Summer is practically over, and we never discussed our Summer Reading lists.
Whether it's for school or fun, go ahead and post what you were assigned/wanted to read over the Summer.
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I'll be taking AP English Literature next year.
My teacher assigned us four books:
1. How to Read Literature Like a Professor - Thomas C. Foster DONE
2. Pygmalion - George Bernard Shaw DONE
3. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley DONE
4. Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë OR House of Spirits - Isabel Allende (I chose Wuthering Heights). DONE
Have I completed any of the books? EDIT: YES!
At the Mountains of Madness - Lovecraft
also I hated Wuthering Heights
The professor book, Your Inner Fish, some movie about kites, another one that I have the spark notes for, a book about Obama and how he is the second coming, and a book about the Republican party being the best thing since sliced bread. I'm only reading the first two.
Quote from: Gwen Khan on August 09, 2010, 06:25:09 PM
At the Mountains of Madness - Lovecraft
Lucky. I've always wanted to read Lovecraft. Tell me if it's any good.
I'm going into AP English 4, though I don't know if there's another name or whatever for it. I have to read
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and
The Stranger by Albert Camus. I'm interested in reading both, although I haven't started either.
Quote from: RX-78-2 on August 09, 2010, 08:51:29 PM
Lucky. I've always wanted to read Lovecraft. Tell me if it's any good.
then why don't you?
Taking AP American Literature this upcoming year. Had to read Of Mice and Men and Catcher in the Rye. Still have to read this modern fiction book called The Book Thief for a general summer reading test.
Quote from: Gwen Khan on August 10, 2010, 05:44:05 AM
then why don't you?
Because I have many things to do.
Quote from: Light on August 10, 2010, 02:26:55 PM
Taking AP American Literature this upcoming year. Had to read Of Mice and Men and Catcher in the Rye. Still have to read this modern fiction book called The Book Thief for a general summer reading test.
I've read both of those--both of which are excellent. I don't know if you'll like--or even appreciate--the ending of
Of Mice and Men though.
Catcher in the Rye is great too if you can tolerate it; you need to feel empathy to like this book.
Quote from: RX-78-2 on August 13, 2010, 07:31:26 PM
Catcher in the Rye is great too if you can tolerate it; you need to feel empathy to like this book.
Can't feel empathy for such a terrible character. Holden Caulfield is just... blah.
Quote from: Light on August 14, 2010, 01:55:36 AM
Can't feel empathy for such a terrible character. Holden Caulfield is just... blah.
You didn't like
Catcher?
Personally, I loved it, but I guess I can see how some people could end up disliking the book.
Quote from: Java on August 14, 2010, 08:57:13 AM
You didn't like Catcher?
Personally, I loved it, but I guess I can see how some people could end up disliking the book.
I didn't like Holden Caulfield. The book itself was... enjoyable, I guess. I often find myself describing it as very similar to watching a trainwreck; it's so bad, but I can't take my eyes off it.
I read Water for Elephants, and that's about it.
It was an awesome book though.
That was a great book. It could get nasty sometimes, but it was still good.
Somehow I managed to finish all four books before school started.
I hated How to Read Literature. I thought it was a very boring lecture on paper.
Pygmalion was a light and easy read. I enjoyed it.
The plot of Frankenstein was great, but too many chapters dragged on and on and on and on and on.
Wuthering Heights was extremely depressing, but I actually liked it.
I just started reading Nineteen Eighty-Four.
I've about halfway through the professor one and 3.5 chapters through the fish. Both are ok.
notes:
wuthering heights was awful. i dont wanna hear about no heathcliff
of mice and men had a FANTASTIC ending. i wrote a fabulous paper on it, easily the best paper i've ever written, which basically explained why everything about that book was just superb.
reading:
brave new world
downtown owl (chuck klosterman)
in the heart of the sea: the tragedy of the whaleship essex
Quote from: Mystic on August 21, 2010, 02:01:38 PM
I just started reading Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Have fun.
Quote from: Titus Andronicus on August 22, 2010, 07:38:10 PM
of mice and men had a FANTASTIC ending. i wrote a fabulous paper on it, easily the best paper i've ever written, which basically explained why everything about that book was just superb.
It really was a great ending--very sad though.
I have yet to read Of Mice and Men. Perhaps I should quick go through it before school starts again.
I'm reading The Handmaid's Tale tonight for a test tomorrow. This book is terrible, it's like 1984 for girls and boring people.
I just started reading my books. Apparently, I have to read 69 pages a day if I want to be done in time for the first day. I definitely slacked off the whole summer.
And then there are the 100 or so math problems I have to do. :(
Quote from: Light on August 10, 2010, 02:26:55 PM
Taking AP American Literature this upcoming year. Had to read Of Mice and Men and Catcher in the Rye. Still have to read this modern fiction book called The Book Thief for a general summer reading test.
I read all three of those books on my own time. Loved all of them, particularly
Catcher in the Rye and
The Book Thief.
Quote from: Mystic on August 21, 2010, 02:01:38 PM
I just started reading Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Another book I loved.
I'm taking AP English this year, and I had to read
Jane Eyre and
Wide Sargasso Sea.
Jane Eyre was good, but I didn't care as much for the latter (but that could be due to the fact that I was running out of time and I just wanted it to be done, so I didn't have the leisure to enjoy it).
For AP European History I had to read
Johnny Got His Gun, which I loved. And as an optional book, I chose
Animal Farm, which I loved just as much, if not more (I must just like George Orwell, or political satires).
It was definitely a good year for summer reading.
Catcher in the Rye was a lot of fun because we got to watch Finding Forrester after we finished reading it. I still forget that William Forrester isn't a real person and that Avalon Landing isn't a real book. I wish Sean Connery wrote Catcher in the Rye instead, he's a lot more interesting than Salinger. Also, didn't Salinger die a while ago? Why haven't all of his other books been published yet?