Comments on: Summer Reading

By: Maddy

Maddy — Sat, 09 Aug 2003 01:25:20 +0000

Despite the fact that my summer is nearly over *sniff*, I read through HP:OotP in about 5x as long as Sarah did (Freak!), and as soon as I get my new library card, I’ll be reading Peter Pan, the original one by J.M. Barrie, in order to prepare myself for the Peter Pan movie coming out ’round Xmas time.
Since I don’t know how to do hyperlinks with this system:
Http://www.peterpanmovie.net
Yum.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Sat, 12 Jul 2003 14:38:49 +0000

If you liked Harry Potter, look at (non-classics) like the Dark is Rising Series by Susan Cooper.

By: diane

diane — Fri, 11 Jul 2003 16:33:10 +0000

How dare you blaspheme The Great Gatsby. I love that book. I remember liking Ethan Frome too, but not so much. I liked The Jungle. Also Pride and Prejudice.
Catcher in the Rye is one I should read again. Catch 22 I’ve never read, Grapes of Wrath I don’t think I read, and have not read Slaughterhouse 5. I guess I’ll add those to my list. Any other suggestions?

By: athena

athena — Fri, 11 Jul 2003 16:18:19 +0000

Yeah, I found that most of the classics that I’ve read have not been through school. Maybe…two. Catcher in the Rye I read on my own. LOVE IT! Can’t even really tell you why, maybe it’s just seeing *bad* words in print…maybe it was the time of life. I’ve had The Jungle on the shelf for YEARS. The problem with some of those classics is that they are just SO DEPRESSING.

By: Trina

Trina — Fri, 11 Jul 2003 03:55:42 +0000

Things like Catch 22, Catcher in the Rye, Slaughterhouse 5, Grapes of Wrath… the stuff I’m “supposed” to have read and should be able to reference in casual conversation, but can’t

By: tim

tim — Fri, 11 Jul 2003 03:46:04 +0000

classics? me? I still want to read a few books by Vonnegut. I read Slaughterhouse Five, excellent. Perhaps Breakfast for Champions will be next as far as classics go. I have Dracula on my shelf begging to be read.
The only books I really enjoyed in school were Lord of the Flies and Animal Farm so I try to stay far away from “Classics”. Crap like the Great Gatsby and Ethan Frome. I would probably read Fahrenheit 451, since that’s the type of classic I would get into.

By: diane

diane — Thu, 10 Jul 2003 23:29:56 +0000

So what “classics” are you going to read?

By: tim

tim — Thu, 10 Jul 2003 23:26:57 +0000

Well I just finished the fourth book in the “Anita Blake Vampire Hunter” series and started reading Harry Potter from the beginning 2 days ago…I’m into Azkaban now. After the HP series, I move onto A Game of Thrones by George RR Martin (which is a trilogy, i think) then I read the new book by William Gibson, then onto the Wheel Of Time.

By: athena

athena — Thu, 10 Jul 2003 21:04:41 +0000

reading….hmmm…I’m currently in the middle of several books: Harry Potter V, of course, and then there’s Random Family and The Accidental Tourist (on loan from Diane). In the que are: Gilligan’s Wake, Dune, et al., and Stranger in a Strange Land. That will all take me the rest of the year probably to finish!

By: Nate

Nate — Thu, 10 Jul 2003 18:44:07 +0000

Oh, and just a helpful tip for anyone reading LOTR (including the Hobbit), sometimes the only way to make it is to skim through the songs and the immense descriptions, otherwise you tend to lose sight of the good stuff. The good stuff is REALLY GOOD when you get there, but you have to make it there first. Just a little pointer to prevent anyone from getting discouraged, because it is very easy to give up on those books.