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We are in the process of picking a fun summer read. Suggestions appreciated.
I haven’t ever read this before. I got about a chapter into it when I left it by my chair at the pool and someone swiped it, thus the suggesting to read it now. I am normally a really fast reader and I am finding this really chewy? It is so intricate sometimes that I have to reread paragraphs, which is fine, but now I am wondering what kind of crap do I normally read that makes this a little more difficult. Or maybe Heller is just a difficult read anyway? This is the first of his that I am reading so I don’t have an answer to that either.
Hope yall are enjoying it though. I really am.
by Junot Diaz
It’s like Gabriel Garcia Marquez on crack. Set on the East Coast and in the Dominican Republic. With ample political commentary. Sexual repression. And the hot hot Caribbean heat.
Must. Read.
Ok, given the e-mails and posts on here, we are going with Catch 22. Don’t kill me if you’ve already read you some Heller. That’s just how we are going to roll this month, majority rules. Try to read it by August 1.
XOXO. Rach.
let’s get this party started!
this weekend at the beach is a great time to get some summer reading in!
So did we decide? Rach, you get the final call.
A friend chose this book for me today. Must be fate…
I vote On the Road too. I could go either way, but this one is already sitting on my shelf.
My votes for On The Road. I’ve never read either book, but isn’t On The Road supposed to be like, the book that defined a generation (I vaguely remember an english teacher saying so…)
My vote’s for Catch 22…
I’ve actually never read it…
Sad I know…
