What are you reading this summer?

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<p>Perhaps you've been assigned something - like my future comrades with the Iliad - but still find time in your hectic summer schedule to do some reading for fun. I've managed to read a few good ones so far. Those that stand out are two by Philip K. Dick called The Man in the High Castle and The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldrich. </p>

<p>Right now I'm about a third of the way through George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones. I'm not big on high fantasy, but this is stellar.</p>

<p>What are you reading?</p>

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<p>*Cien a</p>

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<p>Right now, A Mercy by Toni Morrison, her new book and the first I’ve ever read of hers. Beautiful writing, but I’m not so sure I’m into the story. There’s too much dabbling into the problems of each of the characters and not enough of an explanation as to how they relate to one another, or even a plot.</p>

<p>Maybe I’d like Beloved or The Bluest Eye better?</p>

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<p>The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac. Toni Morrison sucks.</p>

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<p>Nutrition info on a box of Cereal.</p>

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<p>As if cereal had any nutritional value.</p>

<p>I’ve read a few drawing and design type books, mostly guides rather than “books.”</p>

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<p>Hey, it has quite a bit of calories!</p>

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<p>Well it gives you a good bit of the 4 modern food groups;</p>

<p>sugar
salt
fat</p>

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<p>^ I know what you mean. So many Jose Arcadios and Aurelianos. Pretty crazy.</p>

<p>I’m reading Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It’s pretty long, but it’s a totally okay read. The only “difficult” part of it is the length.</p>

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<p>The length, and the long paragraphs. Oddly enough, those are the problems in *Cien a</p>

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<p>Why do you say that?</p>

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<p>A couple of history books :)</p>

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<p>I was assigned Moby dick to read for ap lit ughhhh</p>

<p>So far this summer I read going after Cacciato (as my name suggests) and tomcat in love by tim obrien, on writing: a memoir to the craft by Stephen king, and Shadow of the wind by carlos ruiz Zafron.</p>

<p>I plan to read freakonomics, fountainhead, pride and prejudice and zombies, and the book theif. Plus I want to read those books obama wrote if i find the time.</p>

<p>I’m still open to other suggestions though :)</p>

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<p>The Count of Monte Cristo is excellent. It’s a bit lengthy, but it makes good use of every page.</p>

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<p>The Prince by Machiavelli.</p>

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<p>Dante’s Inferno</p>

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<p>the world according to garp and a prayer for owen meany are both great reads by john irving. they are more of a modern classic than the others people have mentioned.</p>

<p>and i’m hoping to pick up the count of monte cristo and maybe uncle tom’s cabin</p>

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<p>The Prince is legit. I’m keeping it real with The Histories by Herodotus, The Nichomachean Ethics by Aristotle, and Beyond Good and Evil by Nietzsche.</p>

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<p>Give me a break, people. Am I to believe that you sit around watching Masterpiece Theatre, too?</p>