Music
BRMC!!!! Coldplay, The Dandy Warhols, The White Stripes, The Raconteurs, Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Verve, Jet, Drowning Girl, ...
Films
Many.. my favourite: "Frida", "A Very Long Engagement", "Le Temps Qui Reste", "Brokeback Mountain", "Walk The Line" "From Dusk Till Dawn":-)
Books
"Crime and Punishment" "White Nights" F. Dostoevsky
"The Master and Margarita" M.Bulgakov
Shows
Comments
Here is a beginning book list:
Ancients
Homer - "Iliad", "Odyssey"
Plato - "The Apology", "The Republic"
Aristotle - "Poetics", "Ethics", "Politics"
Augustine - "Confessions", "City of God"
Medieval & Renaissance
Beowulf
Magna Charta
Aquinas - "Summa Theologica"
Dante - "The Divine Comedy"
Chaucer - "The Canterbury Tales"
Thomas a Kempis - "On the Imitation of Christ"
Leonardo da Vinci - "Notebooks"
Machiavelli - "The Prince"
Thomas More - "Utopia"
Shakespeare - various works but key are "Hamlet", "Romeo & Juliet", "MacBeth" & "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Enlightenment
DeCartes - "Discourse on Method"
Hobbes - "Leviathan"
Milton - "Paradise Lost", "Paradise Regained"
Bunyan - "Pilgrim’s Progress"
Swift - "Gulliver’s Travels"
Hume - "An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding"
Adam Smith - "Wealth of Nations"
Modern
Hamilton, Madison & Jay - "The Federalist Papers"
Gibbon - "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"
Jane Austen - "Pride and Prejudice"
Alexis de Tocqueville - "Democracy in America"
Charles Darwin - "Origin of Species"
Hentry Thoreau - "On Civil Disobedience"
Fyodor Dostoyevsky - "Brothers Karamazov"
CS Lewis - everything!!
Orwell - "Animal Farm", "1984"
Solzhenitsyn - "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch"
I hope this list comes in useful! Life is too short and time is too precious to waste time reading second rate books!! I read all of them already!!!
Best of luck, Dave a/k/a "Bam Bam"
Dobry rano (poranny) stonce blask!!!
Good morning, sunshine!
Bam Bam, married to a Polska Princess