Summer reading?

[Muffin Mage]

Well, it's happened. I got my yearly Aristotle treatise out of the library. I'm doing the Ethics this year and holy crap, it's intense.

I've also got William of Ockham's Theory of Terms (the first book my dad read to me) and Time Enough for Love by Robert Heinlein on the way from the library. I just finished reading A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole (it won a Pulitzer Prize, but it's too good a book for me to hold something like that against it). I'm probably going to read the second half of Don Quixote, too, and then try and start Atlas Shrugged for the essay contest.

What's on your list of things to read?

[CelesJessa]

For college I have to read "First They Killed My Father", a story about the genocide in Cambodia. Other than that, just for fun I'm reading some of the Discworld novels and the "Pendragon" series.

[Melfice]

In the summer, I intend to buy some Deadpool comics, and read those.
Other than that, I might have some money left in that old sock for another Discworld novel.

Other than that, I don't know.

[Death by Stabbing]

For collage I have to read Martin Luther King's Letters from a Birmingham Jail...other than that I plan to reread a 28 Ruroni Kenshin Mangas and finally finish Digital Forteress...and Star Wars Survior's Quest by Timothy Zahn (my copy is signed by him!) (for those who don't know, Timothy Zahn is basically the Boba Fett of Star Wars writers)(for those who don't know Star Wars think of the best thing ever and multiply that by at least 10) Also I want to read his new Star Wars book Outbound Flight...I also want to finish Rainbow Six. and a bunch of other books I've half started...
DBS

[Jeneralissimo]

Starting to feel like a lemming here, but I have picked up a few Discworld.....

Now that I am done with school, I actually have time to read for fun. So right now it's looking like lots of Terry Pratchett, Dean Koontz, Anne Perry, Janet Evanovich, and Robin Hobb. Life is good. ^_^

[Lycanthrope]

I'm going to conquer the Dark Tower Saga this summer.

[Zesty]

ahh, Discworld....considering re-reading it myself.

Though, working in a library, it's more a question of "which of these books do I actually have the time to read?!"

This summer, so far, I've mostly re-read a few old Scott Adams books (Joy of Work, Dilbert Future, Dilbert Principle)

I've also been reading some of periodicals, mostly Architectural Record and Architectural Digest. But I do that during slow periods and breaks at work. (and when I should be putting the new magazines out of the racks...*cough*)

Bookwise, I'm currently working my way through A People's History of Science: Miners, Midwives and "Low Mechanicks" by Clifford D Conner, and Stranger in a Strange Land: Encounters in the Disunited States by Gary Younge (which I HIGHLY recomend.)

I also recently finished One Robe, One Bowl: The Zen Poetry of Ryokan which is just bloody BEAUTIFUL. I'm considering grabbing my own copy, or finding a more complete set of his work.

[Mondt]

The Hobbit and The Giver for school.

The Diablo series for everything else.

[gurusloth]

Currently working on book 3 of George R.R. Martin's Song of Ice and Fire series. Once I decide I've read enough of that, I've got some of R.A. Salvatore's Spearwielder's Tale, then a couple Lankhmar anthologies by Fritz Lieber. Maybe I'll squeeze in some Greg Rucka novels my friend keeps recommending.

That's in addition to whatever comics/graphic novels come out during the summer.

[CelesJessa]

That's in addition to whatever comics/graphic novels come out during the summer.

Oh yeah, that goes double for me too. I've been reading mangas out the wazoo. A few specific titles would be: Fullmetal Alchemist (and the novels ^^ ), Red River, Hana-kimi, and bunches of other ones.

[Azisien]

Finishing up The Iliad, then I'll likely hit The Odyssey and Aeneid. Then because they're related (though different genre) I'll read Ilium and Olympos again with a renewed understanding of greek myth. By then I'll probably read Pandora's Star and Judas Unchained again, because those books were crafted with Awesome Itself.

And if I somehow manage to read those thousands of pages of print by the end of summer, which I doubt, I...won't have any books to read. :D

[Nikose Tyris]

I picked up Law and business management from the local College yesterday; not that I plan to actually go INTO those things, but they should be interesting textbooks, since I got answers and stuff with em. :P

For fun reading? Exalted. Exalted: the lunars, Exalted: the Abyssals, Exalted: the Sidereals, Exalted: player's handbook, Exalted: the wyld, Exalted: the dragon-blooded, The Exalted comics which I am buying this thursday, etc...

...it really no longer shows I'm a die hard AD&D'er at heart, does it?

[Melonwheels]

This summer I've read an introduction to econometrics book, an advanced microeconomics book (imperfect competition, auctions, and incentives), and now I'm reading "Economics and the Theory of Games". The math is too advanced even for me, but it puts you in the right mindset for when you get back to university.

I WIN THE MOST ADVANCED BOOK READING CONTEST


I'm sad.

[Althane]

I read a vairety of smaller books, but the main book that I read over the summer (at a rate of like 5 pages a day. Most time I've EVER spent reading a book through sheer slowness) was Witness by Whittaker Chambers.

It's about the Alger Hiss trials and describes how he worked for the Communists, and what led him to become and break with the Communists. Very good book.

All those that think communism is a good thing should read it, he raises excellent points.

[ElfLad]

The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul by Douglas Adams.

[Muffin Mage]

This summer I've read an introduction to econometrics book, an advanced microeconomics book (imperfect competition, auctions, and incentives), and now I'm reading "Economics and the Theory of Games". The math is too advanced even for me, but it puts you in the right mindset for when you get back to university.

I WIN THE MOST ADVANCED BOOK READING CONTEST


I'm sad.
Pfft. Not likely. Once I get the Theory of Terms, I'll quote a paragraph or two and make your head explode. To give you a clue to how insanely complicated that book is, I had it in the Boston airport while I was waiting to fly home, and I went to the bookstore and bought Crime and Punishment to replace it as airline reading.

[Zesty]

my favorite "complex book" story can be summed up in one statement:

You get odd looks in a drive-through when you forget to turn off your car's tape deck, and it's playing "A Brief History of Time".

Poor bank teller looked at me like I had two heads.

[Loyal]

I've gotta read one of three books (I've chosen "The World As I See It" by Einstein himself), and then one other book of my choosing that's appropriate for my reading level, that I haven't read before, and which doesn't have a movie adaptation or the like.

...But I'm pretty sure there's at least one overdue book on my library account, so I'm not so sure I should be going... :sweatdrop:

After reading through those books, I gotta write one 5-paragraph essay for each. It's easy, it's just the guilt/not wanting to deal wit h forgetfulness catching up to me that gets in my way! T_T

[Melonwheels]

Pfft. Not likely. Once I get the Theory of Terms, I'll quote a paragraph or two and make your head explode.

Yes, you must.

[Leon-the-Dark-Knight]

I have just finished The Beach House by James Patterson, and am now reading Lifeguard. As far as acadamia is concerned, I might try Plato's Republic again and perhaps the Symposium.;)

[lazy man]

My summer reading consists of The Dark Tower by Stephen King. And that's about it really. Although I might just look into something if I happen to finish that early.