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Can you name your top five books, movies, musicians, and websites besides Fluther?

Asked by shpadoinkle_sue (7188points) October 4th, 2010
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I saw this on another website and thought it was kinda neat. Especially since we have newer jellies. Pretty self explanitory, just name your top 5 books, movies, musicians, and websites other than fluther. If you have trouble deciding, go ahead and add a couple of extras. It can be your current favorites or all-time favorites, you decide.
Example –
Books:
1. The Tao of Pooh – Benjamin Hoff
2. 1984 – George Orwell
3. Where The Sidewalk Ends – Shel Silverstein
4. Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
5. The Big-Ass Book of Crafts – Mark Montano
Movies:
1. Some Like It Hot
2. Singing In the Rain
3. Army of Darkness
4. Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle
5. Blazing Saddles
6. Three Caballeros
7. The Pirate
8. Wet Hot American Summer
I couldn’t decide which 5. :)
Musicians:
1. AC/DC
2. The Pogues
3. Beastie Boys
4. Mama Cass
5. Good Lovelies
Most visited non-social network websites:
1. Etsy
2. Craftstylish
3. Youtube
4. FIQL
5. Modcloth

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poisonedantidote's avatar

Books:

1. Fight Club.
2. The hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy
3. Napalm and silly putty.
4. The black cloud
5. The entire “for dummies” collection.

Movies:

1. Fight Club
2. Ground hogs day
3. Star trek first contact
4. Reservoir Dogs
5. Casino

Musicians:

1. AC/DC (i salute you)
2. Queen
3. Meatloaf
4. Dj Ravine
5. Shania Twain

Most visited non social network websites: (this will be easy, checking google chrome most visited page)

1. Godaddy.com
2. Chess.com
3. Youtube.com
4. (cant be mentioned as will prob be moderated, hint: xxx)
5. Rslinks.org

BarnacleBill's avatar

Books:
1. Voices from a Century Before: The Clay- Field family letters
2. Hannah Coulter
3. The Good Journey
4. Middlemarch
5. Freedom

Movies:
1. Howard’s End
2. Now, Voyager
3. Stuntman
4. Any movie by Alfred Hitchcock
5. A League of Their Own

Musicians:
1. Talking Heads
2. The National
3. k.d. lang
4. Guggenheim Grotto
5. Cake

Most visited non-social network sites:
1. goodreads.com
2. ancestry.com
3. youtube.com
4. mcsweeneys.net
5. fool.com

Aesthetic_Mess's avatar

Books
~ The Outsiders
~ A Series of Unfortunate Events
~ A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
~ Maximum Ride
~ The Book Thief

Movies
~ Transformers
~ Transformers 2 :D
~ National Treasure 1 and 2
~ Hitch
~ 27 Dresses

Musicians
~ Bond
~ Escala
~ Black Violin
~ Christina Aguilera
~ Nickelback

Sites
~ darkroastedblend.com
~ ecofriend.org
~ stumbleupon.com
~ grooveshark.com
~ poodwaddle.com

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ipso's avatar

Movies
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Fight Club (1999)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
Fletch (1985)

Books
Darwin’s Dangerous Idea, by Daniel C. Dennett
Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov
The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Film Art – 6th edition, by David Bordwell
T.A.Z.

Bands
A Perfect Circle/Tool
Lamb of God
Meshuggah
Opeth
Autechre

Websites
Google (maybe 20:1 over any other site)
Wikipedia (always accessed via Google search (i.e. “something to look up wikipedia”)
MotoGP (during the season anyway)
IMDB
Netflix

Sport even better entertainment/category
Mountain biking
Road biking
Track days, motorcycle
Canyon carving, car/moto
Snowboarding

Seek's avatar

Books:
No. There is no possible way I could narrow it down to five books.
However, I’ll list the first five that pop into my head:
Lord of the Rings
The Mists of Avalon
The Phantom Tollbooth
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
The Brief History of the Dead

Movies:
Gladiator
The Shawshank Redemption
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
Rob Roy
Braveheart

Musicians:
No again. But I’ll try:
Loreena McKennitt
Opeth
Katatonia
Suicidal Tendencies
Enigma
Bill Douglas
Mychael and Jeff Danna

Websites:
This changes so often it’s ridiculous, but here you go:
StumbleUpon
“Hyperbole and a Half”: http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com “Ahm a spaghatta nahdle!”
Why Won’t God Heal Amputees? though it’s kind of sad that the mailbag broke. _
Asian-Horror-Movies.com
Nowhere in the Bible does Jesus have a sword fight.
And when he updates it, Adnoxious

nailpolishfanatic's avatar

Movies
Mean Girls
Roll Bounce
Karate Kid
A Walk To Remember
Make it Happen

Books
Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone I just finished reading it a week ago and am going to start the second book this week
Forever – Judy Blume
-There are other books in Icelandic and I can’t remember their names :(_

Bands – and also single artists.
Lil Wayne
Eminem
Snoop Dogg
Young Money
30 Seconds To Mars

Websites
YOUTUBE!
the site were I have to check my school homework.
GOOGLE
FACEBOOK
site were I watch tv shows

TexasDude's avatar

Books
1. Perks of Being a Wallflower
2. The Lovely Bones
3. Way of the Sufi
4. The Fountainhead
5. Lion in the Whitehouse
(The Screwtape Letters is a close number 6)

Bands
1. AFI
2. Stars
3. mewithoutYou
4. The Arcade Fire
5. The Cure
(These change a lot, but AFI has always been at the top)

Websites
1. OPERATORchan
2. Arfcom Curio and Relic Forum
3. 4chan.org (/x/, /k/, and /wg/, usually)
4. The Luger Forums
5. Authonomy

Movies
1. Trick r Treat
2. Fido
3. Youth in Revolt
4. Red Dawn
5. Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark

Vunessuh's avatar

Books
The Painted Bird.
Go Ask Alice.
Fast Food Nation.
A Child Called It.
Story.

Movies
Requiem of a Dream
Drop Dead Gorgeous
The Machinist
City of God
Inglourious Basterds
Best in Show

Musicians
Johnny Cash
Muse
Kings of Leon
Nine Inch Nails
Snow Patrol
OneRepublic
Evanescence

Websites
StumbleUpon
Netflix
Google
Youtube
IMDb

tragiclikebowie's avatar

Books first 5 I could think of
– The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
– Cod I adore any Mark Kurlanksy books
– Siddhartha
– Anthem
– The Blade Itself and the rest of the trilogy

Movies
– The Princess Bride
– In Search of Shakespeare
– Wayne’s World
– Just Visiting
– Braveheart

Music oh crap this is gonna be a challenge
– Travis
– Queen
– David Bowie
– John Lennon and the Beatles
– Paul Simon
– Damien Rice
– Teitur
yeah I can’t pick 5

Websites
– Netflix
– Youtube
– Flickr
Ancestry.com
– Etsy

Berserker's avatar

Books;
Trainspotting
The Book of Shadows
Watership Down
Bram Stoker’s Dracula
The Black Castle

Movies;
Sleepy Hollow
Halloween II
Corpse Bride
Dawn of the Dead (Original.)
Trainspotting

Musicians;
Funker Vogt
VNV Nation
Cradle of Filth
Metallica
Econoline Crush

As for sites, I don’t really got no favourites.

muppetish's avatar

I had to make the lists even. It would have bugged me otherwise.

Books:
I realize choosing collections is cheating. Neener, neener.

1. Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
2. The Metamorphses by Ovid (as translated by Allen Mandelbaum)
3. The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll
4. The Complete Calvin and Hobbes by Bill watterson
5. Jim Henson: The Works – The Art, the Magic, the Imagination by Christopher Finch
6. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Movies:

1. Sherlock, Junior
2. Shawshank Redemption
3. Arsenic and Old Lace
4. Duck Soup
5. Singin’ in the Rain
6. Little Miss Sunshine (shh! it makes me happy!)

Musicians:
According to last.fm.

1. The White Stripes
2. Nick Drake
3. Bob Dylan
4. Arcade Fire
5. No Doubt
6. DeVotchKa
7. Red Hot Chili Peppers
8. The Velvet Underground

Most visited non-social network websites”

1. Wikipedia
2. Google / Gmail
3. YouTube
4. IMDB
5. Netflix
6. JSTOR / Project Muse

TexasDude's avatar

@fundevogel, Flannery O’Conner is one of my heroes. oh yeah, and you should add me on librarything.

WillWorkForChocolate's avatar

BOOKS
I can’t name 5 fave books, so I’ll go with authors:
Dean Koontz
Karen Marie Moning
Nora Roberts
JK Rowling
Tolkien

MOVIES
Monty Python
Princess Bride
Braveheart
Nightmare Before Christmas
Gone with the Wind
Harry Potter
Lord of the Rings
Pirates of the Carribean
Twilight
(couldn’t stick to 5)

MUSICIANS
Muse
Ozzie
Metallica
Nirvana
Eminem
Bat for Lashes
AC/DC
(I seem to have a problem making up my mind)

WEBSITES
Pogo.com
Youtube
Netflix
IMDb
itmademyday.com

fundevogel's avatar

@Fiddle_Playing_Creole_Bastard Added! I haven’t read any of her other stuff yet, because I am a book-glutton and have way too much on my reading list. Southern gothic’s my favorite genre of fiction though so I’m sure to get back to her.

Michael_Huntington's avatar

Books
Only Death Is Real (A must have for any Hellhammer/early CF fans)
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories
The Stranger
To Kill a Mockingbird
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Movies
The Seventh Seal
Ebola Syndrome
Hard Boiled
The Commitments
Dead Alive

Musicians
Maiden
Hellhammer/Early Celtic Frost/Triptykon
Carcass (before Heartwork)
Dissection (before Reinkaos)
Slayer (Up to Seasons in the abyss)

Websites
Daily Rotten
Ebay
Sidereel
Fright-rags
Explosm

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jeffgoldblumsprivatefacilities's avatar

Books:
1. Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
2. The Stand – Stephen King
3. The Monkey Wrench Gang – Edward Abbey
4. The Snow Leopard – Peter Matthiessen
5. Out of Africa – Isak Dinesen

Movies:
1. Gladiator
2. Shaun of the Dead
3. The Thing
4. Blood Diamond
5. Michael Clayton

Music:
1. Thrice
2. Brand New
3. Led Zeppelin
4. Tom Waits
5. If These Trees Could Talk

Websites:
1. Hulu
2. IMDB
3. Flickr
4. Youtube
5. Last.fm

tearsxsolitude's avatar

Books;
1.Bottled Up by Jaye Murray
2.Unwind by Neil Shusterman
3.Boy Toy by Barry Lyga
4.Hero Type by Barry Lyga
5.Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare
6.Boot Camp by Todd Strasser
7.Chaos Walking by Patrick Ness
8.You Don’t Know Me by David Klass

MacBatman31's avatar

I know this is super old, but I like the question. So, here goes:
Books:
1. The Last Lecture- Randy Pausche
2. Decoded- Jay-Z
3. Human All Too Human
4. The Philosophy of Batman
5. Invictus
Movies:
1. The Hangover
2. Fight Club
3. Inception
4. George Carlin’s- It’s Bad For Ya
5. Chris Rock- Bigger and Blacker
Music:
1. Dropkick Murphy’s
2. Flogging Molly
3. Seven Nations
4. Macklemore
5. Michael Buble
Websites
1. YouTube
2. Facebook
3. WorldRugbyShop.com
4. eBay
5. USARugby.org

Shinimegami's avatar

Movies: “Desu Noto”, 1&2; “Kunoichi Ninpo Cho San-Dentetsu…”; Shin Babura to Onnatachi” to “Suitorumu”!
Websites: CDJapan; YesAsia; YouTube; Twitter to Answerbag!
Singers: Takeda Kumiko; Shao Yin-Yin; Nanao Nao; Nomoto Miho to Watashi (Myself)!
Books: “Mono no Ke”; “Hung Lo Meng”; “47 Ronin”; “Yabu no Naka” to “Sekai no Rekodo”!

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