Summer Reading

[MalcolmJID]

Next summer I will hopefully be reading Harry Potter & The... "7th book, yo!"

 

[iSaint]

The Color Purple - i havent started this one yet, but i'm pretty sure its going to be really depressing, my brother read the first page and said it had something to do with some girl who gets raped by her father . i'm not looking foreward to it.

It has a good ending. It's a wonderful book. Watch the movie after you read it. Then head up to NYC and see the Broadway play.

Seriously, it's a great book.

 

[latergator116]

It's not weird.

A little forced and misogynistic, I'll grant you. But then, it's Steinbeck.

Blows my mind that Steinbeck and Woolf were writing at about the same time and more people read/are reading Steinbeck.

*wanders off, grumbling that his supervisor won't let him teach To the Lighthouse*



EDIT: You can always inter-library loan it from the Providence Public Library. Ask how at the circulation desk -- there are still two copies left in the greater Providence area!

thanks. I'll probably head there tomorrow (open?) or tuesday and try to order it. I already took it out once a few weeks ago, but I I never got around to reading it and they wouldnt let me renew it then since it was a summer reading book.

 

[latergator116]

Into Thin Air - read, I need to be prepared to do a report on it once I get to school

I didn't read that one but Into the Wild was one of the best books I read.

 

[KingYaba]

The Scarlet Letter

Probly one of the most boring books I have ever read. Read it in 10th grade too. It was a nice 200 page sleeping pill. School reading sucked untill I was a senior. We read Romantic poetry and stuff like that ~ Lord Byron, Keats, Shelley, Colleridge, Wordsworth ect... I really enjoyed it.

Into Thin Air - read, I need to be prepared to do a report on it once I get to school

You lucky bastard. I read that book a long time ago and really really enjoyed it. I would have loved to do a report on it. It was somewhat difficult because I was younger at the time but I managed. I also read Alive By Piers Read. THis was about 5 years ago I think?

 

[Motley]

What bugs me most about the local library is it never seems to have a complete series of books. Sure I can get a couple books into Foundation, Dune, The Baroque Cycle, but they always are missing the next book.

Lately I've been nurturing my inner sci-fi nerd and been working through the nebula winners.


Oh and it's a crime against humanity if your school doesn't make you read 1984, especially now.

 

[miloblithe]

I read an older translation, by Constance Garnett. I wasn't sure which one was the best, nobody in Barnes and Noble could answer that question. They had several different publishers that had used that version plus it was only like $13... about a dollar for every hundred pages. I think I'm going to try Dostoevsky next.

Exactly who I was hoping you'd read! I read her translation of Anna Karenina; it's what started me off on my path to becoming interested in Russia. I like her translation style. It seems more faithful to the Russian and has pleasingly overblown turns of phrase. "If so many men--so many minds, then certainly so many hearts--so many kinds of love." It seems much more like reading a 19th century novel than do some more modern translations.

 

[Mav451]

Oh and it's a crime against humanity if your school doesn't make you read 1984, especially now.

Read? Yes of course. Watch the movie? I wouldn't want to do that again. I'll just leave it at "rolling plains of grass", lol.