What are you reading this summer?

[wateredwhisky]

Hey guys,

Summer time is here already, and I know I always have a large reading list to plow through. I figured we could all share our summer reading lists. Here's mine:

2666 - Roberto Bolaño
Slow Learner - Thomas Pynchon
The Divine Invasion - Philip K. Dick
L.A. Quartet (The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, White Jazz) - James Ellroy
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test - Tom Wolfe
Foucault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco

As I read them I'm sure I'll be posting some afterthoughts, etc. in the Gen Lit forum.

So how about you guys, what have you got on your summer reading plate?

[mayneverhave]

I have some 40+ books that is slightly over ambitious of me. This summer will test my will.

[Aluminum]

If I can get my paws on them,

Les Enfants Terribles, by Jean Cocteau
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, by Friedrich Nietzsche
The Crucible, Arthur Miller
The Haunting of Hill House, by Shirley Jackson
Angels and Demons, by Dan Brown

I'm trying to keep it "light". I have a lot to do this summer. D:

[*Classic*Charm*]

For May-September

Far From the Madding Crowd- Hardy
Tess of the d'Urbervilles- Hardy
East of Eden- Steinbeck
Crime and Punishment- Dostoyevsky
Cosmicomics- Calvino
Jane Eyre- Bronte
The Sound and the Fury- Faulkner
The Old Man and the Sea- Hemingway
The Last of the Crazy People- Findley
The Colony of Unrequited Dreams- Johnson
La Vita Nuova- Dante

That's what I'm thinking so far.

[wateredwhisky]

For April-September

Far From the Madding Crowd- Hardy
Tess of the d'Urbervilles- Hardy
East of Eden- Steinbeck
Crime and Punishment- Dostoyevsky
Cosmicomics- Calvino
Jane Eyre- Bronte
The Sound and the Fury- Faulkner
The Old Man and the Sea- Hemingway
The Last of the Crazy People- Findley
The Colony of Unrequited Dreams- Johnson
La Vita Nuova- Dante

That's what I'm thinking so far.

Very nice! I wish I could read that kind of stuff in the summer, but once I finally have a break from lit classes all I want to read is fun stuff! Cue the guilt pangs after realizing I still haven't read Crime and Punishment after two years of promising my self it'll be a summer project each year

[*Classic*Charm*]

Very nice! I wish I could read that kind of stuff in the summer, but once I finally have a break from lit classes all I want to read is fun stuff! Cue the guilt pangs after realizing I still haven't read Crime and Punishment after two years of promising my self it'll be a summer project each year

Thanks I'm a science major so having all this to read is nice for me over the summer, because it's too much during the school year. It took me MONTHS to read Anna Karenina during school simply because I don't have the time to really devote myself to it. So here we go for the summer! Don't feel too bad- this will be my first time reading Jane Eyre, I'm a little ashamed to admit.

[mayneverhave]

Very nice! I wish I could read that kind of stuff in the summer, but once I finally have a break from lit classes all I want to read is fun stuff! Cue the guilt pangs after realizing I still haven't read Crime and Punishment after two years of promising my self it'll be a summer project each year

For some reason I always associate reading long Russian novels with the winter, but since Crime and Punishment occurs during what is described as something like the "hottest of Russian summers", this might be an interesting parallel.

[Scheherazade]

The Lonesome Dove

Cane Mutiny

In Cold Blood

The Yearling

A Thousand Acres

His Family

And the Book Club winners probably.

You can also take part in the Book Club's Summer Reading: http://www.online-literature.com/for...ad.php?t=43172

[PabloQ]

After I finish East of Eden by Steinbeck:
The Grapes of Wrath - Steinbeck
The Pearl - Steinbeck
The Sound and the Fury - Faulkner
Flags in the Dust - Faulkner
Winesburg, Ohio - Sherwood Anderson
The Pit - Frank Norris
Three Soldiers - John Dos Passos

That should do it.

[Ghuyuran]

Simply put, I have over thirty books I want to read, including French and English works. I want to try to read some books in German aswell.

A short list...

-Brothers Karamazov (I'm tempted to leave this for winter, as someone said earlier)
-The Idiot
-Crime and Punishment
-War and Peace
-Faust, second part
-Edgar Allan Poe (a few of his short stories)
-Gone with the Wind
-novels by Hermann Hesse
-A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet, Macbeth

...and pretty much everything I can get my hands on. I feel this summer is going to be productive. Most likely I'll also read some philosophy and criticism. We'll see what's going to happen.

[Pecksie]

Actually it's autumn (and soon winter) for me...

[metal134]

Hey guys,

Summer time is here already, and I know I always have a large reading list to plow through. I figured we could all share our summer reading lists. Here's mine:

2666 - Roberto Bolaño
Slow Learner - Thomas Pynchon
The Divine Invasion - Philip K. Dick
L.A. Quartet (The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, White Jazz) - James Ellroy
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test - Tom Wolfe
Foucault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco

As I read them I'm sure I'll be posting some afterthoughts, etc. in the Gen Lit forum.

So how about you guys, what have you got on your summer reading plate?

I just recently picked up "Slow Learner." And I'm looking forward to "Inherent Vice" with great anticipation.

As far as my Summer reading, well, I don't really have a set list. I just have a lot of books I want to read and I never know which one is going to crossed off my list next. One thing I do is buy books that I'm interested in by the boatload so that I'll always have plenty of interesting things on my shelf to pick from. I currently have dozens of unread books and am always looking to add to the list, never worrying that it'll become too long because the way I see it, I have all the time in the world to read them all. I might also add that, for me personally, I don't really see it as Summer reading because I read year round at pretty much the same rate. Truth be told, I probably read a little less during the Summer because baseball takes up so much of that time. Anyway, a sampling of some of the stuff on that list

Against the Day -Thomas Pynchon
The Border Trilogy - Cormac McCarthy
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexander Dumas (unabridged, of course. I flat out refuse to read an abridged version of anything)
Libra - Don DeLillo
To the Lighthouse - Virginia Wolfe
Ulysses - James Joyce (been on the precipice of this one forever)
Lots of stuff by Philip Roth

[Frankie Anne]

I've been reading "Team of Rivals" about Abraham Lincoln's cabinet because my father recommended it. As for literature, I would like to read:

Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
The Complete Claudine by Colette
The Three Clerks by Anthony Trollope

I have a garden I love to piddle around in during summer, so we'll see how I do!

[Chloe M]

Poor Folk
Great Short Works of Fyodor Dostovesky
Demian
A Separate Peace
Madame Bovary
Lady Chatterly's Lover (I'm about halfway through. It's very good, I might add additional D. H. Lawrence works to the list.)
The Brothers Karamazov. (Rereading)

Also, I plan on checking out many books from the library. I enjoy books on psychology, religion/spirituality and contemporary fiction.

[Stargazer86]

The Sun Also Rises
Farewell to Arms
Beowulf (I started re reading it the other day but decided to wait until I after I finish The Maltese Falcon for the bookclub for May)
East of Eden
The Red Pony (re read)
Cesar's Gallic Wars (my bf's dad gave me a copy that was published in the 1890s)
We'll see if I get to all of them. I may even change my mind on which ones to read. I have a HUGE list of books I'd like to read and re-read