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[nascentbutterfl]

book list for the summer:

Anna Karenina
The Great Gatsby
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles
My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk

reread:
Parcival by von Eschenbach
Master and Margarita

summer is approximately 14 weeks long, seven of which I will spend in Norway, but I think that will actually increase the amount of reading I will do because really--what else is there to

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[kioe]

Wait, I thought you were reading Anna Karenina while we were at Donnor Lake? Or was that another Tolstoy book?

[nascentbutterfl]

yeah, I started it. But only read about 40 pages of it. If that. so I've got a good 960 to go.

[wildchildurs2nv]

Oh, don't read The Great Gatsby, seriously, worst book ever, possibly tying with Uncle Tom's Cabin. F.Scott Fitzgerald needs to get over himself in a big way.

Read Love in the Time of Cholera instead, insanely wonderful, beautifully written, poignant... some fabulous lines...

[nascentbutterfl]

hmmm...Love in the Time of Cholera will deffinitely go on my long term list. But I can't take off The Great Gatsby because it has come up too many times lately. And I've had at least 5 rave reviews of it. Uncle Tom's Cabin is another one that I have never read, but don't really intend to read either.

[nascentbutterfl]

you disliked this book, yes? Why? I'm half way through it right now, and will be finished before tomorrow morning. I like it, it is fairly smooth reading, full of interesting scenes both social and natural, the characters are interesting, the narrator sympathetic and all in all it is a good book. Unless, of course, the second half devolves into banality, which is always a possibility with modern lit (well, it isn't exactly modern, but close enough).

so yeah, I was just wondering why you disliked it.

[blue_banshee]

yes, I do intend to end up in portland. not sure exactly when, but I will see you there. thanks for calling.