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Yes, I know. Nobody wants to know this. Why the heck are your reading this page anyway? ;-)

Books I enjoyed...

• Carter, Angela: The Bloody Chamber
  Short stories by Angela Carter based on European fairy tales, among them "The Company of Wolves".
   
• Carter, Angela: Wise Children
  A strange book, very "dry" humour (sic!). Everyone who knows elderly people and loves Shakespeare will love this book.
   
• Bradbury, Ray: Fahrenheit 451
  I love well-written Science Fiction. Truffaut's legendary movie is a classic, the book is better.
   
• Clarke, Arthur C.: 2001
  Well, this time the movie was better, but the book is still great.
   
• Adams, Douglas: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
  No comment.
   
• Adams, Douglas: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (Dirk Gentlys holistische Detektei)
  Not quite as funny as the Hitchhiker's Guide, instead a bit more intellectual (but just a bit). I like this novel even more.
   
• Adams, Richard: Watership Down
  A great book. Can't be described in one sentence. Get it, read it, and you will understand.
   
• Douglas, Adam: The Beast Within
  A non-fictional book about the history of therianthropes in the European cultural realm.
   
• Strieber, Whitley: Wolfen
  A horror novel only on the first look. In fact an intelligent critic of modern society. Get it now!
   
• Strieber, Whitley: The Wild (Bestie)
  A novel with horror elements about a shape shifter. An interesting and excellently written new interpretation of the werewolf myth.
   
• Farmer, Philip José: Wolf, Iron and Moth
  A short story. Great transformation.
   
• Transformation Story Archives
  Transformations into animals, mystical being, the other gender...
   

Music I listen to...

• Enya (everything!)
  Words cannot describe her beautiful music.
   
• Clannad
  Sister, brothers and uncles of Enya... Everything from Irish Folk to Rock.
   
• Máire Brennan
  Enyas older sister, member of Clannad.
   
• Andreas Loefke
  Very beautiful Irish instrumental music (celtic harp).
   
• Wolfstone
  Scottish folk rock
   
• Adiemus: Adiemus
  Ethno-Pop influenced by Jazz and Classic. Fine music!
   
• Pink Floyd
  The Wall, Dark Side of the Moon, The Divison Bell... Need to tell you more?
   
• Kate Bush
  Well-told stories and great music.
   
• Dire Straits: Money for Nothing
  Who doesn't know them?
   
• Anne Clark
  Poems recited to electronic music. A bit weird at first, but very beautiful.
   
• The Nits
  What's that? Pop? Avantgarde? Or both?
   
• R.E.M.
  "New Adventures in HiFi"? No, the same they've always done. And that's a Good Thing [tm].
   
• Fury in the Slaughterhouse: pure life!
  Hannover's R.E.M. ;-)
   
• Element of Crime: Weißes Papier
  German pop poets...
   
• Alphaville: The Breathtaking Blue
  Their third album, released 1989. Regretable not very successful.
   
• Paul Roland: Dance Macabre / Cabinet of Curiosities
  Very dark lyrics, mostly sentimental music, spoooky!
   
• Smetana: My Fatherland
   
• Delius: Orchestral Works
   
• Ravel: Bolero and Le Waltz
   
• Verdi: all the operas, especially Aida
  Sorry, I love his stuff. And I hate Mozart. Period.
   
• Puccini: all the operas
  Puccini's work I love even more. And I still hate Mozart.
   

• 2001
  A master piece, IMHO the best movie of all times.
   
• Streifen
  A breathtaking masterpiece by animation artist kyo.
   
• Princess Mononoke
  Another master piece, Japanese animation, second place on my list of the best movies of all times.
   
• The Company of Wolves
  A rather strange fairy tale movie after Angela Carter's short story. Little Red Riding Hood quite different, demasking Grimm's perception of fairy tails. Well photographed, good special effects.
   
• Watership Down
  The first movie that made me cry. An animated version of Richard Adams' famous book. Great backgrounds, great music, but don't watch when you're already depressed.
   
• The Pink Panther
  Not Friz Freleng's cartoon series, the movie with Peter Sellers as the inspector.
   
• Cat People
  ...the remake mit Natassja Kinski. (yiff!)
   
• Ladyhawke
  With young Michele Pfeiffer and Ruttger Hauer as protagonists. Beautiful!
   
• Dragonheart
  Another fairy tale. The computer animated dragon is far better than the animation of Jurasic Park.
   
• American Werwolf (An American Werewolf in London)
  No comment... ;-). Just why do they shoot the protagonist in the end?
   
• Fahrenheit 451
  Though the book is better: The movie is still good.
   
• Marx Brothers: A Night at the Opera
  Music and comedy, what more can you wish for? Everything else is just a lame copy.