summer reading 2011

[americnxidiot]

so these are the books i want to read this summer. have you read any of them? did you love/hate them?

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the big one:

Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

to read:

To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper
Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Brief Interviews With Hideous Men by

Comments

[whatsmynom]

i will remain uncharacteristically silent.

you know my choice(s).

[soup_lover_9]

But I don't.

sharing is caring.

[americnxidiot]

lolll i can tell you. she wants me to read to kill a mockingbird. she's silent here, but not elsewhere rofll.

[soup_lover_9]

lmao. I agree with Anya. Read To Kill a Mockingbird (reasons listed in my comment).

[dorkfish04]

ANNA AND THE FRENCH KISS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[whatsmynom]

omg icon ♥

[dorkfish04]

I LOVE FLYNN/RAPUNZEL SO MUCH ♥

[americnxidiot]

omg your icon!

[soup_lover_9]

I loved To Kill A Mockingbird. It's one of my favorites. It's a fast read too.

I can't stand Joyce's writing. I read Dubliners and it equate it to pulling teeth. I could barely finish it. So I don't go near his stuff with a 10-foot pole.

[americnxidiot]

ahhh i thought "the dead" was perfect and brilliant, and i love weird structural stuff. i just know it's going to be an undertaking.

[soup_lover_9]

I actually sorta liked The Dead. But that was the only one I could bear reading. I wrote an essay about too for Eng. Lit class "The Dead: Are They Really Dead?" Needless to say, I totally bs'd my way through that one.

[americnxidiot]

hahaa i wrote an essay on it, too. it was a really good one. i used it for a while when they asked for writing samples with my resume loll.

[dorkfish04]

I do also love To Kill A Mockingbird! <3

[ktbass]

I read Ulysses for a class (a class that started out with two great books and quickly devolved into me wanting to slit my wrists), and it sits on my shelf all impressive like. But I can honestly say that reading it was miserable. I vote for the Pynchon. And yay for To Kill a Mockingbird, one of the best books ever. <3

[americnxidiot]

i guess the deciding factor to me will be whether or not i want to dive into another post-modern text this summer or if i want to stick with the modernists while i'm still in that mindset. i took a class on the american novel from 1900-1945 this semester, so that's almost entirely modernists.

[carrie9142]

+1

[americnxidiot]

+1 to ulysses hate or to pynchon love?