[alaska.]

(Original post by CrazyPyramid)
Hmmmm....*glances at bookshelf. Yeah, do that with a Kindle.

First task is to finish off reading Freedom by Johnathan Franzen. I'm about halfway through at the moment and while it's all been bloody brilliant, the length of it is starting to drag slightly.

Apart from that I also have...

For Whom The Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
White Noise - Don Delillo
The Adventures Of Huckleberry Fin - Mark Twain
Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
Brighton Rock - Graham Greene

I also have Ulysses by James Joyce sitting there but...quite frankly the prospect scares me. Hopefully by September I'll have read all of the above!

Awesome book, but quite depressing. It was one of the books I felt most uncomfartable reading because the dystopia created was beyond my imagination. Maybe not the best book to read when you are not feeling well yourself. A very great read though. Interesting and awesome as I said. I really liked it!

[mrs_bellamy]

Great thread!

My summer reading list is quite vague:

Finish Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
Read some James Joyce.
Read more Dickens (probably David Copperfield and Nicholas Nickleby)
Finish my complete works of Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey, Mansfield Park, Lady Susan, plus maybe re-reading Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility).
Read some more Murakami

[LookIt'sPete]

Got about 50 books on my kindle haha, I'll just try to work through as many as I can. Aiming for about 1 a week, they're mostly classics so pretty heavy.

[Antisocialite]

The books I'm hoping to read:
- The Fault in Our Stars (third time heh) ^-^
- Looking for Alaska
- Paper Towns
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- Book Thief
- LOTR trilogy
And there's other which I are sat in the back of my bookcase which I haven't bothered to read until now. n_n

[sebastienlewis]

I'm hoping to memorize these in the next six weeks:

• Chemistry - The Central Science.
• The Cosmos - Astronomy in the New Millennium.
• Young & Freedman University Physics.
• Logic and Philosophy.
• Introduction to Logic.
• Schaum's Outline of Theory and Problems.
• An Introduction to Linear Algebra.
• Metaethics after Moore.
• Miller - An Introduction to Metaethics.
• Campbell Biology.
• Larson Multi-variable Calculus.
• Feynman Lectures on Physics Vol1-3.

[violetta12]

Angels and Demons and Wuthering Heights so far..
as well as anything interesting I lay my hands on!

[violetta12]

(Original post by sebastienlewis)
I'm hoping to memorize these in the next six weeks:

• Chemistry - The Central Science.
• The Cosmos - Astronomy in the New Millennium.
• Young & Freedman University Physics.
• Logic and Philosophy.
• Introduction to Logic.
• Schaum's Outline of Theory and Problems.
• An Introduction to Linear Algebra.
• Metaethics after Moore.
• Miller - An Introduction to Metaethics.
• Campbell Biology.
• Larson Multi-variable Calculus.
• Feynman Lectures on Physics Vol1-3.

Woah..goin into physics???

[sebastienlewis]

(Original post by violetta12)
Woah..goin into physics???

I wish. I'm autodidactic and have an eidetic memory. I dropped out of college a year ago.

[violetta12]

(Original post by sebastienlewis)
I wish. I'm autodidactic and have an eidetic memory. I dropped out of college a year ago.

Wow..well, best of luck with your autodidactism! I really enjoy physics =)

[ninja_pidgeon]

My reading list

The whole hitchhikers guide to the galaxy ( complete trilogy in 5 parts )
A brief history of time
Does god play dice
Does E=MC^2
Alex's adventures in numberland
The cosmic onion
Was einstein right?
How to teach quantum mechanics to your dog
The elegant universe
Stalingrad
Metro 2033
The zombie autopsies
Pride, prejudice and zombies
As many Horus Heresy books as possible

A lot I know but I do have a four month holiday

[jada897]

vampire diaries series

[ColdKant]

I look forward to reading James Gleick - Genius the life and science of Richard Feynamn

[senator88]

Love this thread! I have a bit of a mixture, *checks Amazon wishlist*

1) The Wasp Factory by Iain banks
2) Fear & loathing in las vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
3) The moral animal by Robert Wright
4) The pact by Jodi picoult
5) The true blood books (two friends have told me I must read them!)

[Rest]

Whole series of Agatha Christie...

[magicmuggle]

Shakespeare - Hamlet, plus whatever plays we're told to read for English Lit. AS. Oh, and a Midsummer Night's Dream.

Tender is the Night
Middlemarch
Madame Bovary
Portrait of a Lady
Revolutionary Road
The Hobbit
The Odyssey
The Life Before Us
A couple of history books

Plus whatever else I can find in my house that looks interesting. Which is a lot :P.

[Rhadamanthus]

Fiction
Autumn of the Patriarch - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The General and His Labyrinth - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Sound of the Mountain - Yasunari Kawabata
Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy

Non-fiction
Terror and Consent - Philip Bobbitt (re-reading)
An Introduction to Political Philosophy - Leo Strauss
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism - Max Weber
The Dignity of Difference - Jonathan Sacks
Colossus - Niall Ferguson
The Longest War - Peter Bergen
A Theory of Justice - John Rawls (re-reading)

[HeavyTeddy]

Wanting to get back into reading but not sure what to read...
So far on my list is only The Book Thief, which will take me two weeks at most.
If anyone could suggest a series or something for me to take a look at I'd be grateful.
I tend to enjoy books like:
A song of Fire and Ice series
Lord Of The Rings
Harry Potter
Mostly dark fantasy fiction that is riddled with twists and turns. It keeps me interested.

Thanks.

[Clauds]

My book list (up until now):
- Alias Grace - Margaret Atwood
- The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Garden Party (and other short stories) - Katherine Mansfield
- Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
- Possession - A.S. Byatt
- The Unconsoled - Kazuo Ishiguro
- Sylvia's Lovers - Elizabeth Gaskell
- The Complete Ghost Stories - M.R. James

[Acerbic]

(Original post by Allie J)
What's The Bloody Chamber about? It sounds quite gruesome - my kind of book lol!

It's a collection of short stories. One that I remember is about necrophilic pedophilia, so quite tame really.

[Mortson]

Something by Goethe. I read "The Sorrows of Young Werther" couple of months ago and really enjoyed it.