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Summer Reading List
Will:
Ally, Unbearable Lightness Of Being is an absolutely wonderful book. Just to forewarn you if you aren't already aware of this, the first chapter or so deals pretty heavily with discussing Nietzsche and his philosophies as they relate to the story that Kundera wrote, and it can be kind of dry at spots. Just don't let that cause your interest to wane, because the story really is quite a treat.
On the subject of Nietzsche, I've had a copy of "The Birth Of Tragedy" in my library for about a year or so and never got around to reading it. I'm going to try to force myself to have the discipline to go through that.
Partial List (to be added to later):
"Heavy" reading
The Birth Of Tragedy - Friedrich Nietzsche
Discipline & Punish: The Birth Of the Prison - Michel Foucalt
The One-Dimensional Man - Herbert Marcuse
"Light" reading
You Shall Know Our Velocity - David Eggers
Rant - Chuck Palahniuk
Dirty Job - Christopher Moore
The Dead MC Scrolls - Saul Williams
plus any other books of poetry that I can find that will inspire me.
mberan42:
I agree with Will on The Unbearable Lightness of Being. On your list, Ally, I've read A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, The Metamorphosis and Love in the Time of Cholera and loved all three (for completely separate reasons). Metamophosis is difficult to read, and I was required to read it for a university class, but it was fantastic.
I also don't have a seasonal list, but what I have right now:
It's Not News, it's FARK - How Mass Media Tries to Pass Off Crap As News by Drew Curtis
The Assault on Reason by Al Gore
Earth in the Balance by Al Gore
That's about it. Nothing is coming out anytime soon that I have to pick up.
Johnny C:
Oh right, I still need to read my copy of Plato's Republic the whole way through.
Scandanavian War Machine:
my list thus far is this:
God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian by Kurt Vonnegut
new Harry Potter book
Battle Royale by Koushan Takami (sp?)
so far that's it, i think. but there will be more as i discover them.
Will:
Matt, when you get around to reading Drew's book, can you let me know how it is? I'm kind of curious about it...
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