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I need to pick some stuff to read on this big flight I'm going on saturday. Any suggestions?

 

I'm currently reading "How Can I keep from singing" about pete seeger, which is pretty good, but I don't want to take it since I've only got like 50 pages left. Books from my shelf that I haven't gotten around to reading yet that I think would be ok are "The Things They Carried" by tim obrien, "The Pawnbroker" by Edward Wallant and "Wigfield" by a bunch of funny guys, "A Change Is Gonna Come: Music, Race & the Soul of America" by someone. Has anyone read any of them?

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Books from my shelf that I haven't gotten around to reading yet that I think would be ok are "The Things They Carried" by tim obrien, "The Pawnbroker" by Edward Wallant and "Wigfield" by a bunch of funny guys.

I say, take them all. On long flights, I tend to get restless, so I like to have a few options to flip back and forth.

 

Also, The Things They Carried is one of my favorite books, I can't recommend that one highly enough. And then for when that one wipes you out, you can lighten up with the bunch of funny guys. :monkey

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Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin is a good long voyage read.

But i also like to have a few options--a few New Yorkers, and a book or two.

I would not recommend The Things They Carried for a long distance flight. Too depressing.

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Also, I'm a geek about this, but on long trips I like to read something that's about or set in the place I'm going, just to get in the mood. Dubliners on the way to Dublin, that sort of thing...

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Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon ought to take you about 22 hours.

 

He goes off on lengthy tangents that don't seem to have much to do with the plot, but his writing is very rich and rewarding, for the most part. This one's not as good as Snow Crash or The Diamond Age, but if it hooks you, you'll not want to put it down.

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I need to pick some stuff to read on this big flight I'm going on saturday. Any suggestions?

 

I'm currently reading "How Can I keep from singing" about pete seeger, which is pretty good, but I don't want to take it since I've only got like 50 pages left. Books from my shelf that I haven't gotten around to reading yet that I think would be ok are "The Things They Carried" by tim obrien, "The Pawnbroker" by Edward Wallant and "Wigfield" by a bunch of funny guys, "A Change Is Gonna Come: Music, Race & the Soul of America" by someone. Has anyone read any of them?

 

 

I am a bit of a geek...on my forthcoming mulit-hour/time zone spanning trip, I have already staked out a couple of reads:

 

 

Armor --- John Steakley (a great sci-fi book. a bit of a reinterpretation of Heinlein's Starship Troopers...and featuring my namesake)

 

Blood Meridian --- Cormac McCarthy (a really tough book)

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Things They Carried is a really great book....

 

22 hrs that sucks...make sure you get up and walk around some, and have a great trip!

 

.... we were required to read that for freshman year college English, horrible book.

 

I recommend anything by Irvine Welsh. He wrote Trainspotting and the sequel Porno.

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Things They Carried is a really great book....

 

22 hrs that sucks...make sure you get up and walk around some, and have a great trip!

 

I thought that was an amazing book, especially as a person who wants to be a writer, as it deals almost as much with the nature of storytelling and writing as it does with the war.

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I thought that was an amazing book, especially as a person who wants to be a writer, as it deals almost as much with the nature of storytelling and writing as it does with the war.

 

 

Jesus we are agreeing on something here WTF? :stunned

 

Now about this A-Rod thing............ :monkey

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Jesus we are agreeing on something here WTF? :stunned

 

Now about this A-Rod thing............ :monkey

 

I bet A-rod doesn't like The Things They Carried, that asshole.

 

I wonder if he thinks Jeff sold out. I bet he does...

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Those McCarthy books are all the rage now that oprah picked up on "The Road". I read all the pretty horses years ago and it was great.

 

 

I wouldn't imagine Blood Meridian being an Oprah book club choice...

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Also, I'm a geek about this, but on long trips I like to read something that's about or set in the place I'm going, just to get in the mood. Dubliners on the way to Dublin, that sort of thing...

I do the same thing. I read The Diary of a Young Girl for the first time on a flight to Amsterdam. When I visited the Anne Frank Huis a few days later, the little details were still so fresh in my mind (e.g., view of the clock tower from the attic window) it really hit me hard.

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I just skimmed the other posts so I am not 100% sure any of these have been posted but here are some great books imo

 

House of Leaves-Mark Z. Danielewski

Any Jose' Saramego

The Wasp Factory-Iain Banksx

On the Beachy-Nevil Shute

The Color Midnight Made-Andrew Winer

Enders Game-Orson Scott Card

Middlesex-Jeffrey Eugenides

 

To name a few;)

 

also if you have never read One Hundred Years of Solitude-Garbiel Garcia Marquez

or The Magus-John Fowles those would be good too.

 

OHYOS by Marquez is about one particular family. The Buendia family. Members of that family found a town, name it Macondo, then all through the book it goes through their family tree pretty much and what happens to them and their town in a span of 100 years.

 

The Magus is about a guy who gets caught up in a game with a millionaire. To me both good books and they aren't short.

 

Sorry I couldnt review them any better:) I love to read but I can't review what I read worth shit

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