My summer reading list:

[superunknown]

Homer - The Iliad
Homer - The Odyssey
James Joyce - Dubliners
James Joyce - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
James Joyce - Ulysses

Should be interesting :D !

The first four books are obviously the lead up to The Big One. I'm afraid I'm not brave enough to take on Finnegans Wake yet, though. I half-read The Odyssey about 3 years ago, and I haven't read any of the other ones.

[sHaRp12]

Wow. those are books that require alot of time. I wouldn't call them light reading. Good luck.

My summer reading list includes:

The Adventures of Huckleberryfinn
The Crucible
Harry Potter Series
And a fantasy book yet to be chosen.

[mono]

James Joyce - Dubliners
I remain in the process of reading this book, too, and you will certainly love it! Along with any of James Joyce's works, there seems a lot of Irish slang, but well worth the read - very psychological, thoughtful, and introspective.
If you really end up enjoying Joyce, you could always take the challenge of reading Finnegans Wake, too, though I constantly obsess over its complexity. :p

A few books I intend on reading, but will likely read more:
Complete Poetry by Hafiz
As many plays as possible by Oscar Wilde and Henrik Ibsen
The Portrait Of An Artist As A Young Man by James Joyce
Notes From The Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
. . . and, lastly, reviewing a lot of my forgotten French. ;)

[superunknown]

I tried reading the first page of Finnegans Wake and gave up. Though the language is very beautiful (and I just love that first sentence), I'm just not up for it quite yet.

[Charles Darnay]

I tried reading the first page of Finnegans Wake and gave up. Though the language is very beautiful (and I just love that first sentence), I'm just not up for it quite yet.

Hey... me too! When I first looked at Joyce, I found Finnegans Wake to be the most interesting out of the four that I was looking at, and I thought "pah! So what if it's challenging, I can do it!" Wrong! But I will get to it. This summer I am doing Portrait (seems to be a popular hit for the summer), Dubliners, and The Life and Occupation of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman.

[Shakira]

My summer reading list:

1. Maggie : a girl of the streets - Stephen Crane.
2. The Beautiful and the Damned - F. Scott Fitzgerald.
3. Tess of D'Urbervilles - Hardy.
4. Gone With the Wind.

& more if I finish these before my results are out.

[Virgil]

I must finish Dante's Purgatorio and Paradisio sections of The Divine Comedy. I'll also see what the lit net book forum chooses for summer reads and perhaps I'll read along.

[mono]

I tried reading the first page of Finnegans Wake and gave up. Though the language is very beautiful (and I just love that first sentence), I'm just not up for it quite yet.

Hey... me too! When I first looked at Joyce, I found Finnegans Wake to be the most interesting out of the four that I was looking at, and I thought "pah! So what if it's challenging, I can do it!" Wrong! But I will get to it.
Indeed, I surprised myself when I succeeded the full way through Finnegans Wake! How much I understood out of the . . . story, sparks much of my skepticism; I think this book, of all books, shows the greatest subjectivity in interpretation of any piece of literature, proving that one will understand what he/she will understand, and vice versa.
I encourage anyone the challenge of reading Finnegans Wake, yet definitely warn of its difficulty; and afterwards, I would love a discussion, perhaps, to help me understand it more (please :p)!

Another book I plan on reading soon that I forgot to mention, by the way: The Castle by Franz Kafka.

[Virgil]

Some day, Mono, I will attempt Finnegans Wake. But in the last few years I read Ulyssess twice, Dubliners, and now for the lit net book club Portrait of the Artist. I'm Joyced out for now.

[imthefoolonthehill]

gone are my days of summer reading lists.

Here's what I've been able to read so far this summer.

Finished Far from the Maddening Crowd

A collection of poems by Carl Sandburg

Ender's Game

Syrup by Maxx Barry

and started Wuthering Heights

[superunknown]

Hmm... is it worth adding Exiles to that list?

[Cormeister37]

Summer reading for me includes Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Madame Bovary (Flaubert), Tender is the Night (Fitzgerald), If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (Italo Calvino), and One Hundred Years of Solitude (Marquez), to start.

After Portrait, I'll have nothing left of Joyce to read but Finnegan's Wake (and of course rereading Ulysses and such), but I've got a host of books that I think I should read before I take on that task.

[Mark F.]

I tried reading the first page of Finnegans Wake and gave up. Though the language is very beautiful (and I just love that first sentence), I'm just not up for it quite yet.

I haven't read "Ulysses" or "Finnegan's Wake" yet but "Portrait of the Artist..." isn't hard to read, I actually got through that one in under a week. It's an excellent novel.

My Summer reading list includes :

The Possessed by Dostoevsky
Don Quixote by Cervantes
The Cold Six Thousand by Ellroy
War and Peace by Tolstoy

and I want to read some plays by Beckett and poetry by Bukowski and Rimbaud.

[Nightmare9870]

I'm still working on my final summer reading list, but here are the ones I'm sure I'll be reading:

Light in August by Faulkner
Sophie's World by Gaarder
The Complete Works of Robert Frost
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy
The Metamorphosis by Ovid or Kafka (haven't decided which one yet)
The Purgatorio by Dante

[mono]

The Metamorphosis by Ovid or Kafka (haven't decided which one yet)
Though they have very similar names, The Metamorphoses by Ovid and Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, I felt surprised at how unrelated they seemed. Of course, Kafka had a great amount of influence from Ovid, when reading Kafka, I expected many more allusions to Ovid than I interpreted. Nonetheless, I found both books enlightening.

The Purgatorio by Dante
Do you plan on reading Inferno and Paradiso, too, just out of curiosity? Though each part seems rather independent, they certainly continue from each other. :nod:
Happy reading!

[cosmos..33]

Anna Karenina (finished)
The Pickwick Papers
Vilette (Charlotte Bronte)
The Tale of Genji (unabridged)
Moby-Dick
The Decameron (Boccaccio)
Swann's Way (Proust)

[CatonHotTinRoof]

I remain in the process of reading this book, too, and you will certainly love it! Along with any of James Joyce's works, there seems a lot of Irish slang, but well worth the read - very psychological, thoughtful, and introspective.
If you really end up enjoying Joyce, you could always take the challenge of reading Finnegans Wake, too, though I constantly obsess over its complexity. :p

A few books I intend on reading, but will likely read more:
Complete Poetry by Hafiz
As many plays as possible by Oscar Wilde and Henrik Ibsen
The Portrait Of An Artist As A Young Man by James Joyce
Notes From The Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
. . . and, lastly, reviewing a lot of my forgotten French. ;)





if you love anything by joyce you will definitely love portrait of the artist as a young man

[Nightmare9870]

Do you plan on reading Inferno and Paradiso, too, just out of curiosity? Though each part seems rather independent, they certainly continue from each other. :nod:

At some point I plan to, but as of right now I only own The Purgatorio. With the exception of Sophie's World (which is a fantastic book on the history of philosophy), I bought all the books on my list last week for 25 cents each. I figured that the least I could do was read them all this summer.

[mono]

The Decameron (Boccaccio)
Good choice! Giovanni Boccaccio, among the other two of the 'Big 3' Italian writers (Dante Alighieri, Petrarch, and Giovanni Boccaccio), he seems the most neglected, and his talent appears often overlooked. The concept behind The Decameron I loved, also - one of the very few humorous things composed during the Black Plague. :p

[cosmos..33]

Good choice! Giovanni Boccaccio, among the other two of the 'Big 3' Italian writers (Dante Alighieri, Petrarch, and Giovanni Boccaccio), he seems the most neglected, and his talent appears often overlooked. The concept behind The Decameron I loved, also - one of the very few humorous things composed during the Black Plague. :p

Thanks!

I have a fascination with the Middle Ages, and stumbled upon it accidentally in the bookstore. I also read it influenced Chaucer.

[SmokeBellew]

Well if I have the time this summer, I'm planning to read these books:
(most are yet to be bought in a few weeks)

1. Mark Twain - Following The Equator: A journey around the world
2. Marcus Tullius Cicero - Selected Works
3. Valerio Massimo Manfredi - Alexander: Sands Of Ammon/The Last Legion
4. Lengfellow - Any poetry collection
5. HP Lovecraft - Chtulhu/Road to madness/other weird stories
6. Hemingway - For Whom The Bell Tolls
7. Melanie Wiggins - U-Boat Adventures: Firsthand Accounts from World War II

[unknown_lady]

wooooooooow

some of you wrote avery good book he will read in summer

and i have alist too
i will read if god will :
gone with the wind
a tale of two cities

& more but yet im searching for some thing good maybe i will read some thing from what all of you had wrote

for now im reading the strange case of dr jeykel and mr hyde


thank you for the topic it's anice one so all of us can share what we will read

[behindblueeyes]

the gambler
anna karenina
the great gatsby (i can't believe i haven't read this yet)
their eyes were watching god
hat maisie knew
invisible man (HG Wells)
The book club winner! (probably Brothers Karamazov)

I'd also like to read Gulliver's Travels but I don't think I'll have time

[grace86]

Wow, there seems to be a lot of Joyce around this summer.

My list - which isn't quite decided upon...

Anna Karenina (I have been reading this one on and off for months now)
Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad
Wolverine: Weapon X (Don't ask, I promised a friend)

And one more probably: Crime and Punishment or Wuthering Heights

I was planning on reading Don Quixote, until I found out I had bought the abridged copy....time to start a thread on that issue....grrrrrr

[Idril]

I don't like to plan too far ahead, I like to see what kind of mood I'm in before I commit to a book, however, I have just purchased 4 books so my reading list is set for at least the next month. The first one is a collection of short stories by Tolstoy, I have one collection already and there are a few repeats in this new one but there's also several I haven't read so I'm looking forward to it, it also has some excerpts from his diaries and that should be interesting. I also got 2 Milan Kundera books, Slowness and Identity and lastly, I got Eugene Onegin : A Novel in Verse by Pushkin. I was looking for Poltava by Puskin which was recommended to me but I had a dickens of a time finding it so I settled for Eugene Onegin, I have since found Poltava on the UK version of amazon so that will be in my next order. And of course, I continue to slog through The Gulag Archepelago by Solzhenitsyn in the midst of it all. I have discovered that 100 pages at a time is my limit with that book, it's so dry and dense and depressing so I'll read a book, then read 100 pages of Archipelago then move on to the next book and when that's done, read another 100 pages...at this rate, I may finish the two volumes by the end of the year. :rolleyes:

[Daniel A. C.]

Homer - The Iliad
Homer - The Odyssey
James Joyce - Dubliners
James Joyce - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
James Joyce - Ulysses....

The first four books are obviously the lead up to The Big One

I read Ulysses earlier this year, and I have to warn you that, in my opinion at least, having read the Odyssey isn't really much of a help when trying to read Ulysses!

The episodes are mirrored after episodes of the Odyssey, but only loosely, and the connection between the two sources is far from clear. I think the connection to the Odyssey lies more in the comparison of modern and ancient time, in creating a "national myth" for Ireland, etc., but not the story itself.

On the other hand, I've read that an aunt of Joyce's was having trouble reading Ulysses, and I think he recommended she read a translation of the Odyssey, and then try and read Ulysses aloud.

Actually, the text of Ulysses has many more references to Hamlet than to the Odyssey.

One book I would recommend to anyone reading Ulysses is "The New Bloomsday Book" by Harry Blamires. It is a chapter-by-chapter guide to the basic action of the episodes. Purists may object, but it reading it at the same time as Ulysses really helped me to enjoy the book. On the other hand, I was reading it as part of a course, under time restraints, so perhaps if I had more time to pause and ponder things, I might not have needed it as much.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0415138582/104-9904743-5532761?v=glance&n=283155

Best of luck on your course of reading!

[NoviceSeer]

Dostoyevsky-Crime and Punishment
Shelley-Frankenstein
Bradbury-Fahrenheit 451
Flaubert-Madame Bovary

I only have to read one of the selections yet I must find another book of my own choosing. Clockwork Orange should be fun, eh? For the other required reading I will choose Fahrenheit 451 only because I read it, liked it, and thought it should be fun to write about. The rest I will probably read anyway.

[Erna]

Umberto Eco - The name of the rose (In Dutch)
Herman Melville - Moby Dick
Tommy Wieringa - Joe Speedboat (Dutch, not translated (yet))
Milan Kundera - The unbearable lightness of being (In Dutch)
Dave Eggers - A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (In Dutch)
David Baldacci - Hour game

[Cormeister37]

BehindBlueEyes, The Great Gatsby is my favorite book of all. I'm jealous you've never read it, I've read it three times. Pay attention to his little comments about life like Gatsby's smile and the curious ending, as well as the party at Myrtle's apartment. And of course, every sentence is flawless.

[behindblueeyes]

Yeah I've heard that it's good, I read This Side of Paradise by F Scott Fitzgerald and I thought it was really good and apparently it's one of his not-as-good books so Great Gatsby should be really good! haha ok now I want to know the end

[Shannanigan]

Hmmm...this summer...

already read:
Memoirs of a Geisha
The DaVinci Code
A number of books by Laurell K. Hamilton (Anita Blake Vampire Hunter Series)
Blink (by Malcolm Gladwell?)
Cell (by Stephen King)

now working on The Shining (S. King) and also have his "The Eyes of the Dragon" waiting to be plucked off the shelf. I'm also planning on re-reading a lot of Edgar Allan Poe short stories and poetry (you know, so that I don't rip myself away from King too fast, lol)

If all goes well, I plan on picking up some of the classics I never read in school and will probably never have to read for school, but feel like I need to read anyway...like Moby Dick, Pride & Prejudice, Paradise Lost, Adventures of Tom Sawyer..etc. etc...

for being schooled in America, there sure is a lot of American literature I haven't read...

[superunknown]

Well, I'm through The Iliad and The Odyssey now and well into Dubliners, having just read "A Little Cloud." I have to admit I was puzzled by some of the stories at first and had to look them up on Sparknotes before I started to understand them, but they are very good, and now that I've got a general sense of the common themes throughout the book I'm more capable of drawing my own conclusions from it. But blimey, Joyce didn't like Dublin very much, did he? Everything is just utter hopelesness, despair, and unfulfilled aspirations.

I think I'm probably going to finish, then read Portrait of the Artist, and then The Brothers Karamazov for the July/August book club, and then go on to Ulysses.

[literaturerocks]

lets see so far in the week and a half or so weve had off from school ive read angels and demons da vinci code and the know it all (by the way that was a very funny book its about a guy who trys to read the entire encyclopaedia brittannica A to Z in one year. its light reading but i would highly recommend it for people with a good sense of humor :) and i have read part of the elegant universe but stopped because it got very complicated (quantum geometry and superstring theory and spin of particles etc gets a little complicated) but now for the rest of the summer my reading list includes
1 a farewell to arms -hemingway
2 the rest of the inferno of dante's divine comedy
3 purgatorio
4 paradiso
5 simply einstein (not exactly literature i know but still ..)
6 more of poe's stories
7 lord of the flies
8 the iliad and the odyssey
9 great expectations
10 im going to try to read all of this years book club books too so i can catch up..im new here so.. obviously i havent had time to read this years books but they sound goo so im looking forward to it !
maybe some others but thats just what im planning on for this summer ..it'll be fun :banana:

[TEND]

Lots, lots to read this summer.
First I have to finish The Castle by Kafka, and than Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke. Than I get to start the rest...
Dead Souls - Gogol
Faust - Goethe (Partway through, but I'm going to start from the beginning)
Dubliners - James Joyce (Slowly been working my way through story by story)
Either Crime and Punishment or Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky

Also been toying with the idea of Don Quixote and/or Of Human Bondage, haven't quite decided though.
That's it as of now, whatever else I pull out of the bookshop in the next few weeks will most likely pile up on that list.

[bazarov]

Lots, lots to read this summer.
First I have to finish The Castle by Kafka, and than Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke. Than I get to start the rest...
Dead Souls - Gogol
Faust - Goethe (Partway through, but I'm going to start from the beginning)
Dubliners - James Joyce (Slowly been working my way through story by story)
Either Crime and Punishment or Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky

Also been toying with the idea of Don Quixote and/or Of Human Bondage, haven't quite decided though.
That's it as of now, whatever else I pull out of the bookshop in the next few weeks will most likely pile up on that list.
If you have to exclude something, then exclude Gogol instead Dostoevsky. But thats only me, even though Dead souls are really interesting book, they can't compare with Crime and Punishment or Brothers Karamazov

[bazarov]

You're talking a lot about Joyce. Is he really that good??? On my list are:
Conrad-Hart of darkness
Conrad-Lord Jim
Orwell-1984
Orwell-Animal farm
Tolstoy-War and Peace
Griboyedov-Woe from wit
Hugo-Les Miserables

[TEND]

You're talking a lot about Joyce. Is he really that good??? On my list are:
Conrad-Hart of darkness
Conrad-Lord Jim
Orwell-1984
Orwell-Animal farm
Tolstoy-War and Peace
Griboyedov-Woe from wit
Hugo-Les Miserables

Thanks for the suggestions, I've only read 'Notes From Underground' by Dostoevsky but it is one of the best things I've ever read so I'm very eager to read more, I just don't want to burn myself out on him.

I really like a lot of your list, I absolutely love Orwell and 'Heart of Darkness' was the last novel/novella I completed. It is excellent and I would just liek to suggest after reading it you HAVE to watch Apocalypse Now, it's wonderful to tie it all together.

[vheissu]

Well, this is my summer's list, though I don't have them all....yet!

Thomas Pynchon: V. (I'm halfway through it)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Memoria de mis putas tristes (memories of my melancholy whores). Read "100 years of solitude" this winter and loved the way Marquez writes.
Jack Kerouac: On the road
Alex Garland: The tesseract
Salman Rushdie: Shalimar the clown
Amos Oz: Fima (has anyone read A. Oz?)

I might start Don Quixote if I manage to finish these

[Behemoth]

Summer Reading List...

Just finished The Iliad and The Odyssey! Wahoo!

1. Virgil - The Aenid
2. Spenser - The Faerie Queene
3. Ovid - The Metamorphoses
4. Walcot - Omeros

If I can get through that little lot i'm thinking of attempting War and Peace...

[Lycosparks]

This summer I have already read:
~ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - J.K. Rowling
~ Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - J.K. Rowling
~ Elsewhere - Gabriele Zevin
~ Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
~ lots and lots of poetry :-)

I am reading Jane Eyre right now, by Charlotte Bronte.

Before school resumes again I hope to read:
~ Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
~ Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

[grace86]

Well, I am concluding Anna Karenina finally. About forty five pages left that I hope I will have time to finish today on my lunch break. Wow, can't believe I am just about done...now I am going to cry. So I will be attempting to continue my summer reading list as soon as it is done.

I think Don Quixote is next. If I have time, Crime and Punishment.

[Danika_Valin]

Let's see.... So far this summer I've read:

The Secret Life of Bees- Sue Monk Kidd
The Historian- Elizabeth Kostova
Desires Unleashed and The Guilty Innocent- D.N. Simmons (a friend of mine)
The Scarlet Pimpernel- Baroness Orczy
The Three Musketeers- Alexandre Dumas (only got 3/4 through it. dreadful stuff!)

Am Currently Reading:
Dr. Zhivago- Boris Pasternak

Intend to Read:
Emma- Jane Austen
Anna Karenina- Leo Tolstoy
The Mermaid Chair- Sue Monk Kidd

[grace86]

Danika -

Did you like the Historian? I was thinking about reading that one.

Anna Karenina is a wonderful read. I recommend it highly.

Welcome to the forum.

Grace

[Bysshe]

My summer reading list:

1: Lord of the Flies (I've already read it, but it's required reading for school, so...)
2: The Stand (half way through it)
3: Anna Karenina (half way through it)
4: Sophie's World (half way through it)
5: Various poetry (mainly Shelley, Byron, Keats).

I made the mistake of making my reading list last year a bit too ambitious, and I ended up not finishing many of them. So I'm limiting myself a bit this year.

[Manfred]

1. "Babbitt" by Sinclair Lewis; I just started reading this.
2. "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair
3. "Double Indemnity" by James M. Cain
4. "Cat's Cradle" by Kurt Vonnegut

I've never read anything by Sinclair, Cain, or Vonnegut before. Strange isn't it; I've probably read between 5,000 and 10,000 novels and never had occasion to read those authors?

[pqb57]

1. Sea of Gray - Tom Chaffin
2. Cell - Stephen King
3.Mayflower - Nathaniel Philbrick
4. The Scratch of A Pen - Colin G. Calloway

[TEND]

Just wondering, how everyone's summer reading is going, I was just thinking that as of now I have only read one work on my previous list that being 'The Castle.'
Instead I have so far read:
The Stranger - Camus
A Streetcar Named Desire - Tennesee Williams
Waiting for Godot - Beckett
Nausea - Sartre
As I Lay Dying - Faulkner
and currently am in the process of 'The Myth of Sisyphus' again by Camus. Which will be followed by 'The Crucible' and hopefully, 'Rosencratz and Guildenstern are Dead' as I wish to read it before I see it in January :D . A few more are sure to get in there before summer is over also.

[grace86]

Hello Tend -

Well, reading Anna Karenina took longer than I thought it would. Life intervened. So after puttering around re-reading parts of books and attempting a horrible horrible book (got to page 56) I went back to my summer reading list. I am glad to say I am back in the world of Russian Literature. I know most people here have already read it, but I am on chapter 2 of Crime and Punishment.

I think that that will be the last one before school starts (Aug. 28).

Thanks for asking.

[Wild Apple]

My summer reading is going pretty good. In truth, I had planned to have read more than I have so far but I still have a month left.

The Jungle - Upton Sinclair
The Sound and the Fury - Faulkner
As I Lay Dying - Faulkner
A Farewell to Arms - Hemmingway
The Old Man and the Sea - Hemmingway
For Whom the Bell Tolls - Hemmingway
Tender is the Night - Fitzgerald
The Grapes of Wrath - Steinbeck
The House of the Seven Gables - Hawthorne
Thoreau's Worldy Transcendentalism - Robinson
Reread Walden - Thoreau
Emerson Essays

You might notice a theme. I've been trying to read the great early 20th century American novels. Now I'm moving back into early 19th century American novels. I'm currently reading The Scarlett Letter. Next in line is: Little Women.

Tend: How did you like As I Lay Dying. I loved it, but I enjoyed The Sound and the Fury a little more.

[Erna]

Umberto Eco - The name of the rose (In Dutch)
Herman Melville - Moby Dick
Tommy Wieringa - Joe Speedboat (Dutch, not translated (yet))
Milan Kundera - The unbearable lightness of being (In Dutch)
Dave Eggers - A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (In Dutch)
David Baldacci - Hour game
Not going very well, for as long as I look on my list. Onlu read 'The name of the rose' till now, which I really enjoyed.
A lot of other books are coming in between, lent to me by friends (and I always want to read borrowed books first, so I can give them back). And going to the largest bookmarket in Europe (for as far as I know) last Sunday changes my plans.

At this moment I'm reading 6 books of which 4 almost finished. Want to finish those before I go on with my list. Joe Speedboat will be the next. Also to be read soon is 'To the moon and back' by Jules Verne.

[TEND]

My summer reading is going pretty good. In truth, I had planned to have read more than I have so far but I still have a month left.

The Jungle - Upton Sinclair
The Sound and the Fury - Faulkner
As I Lay Dying - Faulkner
A Farewell to Arms - Hemmingway
The Old Man and the Sea - Hemmingway
For Whom the Bell Tolls - Hemmingway
Tender is the Night - Fitzgerald
The Grapes of Wrath - Steinbeck
The House of the Seven Gables - Hawthorne
Thoreau's Worldy Transcendentalism - Robinson
Reread Walden - Thoreau
Emerson Essays

You might notice a theme. I've been trying to read the great early 20th century American novels. Now I'm moving back into early 19th century American novels. I'm currently reading The Scarlett Letter. Next in line is: Little Women.

Tend: How did you like As I Lay Dying. I loved it, but I enjoyed The Sound and the Fury a little more.

Wow, heavy reading!! I really liked As I Lay Dying, I've yet to read TSATF so I cannot compare, but it's my new favorite Faulkner novel. I absolutely loved certain characters and came to despise others, it really created feelings towards each character, and opinions changed over the course of the novel. In the beginning I looked at Jewel with sympathy and Darl with a sort of disgust, but as the story progressed my opinion was reversed. I don't know how TSATF will be able to top it, but I'm definitely going to give it a try sometime soon.

[A_PILGRIM_SOUL]

have you ever read Tom Robbins' Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates? The main character belongs to a club whose purpose is to discuss Finnegan's Wake . It's called the C.R.A.F.T. club. - Can't Remember a F@#$ing thing!! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha :banana:

[aeroport]

I, apparently like many people, also intended to get much more reading done this summer, but I think certain tiresome qualities in Atlas Shrugged, my first summer book (most unwise), caused me to delay for some time its completion, as I seemed to be far too often finding excuses not to read it.

Anyways, so far...
Atlas Shrugged :yawnb:
Eats, Shoots and Leaves :)
Crime and Punishment
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
The Warden

Presently...
The Golden Bowl

and hopefully (but doubtfully)...
Mansfield Park

[Guinivere]

Yes it is summer, and we just have to revive this thread. It's just about time. :D

Here is mine:


John Fowles - The Collector
Elizabeth Kostova - The Historian (again)
Lilith Saintcrow - The Dante Valentine series
Thomas De Quincey - Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
Kurt Vonnegut - Cat's Cradle
Sebastian Faulks - Charlotte Grey