any great books i can read this summer?

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Perhaps if you let us know which authors (or books) you've enjoyed reading recently it might make it easier to make suggestions. There are so many good books! Where to start?

You might try the Harry Potter books or J.R.R. Tolkien's trilogy, [/I]The Lord of the Rings both beloved by English readers.

I saw this one alot.. but

Secret Life of Bees.

anything by Janet Evonovich!

i don't have any preference when it comes to author. i just like it something funny for now. something that will make me laugh or at least smile. romance novels are also good.

[/QUOTE]anything by Janet Evonovich!

I think that The Ortigin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes interesting reading; I would also recommend The Ghost in the Machine by Arthur Koestler.

My first batch-- She's brilliant.

Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant: A Novel
Anne Tyler1983 NBA-Fiction finalist, 1983 PEN-faulkner finalist, 1983 Pulitzer-fiction finalist, 1982 LATimes-Fiction finalist, 1982 NBCC-Fiction finalist. (28.15)
Pearl Tull is nearing the end of her life but not her memory. Ever since 1944 when her husband left her, she has raised her three very different children on her own. Now grown, they have gathered together?-with anger, with hope, and with a beautiful, harsh, and dazzling story to tell….

The Accidental Tourist: A Novel
Anne Tyler1985 NBCC-Fiction winner, 1986 LATimes-Fiction finalist, 1986 Pulitzer-fiction finalist. (20.69)
Macon Leary is a travel writer who hates both travel and anything out of the ordinary. He is grounded by loneliness and an unwillingness to compromise his creature comforts when he meets Muriel, a deliciously peculiar dog-obedience trainer who up-ends Macon's insular world-and thrusts him headlong into a remarkable engagement with life.

Morgan's Passing
Anne Tyler
1982 NBA-Fiction finalist, 1980 NBCC-Fiction finalist. (11.3)
Morgan Gower works at Cullen's hardware store in north Baltimore. He has seven daughters and a warmhearted wife, but as he journeys into the gray area of middle age, he finds his household growing tedious. Then Morgan meets two lovely young newlyweds under some rather extreme circumstances?-and all three discover that no one's heart is safe….

Ladder of Years: A Novel
Anne Tyler
1996 Orange shortlist. (5.69)
Anne Tyler tells the story of a 40-year-old woman, the mother of three almost-grown children, who on a sudden impulse walks away from her marriage, hitches a ride into the unknown, and settles in a strange new town to invent a new life.
What propels Delia Grinstead, the wife of a Baltimore physician, as she is spending another rainy vacation with husband, children, and assorted relatives? Is it old hurts and humiliations that surface this particular summer in the family-infested beach cottage? The feeling that she has become expendable? The memory, perhaps, of that angular young man in the supermarket who asked her to pose as his girlfriend when he runs into his ex-wife? Or is it simply the lure of the local repairman's beautifully self-sufficient van, sailing off, unencumbered?

Whatever. Delia takes off, wearing only her swimsuit and her husband's beach robe, and doesn't stop until she is suddenly captivated by a quiet little tree-lined town. There she halts the van, hops off, finds a stark room to rent, and settles in. So begins her new, impersonal life as Ms. Grinstead. But inevitably the world crowds in. New friends, new responsibilities, accumulate?-from a stray cat who craves a home to a sad, deserted husband and his little boy who need her to fill a hole in their lives.

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I'll be back.

Kathy Sue Loudermilk, I Love You
Won't You Come Home, Billy Bob Bailey?
Don't Sit Under The Grits Tree With Anybody Else But Me
Elvis Is Dead And I Don't Feel So Good Myself
Shoot Low, Boys, They're Riding Shetland Ponies


all by Lewis Grizzard.


Wear a diaper.

Other funny titles:

Catch- 22 Heller
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (I've heard)
Breakfast of Champions Vonnegut

Even Cowgirls get the Blues by Tom Robbins.

For comic value and a virtuosic demonstration of just what the English language can do, my pick is David Foster Wallace. Many people find him overrated, and maybe they're right, but he's definitely good for a few laughs. I'd suggest The Broom of the System or some of the short stories from A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again.

I printed out the book titles and authors and went to the bookstore today. i only bought catch-22 and janet evanovich's two for the dough. then i lost the list. so i only got two books for now. the books you guys rcommended looks awesome. will start reading the book.

thank you guys! just keep on posting

i just finished reading Shantaram by Gregory DAvid Roberts ...

try it out, its awesome

www.shantaram.com

In The Game
Hi

I highly recommend "The Game" by Neil Strauss .... You can't put it down !!