# summer reading recommendations?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summer-reading-recommendations/185755>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 2, 2003, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summer-reading-recommendations/185755 "2003-07-02T12:14:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![nineiron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e56c9b/32.png) [@nineiron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nineiron)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2003, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summer-reading-recommendations/185755/1 "2003-07-02T12:14:07Z")

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Can anyone recommend any interesting reading for me this summer? I need something relatively light, that I can read during slow periods at my summer job.

Vonnegut is my favorite author, but I’ve finished with all of his stuff. Does anyone know an author that a Vonnegut fan would enjoy–something with humor, yet not pointless?

(I know, there is no author quite like Vonnegut, but you know what I mean.)

Thanks for any suggestions/recommendations!

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**Author:** ![Morgainelf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Morgainelf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgainelf)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2003, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summer-reading-recommendations/185755/2 "2003-07-02T12:20:12Z")

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Have you tried any John Irving? You might want to check out the Rabbit series, or _A Prayer for Owen Meaney_.

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**Author:** ![Jabba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5e925/32.png) [@Jabba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jabba)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2003, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summer-reading-recommendations/185755/3 "2003-07-02T14:11:42Z")

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The Rabbit series is by John Updike ( who is a much better writer than Irving).

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**Author:** ![nineiron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e56c9b/32.png) [@nineiron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nineiron)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2003, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summer-reading-recommendations/185755/4 "2003-07-02T15:56:10Z")

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I did like Rabbit, Run when I read it in college, but I never checked out the subsequent ones. (Weren’t there three more in all?)

Updike is a good suggestion.