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Summer Reading Thread 2008
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| The Highroller |
Inspired by the conversation I'm having with jenniepie about Atlas Shrugged (one of her suggestions in last year's Summer Reading thread).
What do you plan on reading this spring/summer?
Istanbul - Orhan Pamuk
The Age of Turbulence - Alan Greenspan
This is Your Brain on Music - Daniel J. Levtin (finally have to finish this!)
Yellow Dog - Martin Amis
A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini |
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| Irishaddict |
A Thousand Splendid Suns is amazing. I devoured on a plane ride home from England. You will love.
I haven't read a non-school book in a while and am hoping to change over the summer but haven't put too much thought into it. Open to lots of suggestions though!
edit: Only 3 books I currently have on my shelf that I haven't got to yet are Blindness and Seeing by Jose Saramago, so will probably tackle them first, followed by Douglas Coupland's The Gum Thief. |
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| Yohan |
Synopsis of each book plz ;)
Finished Sword Song by Bernard Cornwell.
Most famous for the Sharpe series, the Sword Song is book 4 of series about England during King Alfred's era which is hardly covered in historical fiction.
Decent plot, lots of action and overall enjoyable read. (The entire series pretty much is fun) |
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| Silky Johnson |
I have 22 books on my "to-read" list on Goodreads atm, but there's no way I'll get through them all this summer.
5 I'd like to read though are:
Beasts of No Nation - Iweala Uzodinma
Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth - James Lovelock
The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology - Ray Kurzweil
The World Without Us - Alan Weisman
Solaris - Kurt Kelm Stanislaw Lem |
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| Ania_xox |
Anna Karenina - Tolstoy
Crime and Punishment - Dostoyevsky
(unfortunately can not read russian and must read mediocre translations)
A collection of short stories and plays by Oscar Wilde
Père Goriot - Honoré de Balzac (original version FTW)
Runaway - Alice Munro
I'm also going to attempt Bram Stoker's Dracula again (got scared less last time and couldn't sleep... there is something SO F*CKING CREEPY about that book and the way the author transposes the plot and characters into your head)
Does anyone else on this forum love Jane Austen??? :) |
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| Silky Johnson |
| I think Bram Stoker's Dracula is one of the best romances ever. I love that book. |
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| Irishaddict |
| quote: | Originally posted by Ania_xox
Does anyone else on this forum love Jane Austen??? :) |
Sense and Sensibility is in my top 5 favourite novels ever.
As far as Oscar Wilde - The Importance of Being Earnest is still one of the funniest pieces of literature out there. |
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| Silky Johnson |
| Haha , forgot about that one...read it in high school, and yes it's hilarious! |
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| Ania_xox |
| quote: | Originally posted by jennypie
I think Bram Stoker's Dracula is one of the best romances ever. I love that book. |
So I have f*cking heard! So key to the understanding of the Victorian period of English Lit - I got through Shelley's Frankenstein just fine... and I kinda like the creepy feeling of reading alone in bed with these insane characters coming alive in your head... but when I was reading Dracula, at one point I actually started trembling. LOL
I stopped right around the part where the narrator (Jonathon?) hears the women's voices cackling or shrieking or something :nervous: |
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| Ania_xox |
| quote: | Originally posted by Irishaddict
Sense and Sensibility is in my top 5 favourite novels ever.
As far as Oscar Wilde - The Importance of Being Earnest is still one of the funniest pieces of literature out there. |
Really??? Have you read/enjoyed Pride and Prejudice? My fave book of all time. Sense and Sensibility comes third after Persuasion for me. I loved Hugh Grant in the movie though.
and OMG The Importance of Being Earnest is genius. The film adaptation isn't half bad either - Rupert Everett!!! <3 |
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| Irishaddict |
| P&P doesn't touch S&S for me. I ing hated Elizabeth lol. |
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| VERTiG0 |
I like books about military stuff with experimental weapons, like really awesome jets.
Therefore, I like every single book by Dale Brown.
And here you all are talking about classic literature. Thread ruined. |
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