# Summer Reading **URL:** \ **Category:** random\ **Created:** [July 19, 2003, 6:37pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/summer-reading/26113 "2003-07-19T18:37:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![replode](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c4cdca/32.png) [@replode](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/replode)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2003, 6:37pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/summer-reading/26113/1 "2003-07-19T18:37:21Z")
Does anyone here have to do summer reading for the upcoming school year? im sick and tired of it, we have to read 2 books that were written almost 40 years ago, and are incredibaly boring. Then we have to write a bunch of stuff about each book. THey are trying to take control of our summer vacations!!!:!: :!: :!: ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2003, 6:38pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/summer-reading/26113/2 "2003-07-19T18:38:24Z")
i dont have anything to read for vacation, but i do have summer school:( ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2003, 7:26pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/summer-reading/26113/3 "2003-07-19T19:26:13Z")
in college you don’t get summer reading 🙂 unless 'course you go to summer school ☹ ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2003, 9:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/summer-reading/26113/4 "2003-07-19T21:02:17Z")
i have 4 books. one i can skip though casue i am not gonna take the class. i have 2 done, one more… ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2003, 10:32pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/summer-reading/26113/5 "2003-07-19T22:32:42Z")
> \*Originally posted by Replode \* > **we have to read 2 books that were written almost 40 years ago, and are incredibaly boring.** > Which books? 🙂 - Soul :s: ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2003, 10:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/summer-reading/26113/6 "2003-07-19T22:36:33Z")
you could get _Cough Booknotes Cough_ lol ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2003, 10:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/summer-reading/26113/7 "2003-07-19T22:43:50Z")
So glad I don’t have to do any books! Although I am teaching myself Flash from a book over the summer (Flash Saavy, gets good from chapter 12) What subjects you guys going? I’m doing Graphic Design, although the course is much broader then it sounds, it covers graphic design, illustration, advertising, packaging, new media, animation, typography, and other things like that. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2003, 11:17pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/summer-reading/26113/8 "2003-07-19T23:17:49Z")
Hamlet and Emma (Jane Austen) with two goddam 10 pages essays to write during summer vacation. I HATE THEM… BTW I’ll need some help from the most litterary of you. Shakespeare ain’t my stuff… > Look like the innocent flower / but be the serpent under’t the only quote i remember from macbeth. i studied r&j but very much despised it in fact. aaargh… ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2003, 11:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/summer-reading/26113/9 "2003-07-19T23:19:20Z")
Hamlet? Hamlet is great! 🙂 I read a few Shakespeare plays for English exams, but I read an awful lot more just for the fun of it. I love it. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2003, 11:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/summer-reading/26113/10 "2003-07-19T23:35:34Z")
oh i have/had to read: Ishmael - Daniel Quinn - must read fur us geeks Enders Game- S. Card - Yet another must read A bell for andando or something, bad book, i dont like it ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2003, 11:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/summer-reading/26113/11 "2003-07-19T23:55:20Z")
A good place is [http://www.sparknotes.com](http://www.sparknotes.com) . I recommend suffering through and reading those works, and then going back and refreshing your memory with the always great content on the sparknotes site 🙂 Cheers! Kirupa :beard: ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2003, 12:20am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/summer-reading/26113/12 "2003-07-20T00:20:46Z")
kirupa at the school i am going to go to if they think you wrote reports offa spark notes they take your laptop (required) and look throught the history, if they find it you get in troubble. lol. thats what the home PC is for. heheh. or thats what i hear. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2003, 12:29am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/summer-reading/26113/13 "2003-07-20T00:29:42Z")
Well, use sparknotes as a review. Don’t use that as your primary source of trying to learn these books 🙂 As long as you read the book and use sparknotes as a method of refreshing what you learned, teachers shouldn’t bee too upset at you. EDIT: I guess the school never thought that students may clear their internet history before submitting a paper hehe. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2003, 12:31am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/summer-reading/26113/14 "2003-07-20T00:31:52Z")
yeah i donno. i might use it for review at the end of summer ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2003, 12:56am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/summer-reading/26113/15 "2003-07-20T00:56:52Z")
I have been reading the muscle media magazines from cover to cover, does that count. I skip the dieting BS though, that stuff is booooooring! Last book I read was “The Great Gatsby” for an English Midterm paper. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2003, 1:00am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/summer-reading/26113/16 "2003-07-20T01:00:12Z")
i heard that book was good? what did you tihnk of it? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2003, 1:26am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/summer-reading/26113/17 "2003-07-20T01:26:03Z")
I really liked the Great Gatsby - it’s one of the best books I’ve ever read 🙂 I read that book twice since I read it a few years ago just for fun! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2003, 2:13am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/summer-reading/26113/18 "2003-07-20T02:13:03Z")
kirupa, pick up ishmael! i will read taht when i finish my books, hmm i should read now. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2003, 2:34am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/summer-reading/26113/19 "2003-07-20T02:34:04Z")
I’m taking a break from most of my non-fiction reading right now. I just finished reading a two volume, 1700 page collection of every Sherlock Holmes case/novel a few days ago; I need to start preparing for some of my college classes - no more fun reading for me hehe :ub: Cheers! Kirupa :thumb: ---
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hehe i forgot about that! well this is a fiction book but a good read, when you get a chance look at it. any idea on what you are gonna major in? [Next page](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/summer-reading/26113.md?page=2)