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[whytemyke]

I'm gonna be done with finals next week, and I'm thinking of some books I'd like to read this summer. I definitely think Count of Monte Cristo has to be on it, as well as Treasure Island. Probably Angels and Demons, too (I haven't even read Da Vinci Code yet).

any other ideas for books that'd be a good read for the summer?

 

[cubanb]

the stand by stephen king

 

[Meatpuppet]

the stand by stephen king

Agreed. Picked it up the other week, really enjoying it. There's precious little to beat taking a break from study for an hour, and reading in the summer sun.

 

[Amir0x]

If you can find In the Garden of Iden by Kage Baker, I guarantee you will not be disappointed. It's the perfect summertime novel. Someone recently reccomended it to me, and I've been hooked to the series ever since. It is fucking fantastic popcorn reading.

Here is an Excerpt.

 

[cubanb]

Agreed. Picked it up the other week, really enjoying it. There's precious little to beat taking a break from study for an hour, and reading in the summer sun.

i picked it up a couple weeks ago having already seen the miniseries. the books is many times better , dealing with every issue in depth. I really like the military issue which is more in depth in the book. same with trashcan man.... damn the kid

 

[enjoy bell woods]

I'm reading A Confederacy of Dunces, and it's one of the most entertaining books I have read in a very, very, verry long time.

 

[whytemyke]

yeah. i've about exhausted all the tom clancy books... only ones I haven't read are the movies and the one with Ryan as VP

 

[cubanb]

my next book to read is also by stephen king. its a book with 4 short stories. 3 have been turned into movies.
its called different seasons.
the movies that spawned from this one book:
Shawshank redemption
Stand by me
and apt pupil

 

[Kola]

Kurt Tucholsky - Castle Gripsholm

A short, lighthearted little love story. Written by one of the best, if not the best, satirist of the Weimar Republic. (and it even features a threesome! hrhr)

Book Description:
The multi-layered allegorical masterpiece that prefigured the rise of National Socialism. A teasing lightness of tone pervades this fable-like short novel about two lovers who, during a summertime idyll in the Swedish countryside, encounter a crying young girl running for her life from a children's home run by a sadistic headmistress. The lovers take the girl back to her parents, but the fact remains: the mistress's grip gets more crushing every time one of her charges tries to slip out of it. Catsle Gripsholm is one of the undisputed classics of modern German literature-a parable of devastating beauty and malice, as exuberant and lyrical in its descriptions of nature and pastoral innocence as it is bitter and undermining in its contempt for the Nazi regime that forced the author into exile, publicly burned his books, and persecuted him until his early death.

Castle Gripsholm

 

[Kola]

my next book to read is also by stephen king. its a book with 4 short stories. 3 have been turned into movies.
its called different seasons.
the movies that spawned from this one book:
Shawshank redemption
Stand by me
and apt pupil

Different seasons! Great book, expecially "Stand By Me" and "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption" are stunning classics. Good choice!

 

[nitewulf]

altered carbon - richard k morgan.

 

[CrunchyB]

Baudolino by Umberto Eco is pretty good.
I'm about halfway through right now, it's like a hilarious history lesson on 12th century Europe.

 

[Litigation Manuel]

Catch 22 is highly entertaining and goodly. I'm reading A Scanner Darkly right now by Philip K. Dick, and it is good as well.

 

[calder]

I'm finishing up some fantasy novels (I have a hundred pages left in Robin Hobb's beyond excellent ending of the Tawny Man trilogy) but next on the list I'm moving to some non-fiction. The book I'm most looking forward to is in the mail (click for a review at The Onion):
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores The Hidden Side Of Everything

 

[WrathOfOtaibah]

I'm reading A Confederacy of Dunces, and it's one of the most entertaining books I have read in a very, very, verry long time.

I agree with this post

 

[galeninjapan]

FUCKING AWESOME!! I cannot describe how talanted Alex Garland is! This book is such a good read.

 

[N Coward Parody]

For this board's posters?

I'd say The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon.

Any self-respecting comic nerd and lover of great literature needs to read it. You guys will love it, I guarantee.

And I just finished Jeffrey Eugenides' Middlesex. A fantastic piece of storytelling. A great example of an epic novel that feels delightfully intimate.


*Noel Coward Parody

 

[olimario]

FUCKING AWESOME!! I cannot describe how talanted Alex Garland is! This book is such a good read.

AND ALSO PICK UP THE SOUNDTRACK TO THE MOVIE AND HAVE IT EVERPLAYING IN YOUR CAR!

 

[Cosmic Bus]

Kazuo Ishiguro's phenominal Never Let Me Go. Summer or not, this is just begging to be read by more people.

On the other hand, Chuck Palahniuk's new one, Haunted, is unbelievably awful, revolting, and thoroughly worthless. He really should've stopped after his first two books and just fucking killed himself or something.

 

[Jive Turkey]

Wow funny...I was just about to post a thread like this. So far on my reading list I was going to check out Battle Royale by Koushun Takami (the novel not the manga).

Catch 22 is highly entertaining and goodly.

Good man. Yes I also highly reccomend Catch-22.