I have to read The Lexuas and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globilization for my AP History class next year. Summer reading...bleh.

I also have to read Oedipus the King and either Great Expectations, The Joy Luck Club, Death of a salesman, or Balck Like Me.

I have questions to answer for the lexus and the olive tree. Anyone else read it or is going to read it and do you want to be my study buddy over the summer?

Also, has anyone read any of the four books, and which do you recommend? Which is most likely to come up on the AP Exams and whcih is asked about more often on those tests?

Thanks for the help and such.
-Kelsi

I have to read The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison and The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. I've read Huck Finn before and I didn't like it, but books are usually better the second time, like LOTR!

I just found my list.

For Math: Fermat's Enigma.

Physics: The best American Science Writing 2004

ANd since there is a new humanities teacher, (s)he's still deciding.

I really want to read Wicked. And "How I paid for college (I forget the rest of the title)". Also, I'd like to read the Da Vinci Code, this thread reminded me.

I swear that sometimes it seems like I'm the only person who liked Great Expectations.

I do believe my list is beautiful.

As far as The Grapes of Wrath and such...there are some books I just feel that I should read, you know? There's these books I've heard the titles of forever but have never actually read and I feel the need to read them.

I'm almost done with the Da Vinci Code (like 40 pages) and I love it. However, I predicted all the twists so it wasn't as much fun for me as it might've been for others.

I read a little bit of 1984 this fall/winter because I was helping my boyfriend on his English project. I liked the idea of it.

I'm actually halfway through Wicked. I started it, got started on something else, and never finished it. BUt I really like it so far. I'm dying to see the Broadway show---I'm huge Wizard of Oz fan as it is.

Great Expectations is like all Dickens's books, long, seems to drag on, and boring, and about nothing in general.

The Da Vinci Code is a really good book, I've even debated about it with my minister. but The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, blahhhhh. Had to Read it as a Junior, is required in Kansas, that or the Red Badge of Courage, I personally cant see why any body would WILLINGLY read steinbeck, even The Pearl was tedious!!!!

thats one hell of a list!
what I want to read, just from that list, let alone my own:
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Davinci Code by Dan Brown
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
War and Peace


1984---That was a good book!

Great Expectations is awful.

Wicked is an awesome book. I have the sound track to the broadway musical. It's really good. The book is way more political than the musical, though.

If you like wicked, read mirror, mirror, by the same guy. I forget his name. something gregor, I think.

Have fun reading. Thoose are some pretty hardcore books. I hope you can get to all of them.

I have to read A Separate Peace (so far so good). As for my own summer reading list that I personally created?

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
My Antonia by Willa Cather
Pride and Predjudice by Jane Austen
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
To Kill a Mockingbird
Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
The Davinci Code by Dan Brown
A Clockwork Orange
Girl With a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Emma by Jane Austen
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
All Loves Excelling by Josiah Bunting
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Murder in the Cathedral by T. S. Eliot
The Bell Jar by Slyvia Plath
1984 by George Orwell
A Beautiful Mind by Syvia Nasar
Big Fish by Daniel Wallace
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
Becket by Jean Anouilh
Flowers for Algernon by Keyes
The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald
The Cantebury Tales by Chaucer
Gulliver's Travels by Swift
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Forever by Judy Blume
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Third Summer of the Traveling Pants
Harry Potter # 6
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbasky
Ender's Shadow by Orson Scott Card
Wicked

I already finished Ender's Shadow so I guess I can cross that off. The librarians are probably going to learn my name. So I like to read....sue me.

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Search4myway- society's expectations? I'll think about that while I read. Maybe it will help me with the essay?

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Yah. I think that all these books deal with expectations. Society's expectations, the individaul's expectations on himself. Good luck with your essay.

I have to read The once and future king.

I've read Oedipus Rex and Antigone so if any of you want you can ask questions or bounce essay ideas off of me.

i have to read the awakening and invisible man for ap lit. i have to chose one for ap us history, i'll be sure to make it a short one

I've read Oedipus the King and Great Expectations. I liked Oedipus the King..I don't recommend Great Expectations, but I haven't read any of the others.

We're reading Oedipus during the summer so we can do Antigone during the year.

Search4myway- society's expectations? I'll think about that while I read. Maybe it will help me with the essay?

Thanks guys.

I have read Great Expectations, Death of A Salesman, and Black Like Me. I enjoyed Black Like me, but i am an African American and it related to me more than the otheres. But out of Death and Great ex. I liked Death of A Salesman the best.

I can kind of see what your teacher is trying to get you to connect with these books:Societys Expectations.

First off, I am so terribly sorry! Both Oedipus the King and one of those four! Do you have to read Oedipus et Colonus as well, or is your teacher saving that?

I would advise Death of a Salesman. Not necessarily because it is likely to be examined, but because it is a good play, it is more likely to hold your focus and concentration.