Or for those that are out of school, reading for fun?
Sam's Letters to Jennifer by James Patterson
Sidhartha
Edith Hamilton's Mythology (Only the part about the Trojan War)
Things Fall Apart
I have to read Ithaca and write a 13 page report by the week after next.
Who has to do assignments over the Summer? Thats messed up.
Metamorphosis by Frank Kafka.
It's only 60 pages and strangely the only book I have to read.
I'm only on Page 2. D:
Quote from: Java_Java on August 05, 2008, 12:02:50 PM
Metamorphosis by Frank Kafka.
It's only 60 pages and strangely the only book I have to read.
I'm only on Page 2. D:
Quite possibly the worst novella ever written.
Also, I don't have to do any summer reading, though I'm getting started on
Japan: A Modern History so that I'll have a headstart in Hist 242.
Quote from: PsychoYoshi on August 05, 2008, 12:20:54 PM
Quote from: Java_Java on August 05, 2008, 12:02:50 PM
Metamorphosis by Frank Kafka.
It's only 60 pages and strangely the only book I have to read.
I'm only on Page 2. D:
Quite possibly the worst novella ever written.
No wonder she assigned only one, short book.
Why is it bad? Is it boring?
Quote from: Java_Java on August 05, 2008, 12:24:36 PM
No wonder she assigned only one, short book.
Why is it bad? Is it boring?
A guy wishes for change in his mundane existence, so he wakes up and he's an insect. And no one will accept him except the family servant and he becomes emo and his life is bawwwwwwwwwww and then he dies
To quote the great Max Bialystock from
The Producers while he's searching for the worst play ever written: "One morning, Gregor Samsa awoke to discover that he had been transformed into a gigantic cockroach!
[pause] Nah, too good."
Nope, I don't. :)
I hate having to read books for school. Heck, I don't like reading books out of boredom either. :P
I'll keep putting it off for as long as I can, until finally I need to cram over the whole weekend to finish.
I didn't have to read any. But I read Hamlet (because I have to read it in school next year, thought I'd get a head start), The Scarlet Letter (Same) and The Gilded Age. Other than that, it's strictly Calvin and Hobbes for me. XD
Two Little Girls in Blue - Mary Higgens Clark
I read J.R.R Tolkein's Lord of the rings trilogy and the Hobitt for fun....
Not for any assignment, but I did read Return of the King and now currently reading Deathly Hollows.
Even though I know the end already.
I dunno. "Supposedly" have a summer reading list, but my school is retarded, and only passed it out to a few random people, so I'm not gonna bother. =P
But I did read "Shades of Simon Gray" out of bordom. Not the best book I've ever read, but still pretty good.
Book? As in singular? psh.
Quote from: Wizardorlan on August 06, 2008, 02:49:09 PM
Book? As in singular? psh.
^that
I have to read 5 books, two required and three from a list of college-level books.
required:
Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls
chosen from list (read these already):
Seascape by Edward Albee (weirdest and most awkward play ever >.>)
Thirteen Moons by Charles Frazier (same guy who wrote
Cold Mountain)
Ulysses by James Joyce (FREAKING AMAZING)
one book? yeah right.
The Grapes of Wrath by John Stienbeck
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
and
Roger's Version by John Updike
I have less then a month to read all those books, which average about 300 pages each.
plus:
100 math questions
a history outline spanning 5 chapters
a poopload of deffinitions for U.S. history/Biology/and English
and 2 essays for Biology.
Oh and did I mention that each of those books have a "Reading response" part too.
There's no way in hell I will finish all of this.
Damn my AP classes, darn my AP teachers, and darn myself for wanting a good future D: