Since i typically listen to music while I'm reading, sometimes a song that comes on during the book connects in my head to the plot line. Or I'll hear a song later on after finishing the book & my mind will associate the book plot with the plot of the song.
List of books/songs I've done that with:
We The Living, by Ayn Rand/Lisztomania, by Phoenix
(the "from the mess to the masses" line made me think of Kira wandering streets in Russia & dreaming about being an architect.
The Thief/The King of Attolia/The Queen of Attolia, Megan Whalen Turner/It's All Been Done, Barenaked Ladies-
(a bit of an unlikely match-up, since the book series takes place in a sort of ancient Greece setting, but the weird romance in the song reminds me of the weird love-saga between Eugenides & Attolia...cynical, but a realistic process.)
Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card/Fun & Games, Barenaked Ladies (again)
-Just paralleled the alien theme & the government being so flippant with the cadet's lives.
East of Eden,John Steinbeck/Hurtin' You, Ben Kweller
- After Una Hamilton dies & it hits Samuel Hamilton really hard & in turn it causes fault lines to form among the whole Hamilton family...that's what this song reminds me of about East of Eden ("you're the only one who can pull it through...", etc.)
Perhaps the oddest match-up of all? (I actually was listening to this album while reading the book) :
The Brother's Karamazov, Dostoevsky/This Ain't Goodbye, Train:
We were stars up in the sunlit sky
No one else could see
Neither of else ever thought to ask why
It wasn't meant to be
Maybe we were way too high
To ever understand
We were victims of all the foolish plans
We began to divide ...
Because between Katerina & Dmitri is basically that same dialogue. More how Katerina feels, like a victim of foolish plans they divided.
-Eitherways, how minds associate random things with other random things & connect them can be pretty fascinating...
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