<p>I have to read the accidental masterpiece: on the art of life and vice versa by Micheal Kimmelman. I had to go out and buy it, only hard back copies, 25 bucks. I wish my college would have sent me a copy in the mail as well!</p>
<p>"Never Let Me Go"...awesome book.</p>
<p>they told me to read THE QUIET AMERICAN, haven's started yet but the book's name sounds too irony to me!</p>
<p>One Nation Underprivileged: Why American Poverty Affects Us All (or something).....</p>
<p>It's by a Wash U in STL author (where I'm going).</p>
<p>Haven't started. It sure is awfully big. No spark notes either :-(</p>
<p>We freshman at Ithaca have to read "The Life of Pi"</p>
<p>I have to read Testimony: The Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich.</p>
<p>Barbara Kingsolver is awesome. I read one of her books freshman year in HS, Bean Trees, and it was great. I think The poisonwood bible is like what happens after bean trees. Very readable.</p>
<p>I didn't have any summer reading, thank god, as the ones from HS killed me--had to read the oddessy, Emma and the Alchemist before my freshman year HS, then Great Expectations, a room with a view, and Brave New World before sophomore year, then On the Road by jack kerouac, The things they carried, and The color purple before junior year, thenn Nickle and Dimed, Dancing on my Grave, and Me Talk Pretty One Day before senior year.</p>
<p>We had reallllly good books to read, but it was a lot. They got better as HS progressed--I seriously wanted to shoot charles dickens for writing great expectations.</p>
<p>The Life of Pi is a good book.</p>
<p>I love the kiterunner and the life of pi</p>
<p>yeah, great gatsby...</p>
<p>cornell?</p>
<p>Life of Pi is so good. And I didn't like it at first, but it's so worth reading.</p>
<p>Stanford this year is giving freshman 3 books:
Mountains beyond Mountains (which has been discussed and seems to be good)
How to breathe underwater
The kite runner</p>
<p>Has anyone read these book? Are they any good?</p>
<p>The Kite Runner is awesome!</p>
<p>That's good to hear!</p>
<p>How to breathe underwater is by Julie Orringer, right? She teaches creative writing at stanford, and is an amazing writer. It's a compilation of short stories so it should be a quick read. Several of my past creative writing teachers were freinds of hers, and if she's anything like them, she's a really cool person. Have fun!</p>
<p>Wow she works at Stanford? I knew I was going to meet the authors during orientation week but I never knew one of them worked there. Cool :)</p>
<p>I did not find the book Mountains Beyond Mountains anywhere. I can't afford to spend about 2 weeks on shipment by buying it through amazon and its ebook is unavailable. I have to write three short essays on this book and the deadline is July25th. What should I do?</p>
<p>Check your local library, and if they don't have it, see if they can get it for you through inter-library loan.</p>
<p>At Carleton they will be reading Persepolis and Persepolis 2 - graphic novels! It's about a girl growing up in Iran at the beginning of the revolution.</p>
<p>~further~ Why did you wait so long? It's already july and you expected to read the entire book, well, and then write 3 good essays on it in 3 weeks? Better get cracking. . . .</p>
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she's awesome. :) I think she came in and did a reading at my HS (which is like a 10 min drive away from stanford), and I remember liking her.</p>