I've had a nice couchsurfing experience when I first discovered this great community! Céline Jauregui hosted me in París, at Le Quartier Latin et la Rue Mouffetard!

Books--> "Crime & the Punishment" Dostoievski, "El Túnel" Ernesto Sábato, "For Whom the bells toll" Hemingway, "The Sound & the Fury" Faulkner,"The Trial" Kafka, All Hermann Hesse books, Albert Camus... Music--> American rock as Wilco, Springsteen, Drive by truckers, Neil Young... And many more! (Coldplay, Kings of Leon, Antony & the Johnsons, Bon Iver, Calexico, Pearl Jam, Pink Floyd, Damien Rice, Yann Tiersen, Wim Mertens...) Films--> Godfather, Into the Wild, Amelie, The Trial (Orson Wells), Ciudad de Dios, Brazil, Un Prophète...