So, those two are the two books that were essential for me to read for my school's summer reading. (I picked 'A Lesson Before Dying' as my third book - bleh.) I must say, I'm fond of reading and all but those books killed me. I'm a procrastinator with a capital 'P' and it took ages to read those and I wanted to read other things and read porn and write my books and write my fictions and all this but those books finally tore me from all of that and forced me to read. I only liked 'The Scarlet Letter'... read more