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Summer Reading List
SilentJ:
Oh, I just remembered.
I've heard alot about this Bored of the Rings book, so I'm gonna check that out as well.
Has anybody read this? Thoughts?
Ally:
Guys life is too short to reread books unless they are REALLY REALLY GOOD.
Joseph:
So, I just returned from a used bookstore with my mother, where we spent a fair sum, and between that excursion and some things from the shelves at home, I have my summer reading. Here's a selection:
Matin Amis - Time's Arrow/Visiting Mrs. Navokov and Other Excursions
Ann Patchett - Bel Canto
Ian McEwan - Atonement/Enduring Love
Franz Kafka - The Trial
Joastein Gaarder - Sophie's World
V.S. Naipaul - The Enigma Of Arrival
Marilynne Robinson - Gilead
Philip Roth - American Pastoral/Our Gang
Don DeLillo - White Noise
John Kennedy Toole - The Neon Bible
James McBride - The Color Of Water
Pat Barker - Regeneration/The Eye In The Door/The Ghost Road
Dostoevsky - Crime And Punishment
Nicholson Baker - The Size Of Thoughts
Vladimir Nabokov - Pale Fire/Pnin
John Updike - Bech: A Book
Zadie Smith - White Teeth
Alice Munro - Something I've Been Meaning To Tell You
Halldor Laxness - Independent People
Scytale:
--- Quote from: SilentJ on 13 Jun 2007, 17:18 ---
I've heard alot about this Bored of the Rings book, so I'm gonna check that out as well.
Has anybody read this? Thoughts?
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I read that years ago it was pretty amusing, but I was a lot younger when I read it. It's pretty much what it sounds like a parody of Lord of the Rings. All that really stands out now is they re-named Tom Bombadil Tom Benzo-drill and he was basically a hippy always ranting on about Methadone (or Methadinny as he called it) I found it pretty amusing as a kid. I think if I read it today it would just give me the shits.
Misereatur:
--- Quote from: Dark Flame on 13 Jun 2007, 11:50 ---I just finished rereading Naked Lunch. That is one insane book, but I absolutely loved it; as much as one can love a journey into nigh-indecipherable madness.
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I started reading it earlier this year and stopped because I already had all of the insanity I could handle, and reading about talking ass holes was not what I needed. I started it again later on but stopped due to business.
--- Quote from: Will on 13 Jun 2007, 15:33 ---if you'd like a copy of the audiobook version, let me know and I can arrange for you to have it.
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That would be awsome. PM me?
Also
--- Quote from: Dark Flame on 13 Jun 2007, 20:18 ---Joastein Gaarder - Sophie's World
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I stopped reading that book when I hit page 150. It's a very interesting subject but I got really bored with the story line for some reason. I should to start reading it again.
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