Summer Reading

demonrail666 · 06.03.2009, 03:53 PM

not that Summer, I mean the season. (Although, thinking about it, a thread about books that Summer is reading might be interesting too - assuming he hasn't already started one)

So yeah, any plans for the summer months reading wise?

gmku · 06.03.2009, 03:56 PM

I want to re-read Rabbit, Run (the best Updike novel) and On Her Majesty's Secret Service (the best of the Bond books).

About this time of year I also have a hankering for Tom McGuane's 92 in the Shade and sometimes a Hemingway novel.

jon boy · 06.03.2009, 03:59 PM

i am reading permanent midnight at the moment, its not the most upliftin thing i have ever read but its getting more and more interesting as it goes on.

afterthefact · 06.03.2009, 04:01 PM

I wanted to get this, it looked pretty interesting...

floatingslowly · 06.03.2009, 04:03 PM

re-reads of Heinlein's Stranger In A Strange Land and W. Gibson's Virtual Light series, along with Stephen King's Duma Key (if I have time).

StevOK · 06.03.2009, 04:21 PM

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Originally Posted by floatingslowly

re-reads of Heinlein's Stranger In A Strange Land and W. Gibson's Virtual Light series, along with Stephen King's Duma Key (if I have time).

I was thinking about re-reading Stranger In A Strange Land as well.

Today I checked out Nemesis by Isaac Asimov (my first book to read by him) and Jailbird by Kurt Vonnegut. Then after that I might read A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick.

demonrail666 · 06.03.2009, 04:28 PM

I quite like idea of going to the park during the summer with some massive great biography so I can read about someone hugely famous. I dunno, someone like Napolean maybe, or Noel Edmonds.

gmku · 06.03.2009, 04:30 PM

Oh, God, that sounds dull. ^

demonrail666 · 06.03.2009, 04:30 PM

You've never seen Deal or No Deal, I take it.

gmku · 06.03.2009, 04:39 PM

Sorry, no.

terriblecanyons · 06.03.2009, 04:41 PM

I'm currently reading Independence Day by Richard Ford, am going to move on to Catch-22 and then John Dies at the End, in that order.

demonrail666 · 06.03.2009, 04:43 PM

I keep being told I should read Ian McEwan's last novel, on Chesil Beach, but whenever I read the blurb on the back I just lose any interest.

gmku · 06.03.2009, 04:44 PM

Of course, Lolita is a great summer read.

demonrail666 · 06.03.2009, 04:46 PM

Not if you plan on reading it in the park it isn't!

gmku · 06.03.2009, 04:47 PM

Why not? It's not like it's porn. Have you read it?

Sonic Youth 37 · 06.03.2009, 04:51 PM

I should finish Torpedo Juice by Tim Dorsey in two days or so, then it's either taking a break from Dorsey (I still have 3 or 4 books to go until I'm caught up on his series) or read I by Robert Heinlein

demonrail666 · 06.03.2009, 04:58 PM

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Why not? It's not like it's porn. Have you read it?

Yes I have read it and no, it isn't porn. However, given the current climate, the idea of a man seen alone in a public park reading a book called Lolita while kids play around him is likely to cause no-end of potential grief (obviously with people who haven't themselves read it, but no matter). Sad but true.

gmku · 06.03.2009, 05:01 PM

I would love to create that kind of grief! It's their problem, not mine. Far as I know, I can't be arrested for reading anything anywhere I want.

demonrail666 · 06.03.2009, 05:08 PM

No, you can't get arrested for it here either but grief in any form is something I tend to try and avoid at all costs. If that means Lolita is reserved strictly for indoor consumption, then so be it.

chrome noise tape · 06.03.2009, 05:12 PM

nice season to read bumper stickers.

06.03.2009, 03:53 PM	#1
demonrail666 invito al cielo Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 18,509	not that Summer, I mean the season. (Although, thinking about it, a thread about books that Summer is reading might be interesting too - assuming he hasn't already started one) So yeah, any plans for the summer months reading wise?
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06.03.2009, 03:56 PM	#2
gmku invito al cielo Join Date: May 2006 Location: Oxford, England Posts: 15,225	I want to re-read Rabbit, Run (the best Updike novel) and On Her Majesty's Secret Service (the best of the Bond books). About this time of year I also have a hankering for Tom McGuane's 92 in the Shade and sometimes a Hemingway novel. __________________ Ever notice how this place just basically, well, sucks.
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afterthefact invito al cielo Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Lexington, KY Posts: 3,886	I wanted to get this, it looked pretty interesting... __________________ "She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind." - Kurt Vonnegut Cat's Cradle
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floatingslowly invito al cielo Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 21,165	re-reads of Heinlein's Stranger In A Strange Land and W. Gibson's Virtual Light series, along with Stephen King's Duma Key (if I have time).
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06.03.2009, 04:28 PM	#7
demonrail666 invito al cielo Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 18,509	I quite like idea of going to the park during the summer with some massive great biography so I can read about someone hugely famous. I dunno, someone like Napolean maybe, or Noel Edmonds.
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gmku invito al cielo Join Date: May 2006 Location: Oxford, England Posts: 15,225	Oh, God, that sounds dull. ^ __________________ Ever notice how this place just basically, well, sucks.
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gmku invito al cielo Join Date: May 2006 Location: Oxford, England Posts: 15,225	Sorry, no. __________________ Ever notice how this place just basically, well, sucks.
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06.03.2009, 04:41 PM	#11
terriblecanyons invito al cielo Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: the land where large fuzzy dice still hang proudly like testicles from rear-view mirrors Posts: 5,949	I'm currently reading Independence Day by Richard Ford, am going to move on to Catch-22 and then John Dies at the End, in that order.
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06.03.2009, 04:43 PM	#12
demonrail666 invito al cielo Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 18,509	I keep being told I should read Ian McEwan's last novel, on Chesil Beach, but whenever I read the blurb on the back I just lose any interest.
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06.03.2009, 04:44 PM	#13
gmku invito al cielo Join Date: May 2006 Location: Oxford, England Posts: 15,225	Of course, Lolita is a great summer read. __________________ Ever notice how this place just basically, well, sucks.
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06.03.2009, 04:46 PM	#14
demonrail666 invito al cielo Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 18,509	Not if you plan on reading it in the park it isn't!
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06.03.2009, 04:47 PM	#15
gmku invito al cielo Join Date: May 2006 Location: Oxford, England Posts: 15,225	Why not? It's not like it's porn. Have you read it? __________________ Ever notice how this place just basically, well, sucks.
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Sonic Youth 37 invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: if there is a bright spot in the universe, the farthest point from it Posts: 9,443	I should finish Torpedo Juice by Tim Dorsey in two days or so, then it's either taking a break from Dorsey (I still have 3 or 4 books to go until I'm caught up on his series) or read I by Robert Heinlein __________________ "One: Where's the fife? and Two: Gimme the fife."
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06.03.2009, 05:01 PM	#18
gmku invito al cielo Join Date: May 2006 Location: Oxford, England Posts: 15,225	I would love to create that kind of grief! It's their problem, not mine. Far as I know, I can't be arrested for reading anything anywhere I want. __________________ Ever notice how this place just basically, well, sucks.
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06.03.2009, 05:08 PM	#19
demonrail666 invito al cielo Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 18,509	No, you can't get arrested for it here either but grief in any form is something I tend to try and avoid at all costs. If that means Lolita is reserved strictly for indoor consumption, then so be it.
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06.03.2009, 05:12 PM	#20
chrome noise tape the end of the ugly Join Date: May 2009 Location: Making The Nature Scene Posts: 935	nice season to read bumper stickers.
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