Comments on: What Are You Reading This Summer?

By: Matt Thompson

Matt Thompson — Mon, 20 Apr 2015 20:40:35 +0000

Another vote for Bolaño, the Savage Detectives is so brilliant and beautiful. I must admit to being a little intimidated by 2666 though.

I just picked up “The Victorian Internet” by Standage which looks to be a cultural history of the telegraph. The premise is revealed in the title, that the cultural/political/economic impact of the telegraph in late 1800s parallels the Internet today.

Dick, I’m planning on writing a similar blog post later that is an inventory of all the books I own that I have not read yet. That might be a good place to start for my summer reading!!

By: camigp

camigp — Fri, 17 Apr 2015 19:48:12 +0000

I hope to finish graduate school (Master) by the end of what you up North call “summer”. Then my list includes literature, literature, literature. 2666 by Roberto Bolaño is the first in line (I started it, but I can’t keep reading it till I finish my thesis).
And, of course, Lévi-Strauss’s Mythologiques are always on the list to be read someday.

By: Dick Powis

Dick Powis — Fri, 17 Apr 2015 16:35:50 +0000

Yeah, I added Deleuze and Guattari too.

By: 3bbbttt (@3bbbttt)

3bbbttt (@3bbbttt) — Fri, 17 Apr 2015 15:55:15 +0000

Some of my summer list:
The Life of Cheese by Paxson.
A Thousand Plateaus by Deleuze and Guattari.
The Animal That Therefore I am by Derrida.
Rainforest Cowboys by Hoelle.
Chicken by Striffler.