Summer Reading
 

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?

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Oh, God, that sounds dull. ^

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

Sorry, no.

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.

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.

Of course, Lolita is a great summer read.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

nice season to read bumper stickers.