So today I succumbed to my summer addiction and read a book completely unrelated to any current responsibilities.
I received Twilight by Stephanie Meyer at a surprise birthday party yesterday and read it today. I've been hearing good things about it for a while now, and it was better than I expected. Yes, it's a love story, but it's about a vampire and a human (which makes it so much more interesting), and most of it moves at a fairly fast pace. The book contained a suspenseful preview of the second book. Now I really want to read the second book, then I'll want to read the third, and then I'll be stuck waiting for the fourth (and final, I believe) installment. I personally think the main guy should just turn the main girl into a vampire. It would solve so many problems.
During the summer, I normally end up doing pretty much nothing but reading with a hint of gardening and a dash of artwork. Although I have a lot more to do this summer, I still plan on doing a lot of reading. There are two books that all of us AP students are required to read, and we also get to pick one off of a long list from the teacher. I couldn't decide, so I'm reading three of them. At least. Plus there's all the other books I want to read.
In all, I have quite the comprehensive list of books I plan(ned) on reading this summer. The starred ones are required (at least to some degree), and I've already read the top two. The first definitely could have been better.
-Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by Rowling (I couldn't not finish the series)
-Twilight by Meyer
-New Moon by Meyer
-Eclipse by Meyer
-Breaking Dawn by Meyer (once again, I can't bear to let a series go unfinished, plus this one will hopefully remain enthralling all the way through)
-The Battle of Evernight by Dart-Thornton (the final book of a trilogy that really annoyed me, but I can't leave a story unfinished)
-Heart of Darkness* by Conrad
-The Bean Trees* by Kingslover
-The Road* by McCarthy
-The Time Traveler's Wife* by Niffenegger
-Beloved* by Morrison
-Three Cups of Tea by Mortenson and Relin
-The Anthropic Cosmological Principle by Barrow and Tipler
-The Hound of the Baskervilles by Doyle (it's going to be my school's fall play, so I want to review the tale)
-Guide to the Practical Study of Harmony by Tchaikovsky
I'm probably forgetting at least a couple. Perhaps I'll post reviews of them all. Perhaps not. I haven't decided.
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Of those I have read only -Heart of Darkness-, -The Hound of the Baskervilles-, and (large parts of) -Guide to the Practical Study of Harmony-.
I especially adore -Heart of Darkness- for being so dismal and depressing. I take my books like I take my music (and coffee): black(er than the blackest black times infinity). -The Hound of the Baskervilles- is pretty dark too, come to think of it, with talk of Druidic sacrifice and all.
Have fun! Please note that I do not mean that with even a hint of sarcasm.
I don't think you would like most of them. Especially not any of the serieses (I'm positive that serieses isn't a word but I'm using it anyway) or [u]Three Cups of Tea[/u]. I got the last one from the school's community service organizer, and on the back it claims to be a moving tribute to the power of the humanist spirit. I'm expecting it to be cheesy with overarching themes of relativism and hippie-style world peace. I have no clue about the other books.
Two years later, I am thoroughly embarrassed by the first half of that reading list.
Well, I suppose the Twilight part is the only part I'm really ashamed of. I stand by my opinion that the first one wasn't really that bad. I mean looking back, it's not at all great either, but I could muddle through it again without needing to kill anyone, especially if I read it with emotions rather than my brain. But the others? Even that summer I was aware of the fact that they were horrible.
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