Reading List

[handstil]

1. A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce
2. LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov
3. TO THE LIGHTHOUSE by Virginia Woolf
   
4. THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER by Carson McCullers
5. SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut

Comments

[sevenseastories]

That is a great list! I have read quite a few of those too, but like you it has been too long, or i was too young when i read them, and could definitely read them again.

[lolacat]

I hated Lolita! And Joyce is meh. ;) I'm such a terrible, terrible English Ed major for saying such things!

Ummmmmmm.... this is a fancy list!! :) You might like Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf instead of TTL... and I always liked The Awakening by Kate Chopin.

[handstil]

I LOVE Lolita. I loved that book a little too much, if you know what I mean, for a 14 year old girl. Ha.

I think it's funny that everyone is saying my list is heavy, you should see my winter list!

Tibor Machan, H. L. Mencken, Medawar... I actually prefer non-fiction but wanted a fun summer list. I like heavy, epic shit, I guess?

[lolacat]

Brian loves heavy shit, too. I guess it takes all kinds ;). I'm a total lightweight. I'm like wahhh this is too heavy. I like to read young adult fiction, and non-fiction.

I think I got to Lolita too late. It was too creepy. I bet I would have liked it in HS.

[fairbrook]

great list though maybe a bit heavy...

i would add:

blindness - saramago

the wine of youth - fante

what we talk about when we talk about love - carver

the women at the pump - hamsun

empathy - mei-mei berssenbrugge (poetry)

the collector - fowles

and maybe the great gatsby again?

i adore lolita and mccullers...

[handstil]

Ooh, some favorites here and some new names. Thanks for the recommendations!

[_awakening]

I am re-reading Lolita!

[debok]

this list looks pretty good, maybe a little heavy for the summer though. (i only say this because i am barely working and morty is with noam all day, yet i am still trying to finish a louise erdrich novel after renewing it twice from the public library--that's like, five weeks i've had it!)

i think you should boot joyce and instead read some oscar wilde. i think he's so fun. though joyce's short stories would be good. still, oscar wilde would be a fun summer read.