What to read on a really long flight?
Nov 14th, 2003, 03:01 PM
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What to read on a really long flight?
I have two trips coming up and both involve very long flights. I would love some ideas for a couple of great books to take with me. I would be interested in something that would catch my interest and be impossible to put down. Have you read anything just wonderful lately?
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jan
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jan
Nov 14th, 2003, 03:18 PM
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Where are you going? I loved "A Thousand Days in Venice" by Marlena de Blasi. It's not very long (so not heavy) & could probably be finished on a flight. There are several long previous threads-books set in Italy, books set in France etc. if you do a search.
Nov 14th, 2003, 03:35 PM
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I highly recommend "The Pillars of the Earth", "The Poisonwood Bible", "One Hundred Years of Solitude", "A Confederacy of Dunces" (funny!), "The Secret History", "The Nanny Diaries". I am assuming you don't mind fiction recs.
Nov 14th, 2003, 05:20 PM
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Follet`s ^PILLARS^ to be sure. GATES OF FIRE BY PRESSFIELD
AND LASTLY RAPTOR BY JENNINGS
ALL 3 ARE FINE HISTORICAL FICTION THAT BRINGS EUROPE TO LIFE IN OTHER EPOCHS....THEY WORK FOR A PLANE RIDE AND DON`T GET TOO ACADEMIC. FOR ACADEMIC GO WITH COLLEEN MCCOLOUGH
AND LASTLY RAPTOR BY JENNINGS
ALL 3 ARE FINE HISTORICAL FICTION THAT BRINGS EUROPE TO LIFE IN OTHER EPOCHS....THEY WORK FOR A PLANE RIDE AND DON`T GET TOO ACADEMIC. FOR ACADEMIC GO WITH COLLEEN MCCOLOUGH
Nov 14th, 2003, 05:27 PM
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For a trip to UK, read Possession, a "modern Victorian mystery/romance" by A. Byatt. Won the Booker about 10 yrs. ago.
Not related to travel, but a real good-for-airplane page turner, Line of Vision; forget author. Not great lit., but hard to put down, interesting who-done-it!
Not related to travel, but a real good-for-airplane page turner, Line of Vision; forget author. Not great lit., but hard to put down, interesting who-done-it!
Nov 15th, 2003, 03:58 PM
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Poor me, I am a big reader but can't read on the plane due to the airsick plague. I get a flu shot, I wish there was an air-sick shot! (yeah, yeah, I use the behind-the-ear patch, but still can't read!)
Nov 15th, 2003, 04:15 PM
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Get a copy of "Don't Sweat the Small Stuff...and its all small stuff" by Richard Carlson, PH.D. Its a book about keeping the little things from taking over your life. Short chapters and an easy read for a long flight. This book is a great read for getting you through the everyday things in life.
Nov 15th, 2003, 04:54 PM
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Another vote for DaVinci Code. I also vote for Angels and Demons - both by Dan Brown. I read Angels and Demons on my flight to London. It was kind of fun because he referenced a statue at the V&A museum and I got to snap a shot of it the next day.
Nov 15th, 2003, 05:07 PM
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A Fine Balance is a wonderful epic (India during the partition), or anything you haven't read by john irving ...i have also had good luck staying into all those john grisham books...the bigger ones (i think i read the one on the death penalty and runaway jury) just about last from lax to hong kong....have you read empire falls? about 10 people have recommended that to me (that was a summer read by the wall street journal)
my husband who claims he reads all day at work and hardly reads at home takes along a trashy stephen king and seems content...i know you are going to get bombarded with good ideas and i can't wait to read them all!
my husband who claims he reads all day at work and hardly reads at home takes along a trashy stephen king and seems content...i know you are going to get bombarded with good ideas and i can't wait to read them all!
Nov 15th, 2003, 05:13 PM
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A funny, hilarious book is:
" There's No Toilet Paper.. on The Road less traveled", by Doug lanski...
"India a Wounded Civilization", by V.S.Naipaul.. excellent reading about the customs and ways of thinking of this country,
The Art of Happiness, by the Dalai Lama, spiritual reading,
The Pillars of Solomon, by John Land"..very interesting..
And of course you can always listen to the foreign languages tapes or read travelling books..
bon voyage,
kismet
" There's No Toilet Paper.. on The Road less traveled", by Doug lanski...
"India a Wounded Civilization", by V.S.Naipaul.. excellent reading about the customs and ways of thinking of this country,
The Art of Happiness, by the Dalai Lama, spiritual reading,
The Pillars of Solomon, by John Land"..very interesting..
And of course you can always listen to the foreign languages tapes or read travelling books..
bon voyage,
kismet
