<p>I just thought I'd start a light thread (especially since this sub-forum is a bit underused). I'll start - just list the title, author, and, for the true bibliophiles, the ISBN of your favourite edition. Feel free to list several if you can't make up your mind!</p>
<p>Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
ISBN 0140283382</p>
<p>A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
Tender at the Bone by Ruth Reichl</p>
<p>Pynchon gives me the biggest reading-induced headaches! power to ya if you willingly go through all that junk (I don't mean it in a bad way, but anyone who's read pynchon would get what I'm saying, right?). </p>
<p>I'm now reading... Bergdorf Blondes. I have a ditzy side of me that loves the Shopoholic series, Elle mag and WWD. Sue me!</p>
<p>ummm...I confess ignorance to all of the previous books posted...anyway</p>
<p>I happen to love anything by Orson Scott Card, esp. Ender's Game and the Alvin Maker Series...</p>
<p>Any other takers? :)</p>
<p>I'm not an 09er, but I love everything from Berkeley's own Michael Chabon.</p>
<p>anyone else...?</p>
<p>Well, Ive only heard of a few of the previous books. As for me, Ill take Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, Lolita by Vladimir Nabakiov, The Giver by Lois Lowry, The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry,and The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster, amongst others.</p>
<p>Have you read Pale Fire, Bend Sinister, or "Ada, or Ardor" by Nabokov? He is one of my favorite authors with many of his works sorely under appreciated. Pale Fire is, of course, his crowning achievement, but so many of his other books are largely ignored. Gnostic turpitudes indeed.</p>
<p>I have most of his works sitting on my or my brother's shelfs, but i haven't had the chance to read entire collections by one author. This summer, i read a lot of solo "classic" works by different authors, but soon, i'm going to start reading all of JD Salinger, maybe Faulkner, Joyce, and Nabakov, for starters. Although i might not get through all of Faulkner or Joyce, i expect to complete salinger and Nabakov. And i haven't read any Steinbeck, which is a bit sad. Soon . . .</p>
<p>^^^The JD Sanlinger wont take long, but getting throughJoyce and Faulkner is a life sentence. And I have to agree that Nabokov is amazing. BTW, I can't remember the guys name, but we have one of the most often cited Joyce scholars in the word teaching up at Cal, so I've you're into him you've come to the right place.</p>
<p>I do enjoy Joyce as well. Especially some of his Dubliners and Portrait. I haven't yet had the motivation to conquer Ulysses, however...</p>
<p>Dubliners is quite lovely. "The Dead" is my favorite of the stories. It's so beautiful and sad, like a dying heroine's aria. </p>
<p>If anyone is interested in a book recommendation, I highly recommend 44 Scotland Street by Alexander McCall Smith. It's a look at ordinary people living in a neighborhood in Edinburgh, but he really gets into the nature of the lines between love and infatuation, and also love and friendship. The characters are very real too.</p>
<p>I quite liked the Dead, Malachite, such a lovely description you gave as well! :) </p>
<p>I also liked Mr. Duffy's story, I believe it was "A Painful Case". Not quite as well developed as the Dead, but I do admire Joyce's style in this piece.</p>
<p>I have never read a book outside of class since middle school. Sad huh.. although I used to be quite hooked on Goosebumps and Animorphs in 3rd grade. Does that count? =</p>
<p>nope. lol just kidding. I used to read Animorphs too and it was pretty neat!</p>
<p>I loved Animorphs, of course it counts :)</p>
<p>Anyone read anything off the Berkeley summer reading list?</p>
<p>The Downing Street Years by Margaret Thatcher
Madame Secretary by Madeleine Albright
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
A Portrait of The Artist as A Young Man by James Joyce</p>
<p>Those are 4 that come off the top of my head.</p>
<p>I liked A Portrait of the Artist as A Young Man, even after I wrote a 10 page paper about it...and that's saying something for me :)</p>
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