Summer Reading

[Sufficient]

I'm starting some summer reading today ... leisurely of course. Here's my first batch of books ... I'll let you guys know how I like them afterwards I guess. Lemme know what you guys recommend.

I also figure it'd be cool to start writing down all the books I've ever read (starting from today).

1) The Last Juror - John Grisham
2) The Human Stain - Philip Roth
3) A Widow For One Year - John Irving
4) Sarah - Orson Scott Card
5) Baudolino - Umberto Eco

I've read stuff by JG, JI, and OSC ... Grisham's stuff gets really repetitive, but I figured I'd give this one a try since I've read almost all his stuff. Irving is amazing in "A Prayer For Owen Meany" <-- will become your favorite book. OSC also wrote one of my favorite books ... "Ender's Game" ... and since I already know bout Sarah from the Bible (OT), I'd figure give his Bible-fiction book a try.

As for Roth ... I think this might be a movie ... I don't remember for sure ... but it seemed like a good book since it's a national bestseller. I've heard good things bout Eco's stuff from the Brown camp (Da Vinci Code etc).

[Troll King]

Have you read Irving's The World According to Garp? Or perhaps seen the movie? The novel is one of my favourites, along with Owen Meany, but the film is great too and is one of Robin Williams' earliest filmwork (pre-Dead Poets), and one of his better performances.

[Sufficient]

Have you read Irving's The World According to Garp? Or perhaps seen the movie? The novel is one of my favourites, along with Owen Meany, but the film is great too and is one of Robin Williams' earliest filmwork (pre-Dead Poets), and one of his better performances.

Nope I haven't ... but I will definitely take a look. Thanks TK.

[colony]

im reading the following over the summer:

Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart
Dan Brown: Da Vinci Code
Robert Greene: The 48 Laws of Power

and ill take a gander at ender's game.

[dchao]

im reading the following over the summer:

Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart
Dan Brown: Da Vinci Code
Robert Greene: The 48 Laws of Power

and ill take a gander at ender's game.

I've read the first two and they're quite good.

I'm reading:
A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
The Rule of Four - Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason
and some AP Euro reading

[qan]

Reading Nabokov's Bend Sinister, Dostoevsky's The Idiot, and Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. It's a Russian summer, baby.

[Sleepy Weasel]

A read a book called "My Name is Asher Lev" which was pretty good. I picked it up when I left college and one of my roommates had left it in our place. It was about some Jewish kid with amazing artistic talent and his struggles growing up in a very strict Jewish family that saw such things as drawing as foolishness. I normally don't read stuff like that, but it was quite good actually.

[Jerome Scuggs]

Have you read Irving's The World According to Garp? Or perhaps seen the movie? The novel is one of my favourites, along with Owen Meany, but the film is great too and is one of Robin Williams' earliest filmwork (pre-Dead Poets), and one of his better performances.

I read that book 3-4 years ago (found it in my closet), it was fucking amazing. Recently re-read it (the first time was in 8th grade) and it's brilliant, besides being overtly funny.

Melufa and I hung out at barnes and noble and he suggested reading a book called The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdee (spelling?)

[Sufficient]

Reading Nabokov's Bend Sinister, Dostoevsky's The Idiot, and Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. It's a Russian summer, baby.

One Day In The Life of Ivan Denisovich is a great short read. I've heard great things about The Brothers Karamazov ... check that out (I haven't read it tho).

im reading the following over the summer:

Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart
Dan Brown: Da Vinci Code
Robert Greene: The 48 Laws of Power

and ill take a gander at ender's game.

In HS I think we had some special video conference with the author Chinua Achebe since we read it in English class. Decent book.

[Vykromond]

in response to the last comment, qan: i would definitely recommend going for 'the idiot' BEFORE 'brothers karamazov,' although if you already did brothers then there's no going back, i guess.

[NaiLed]

Have you read Irving's The World According to Garp? Or perhaps seen the movie? The novel is one of my favourites, along with Owen Meany, but the film is great too and is one of Robin Williams' earliest filmwork (pre-Dead Poets), and one of his better performances.

cool, thanks. I bought TWATG on Amazon just now. Once I finish the Wilt Series (Tom Sharpe) I'll start reading it

[ZeUs!!]

My summer reading

[Troll King]

If you read and like Garp, you must see the movie. There were a couple of changes, naturally, but it sticks true to the feeling of the book. Plus John Irving has a cameo as the wrestling coach.

[Tone]

i recommend

David Icke - Infinite Love is the only truth: Everything else is an illusion

Bart Kosko - Fuzzy Future

Ray Kurzweil - Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever

Alice in Wonderland and the World Trade Center Disaster

The New Pearl Harbor

[Adman]

I just finished reading the DaVinci Code and am now reading the book that happened before that - Angels and Demons.

The Davinci code was definately one of those pick up book that you never want to set it down. I hadn't read a book in years. I read it over the long weekend and wow i really enjoyed it. It seems my life has slown down a bit working 55 hour weeks kind of does that to a person) so i don't spend as much time on the computer. It's usually out in the early evening doing something active -- frisbee, baseball, something of that sort, and then home for relaxing and reading.

Pick up a book read for half hour and zonk out

Anyways i recommend reading the davinci code.