<p>yea...Siddhartha is a 10th grade req'd book here in MD.</p>
<p>Are you guys actually reading these for the hell of it?</p>
<p>yeh :p my list for the summer is huge...</p>
<p>reading machiavelli's 'the prince' at the moment...</p>
<p>then:
to kill a mockingbird
the picture of dorian gray
tess of the d'urbervilles
emma
the castle
fear and loathing in las vegas
anna karenina
middlemarch</p>
<p>Siddhartha? Of course I read that for the hell of its. Hesse is just awsome.</p>
<p>Oh yea, Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf and Stephen Mitchell's translation of Gilgamesh are good for the myth buff.</p>
<p>xedx, Fear and Loathing was such a trip to read--then I watched the movie and my mind was like...whoa.</p>
<p>I just bought 9 books for $108, hehe. (I got a bunch of gift cards for graduation and my birthday.)</p>
<p>Cat's Cradle (finished last night at 3 a.m.)
Slaughterhouse Five
Steppenwolf
The Sound and the Fury
The Sun Also Rises
Notes from the Underground
A Clockwork Orange
Rabbit, Run
The Metamorphasis</p>
<p>And my friend is giving me her extra copy of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.</p>
<p>I also need to finish On the Road, which I am loving so far. Then I'm going to the store again and buying some Palahniuk--because I didn't get a chance to when I went on my little spree.</p>
<p>wanna read deception point...heard it wasnt as good as the other three...</p>
<p>^^Yeah, Deception Point is definitely the weakest of the Dan Brown Novels. My ranking goes: Angels and Demons, Digital Fortress, The Da Vinci Code, Deception Point.</p>
<p>Man Ive started to read a ton of Hermann Hesse. Siddhartha, and i just read The Journey to the East and The Glass Bead Game today at work.</p>
<p>awsomeness.</p>
<p>you read glass bead game in a day? it took me like 3...and i read for like 7 hours each day.</p>
<p>haha yea. Im just that hardcore...</p>
<p>and I was that bored.</p>
<p>The Journey to the East only took me like 2 hours...so The Glass Bead Game took me around 6 1/2. weird. It was like 550pgs too.</p>
<p>yeah...i only skim-read the 3 lives at the end. i wasn't particularly interested in them. i was keen to get on to other things. i only finished glass bead game yesterday...got damien, narciss and goldmund, and steppenwolf in my reading list. it'll be a while before i get round to them.</p>
<p>btw...is journey to the east in any way related to the 'journeyers to the east' hesse refers to in the intro to glass bead game?</p>
<p>yea, a lot of his novels are interconnected in some weird fashion. I cant really figure it out completely since the stories are from two different times. Like Vasuveda is mentioned in Journey to the East and another member of the League is Klingsor, from Klingsor's Last Summer. so brilliantly strange. haha.</p>
<p>I think I'm going to read Slaughterhouse Five tonight and finish off my Vonnegut pair....then I think I'll read A Clockwork Orange.</p>
<p>I finished Black Boy.</p>
<p>I'm reading On the Road.</p>
<p>I started and I am still trying to finish Heart of Darkness and Abdullah Yusu f Ali's translation of The Qur'an.</p>
<p>Heart of Darkness is like 120 pages. suck it up.</p>
<p>Actually, my Dover Thrift Editions version is like around 80 pages or so.</p>
<p>But, each page is worth ten "regular" pages!</p>
<p>heart of darkness isn't 800 pages long.</p>
<p>Re do on books(changed mind):
School: Pigman(i love it i read 30 pages yesterday 20 last night and im going to read another 20 soon)
A yr w/o Michael.
NonschooL: The day the world came to town-9/11-Gander,Newfoundland(read already.)
Les mizz(going to try to read)
hmm a couple chick flicks..
and maybe another non-fic book that came from the list that i got the gander book from</p>
<p>(Okay, I'm hesitatingly venturing into the abyss that is the cafe...this seems to be a relatively safe topic.)</p>
<p>So far this summer, I've read:
The Three Musketeers - Dumas
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! - Feyman
The Bell Jar - Plath
Mrs. Dalloway - Woolfe
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Succeed or Fail - Diamond (should be required reading for humanity in general)
Slaughterhouse Five - Vonnegut
A Canticle for Leibowitz - Miller (High reccomendation, here - it isn't as popular as the other classics, but definitely well-worth the read)
The Jungle - Sinclair</p>
<p>I'm currently reading:
Anna Karenina - Tolstoy
Lolita - Nabokov
Reading Lolita in Tehran - Nafisi</p>
<p>Books on the list for an Undisclosed Future Date:
East of Eden - Steinbeck (pour l'ecole)
1776 - McCullough (likewise...these both look entertaining, though)
War and Peace - Tolstoy
Catch-22 - Heller (I've started this twice, both times during exam weeks...will hopefully complete it this time through)
How the Mind Works - Pinker
Bleak House - Dickens
And a re-read of Les Miserables, unabridged this time through.</p>
<p>That's what I currently have...I want to get to some Dostoevsky (much love for the Russians), but we have some major philisophical issues going on that might be difficult to set aside. More Austen would be nice...found Persuasion for free online, and since I'm cheap that will probably be it. Dunno. Reccommendations are welcome.</p>
<p>Blah blah blah blah...</p>
<p>...Curently I'm reading Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs as well as the Life of Pi.</p>
<p>The life of Pi is good im reading that now!!</p>