What have you been reading this summer?
What have you been reading this summer?
Fabrizio2
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/20/06
#0What have you been reading this summer?
Posted: 7/21/06 at 11:06am
I just finished Grendel by John Gardner and I am starting Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen today.
What about you guys?
#1re: What have you been reading this summer?
Posted: 7/21/06 at 11:09amI'm on the last few Pages of Angela's Ahses. And I still have to read the sequal for it. Tis
#2re: What have you been reading this summer?
Posted: 7/21/06 at 11:10am
I started reading "Panic" by Jeff Abbott a few days ago...
"Brother Grimm" by Craig Russell will be next on my list.
Fabrizio2
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/20/06
#3re: What have you been reading this summer?
Posted: 7/21/06 at 11:11am
My mother really enjoyed Angela's Ashes...what do you think of it?
GuyfromGermany...I have never heard of Panic...what's it about?
#4re: What have you been reading this summer?
Posted: 7/21/06 at 11:13amLOTS of plays. I just read No Exit and now I'm in the middle of Adam Rapp's Stone Cold Dead Serious; I read some of his other stuff a bit ago, as well. I'm plugging on with Gone With the Wind but at 1,037 pages, it's going to take a while.
TxTwoStep
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/24/03
#5re: What have you been reading this summer?
Posted: 7/21/06 at 11:15am
COLORED LIGHTS (Kander and Ebb)
WHERE THE TRUTH LIES (Rupert Holmes, inspired by Lewis/Martin)
PREP
and belatedly in order to see the movie more informed, THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA
First three highly recommended. Last one---well, if you can't say something nice....it filled up the Fourth of July beach weekend.
PS haven't seen the movie version of WHERE THE TRUTH (though I like the leads) yet, looking forward to renting the DVD.
#6re: What have you been reading this summer?
Posted: 7/21/06 at 11:15amIt's a little depressing. I wish the darn dad would stop drinking!
#7re: What have you been reading this summer?
Posted: 7/21/06 at 11:19am
I'm currently reading "The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief" by Francis S. Collins.
#8re: What have you been reading this summer?
Posted: 7/21/06 at 11:19amDouble post. Updated On: 7/21/06 at 11:19 AM
#9re: What have you been reading this summer?
Posted: 7/21/06 at 11:19am
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His parents are not who he thought they were, his girlfriend is not who he thought she was, his entire existence has been an ingeniously constructed sham.
And now that he knows it, he is in terrible danger. Evan's only hope for survival is to discover the truth behind his past.
TxTwoStep
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/24/03
#10re: What have you been reading this summer?
Posted: 7/21/06 at 11:21am
EDITED to protect the wonder that is SOAPGUY.
erikaamato
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/12/04
#11re: What have you been reading this summer?
Posted: 7/21/06 at 11:22am
Not counting scripts and screenplays...
I just finished The Known World by Edward P. Jones (Pulitzer Prize winner) and just started Leonardo's Swans by Karen Essex. They are both historical novels, but the second book is a very fast read, so I'm already halfway through it, even though I only started it on Wednesday.
#12re: What have you been reading this summer?
Posted: 7/21/06 at 11:23am
Dry by Augusten Burroughs
A Doll's House
The House of Bernarda Alba
The Goat or Who is Sylvia
A Life in the Theatre
True and False
#13re: What have you been reading this summer?
Posted: 7/21/06 at 11:27am
unfortuneatly i have to read 1984 by George Orwell for summer. Its good, just long and boring.
I have been reading alot of plays too, Cat on a hot tin roof, the Foriegner, Coming Apart by Fred Charmichael... i'm on play selectyion commitee
Jyn326
Broadway Star Joined: 12/7/05
#14re: What have you been reading this summer?
Posted: 7/21/06 at 11:31am
Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss
by Hope Edelmen
erikaamato
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/12/04
#15re: What have you been reading this summer?
Posted: 7/21/06 at 11:31am
1984 is not "long and boring!" *sigh* Maybe you'll find it more interesting as you get into it...
Now, if you want something long and boring, try Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. I've tried to get through that thing 3 times, now. I can't get past page 400 or so... 
#16re: What have you been reading this summer?
Posted: 7/21/06 at 11:35am
If you want long and boring try Anna Karenina.
Edit:TxTwoStep, I Pm'd you.
#17re: What have you been reading this summer?
Posted: 7/21/06 at 12:07pm::gasp:: Anna Karenina is BRILLIANT!
#18re: What have you been reading this summer?
Posted: 7/21/06 at 12:46pmJohn Grisham's, "The Broker". Read that one in about 3 days.
Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#19re: What have you been reading this summer?
Posted: 7/21/06 at 12:48pmGATES OF EDEN by Ethan Coen (Yes, THAT Ethan Coen.)
#20re: What have you been reading this summer?
Posted: 7/21/06 at 12:54pm
Recently finished "State of Fear." Very good book.
Right now reading "Conversations with God" but I'm also looking for some lighter summer fare to read.
Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. - Randy Pausch
#21re: What have you been reading this summer?
Posted: 7/21/06 at 12:58pm
Out of the books/plays I have to read, I'm currently reading "A Doll's House", which I'm almost done with (I actually really like it) and I'm almost one chapter into "A Prayer For Owen Meany".
#22re: What have you been reading this summer?
Posted: 7/21/06 at 12:59pmalmost done with THE SECRET FRUIT OF PETER PADDINGTON.
TxTwoStep
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/24/03
#23re: What have you been reading this summer?
Posted: 7/21/06 at 1:01pm
I want to read the newest Irving novel. His essay on Dickens is priceless....and DAYDREAMER, though John Irving is not "light", his sense of humor and narrative drive might be a good antidote.
PS it's "Prayer" for Owen Meany, a great novel that made a horribly sentimental film.
#24re: What have you been reading this summer?
Posted: 7/21/06 at 1:01pm"A Prayer for Owen Meany" is one of my favorite books. It took me a while to get into, but the final chapter just brought it all together for me, totally blew me away.
Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. - Randy Pausch
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