I have an mp3 player that I pretty much just use while doing yardwork. A few months ago I went to the dollar store looking for presents for the kids and bought them "the Wind in the Willows" on audio CD. They listen to it in bed while going to sleep. While there I bought "The War of The Worlds" by H.G. Wells on audio for myself. I've heard the Orson Wells radio broadcast, and I've seen the Tom Cruise movie, but that's it. I thought it would be cool to hear the original. It's been sitting in my desk drawer all this time.

So I finally put it on my mp3 player this morning. Only the file it was put in also had Megadeth's Greatest Hits. On the player each file started with a number. So chapter one was followed by Megadeth's song 1, and chapter 2 was followed by the next Megadeth song and so on. Chapter, megadeth song, chapter megadeth song...

IT WAS AWESOME!!!!

The end of each chapter is a kind of a cliffhanger...totally enhanced when you hear heavy metal music after final words like, "the second craft had landed" or "the missle was headed right for us". And me being weird like I am, I listened to parallels between the song and the chapter, and there almost always were some. (Songs like "Hangar 18" and "Holy Wars" for example.)

The chapters are VERY short. I'm thinking about doing a series here on the blog where I summarize a chapter, then share with you a few Megadeth lyrics that I heard, so you can experience what I experienced, sort of. (So far, I'm on chapter 7).

But who knows, I may never get around to it. I like the idea though.

Have any of you read "War of the Worlds"?

Have any of you read (or listened to) a book and created your own soundtrack for it?

Mine happened totally randomly but I still feel like the creator, kind of a mad scientist. (Cue loud guitar music here.)