A meme stolen from ghostpaw

The Reading List

Copy the list into your journal. Italicise a book if you've read it, bold it if you own it, then add three books that you love to the list.

1 - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintainance - Robert M Pirsig
2 - The Velveteen Rabbit - Margery Williams
3 - Chocolat - Joanne Harris
4 - The Prophet - Khalil Ghibran
5 - On the Road - Jack Kerouac
6 - Dracula - Bram Stoker
7 - A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
8 - The Naked Ape - Desmond Morris
9 - The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
10 - Don Quixote - Cervantes

My additions:

11 - The Werewolves of London - Brian Stableford
12 - Neverness - David Zindell
13 - The Dreams In The Witch House - H. P. Lovecraft (Yeah, I know its a short story and you would actually need to buy the Lovecraft Omnibus 1 to get it. But as its one of my personal favourites I thought I would single it out for special attention)

Ok people. Start adding books and showing off how utterly pretentious intellectual you all are :-)
And also hopefully you'll all give me some ideas of new books to pick up.

Fascinating

I have a feeling that this may interest cyb0rfox.

Police in Paris have discovered a fully equipped cinema-cum-restaurant in a large and previously uncharted cavern underneath the capital's chic 16th arrondissement.

Officers admit they are at a loss to know who built or used one of Paris's most intriguing recent discoveries.

"We have no idea whatsoever," a police spokesman said.

"There were two swastikas painted on the ceiling, but also celtic crosses and several stars of David, so we don't think it's extremists. Some sect or secret society, maybe. There are any number of possibilities.

After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.

Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.

Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.

Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

Full story here.

I love the image of the black clad masses of Paris sitting in an illegal cinema, smoking cloves, drinking Absinthe and watching classic Noir movies.