<p>The Great Gatsby is really well written but I found the plot to be rather insignificant.</p>
<p>I liked the plot -- I just didn't like how Fitzgerald didn't let Daisy redeem herself.</p>
<p>Ragtime (by E.L. Doctorow) is a really good book.</p>
<p>Edit: I just have to comment on how much your profile reminds me of Watership Down.</p>
<p>^^ Haha, I started reading Watership Down actually in 6thish grade and hated it. It reminded me of a fable (which I like/d) on steroids (which I'm not too fond of).
I will look into Ragtime.
And about Daisy redeeming herself: I basically believed in what Nick was saying the whole time so if he calls Daisy a selfish snob, I believe it. She was a murderer and yes she was trying to save her own skin by conspiring w/ Tom but she must have known Gatsby would be offed. I don't think there would be any way that she could redeem herself in my eyes.</p>
<p>Lets use this thread as updates once we finish reading the books we say we're going to read.</p>
<p>finish the books?
hahahaha</p>
<p>going to read?
hahahahahaha.
Just kidding.
But I think we'll have to start a new thread. This one will be dead by that time. We can call it My Summer Reading List II.</p>
<p>Motherless Brooklyn was the shizznit. (by Jonathan Lethem)</p>
<p>It's about a detective w/ Tourette's Syndrome. Pretty unique set-up, I'd say. Plus it was good.....and funny.</p>
<p>Why do we have to make a new thread? We can just bump this one up.</p>
<p>I'm going to read the Harry Potter books!</p>
<p>I've only read one of them, and everyone else has read them like 5 times, so I'm starting to feel left out...</p>
<p>Summer hasn't even begun. By the time everyone finishes reading them, summer will be at least half over and the thread will be dead/impossible to find.</p>
<p>I only have 9 more days of school...</p>
<p>Don't rub it in!</p>
<p>yesssss, I have less than a week left!!!!!!!! :D</p>
<p>well I've been done for a week and a half!</p>
<p>I have like a month left.</p>
<p>Me too. How upsetting. I really need to drop out. If only I had a car.</p>
<p>Same here, I have until the 15th of June... :/</p>
<p>At least school starts later for us, those others have to start going to school in August, what a pain that must be.</p>
<p>4 days left for me, w00h0000000000000!!!!!!!!!!!</p>
<p>You're in college! College is awesome! You get to party! You get to party WITH college chicks! You get to party WITH college chicks WHILE boozin' it up! College rocks!</p>