summer reading

[Arienette]

when i was in elementary school, my mother used to make my sister and i read in the summer when we were off from school, just an hour or so a day. we resisted her efforts so much that we made up games that we could play instead, and my sister ended up fracturing a lumbar as a result. there was no more summer reading time after that.

anywho, now that i'm older and slightly wiser, i've been embracing my summer vacation from school as an opportunity to do some well deserved extracuricular reading. right now, i'm reading john irving's "a prayer for owen meany," which is excellent thus far. since school ended a little over a month ago, i've read kurt vonnegut's "breakfast of champions", alex garland's "the beach", mario puzo's "the godfather", and jack kerouac's "visions of gerard".

what are you reading right now?

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[Tall_James]

I finished the new Harry Potter book. I will be picking up "Cat's Cradle" for Vonnegut for like the 40th time. And I may pick up the new book by Tom Robbins.

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[grlNIN]

Switch off between The Vampire Lestat and The Hitchhikers Guide to the Universe.

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[McNabbShouldDie]

In my school summer reading is mandatory. They send you a list of books and you have to read one and do a project on it when you go back to school in september. Thats how is has been since 6th grade for me but im going into my sophomore year of highschool and I have to read 2 whole books, yes 2! For both of the books you have to make notes and write down info on the books and for 1 book there is a test and for the other a project.

Last year i didnt have english until the 2nd semester so I didnt do my summer reading until January.

what are you reading right now?

Nothing right now. But I have to read 2 books over the summer and I already picked the two books im GOING TO read. The Invisible Man by HG Wells and Ghost Soldiers by Hampton Sides.

If anyone has read those books I wouldnt mind being PM'ed a review(I dont want to clot up Arienette's thread.)

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[Arienette]

Switch off between The Vampire Lestat and The Hitchhikers Guide to the Universe.i'll never understand how people read more than one thing at a time. i tried that once, and i ended up not finishing either one.

both great books, though.

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[mikeyboy]

I'm reading this:

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I'm not that far into it, but so far It's not really grabbing me.

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[AppleBoy]

I'm half way through 'Robinson Crusoe' by Daniel defoe. 'Animal Farm' and '1984', both by George Orwell, are on deck. I'll be home recovering from surgery next week so if my face isn't too swollen and I can get my glasses on, I should be able to make some progress.

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[carguy]

I'm reading "A Brief History of Time" again. I've read it three times and still don't get it. I'm also killing time with "The Odessy" and "The Iliad."

[Uncle Smokey]

John Le Carre's The Constant Gardener, and when that gets stuffy, I slip back into re-reading Don Delillo's Underworld or Mao II. The Time of Our Singing, by Richard Powers is worth the time too, as is Faster, by James Gleick.

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[Recyclerz]

oooooh Books! I'm in.

Just finished: The Nanny Diaries.
Not bad. Anything that mocks the grasping rich is OK in my book.

Reading now: Lovely Bones
So far - great.


Mikeyboy - I hear ya on the Clash book. Although the author's heart is in the right place, that book reads like a glacier steers.

Uncle Smokey - You can't go wrong with Delillo. Except The Body Artist. Maybe.




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[JustJon]

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Universe.
Is that anything like the Hitchhiker's Guide to the <B>Galaxy</B>?


Read Catcher in the Rye, then the new Harry Potter. Finished it last week and am catching up on comic books and trade paperbacks right now.

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[SatCam]

I have a gay summer reading list from school. SO FUCKING GAY!!! They take the fun out of reading.

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[grlNIN]

Ok sorry my mistake, thanks for calling me out on it and making me look like a complete tool JON!

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[Uncle Smokey]

Recyclerz - The Body Artist and Cosmopolis...full of great Delillo sentences, but you're right, hard to take...some of the early stuff is like that too, although the first page of Great Jones Street redeems alot of it.
Michael Ondaatje, Anil's Ghost, read it in May, but that counts for summer reading right? And for a nice light read, Michael Connely's Chasing the Dime kicks ass.

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[jax]

Just finished the latest Harry Potter and coincidentally I just gave 'a prayer for owen meany' to my dad for his birthday along with Raymond Chandler's 'The Big Sleep". I'm about to start 'The Dante Club' by Matthew Pearl.

[phixion]

i just finished reading "Sphere" for the 3rd time. and i just started "Xenocide" again. im in need of a new series, thatll keep me occupied for the rest of the summer. i cant read the ender/ bean saga again, i did that last summer.

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[The Chairman]

i'll never understand how people read more than one thing at a time.

Guilty as charged. I like to mix it up, one or two good works of literature, something historical non-fiction, and something scientific.

Just finished Jonathan Franzen's penultimate book, Strong Motion, after really enjoying The Corrections, and was not disappointed. Other three were DeLillo's Cosmopolis (wonderful to see a few DeLillo fans on the board)...and was sorry to find he still hasn't added a great great great American opus to his oeuvre. Underworld was brilliant but in need of a more compelling story; he took several steps back with Cosmopolis. But.... jejune plots aside... for my money he's still America's Best writer. Salt by Jonathan Kurlansky was quickie non fiction. The other book was Francis Bacon: A Retrospective; I finally got around to getting and reading this excellent book on my favorite artist of the last 50 years.

I'm currently working on Mario Vargas Llosa's Feast of The Goat and V.S. Naipaul's The Night Watchman's Occurrence Book and then will dive into the eagerly awaited Freedom Evolves by Daniel Dennett, a former professor. The one I'm really waiting for next will be DFW's Everything and More, which is slated for a 10/03 release.

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[Yerdaddy]

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Just read "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" by Mark Twain. Fucking hysterical! And brilliant, of course. "Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-65," part two in a 3 part historical biography of MLK and the Civil Rights movement. And "Juggs".

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[Furtherman]

Read "Rule By Secrecy" by Jim Marrs and you'll see the world in a whole new way.

[Wormwood]

Dangling in the Tournefortia - Charles Bukowski

He's one of the few poets I enjoy reading when I have 10 or 15 minutes of free time.

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[Se7en]

The problem with these type of threads is that it's the perfect excuse to pretentiously show how highbrow one's reading can be.

"Oh, I'm reading Vonnegut. Of course, I've read all of his books 294 times already, but really, what else is out there?"

I'm NOT reading Vonnegut or Faulkner or anything like that.

I'm reading John Keegan's "The First World War", and "Yellow" by Don Lee, and Rex Stout's "And Be A Villain", and Clive Barker's "Weaveworld", and I'm liking it.


alex garland's "the beach",


That's a good one. I also recommend Garland's novel "Tesseract", although it's a bit more bleak and less entertaining than "The Beach."

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[Tall_James]

The problem with these type of threads is that it's the perfect excuse to pretentiously show how highbrow one's reading can be.

"Oh, I'm reading Vonnegut. Of course, I've read all of his books 294 times already, but really, what else is out there?"

If I wanted to act highbrow...I would have never admitted to reading the new Harry Potter book.

Sue me for liking Vonnegut. And if you disagree with me...don't be pissy about it.

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[golfcourseguy]

I'm just finishing up the new Harry Potter (I read my son the first two ,when he saw me reading the new one he wanted to start up Prisoner of Azkaban to catch up, so I read him a chapter a night ).

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[mikeyboy]

Mikeyboy - I hear ya on the Clash book. Although the author's heart is in the right place, that book reads like a glacier steers.


I picked it up quite a while ago and started it and put it down. Recently, I read two great articles on the early Clash in UK music magazines, so I decided to give it another chance.

I think I'm going to bail again.

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[Yerdaddy]

admitted to reading the new Harry Potter book.

Ha! Ha!

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[kc7586]

im reading the virgin suicides by jeffery eugenides, in the forests of the night by amelia atwater-rhodes, and vampires:the occult truth by konstantinos. i really should just finish them all, but i switch back and forth like i have ADD. oh well i have all summer to finish them all. oh and i also have to read the invisible man by h. g. wells too, i dont wanna read that pos, i always hate the mandatory reading for school.

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[jax]

If I wanted to act highbrow...I would have never admitted to reading the new Harry Potter book."

YES

I read just about anything -- low, middle and high brow. Funny thing Vonegut used to (may still) hang out on the deck of my old office building in mid town and I've never read any of his books. I always meant to.



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[Se7en]

Sue me for liking Vonnegut. And if you disagree with me...don't be pissy about it.


No, I'm not referring to you specifically.

I just had flashbacks to previous threads like these, in which Dan from Hoboken would drone on about Vonnegut so.

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[Wormwood]

virgin suicides by jeffery eugenides

Great book, great movie.

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I just had flashbacks to previous threads like these, in which Dan from Hoboken would drone on about Vonnegut so.


Drone? That sounds too smart. YOU'RE ONE OF THEM!!!!!!!!!!

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[The Chairman]

The problem with these type of threads is that it's the perfect excuse to pretentiously show how highbrow one's reading can be.

It's unfortunate you are so insecure in yourself that you would interpret someone's literary tastes in such a condescending manner.

You find me pretentious for liking postmodernist fiction like DeLillo and David Foster Wallace or great authors like Mario Vargas Llosa and V.S. Naipaul? I don't judge you or anyone by their literary tastes, but find it offensive ...check that... sad....that you would call me pretentious as a result of the authors and types of books I like.

Personally, I can't stand Vonnegut and read the latest Harry Potter just to see what all the hype was about and found the book to be the worst piece of shit I ever read in my life. But I don't judge people as a result of it. I hope whatever you read and continue to read gives you as much pleasure as what I read. I also hope that you get over your apparent opinion that erudite people who enjoy something more challenging than John Grisham and Nelson DeMille must me pretentious.

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[Furtherman]

Finally, a highbrow post! I was beginning to feel this was all beneath me. My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low-grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a 15 year old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he would drink, he would make outrageous claims, like he invented the question mark. Sometimes, he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy - the sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. My childhood was typical: summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring, we'd make meat helmets. When I was insolent, I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds. Pretty standard, really.

[billyio]

I'm faithfully reading my Wheelocks Latin for school and also reading Jerusalem Delivered by Torquato Tasso.


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[JustJon]

My latest book:

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Sure, sequels never live up to the originals, but I think this one is equally riveting.

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[Tall_James]

My latest book:

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Sure, sequels never live up to the originals, but I think this one is equally riveting.

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The sad thing is that this is already in pre-production as a buddy film starring Owen Wilson and Jimmy Fallon. Hopefully someone will nuke that soundstage.

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[jax]

CK- you should have started with the first Harry Potter book.

[Alice S. Fuzzybutt]

To be honest, my 10 years in publishing has curbed my enthusiasm for reading. By day, I deal with such dry topics such as, engineering and accounting. The economics and business books are a bit more interesting. I do freelance proofreading on the side for a law publisher. I delve into such FASCINATING topics as administrative law, estate planning and elder law, and construction law (Intellectual property can be interesting).

So, I read for a living.

The last books I read wereKISS and Tell and The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band by Motley Crue.

I read People magazine occasionally and
Get Fuzzy (http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/getfuzzy/index.html) regularly.

But, I have been wanting to to re-read a bunch of Margret Atwood books.

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[El Mudo]

I'm kinda stuck between three books right now. I was reading "A time for Trumpets" by Charles MacDonald, then started reading this book "We Came to Fight" about the 5th New York Veteran Volunteer Regiment 1863-65, and i just got a book i'm really into now, "1918" by Gregor Dallas about the aftermath of the Great War...

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[JustJon]

I stopped into a bookstore today and picked up my new book: Battle Royale

Junior high school kids killing each other. fun.

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[grlNIN]

I read People magazine occasionally and
Get Fuzzy (http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/getfuzzy/index.html) regularly.



Alice ontop of reading Get Fuzzy you have a great Clash song as your quote, you have yet to disappoint me.

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Besides the Dead Sea Scrolls in the original Aramaeic:

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"Its not About the Bike" excellent book about Lance Armstrong's life

"The Hunt for Bin Laden"
"The Gangs of New York" interesting
"Jarhead" about gulf war I Marine :8|:

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