Your Summer Reading

[Kabane]

Eh, i didnt see a thread, so what do you guys have to read for the Summer? Anything interesting?


For me:

Digital Fortress by Dan Brown
Timeline by Micheal Crichton
THe Killer Angels by (someone, his name escapes me atm)


as well as 2 art books which i dont feel the need to post since they arent real literature, so to speak.

[hitsugaya131]

Im goin to be a sophomore in high school
This summer reading is for Humanities L3:
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
And Frankenstein by forget the person

Reading A Tale of Two Cities and am on Chapter 4
We have to take notes and write a 5-7 page paper.

For Frankenstein
Take notes and take a test on it

The test and paper are on the first day of school
T_T

[Sanzora]

I don't have summer but I'm constantly busy with a couple of books... Currently I'm on

The Book of Skulls by someone who's name escapes me...
The Chosen Child by Graeme Masterton
Ask and It is Given by Esther Hicks
Angels and Goddesses by Doreen Virtue

Plus a book my friend is writing and a whole pile of Whit Dwarf mags... :LOL:

[nikuwadoko]

Catcher in the Rye~ I'm quite excited about it~

[yumisan]

don't have summer either..it's always hot here.well books that going to keep me busy this time will be three books that are

Empress Orchid by Achee Min.
reading half way through)

Digital Fortress by Dan Brown.

Blink : The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

and maybe one more that will be

Warcraft : Day of The Dragon.

[~black butterfly~]

Digital Fortress by Dan Brown

and Deception point by the same author...yeah, i had nothing to do..it was quite interesting

[MooL]

I still can't believe you guys can read Dan Brown for summer reading. That is seriously unfair.

Required summer reading for AP English IV:
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Native Son - Richard A. Wright
MacBeth - Shakespeare

And Frankenstein by forget the personUgh, I had to Frakenstein (by Mary Shelley btw) for sophomore honors english and it STUNK. Seriously among the most boring books I've ever read. The only part I liked about reading that were some of the overall themes that we got to in dicussion, but everything else = stinky.

It's not even a long book, but it took me weeks to get through. =(

[hitsugaya131]

Im just dying to read that book now…lol
The cover looked boring too……
A tale of two cities is getting a little better
Its better than the other charles dickens book, great expectations, that I had to read last year
Im reading Macbeth as well in sophomore year for Humanities L3
And the Oedopius Cycle…(spelling)

[opticlink]

Devil in the white city- by Erik Larson

Fell asleep reading the first page.

[SLVR]

I got to read "Patriot Games" I love the movie but never read the book. Tom Clancey is awsome. Is that the authors name?

[JeremyJay22]

I have to read the Time Machine by HG Wells and Fast Food Nation by Eric Schossler(sp?) for high school. The only reason I have to read books is because I'm in honors english. Which IMO is a good and a bad thing. I also have to read Of Mice and Men which luckily i have already read but will have to reread anyway. lol.

[Zinedine Zidane]

I just finished The Da Vinci Code. I love Sophie Neveu.

[izza]

Currently reading A Million Little Pieces and DaVinci Code at the same time.

[Lolable]

for summer:
the new complete medical and health encyclopedia vol.1,2,3 and 4
which is really boring and looooooong so i still didnt start yet
but i hope i will soon enough
but i am reading other stuff (such as Historian which is acool novel for someone i forgot the name now) >.< just for entertainment i figure i have to enjoy before reading this ENCYCLOPEDIA >.<

[Lovekiller93]

For summer? I read the book 'Butterfly'.
Cause i love butterflies. I forgot who wrote it though. I read Holes by Louis Sachar after that, having to read it for stupid school. *sigh*

[Nomadic Dragon]

I'm lucky that I don't have school right now so I don't have a required reading list but my sister gave me one anyway..lol.
The Elric Saga by..I can't remember..lol(I finished it just a couple days ago)
Black Unicorn, Gold Unicorn and Red Unicorn, all three books by Tanith Lee
Interview with a Vampire by Anne Rice
Gilgamesh
Beowulf
The Saga of the Volsungs
The Saga of King Hrolf Karaki

I will say that my sister is a graduate of college with a BA in English..which is why some of the books are really odd. But I'm an English major too so I look forward to reading them when I get time.

[Kozumou]

I never had to read anything over the summer for school . . . I laugh at you guys who do. But, of course, I've done plenty of reading in school itself.
I'm not even reading anything at the moment . . . I don't quite have the time to. :sad:


Ugh, I had to Frakenstein (by Mary Shelley btw) for sophomore honors english and it STUNK. Seriously among the most boring books I've ever read. The only part I liked about reading that were some of the overall themes that we got to in dicussion, but everything else = stinky.
It's not even a long book, but it took me weeks to get through. =(
Wow, I quite enjoyed Frankenstein. A Tale of Two Cities is hard to get into and boring at times, but the plot is great, and, by the end, I really liked it.

Beowulf
Speaking of "Beowulf", Grendel was interesting. Kind of like Frankenstein, with the whole monster thing, and I've heard that comparison. Having to write a thesis paper on it was annoying, but I enjoyed it anyway.

[konberry]

Fifth Business by.... an author =S
^this is for english ==''

Summer Book List
The Circle Reforges
The Davinci Code
Pretties
Specials
Howl's Moving Castle

[Joe Black]

Well, right now I'm reading a non-mainstream book called the "Ginger Man", which discusses the hardships of a certain individual and how he copes with them. It's not that bad of a book actually, but it is somewhat difficult to get used to the writer's style.

Anyways, maybe I finish reading that book, I can go back to the mainstream of books that have awards and stuff... like the DaVinci Code, which I personally enjoyed. (aside from the fact that people take the book literally)

[Tennyo Hakumei]

Well right now I have had really interesting summer reading before I start college:

-Watership Down by Richard Adams (still reading)
-Veronika decide morir by Paulo Coelho.(Finished)
-Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice (Again and Finished)
-Pandora by Anne Rice (Finished)
-The Silmarillion by JRR Tolkien (Again and Finished)
-The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux (Againa and Finished)

[Seren]

Eh, I'm reading From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life 1500 to the Present, Medici Money: Banking, Metaphysics, and Art in Fifteenth-Century Florence, The Book of Forensic Science, Bleach (of course), and thinking about re-reading Lost Tales of Middle-Earth.

[MasterWordSmith]

My school is really nice in that there is no summer reading =) But I've still been reading over the summer anyhow.

[MazdaRxEight]

The Alchemist and i gotta make notes of it, but its a pretty good book.

[athenaofstarlite]

I had required reading for entering Gifted (High school) Freshman English:

The Old Man and the Sea (which I still haven't finished) by Hemingway
Hiroshima
The Chosen by Chaim Potok
The Merchant of Venice by Shakespear

The Chosen was the best, I'd reccomend it to every one (especially if you're Jewish or know little about Judaism, it helps you understand the culture).