What books have you read this Summer?

For me, I've read the following starting from the start of Summer (June 20) to present:

Sherlock Holmes and the Hound of the Baskervilles

A Series of Unfortunate Events 13: The End

The BabySitter I

The BabySitter II

The BabySitter III

The BabySitter IV

Night x2 (I read it twice this Summer, and once in eighth grade.)

What say you?

None whatsoever. I get all my information off teh 1nt3rn3tz!!11-Jiggles-

Information off of books? Huh!?

But yeah... I could without most of them... I really did like A Series of Unfortunate Events 13: The End and Night an awful lot, though. The other five... I could do without. It's a shame "The BabySitter" series was so bad, because I love R.L. Stine. I also don't like how the first three were realistic and could happen to anyone, and how the fourth one had supernatural stuff going on. That was just stupid. Ghosts fighting each other to the... death? and the like.

Twilight, New Moon, and Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
American Psycho by Bret Easton Elis
Choke, Survivor, and Rant by Chuck Palahniuk

I still have a few more to read.

is Night good, I only read a part in school which was extremely sad. SPOILERS the part when they burn the babies and the mothers.OldProf

It's good; not great, but good.

I recommend reading it. Elie Wiesel can write really well, but a few parts were kind of boring/dull. But I guess the Halocaust was full of those moments.

It's short, anyway. Shouldn't take you more than two or three hours.

Nothing, but at some point I will be reading The Cay and Lord of the Flies.TheHimura

I read Lord of the Flies last year and was extremely disappointed.

The movie was even worse.

It wasn't bad; just painfully mediocre.

[QUOTE="TheHimura"]Nothing, but at some point I will be reading The Cay and Lord of the Flies.DeathScape666

I read Lord of the Flies last year and was extremely disappointed.

The movie was even worse.

It wasn't bad; just painfully mediocre.

I read that book last year also. It was for a class I took. The book is extremely over hyped imo. And yes, the movies were even worse. Both the old and new one.

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Just a couple of days by Tony Vigorito

Love and other near death experiences by Mil Milington

Island of the sequined love nun by Christopher moore

Last chance to see by douglas adams

Dreamsongs volume 1 by George R R Martin

Just finishing

"Gravity's Rainbow" - Thomas Pynchon
"The Wind Up Bird Chronicles" - Haruki Murakami

One hell of a messed up duo. Excellent books though.

I'm about half way through Iron Angel by Alan Campbell a guy who used to do work on the GTA series.

Pretty good so far.

[QUOTE="TheHimura"]Nothing, but at some point I will be reading The Cay and Lord of the Flies.DeathScape666

I read Lord of the Flies last year and was extremely disappointed.

The movie was even worse.

It wasn't bad; just painfully mediocre.

The Wheel of Time series

The Host by Stepheny Mayer

The Time Paradox

Reading By Schism Rent Asunder by David Weber. After that its on to dhalgren Samual Delany and the last two Honor Harrington books. Spent my entire summer reading.

The first 3 Pendragon books. The third one was the best.VanHelsingBoA64

The Trojan War by Barry Strauss

A History of Christianity by Paul Johnson

Harry Potter books 1 - 7 by JK Rowling

The New Penguin History of the World by JM Roberts

Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe by Simon Singh

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[QUOTE="TheHimura"]Nothing, but at some point I will be reading The Cay and Lord of the Flies.anti-xbox

I read Lord of the Flies last year and was extremely disappointed.

The movie was even worse.

It wasn't bad; just painfully mediocre.

lol My thoughts exactly

just finished "snuff" by chuck p. now reading "rant" by same authoryayyfood

I dont read in the summer at all. Too much music, video games, and work lol.

Although I will be reading Breaking Dawn in a couple weeks :) I CANT WAIT!!!

Infidel by Ayaan Ali

The Cornel West Reader by Cornel West

The Great Derangement by Matt Tabbi

Life of Elizabeth I by Allison Weir

The Third Chimpanzee by Jared Diamond

I've only read one book so far: The Cat Who Walks Through Walls. It was great, I'm now awaiting my order of Time Enough For Love.

Heinlein is a superb writer.

I'm currently reading Band of Brothers(Re-read) and Mass Effect: Revelation.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows

Almost finished with that one.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows

Almost finished with that one.

zeriva

How do you like it? It's certainly by favourite Harry Potter book.

South of the Border, West of the Sun - Haruki Murakami

After the Quake - Haruki Murakami

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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows

Almost finished with that one.

super_mario_128

How do you like it? It's certainly by favourite Harry Potter book.

Same here

I had pretty much stopped reading... picked it up 2 weeks ago.

I read Hubert Reeves's autobiography, and now in the process of reading a book called "L'éloge de la fuite", a book from a french neurologist explaining why sometimes it's better, or we feel it's better, to run away from things than to confront our realities...

how old is everyone in here, like 12? people have named harry potter, lemony snicket, and pendragon, all of which i read before middle school and i see the 4th and 5th graders i take car of at the after school day care, because im a counselor, read those books on a daily basis.

ive read cormac mccarthy's the road, the kit runner, and survivor by chuck pahlaniuk, author of fight club in the past 3 months or so. the road is now my favorite book of all time.

how old is everyone in here, like 12? people have named harry potter, lemony snicket, and pendragon, all of which i read before middle school and i see the 4th and 5th graders i take car of at the after school day care, because im a counselor, read those books on a daily basis.

ive read cormac mccarthy's the road, the kit runner, and survivor by chuck pahlaniuk, author of fight club in the past 3 months or so. the road is now my favorite book of all time.

makchady

Yeah, but I honestly LOVED the last Lemony Snicket book. 8 was my favorite, followed by 7. I thought 9, 10, 11, and 12 were pretty bad, but 13 was awesome! I read 12 and finished it in seventh grade and just stopped. I had no interest in finishing up the series, but this Summer (I'll be in tenth grade this August 18, 2008.) I decided to give it another go. It seriously was a hell of a lot better than I expected. I also found it to be quite humorous, as well.

Harry Potter...? EVERYONE reads those books. I wouldn't call those children books. I actually thought they got a lot darker with each installment.

Last Summer, I read some of "those books," like Farenheit 451, The Catcher in the Rye, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows, To Kill a Mockingbird, Lord of the Flies, Romeo & Juliet, and the like.

This Summer's been quite different, though.

The Last Juror (Grisham)

The Broker (Grisham)

The Summons (Grisham)

The King of Torts (Grisham)

Rising Sun (Crichton)

Eye of the Storm (Higgins)

Next (Crichton)

Currently reading: Atlas Shrugged (Rand)