No computer for 7 days, two cross country flights. Suggest some books.

[Savij]

I'm flying from Boston to the Portland area and will be away from the internet for over a week. Plus I'll be spending about 16 hours in planes and airports. Give me the name of a few books I can pick up from the B&M bookstores around here.

Titles under consideration so far:

Confederacy of Dunces
We Were Soldiers

Update: I bought Condederacy of Dunces, brave new world and 1984.

 

[Colt45]

laptop?

War and Peace

 

[Savij]

Originally posted by: Colt45
laptop?

War and Peace

I don't want to bother with a laptop. I'm already packing 2 sets of skis, and all my skiing stuff plus everything else I'll need. And chances are I won't have an internet connection there anyway.

 

[MegaVovaN]

Check out works of Kurt Vonnegut.

1984 - George Orwell
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

 

[NikolaeVarius]

World War Z

 

[Savij]

Originally posted by: Colt45
laptop?

War and Peace

Also is War and Peace a good read? I want to read it some point, but I only want to take good books that I'll enjoy reading.

 

[mugs]

Stephen Ambrose - *

 

[MegaVovaN]

I don't think War and Peace is really entertaining - I think Colt45 said it as a joke.
Especially in translation...maybe before I die I will read the original, or at least try. (In Russian).

 

[Savij]

Originally posted by: MegaVovaN
I don't think War and Peace is really entertaining - I think Colt45 said it as a joke.
Especially in translation...maybe before I die I will read the original, or at least try. (In Russian).

Yeah, it's on my list of books to read at some point. I just wanted to make sure.

 

[xanis]

Originally posted by: tenshodo13
World War Z

I second that. I just finished reading it not too long ago and it was really good.

 

[Bignate603]

Starship Troopers
Ender's Game (if you've never read it)
Stiff (nonfiction, but one of the funniest books I've read in a long time)

 

[dannybek]

What aircraft are you flying? I read the ender series as well as Ayn Rand's Fountainhead during my time in flight school.

 

[pontifex]

The Marsh Arabs - Wilfred Thesiger
A Life of My Choice - Wilfred Thesiger
Night Watch, Day Watch, and Twilight Watch by Sergei Lukyenakov(sp?)


Anything by the following authors:
Terry Pratchett
Robert E. Howard
Lord Dunsany

 

[Savij]

Originally posted by: dannybek
What aircraft are you flying? I read the ender series as well as Ayn Rand's Fountainhead during my time in flight school.

Not sure, I'm flying northwest airlines both ways.

 

[PELarson]

http://www.amazon.com/Soul-New...y-Kidder/dp/0316491977

Soul of a New Machine.

 

[QurazyQuisp]

The world without us

 

[imported_Champ]

I Am America and So Can You!

Steven Colbert

 

[heymrdj]

The new Runescape novel .

 

[LongCoolMother]

The Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

Its what I'm reading right now.

 

[yoda291]

have you considered comics? Trades like wanted, any number of batman storylines, watchmen, hulk, or iron man should be trivial to find stores because of the movies and you don't really need to engage the grey matter very much.
I can also recommend atomic robo and scud very highly.

But for books:
Light Reading --
the book of vice - peter sagal
the Song of Fire and Ice series
RA Salvatore can write a good story too. The forgotten realms stuff is good, but I really enjoyed vector prime.
freakonomics
bringing down the house.
ciaphas cain books by sandy mitchell, even if you're not into w40k. Good times there.
Physics of Superheroes
High Fidelity
Brain Droppings.

Something heavier--
hero of our time would be a better read than war & peace IMO.
Guns Germs and Steel
world without us by alan weisman.
I am always shocked by how engaging it is to read the SAS survival handbook.

 

[LtPage1]

If you like fiction at all:
Song of Ice and Fire series, George R. R. Martin. First is A Game of Thrones.

Easily the best books written in the last 10 years.

 

[ArmchairAthlete]

Originally posted by: MegaVovaN
Check out works of Kurt Vonnegut.

1984 - George Orwell
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

:thumbsup: !

I'm reading Dante's Inferno now, or rather you can find the Divine Comedy which is the whole thing... (Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso). Fascinating stuff regardless of your beliefs. The amount of thought put into each and every thing he places in Hell, where, and why it's there is amazing.

 

[Legendary]

Skip Confederacy...not worth it in my opinion.

 

[HombrePequeno]

I'm reading Gang Leader for a Day right now and it's really good. Unfortunately I'm going through it way too fast right now.

 

[LS21]

get the Amazon Kindle and a purchase of Salman Rushdies Midnight children