I just heard that I have a summer reading list!!

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dude8604

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Which one of these books should I read?

Abbey, Edward. The Monkey Wrench Gang
Alvarez, Julia. How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
Anderson, Sherwood.Winesburg, Ohio
Atwood, Margaret. The Handmaid's Tale
Barrett, Andrea. Lucid Stars
Beatty, Paul. The White Boy Shuffle
Canin, Ethan. Emperor of Air
Cary, Joyce. The Horse's Mouth
Collins, Wilkie. The Moonstone; Woman in White
Conrad, Joseph. Victory
Divakaruni, Chitra. Arranged Marriage; The Mistress of Spices
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. The Brothers Karamozov
Duncan, David James. The Brothers K
Dreiser, Theodore. An American Tragedy
Erdich, Louise. Love Medicine
Flaubert, Gustave. Madame Bovary
Forster, E. M. A Room with a View
Fowles, John. The French Lieutenant's Woman
Goldsmith, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield
Greene, Graham. The Power and the Glory
Hansen, Ronald.Atticus
Hardy, Thomas. The Mayor of Casterbridge; Far From the Madding Crowd; Jude the Obscure
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The House of the Seven Gables
Haynes, David. Right by My Side; Heathens
Irving, John. The World According to Garp
Jones, Louis. Ordinary Money
Kesey, Ken. Sometimes a Great Notion
Kingsolver, Barbara. Pigs in Heaven
Kozinski, Jerzy. The Painted Bird; Being There
Lefland, Ella. Rumors of Peace
Lewis, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry
Le Guin, Ursula. The Dispossessed
Lu, Hsun. The Story of Ah Q
McCarthy, Cormac. The Crossing
Melville, Herman.Typee
Mosley, Walter. Black Betty
More, Thomas, Sir. Utopia
Morrison, Toni. Jazz
Ng, FaeMyenne. Bone
Norris, Frank. The Octopus
O'Brien, Tim. In the Lake of the Woods
Osborn, John. The Paper Chase
Pasternak, Boris. Doctor Zhivago
Robbins, Tom. Jitterbug Perfume; Still Life with Woodpecker; Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Seals, David. Sweet Medicine
Singer, Isaac Beshevis.Gimpel the Fool
Smollett, Tobias. The Adventures of Roderick Random
Thoreau, Henry David. Walden
Tolstoy, Leo. Anna Karenina
Trollope, Anthony.Barchester Towers
Twain, Mark. Innocents Abroad
Voltaire.Candide
Vonnegut, Kurt. Cat's Cradle
Welch, James. Fools Crow
Wharton, Edith. The Age of Innocence
Wolfe, Tom. Bonfire of the Vanities
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wow, ive read many books but I havent even heard of those. Uhhhh...g/l man.
 
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Jzero

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You can't go wrong with Ursula K. LeGuin, especially if you like Sci-Fi.
I can also recommend Vonnegut--Cat's Cradle and Alvarez--How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents. Both are funny and pretty good, although Garcia Girls may be too feminist for some of the guys out there.
 
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waynehead

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handmaid's tale and world according to garp are the only ones ive read on that list. both are pretty easy reading but id say world according to garp is easier but longer. basically it's one guy's crazy life story as i vaguely remember. handmaid's tale is reminiscent of orwell's 1984 if that sounds more interesting to you. hope that helps...
 
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DO NOT read Trollope, Anthony.Barchester Towers . DO NOT. You will hate it and Trollope for writing it. I don't know about any of these other books, but for the love of god do NOT read Barchester Towers.

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Electric Amish

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Vonnegut, Kurt. Cat's Cradle

Hardy, Thomas. Far From the Madding Crowd

Voltaire.Candide

Those are my recommendations.

amish
 
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MichaelD

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"Just found out" huh? :cool: I smell...skepticism...hmm

[Steven]Dude, you're gettin' SO screwed...you'll never finish in time![/Steven]

How much time ya'got, anyway? Until this Monday, I'd assume?
 
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notfred

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This is for high school, right? Don't read any of them. Say no one told you you had a summer reading list.

If your high school is like mine was, only the 3 nerdiest kids in the class will have read the summer reading list, and the teacher will assign it as reading during the first quarter, because no one did it beforehand. Then, the nerdy kids get to read it a second time.
 
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Jzero

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Originally posted by: notfred
This is for high school, right? Don't read any of them. Say no one told you you had a summer reading list.

If your high school is like mine was, only the 3 nerdiest kids in the class will have read the summer reading list, and the teacher will assign it as reading during the first quarter, because no one did it beforehand. Then, the nerdy kids get to read it a second time.
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Actually, then the nerdy kids get to sit on their butts while all the "cool" kids piss and moan about how they didn't read the chapter last night and they're going to bomb the quiz, cry, cry, cry, you can't do this to me, if I get a 'D' I won't be able to go out for the cheerleading team wah!
hahaha
Sometimes nerdiness has its priveleges ;)

 
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Shelly21

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Irving, John. The World According to Garp

It's a movie... so just watch the movie... unless the book is a bit different....
 
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JuanDixon

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Bonfire of the Vanities! That book was so great. It's really accessible, you'll wanna keep reading it. It's got great humor to boot. I LOVED it and I hardly ever read books.
 
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Colt45

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haha. at all the highschools ive gone to they dont even give us a summer reading thing-- because no one does it.

that said, I recall someone saying tom wolfe writes about lots of drugs, and havent heard of the others :p
 
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DaveSimmons

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Originally posted by: Jzero
Originally posted by: notfred
This is for high school, right? Don't read any of them. Say no one told you you had a summer reading list.

If your high school is like mine was, only the 3 nerdiest kids in the class will have read the summer reading list, and the teacher will assign it as reading during the first quarter, because no one did it beforehand. Then, the nerdy kids get to read it a second time.
Click to expand...

Actually, then the nerdy kids get to sit on their butts while all the "cool" kids piss and moan about how they didn't read the chapter last night and they're going to bomb the quiz, cry, cry, cry, you can't do this to me, if I get a 'D' I won't be able to go out for the cheerleading team wah!
hahaha
Sometimes nerdiness has its priveleges ;)
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LOL -- Lisa Simpsons of the world, unite!

> Twain, Mark. Innocents Abroad
Twain is an excellent, entertaining writer.

> Le Guin, Ursula. The Dispossessed
I'll be the dissenting voice on this, I love SF but found it a heavy-handed allegory on racism, not nearly as good as her other books. [or as good as Twain's Prince/Pauper, Puddinhead Wilsom -and- Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin if you want books about racism/classism]

<--- Homer Simpson body, Lisa Simpson nerd-brain
 
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