Soundtrack to a book?

Here's a question for my faithful readership: Have you ever been reading a book and listening to a record that seemed to match together perfectly, as if the music was somehow the soundtrack to the book? Respond by posting a comment.

I have two:
I was listening to Sun Kil Moon's "Ghosts of the Great Highway" a lot while I was devouring McCarthy's "All the Pretty Horses" and "The Crossing". The Mexican sounding flourishes of thirty-second note strums and lyrics about the Revolution and Pancho Villa fit those two books like a glove. The songs (including an instrumental or two) musically paint the landscape of the Mexican desert.











The other one has to do with a conversation I was having with Loretta the other day about a book we've both read called Geek Love. Pop fiction, best seller type. It's a story about a circus freak whose dad ran a travelling circus and bread little freaks of his own by feeding his wife poisons while pregnant. I remeber that while reading that book I was listening to Neutral Milk Hotel's classic "The Aeroplane Over the Sea". It's super psychadelic and has all kinds of freakish characters. He sings:"Two headed boy, all floating in glass, the sun it has passed, now it's blacker than black, I can hear as you tap on your jar." Tap on your jar? That's crazy! Great book. Classic, classic indie rock record. And they go so well together.










So the question is: Has there been a piece of music that has served as a soundtrack to a pice of literature you've read. Maybe you were reading and listening to them at the same point in your life. Or maybe the two just remind you of each other. Post a comment here!