<p>This is a two part question:</p>
<li><p>Did anyone else read in the Intro letter in the first New Student Information packet that we have to read Reading Lolita in Tehran (all incoming freshman) over the summer? Or am I crazy?</p></li>
<li><p>What’s everyone reading this summer? I need some book suggestions…</p></li>
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<p>yes we have to read that.</p>
<p>so far this summer i've read:
Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut
Economics in One Lesson - Henry Hazlitt
Politics - Aristotle
right now i'm reading The Libertarian Reader
i'm trying to read Economics for Real People - Gene Callahan, The Ethics of Liberty - Murray Rothbard, The Road to Serfdom - F A Hayek, and The Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith before the end of summer.</p>
<p>I wish that we'd had a reading assignment. Instead, we were told to catch up with what was happening with the election and what the candidates platforms were. Then, during orientation, we got together with our advising groups and were supposed to talk about politics. Now I'm perfectly willing to talk politics in almost any situation, but I'm not sure it was a great idea to have 15 people who hadn't met each other before orientation to start talking about one of the most divisive issues in the country. Though I have not read Reading Lolita in Tehran, I've heard good things about it.</p>
<p>Reading Lolita in Tehran (I would underline this, but I have no idea how, and I'm running out the door!) was really good, but I have a recommendation before you read it (and this will give you more reading material, too). Try to read as many as you can of the books she references within her own. The four main works discussed are Lolita, The Great Gatsby, Daisy Miller, and Pride and Prejudice, if I remember correctly, but mostly just make sure you're read up on your Nabokov, Fitzgerald, James, and Austen. There were a couple books referenced that I hadn't read, and I can't help but feel I would have enjoyed Reading Lolita in Tehran a little more if I had read them.</p>