years was that the same people kept buying it over and over.

I admit this freely.

I have purchased at least a dozen copies in that time, and i have managed to 'lose' them all, save for the 2006 hardcover re-release (bought one with each cover).

It happens every time... i start to talk with someone, decide that they would appreciate the irreverent humor of it, and i 'loan' it to them... and i never get it back.

This has happened at least 10 times since i was given a copy back in 1992.
I now keep my hardcovers safe, and generally keep a paperback copy around somewhere with its express purpose being to be given away.

[ghostsofgiants]

3. I'm only gonna recommend one movie and one book...

Movie: Three Extremes (More specifically Takashi Miike's contribution, "Box")

Book: House of Leaves

[XemaSab]

4. House of Leaves

sounds like a book I would REALLY like.

I have not heard of the film.

Thanks for the suggestions! :hi:

[ghostsofgiants]

5. Hoise of Leaves is pretty much my favourite book, I think you'd really dig it.

And Three Extremems is an Asian horror anthology. Three short films by three different directors. Miike's "Box" is very, very good. The other two are good, but not great.

[yellowdogintexas]

6. OK, here are a few"

Movies:

I Capture The Castle
The Painted Veil
The Lost City
Keeping Mum
Victor, Victoria
The Great Race

Books:

The Joyous Season
The Dante Club
The Source
Mila 18
The Kite Runner