Summer Reading

Diplomat · #1 06-07-2005, 10:44 PM

All right,

Anyone reading anything interesting this summer? Usually I grab a bunch of things around this time and try to have them all read by September 1st. I usually shoot for 8-10 books over the summer, but this year my list is pretty short:

1. Fathers and Sons by Turgenev
2. The Grifters by Thompson
3. East of Eden by Steinbeck
4. Against the Gods by Bernstein

That's it. Anyone reading anything interesting?

-Diplomat

tbach24 · #2 06-07-2005, 10:46 PM

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
(insert some classic American literature I havne't decided yet [suggestions?])
Harry Potter 6
Founding Fathers

tbach24 · #3 06-07-2005, 11:26 PM

If I get done with those I'd like to read "Mysterious Incidents of a Dog" or w/e it's called and "Tipping Point"

Reef · #4 06-07-2005, 11:12 PM

Frankenstein
A Child called It
anything by Isaac Asimov

Ulysses · #5 06-07-2005, 11:22 PM

My last two:

Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Hollywood Animal by Joe Eszterhas

My next two:

Stranger Than Fiction by Chuck Palahniuk
Ugly Americans by Ben Mezrich

sfer · #6 06-08-2005, 12:06 AM

Like everyone I know read The Life of Pi. Like everyone I know hated The Life of Pi. Me too.

Ulysses · #7 06-08-2005, 12:13 AM

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Like everyone I know read The Life of Pi. Like everyone I know hated The Life of Pi. Me too.

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Weird. I and everyone I know liked it.

Diplomat · #8 06-08-2005, 12:16 AM

It took a while to gain momentum, but wasn't bad. Wouldn't call it fantastic though.

-Diplomat

sfer · #9 06-08-2005, 10:40 AM

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It took a while to gain momentum, but wasn't bad. Wouldn't call it fantastic though.

-Diplomat

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I had the opposite reaction. I liked the first 80 or so pages and was then bored to tears, and then aggravated.

turnipmonster · #10 06-08-2005, 10:10 AM

I didn't hate life of pi. except for maybe the part where it went all x-files.