Good Books To Read Over The Summer

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<p>You fill find very, very few people who agree with the statement that Vonnegut isn't a good writer. You may not like his style, but most people accept that he is an amazing writer.</p>

<p>And yes, most of Vonnegut's work is amazing. Funny, childish, sad, whatever it is - it's awesome.</p>

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<p>All right, I admit, it's his style I don't like. I usually don't make that distinction, bad habit, I know.</p>

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<p>Blink, the new book by the same guy who wrote The Tipping Point! should be good.</p>

<p>and i keep promising myself i'll read The Haj. but it never happens, im just too lazy .. maybe it's 8th grade slide.</p>

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<p>Read the Namesake. Then see the movie. It should be out on DVD by july or august.</p>

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<p>One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Clockwork Orange
Vonnegut's A Man W/o a Country
Anything by Dickens</p>

<p>...that's the type of stuff I read last summer</p>

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<p>Catcher in the Rye is amazing.</p>

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<p>^^ Good Lord, how I hate that book! I just thought it was really pointless--I like books with definite plots, I think that's why.</p>

<p>I say this in every thread but The Count of Monte Cristo was good and so was 1984. </p>

<p>Oh and if you want fun and witty but intelligent, try Jasper Fforde's Eyre Affair series. So good!!!</p>

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<p>I will second grickle - the Catcher in the Rye is amazing. There's a reason Holden has become the model for all teenage angst.</p>

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<p>My latest fav: "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy. Yes, it's one of Oprah's, but it's still an amazing book. Like, incredible.</p>

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<p>A Northern Light is a really great book, and so is A Great and Terrible Beauty... Oh and another one is Annie Between the States</p>

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<p>southeasttitan- I read that for a school assignment. I think that if I didn't have a book report due the day after I bought it, I'd've never finished it... </p>

<p>it was pretty interesting, but not a fun, summer read (imho).</p>

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<p>Catch 22, Catcher in the Rye, Any book by Kurt Vonnegut...
My personal favorite is the Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy but, its not like what you read...Also...Last Chance to Read was quite good...</p>

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<p>The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood.
Angela's Ashes, definitely.
Chicken with Plums (by Marjane something). . .it's a graphic novel, it's not very long, it's very sad but soooo good!
A lot of my friends have read East of Eden and it comes highly recommended. . .</p>

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<p>how long does it take for you guys to finish a book like Catch -22?</p>

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<p>Dust Tracks on A Road</p>

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<p>All books by Ayn Rand (especially Fountainhead, Anthem, and my all-time favorite We the Living) are really good. Also Lolita, The Road (reall good, in the fictional post-WWIII era), Brave new World, and all books by Tracy Chevalier (especially The Lady and the Unicorn) are really amazing.</p>

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<p>^ ooh i just finished The Road last week. lol</p>

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<p>On the Road
Lolita
Autobiography of Malcolm X
East of Eden
Fahrenheit 451
Anthem (Ayn Rand is crazy, though)</p>

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<p>Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane is like life cahangin narrates the horrors of South African apartheid.</p>

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<p>This summer, I'm reading/have read:</p>

<p>In Cold Blood - Capote
To the Lighthouse - Woolf
The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Kundera
A Death in the Family - Agee
The Stranger - Camus</p>