Your Summer Reading List

[Guest MsMaldoror]

You're making a big assumption. :grin

I wish more poeple would read. Then, they might be able to actually spell and write proper sentences. :fear

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Well, I'm more assuming that the majority of those on here not only can but do read...

You know... Gothic literature and all that....

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[Guest Game of Chance]

I'm not nearly as much of an avid reader as I once was. But reading isn't really a summertime activity for me. Since we really only get 3 months of nice weather in Michigan, I'm outside enjoying it as much as I can.

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I also just started on The Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde

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Good book.

[Jarodaka]

I read me some books and it was good. I have a stack of half-finished books, too. Summer's not over yet! I have until September 21.

[Shade Everdark]

Let's see...what have I read or will be reading this summer?

I had to go and rummage through the stupid, neverending Wheel of Time series. Stupid Robert Jordan...stupid ten books.

I finally gave in and read the Harry Potter books. Not bad, but not worth the hype. They make me miss Madeleine L'Engle.

I managed to find a copy of Murakami Haruki's Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche (thank you, Ann Arbor used book trade!). It's a surprisingly unbiased view of events, from the perspectives of both victims and Aum Shinrikyo cult members...not to mention a fairly disturbing peek into how the Japanese see themselves.

Right now, I'm in the middle of Electric Universe. David Bodanis writes as though this book were meant for a five-year-old. ...the history of the electron, for children. Wonderful. He doesn't even include Tesla's contributions into the invetion of radio transmitters and receivers. Yet I am still reading.

I love Ann Arbor, because I found there yesterday a copy in translation of Life of an Amorous Man. I hadn't even realized that anyone had bothered to translate this. I also found Social Psychology in Modern Japan. It'll be interesting to contrast this author's view, as a psychologist (I hope) to how the laypeople of ten years ago saw themselves. It's good I don't live in A2, otherwise I'd have no money and no room for all my books.

[Jarodaka]

It's good I don't live in A2, otherwise I'd have no money and no room for all my books.

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Yeah, no kidding. The high rent sucks!

[Goth Brooks]

Aubrey/Maturin series - Patrick O'Brian

Vampire Chronicles - Ann Rice

Salty Piece of Land, Where is Joe Merchant?, Tales from Margaritaville - Jimmy Buffett

Flight of the Intruder

Hunt for Red October

[the eternal]

America:The Book by The Daily Show

The funniest yet most dead-on history book ever! kind of like the Daily Show.

We all need a good laugh sometimes.

If this were taught in schools, our kids would be so much smarter than they are today. No joke!

(I was going to order indecision 2004 on dvd, but after I worked so hard to get Kerry in office, I realized it would be far too depressing)

[Rozzlyn]

You're making a big assumption.  :grin

I wish more poeple would read.  Then, they might be able to actually spell and write proper sentences. :fear

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Ah, 'tis true.

Perhaps I shold start a literacy charity: "READING WON'T MAKE YOU GAY!"

[SomeDanGuy]

No, but the clothing you wear does. I wore a pink shirt yesterday, and I kinda felt like dry-humping the guy in front of me...

Uhh, as for reading list

For fun:

Choke and Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk

Strength of Stones by Greg Bear

(gave up on) Hyperion

Less fun:

Reviewing my anatomy atlas

Immunology book

a bunch of scientific papers

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Perhaps I shold start a literacy charity: "READING WON'T MAKE YOU GAY!"

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[Nienna]

Hmmm...

Phantom of the Opera

Harry Potter and the Halfblood Prince

The Neverending Story

Hmm.. I'm slacking!

[Paint it Black]

Lots of horrible films get unwarranted praise simply because of who the director is.  Kubrick hadn't made a single decent film since OR before Dr Strangelove -- and that story was about a dozen times better than the film.

Hell, even Tommy was wretched -- and only barely Pete Townshend's story (his vision of the opera was the stage production) -- but the soundtrack was amazing and the visuals were WORLDS better than anything else to come out of the "psychedellic" era of filmmaking.

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I tend to agree.

I do like the film version of Cloclwork. The book is much better. I also liked Lolita.

BUT, Dr. Strangelove was, by far and away, Kubricks best work.

[Paint it Black]

Things I have read this summer:

The Kite Runner (excellent novel, and I don't usually read novels)

The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople (HISTORY, very good read)

No god but God by Reza Islan (book about the history and future of Islam)

Hitler: Hubris and Nemesis (Two volume biography, probably the best, most detailed biography of Hitler)

Toaster Manual (seriously, I bought a cheap $8 toaster at Wal-Mart and could not get it to work for the life of me, so I actually read the instruction manual, didn't help. After reading the damn thing twice I decided to try another outlet and BINGO it worked. Turns out I had blown a fuse.... D'Oh!)

The Civil War: A Narrative, Volume II (by the late, great Shelby Foote)

I think that is all I have had time to read this summer.

[gothicmom]

Things I have read this summer:

The Kite Runner (excellent novel, and I don't usually read novels)

The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople (HISTORY, very good read)

No god but God by Reza Islan (book about the history and future of Islam)

Hitler: Hubris and Nemesis (Two volume biography, probably the best, most detailed biography of Hitler)

Toaster Manual (seriously, I bought a cheap $8 toaster at Wal-Mart and could not get it to work for the life of me, so I actually read the instruction manual, didn't help. After reading the damn thing twice I decided to try another outlet and BINGO it worked. Turns out I had blown a fuse.... D'Oh!)

The Civil War: A Narrative, Volume II (by the late, great Shelby Foote)

I think that is all I have had time to read this summer.

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*LOL*

:laughing :laughing

[ZhukovCodeslinger]

Holliwood can attest to the fact that I read too much... (non fiction) I have probably finished 20-30 books this summer....

She is currently forcing me to read a work of fiction.... Steven Kings "IT". Its (IT) not a bad book... but i can only get through 20 pages at a time and then have to put it down (have seen the movie... :confused )

I do find this pretty odd though, since i have no trouble pouring through very dry after action reports of LRRPs full of complaining or technical specs of Japanese Armor, or the first 600 pages of a 2000+ page multi volume work on the German Order Police....

Oh well.... I could be worse, I could be an extremely well endowed male who had a fetish for Goosebumps books.... or Fraggle Rock.

Im currently reading No Fear by Steve Devereux... (along with "IT") I have plenty of other books that I would like to be reading, but I dont seem to have the time to read everything....

[Moonlight_Phantasy]

Yes. I read alot. Mostly books by Maggie Shayne, Christine Feehan, Lyndsy Sands, and a bunch of Miscellaneous.

[pomba gira]

Yep...if it doesn't have mostly pictures I can't read it...comix are good, unless they are superman, but sometimes even they, get too wordy.....I think I've reached the point to where I can only get it if its drawn out with pix or graphix. 

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Me too... I have 3 shelves of books waiting for me to read 'em... but I've read absolutely nothing but manga, Sandman GNs, and MAD magazine all summer. Some of those books I spent a year or more searching for on eBay... but for some reason I seem to be totally incapable of reading anything without pictures. Don't know if it's an attention span issue or what... kind'a scary tho 'cos it's so not me.

[the eternal]

Toaster Manual (seriously, I bought a cheap $8 toaster at Wal-Mart and could not get it to work for the life of me, so I actually read the instruction manual, didn't help. After reading the damn thing twice I decided to try another outlet and BINGO it worked. Turns out I had blown a fuse.... D'Oh!)

I think that is all I have had time to read this summer.

I love toaster manuals.

I feel that although Black and Decker gives more in-depth analyses of the proper techniques for browning, you've got to hand it to Toastmaster for their ability to convey such complexities in a picture.

It's like art...with a timer and defrost button.

Me too... I have 3 shelves of books waiting for me to read 'em... but I've read absolutely nothing but manga, Sandman GNs, and MAD magazine all summer. Some of those books I spent a year or more searching for on eBay... but for some reason I seem to be totally incapable of reading anything without pictures. Don't know if it's an attention span issue or what... kind'a scary tho 'cos it's so not me.

Kichijoten, I don't believe you. You're too fucking intelligent. But if you must read a book with pictures, I will lend you my personal favorite

Maus I and II (Hell, you've already got all my favorite Miyazaki flicks. What next?...my right arm?

Fine, there it is, happy??? :blink )

It's what really blew the whole American graphic novel craze wide open. -Maus I and II , not my right arm

(Pulitzer prize winner and everything. You can be all snobby with people if they ask what comic book you're reading

<with British aristocratic lilit> "Ahem, my dear fellow, IIII am not reading a comic book. It is, a fine American graphic novel. Good day!")

If any of you havent read it, do so right now!

And it's non-fiction too!

(BTW, America the book not only has pictures, it has naked ones of the supreme court justices!!! Am I the only Daily Show fan? =( )

[pomba gira]

True toaster manual snobs only read the Krups one... back to back w/the Rowenta iron manual.

Haha you're never too fucking intelligent for attention span issues... my ADHD students are far & away my brightest ones.

Tryna cut down on the right arm intake... the kitties will prolly appreciate it tho!

I actually did read the first couple chapters ov Maus way back when it was first published... it was serialized in some magazine... I remember thinking it was impressive but helly depressing. Well, I'm a lot older now & deal w/depressing stuff better, so maybe I'll give it another go.

[holliwood66]

Hmm, I read 3-4 books a week but I'll take a stab at remembering:

"The Calamitous 14th Century"

"Natural History of Onions"

"Oranges" by John McPhee

at least 10 Terry Pratchett novels...

5 different Sherri S. Tepper novels *were all quite interesting...even though she sometimes gets carried away with villian male characters*

"The Diamond Age" Stephenson

"Romany"

I re-read all the Earthsea books including the final 2 newer ones.

"Harry Potter 1/2 Blood Prince"

whole bunch of food histories and other factibles.

[Paint it Black]

okay, stop making fun of my toaster incident. I was born blonde, and let's leave it at that.

:D

[pomba gira]

Hmm, I read 3-4 books a week but I'll take a stab at remembering:

"The Diamond Age" Stephenson

I re-read all the Earthsea books including the final 2 newer ones.

whole bunch of food histories and other factibles.

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Diamond Age is one ov my all time favorites... Stephenson is a fuckin genius. The part where Nell sees/hears her "little sisters" coming to save her still gives me chills... just like the part in Snow Crash where the Rat Thing comes to get Rife.

The Earthsea books have worn pretty well... but the first time I read Tehanu I was scared LeGuin was gonna go the same way as James Tiptree/Racoona Sheldon... it had that same bleak, hopeless feel as JT/RS's last few stories.

& I love food histories & that kind of thing... Margaret Visser & Reay Tannahill are both great. Have you read A History of the Breast by Marilyn Yalom? Fascinating stuff!