[gcruse]

Read the good stuff that stands over time.

Read all of Sinclair Lewis.
Read anything by John Barth.
Absorb all of Kafka's short stories.
For dessert, Only Yesterday, by Fredrick Lewis Allen.

[cyborg]

While on vacation I read Count of Monte Cristo... very interesting. I started reading Metamorphosis BUT I am putting that on hold to read East of Eden. I'll finish it in about three days. I usually stick to European literature, but lately I've been making exceptions.

[Utah Girl]

Great advice. One of my nieces came over this evening to borrow some books from me, she is in AP English, and is doing some reading over the summer. I was telling her about the books I read when I was in AP English, and I can still remember them, they have stood the test of time. (The Scarlet Letter, Moby Dick, Grapes of Wrath, The Brothers Karamazov, River of Darkness, Tess of the D'Ubervilles, Jane Eyre, * The Metamorphosis, etc.) I also took an American lit class at BYU, and read a lot of Sinclair Lewis. Classics stand the test of time.