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need some help with my summer reading list
I have begun putting together my reading list for the summer. I try to put the first 5 together, and I need some help.
Im definetly starting with:
Sirens of Titan by Vonnegut
Requiem for a Dream by Selby
these are my choices to complete the list, please tell me which 3 you would recommend
1) Shampoo Planet by Coupland
2) JPod by Coupland
3) Microsurfs by Coupland
4) Jennifer Government by Berry
5) Cannery Row by Steinbeck
6) The Winter of our Discontent by Steinbeck
7) Travels with Charlie by Steinbeck
8) For Whome the Bell Toles by Hemmingway
9) The Girl Next Door by Ketchum
10) Geek Love by (I forgot her name)
11) Mother Night by Vonnegut
12) Screwtaped Letters by Lewis
I am just very tired and board so I wanted to make a post, but I hate having 10 weeks off and at the end of the vacation regret reading one instead of another. So any advice will be great
thanks
Ten weeks? Read them all!
"Time heals all wounds" becomes "The nonspatial continuum in which events occur in apparently irreversible succession from the past to the future will restore a person to physical and spiritual wholeness."
yeah. including the phineas poe trilogy. and house of leaves. and if you read one book before you die, make certain it is for whom the bell tolls.
They caught me because of the blood on my fingers and between my teeth. I looked up from my meal on the tile of the kitchen floor and dropped her cold limb with a thud and minor splash and told them it wasn't me.
I hate For Whom the Bell Tolls. We're just incompatible in every way, Kabol.
"Time heals all wounds" becomes "The nonspatial continuum in which events occur in apparently irreversible succession from the past to the future will restore a person to physical and spiritual wholeness."
man, homie phil..
will baer aside, if you hated the above titled fantastic war novel after fully reading it, i really dont need to know what it is that you do like.
They caught me because of the blood on my fingers and between my teeth. I looked up from my meal on the tile of the kitchen floor and dropped her cold limb with a thud and minor splash and told them it wasn't me.
I read the damn book from cover to cover and found it as irritating as anything. I have a problem with what I've read by Hemingway, which is, as John Gardner says, that his prose is overly mannered. It's the same problem I have with Chuck: good stories, interesting style, but you spread it out over more than a single book and you start to seem like a one-trick pony who wants a distinctive style more than anything else. I read an interview with Hemingway in the Paris Review collection and found it really interesting, and I love to read about Hemingway the man. But as someone said, ever since Hemingway, writers have either tried to imitate him or demolish him. I prefer to ignore him.
Kind of like Plato.
"Time heals all wounds" becomes "The nonspatial continuum in which events occur in apparently irreversible succession from the past to the future will restore a person to physical and spiritual wholeness."
I read the damn book from cover to cover and found it as irritating as anything. I have a problem with what I've read by Hemingway, which is, as John Gardner says, that his prose is overly mannered. It's the same problem I have with Chuck: good stories, interesting style, but you spread it out over more than a single book and you start to seem like a one-trick pony who wants a distinctive style more than anything else. I read an interview with Hemingway in the Paris Review collection and found it really interesting, and I love to read about Hemingway the man. But as someone said, ever since Hemingway, writers have either tried to imitate him or demolish him. I prefer to ignore him.
Kind of like Plato.
muss es sein? es muss sein!
Don't listen to the nah-sayers, read BELL TOLLS. Even if you're not big-time into the Hemingway style (and I do agree with what xec8 said), it is his Magnum Opus, even more so than SUN ALSO RISES or FAREWELL TO ARMS, and shouldn't be missed. Other than that you can't really go wrong with most of the others listed (at least in terms of the authors, not familiar with each individual title). If you're in for a really wild read I would recommend some Celine. At the moment I'm reading DEATH ON THE INSTALLMENT PLAN, and it's filled with the kind of cynical black humour that has become Palanhiuk's stock-in-trade.
i think you should just read all of them. ten weeks is a pretty long time.
as far as hemingway, id read his early shit instead. he was best at the beginning.
ignore hemingway? ballsy to say the least. im a big fan of him, well, his early books anyway. i see what you mean with chuck. but hemingway invented so much of twentieth century voice. anything minimalist is right from hemingway. gonzo is just hemingway on acid. hunter s thompson is hemingway on drugs.
im pretty tired of minimalism though.
i second house of leaves and phinneas poe. throwing demon theory out there too. raw shark texts. those books are too much fun
i have strung wires from steeples to stars and tightroped across the sky
I second or third or whatever the Phineas Poe trilogy. Do it. It's beautiful, and one of the three main reasons I decided to be a writer.
Apart from Baer, I highly recommend V. by Thomas Pynchon if you're looking for something a bit more sprawling and multi-character/plot/faceted. For short stories, you can't beat just about anything by TC Boyle or Tobias Wolff. Collected Stories and In the Garden of the North American Martyrs, specifically and respectively.
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