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Reading this summer
Tom:
I plan to attempt those in my summer.
Jimmy the Squid:
I read book two of The Dresden Files, Fool Moon last night and I was particularly impressed. I haven't really read many books with werewolves in them and this was pretty damn awesome. So far my favourite line is about the temptation of black magic:
"...I knew there was some dark corner of me that would enjoy using magic for killing - and then long for more. That was black magic, and it was easy to use. easy and fun. Like Legos."
So while on the subject of werewolves, does anyone have any suggestions for other werewolf-related books?
october1983:
I'll also be rereading Paradise Lost this summer, as I am writing my dissertation on the relationship between religion, politics and religion in 17th century England, and I can't think of a single text more apt than Paradise Lost. I may also reread the His Dark Material trilogy, when I have Paradise Lost fresh in my mind. Might be interesting.
Right now I'm rereading Lolita. Perhaps I should read some new books, rather than going back over ones I've already read. I tend not to reread much, but Lolita is a book I come back to every couple of years, as I always enjoy Nabakov's style in it. Not sure what else I'll be reading this summer. Probably whatever takes my fancy each time I finish another book.
singeivoire:
I'm right in the middle of Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie. Really excellent book. It's the first one I've read by him, though I've long intended to read Midnight's Children. That's probably next on my list. I have a habit of going on authorcentric book benders - consuming all the writing that one individual has produced in an unhealthily short amount of time. I sense a Salman Rushdie phase coming on...
rynne:
--- Quote from: TheFuriousWombat on 07 Jun 2008, 22:09 ---Already read:
Waiting for Barbarians by Coetzee
Cat's Cradle by Vonnegut
The Savage Detectives by Balano
The Crying of Lot 49 by Pynchon
To read:
Don Quixote
V by Pynchon
Hopefully a lot more.
--- End quote ---
I tried reading Don Quixote last summer, got maybe a third of the way through and lost interest. I'll eventually finish it, I think. I did read V last year, though that was my second or third time starting it. I think The Crying of Lot 49 and Mason & Dixon are the only Pynchon books I finished on my first attempt. V, Gravity's Rainbow, and Against the Day all became a bit too much the first time though.
My planned reading for this summer so far is:
H. P. Lovecraft – The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions
M. R. James – The Haunted Doll's House and Other Ghost Stories
Chris Connelly – Concrete, Bulletproof, Invisible + Fried: My Life as a Revolting Cock (good beach reading, I figure)
David Norton, ed. – The New Cambridge Paragraph Bible with the Apocrypha
Seamus Heaney, trans. – Beowulf
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