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/forums/showthread.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 :)

[Zeruiah]

The Sun Also Rises
Faust, all of Part 1 and some of Part 2
Dante's Inferno
The Sorrows of the Young Werther
Ezra Pound's Personae
The Odyssey & Iliad (again)
Lord of the Rings
Moby Dick
The Man Who Was Thursday
In Search of Lost Time
and maybe more

I'm probably not going to get even half of this, but if all goes well, the planets will align and I'll have enough time to myself for reading.

[bazarov]

Divine Comedy is a must read, everything else by a current mood.

[Chava]

I'v got Out of Africa and collected essays by Aldous Huxley waiting imaptiently, and I can't wait for the 17th of July when summer starts. Other than those two thick books, I've got several lighter reads, and a few classics I've been meaning to get around to for a few years.
Then I'll be travelling later and plan to bring my favourite travel book, Catch-22 with me. :)

[andave_ya]

I hope to finish Les Miserables, In Defense of Poesy, and Notes from the Underground at minimum. After that, the sky's the limit :p.

[Dionido]

just a few titles i've been yearning for:

The Doors of Perception - Huxley
Tropic of Capricorn - Miller
We - Zamyatin
Homage to Catalonia - Orwell
Orlando: A Biography - Woolf

[Desolation]

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 ;)
I just read 'Crime and Punishment' last week. It was a great read, well worth however much time you put into it.

My summer list, roughly:
The Portable Walt Whitman
'Either/Or' by Soren Kierkegaard
The Basic Writings of Nietzsche
'The Trial' by Franz Kafka
'Lost Illusions' by Honore de Balzac
'In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower' by Marcel Proust
'Look Homeward, Angel' by Thomas Wolfe
'Ulysses' by James Joyce
The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
'Lady Chatterly's Lover' by D.H. Lawrence
'Black Spring' by Henry Miller
'The Reprieve' by Jean-Paul Sartre
'Sartre: A Life' by Annie Cohen-Solal
'The Myth of Sisyphus' by Albert Camus
'Catch 22' by Joseph Heller

[andave_ya]

^ Yeats is fantastic. I love his poetry.

[emily00]

Those of us who live in Yorkshire are still waiting for it to be summer.

[mono]

I'v got Out of Africa and collected essays by Aldous Huxley waiting imaptiently
Humph! Good choices - how did you stumble upon those? ;)

My summer list, roughly:
The Portable Walt Whitman
'Either/Or' by Soren Kierkegaard
The Basic Writings of Nietzsche
'The Trial' by Franz Kafka
'Lost Illusions' by Honore de Balzac
'In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower' by Marcel Proust
'Look Homeward, Angel' by Thomas Wolfe
'Ulysses' by James Joyce
The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
'Lady Chatterly's Lover' by D.H. Lawrence
'Black Spring' by Henry Miller
'The Reprieve' by Jean-Paul Sartre
'Sartre: A Life' by Annie Cohen-Solal
'The Myth of Sisyphus' by Albert Camus
'Catch 22' by Joseph Heller
Beautiful list! I have not explored as much Henry Miller or Marcel Proust as much as I would like, but I just finished The Myth of Sisyphus and would call it nothing less than printed genius, if there ever existed such a thing. :nod:

As to me, I bought Lost Illusions some time ago, too, and have meant to read it, but procrastinated some with others; I hope to read that during the summer. What else? I have gotten quite spontaneous on my reading list lately, and have even (behold, not "dead people" literature, as some have blamed me of only reading) picked up a few contemporary works. Jonathan Safran Foer has really opened my eyes, for one.

[Dr. Hill]

I am going to read War and Peace. That's it.

[Dostoyevsky]

I dont have very much time to get personal reading done this summer due to class =( but im gonna try to finish a few books. Im almost done with Neil Gaiman's American Gods and plan finishing these this summer.

One Hundred Years of Solitude by: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Gambler by: Dostoyevsky
Hell's Angels by: Hunter S. Thompson
Crying of Lot 49 by: Thomas Pynchon

not much but I have tons of reading to do for school right now =p

[JuniperWoolf]

I'm sick of the snow here, so I'm going to run away to Vancouver soon and read Moby Dick.

[Hank Stamper]

on the list (my summer started yesterday!)
virgil the aeneid
dante inferno
goethe faust
ovid metamorphoses
flaubert madame bovary
eliot middlemarch
orwell burmese days
hugo notre dame de paris
fitzgerald the beautiful and the damned
wyndham midwitch cuckoos
miller tropic of cancer
wells tono bungay
and some philosophical essays and some greek plays and some shakespeare and some theory and loads of idle loafing in the sun

[Il Penseroso]

Have read so far this summer:
The Giver, Lois Lowry (reread)
A Wrinkle in Time, Madeline L'Engle
The Sea, John Banville
Tender is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens (finally got to this)
Bend Sinister, Vladimir Nabokov


Will read or continue reading:
Ferdydurke, Witold Gombrowicz
The Complete Poems of Kenneth Koch
The Selected Poems of William Carlos Williams
The Plague, Albert Camus
The Waves, Virginia Woolf
My Antonia, Willa Cather
something, depending on what I can find, by Borges


Maybes, depending on time and interest level when I come to them:
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
Emma, Jane Austen


and I'll see what else piques my interest that I may find in a used bookstore or want to check out from the library

[mono]

I am going to read War and Peace. That's it.
Ha! Very modest of you! I felt as though War and Peace took me nearly forever to read, too - good for you for "stepping up to the plate," and let us know your thoughts.
I did a bit of book shopping the other day, and, other than my spontaneity, as mentioned above, I hope to read This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald (having already fallen in love with The Great Gatsby and Tender is the Night), and many people have recommended House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski for quite some time - I finally decided to give it a chance, and purchased it, too. As I have nearly finished Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer (about 10 pages left), I think I will kick off the summer with Lost Illusions by Honoré de Balzac.

[acdouglas92]

Yeah, Tess of the D'Urbervilles is a good read. Shocking ending. I don't really have much on my list right now...trying to get into some philosophy:

The Psychology of Love - Freud
Beowulf
The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan
All Falls Down - Chinua Achebe
Rozencrantz and Guildernstern are Dead - Tom Stoppard
The Aeneid - Vergil, translated by Robert Fagles

I'm up for suggestions...

[Dimitra]

swan's way
Master and Margarita
The Sound and the Fury
Faoust
All quiet in the western front

That's for now,probably I will end up reading more :)

[desireefoo]

A midsummer night's dream on comic!
If any of you got an iPhone, you might want to check it out. I saw the demo the other day by the creators of the e-book, and its pretty cool! Hand drawn panel by panel, with a translation from old english to modern day english so everyone can understand the play.
Keep an eye out for it cause I can't wait for the search to show up on the Appstore! Any day now!! YAY!! This will make studying for my O levels this year so much easier!!