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 Posted: 05/10/04 - 16:43 Post subject: Attention literate riff raffers
Please recommend books, preferably light or funny (or not), for a couple overseas flights. Maybe involving Europe. Or not. And remember too: this riff raffer hasn't read much outside of academia in a few years, one of the top choices right now is the first Harry Potter book. Just looking to see if I've missed (or forgotten) any good books recently. In short, no parameters. Okay? Go.
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Posted: 05/10/04 - 16:45 Post subject: Re: Attention literate riff raffers
| cherylpf wrote: | | Please recommend books, preferably light or funny (or not), for a couple overseas flights. Maybe involving Europe. Or not. And remember too: this riff raffer hasn't read much outside of academia in a few years, one of the top choices right now is the first Harry Potter book. Just looking to see if I've missed (or forgotten) any good books recently. In short, no parameters. Okay? Go. |
Well, if you are in a running slump. I reccommend The Runners Guide to the Meaning of Life by Amby Burfoot.
Good, light, easy reading, and very short.
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Posted: 05/10/04 - 16:47 Post subject: Re: Attention literate riff raffers
| cherylpf wrote: | | one of the top choices right now is the first Harry Potter book. |
I have read them all and enjoyed them all. Anything to take me away from the everyday life to life. Fantasy is good sometimes.
Sheldon
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Posted: 05/10/04 - 16:47 Post subject:
You must read Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series. They are a quick read and entertaining as all get out.
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Posted: 05/10/04 - 16:51 Post subject:
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Posted: 05/10/04 - 16:51 Post subject:
Rainlight - Alison McGhee
The Last Juror - John Grisham (alternatively, The Testament)
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - Dave Eggers
Animal Dreams - Barbara Kingsolver
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
That's a start...I'll think of some more.  [/b]
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Posted: 05/10/04 - 16:52 Post subject:
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Posted: 05/10/04 - 16:53 Post subject:
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Achey, good call....I have 'one for the money', I started it and liked it then school got in the way...
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Posted: 05/10/04 - 16:55 Post subject:
| Pug wrote: | Rainlight - Alison McGhee
The Last Juror - John Grisham (alternatively, The Testament)
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - Dave Eggers
Animal Dreams - Barbara Kingsolver
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
That's a start...I'll think of some more. [/b] |
Atwood is excellent...but not what I'd consider a light read....The Handmaid's Tale still gives me shivers. ACK!
Ender's Game  even the nonscience fiction readers, like me, can enjoy that one.
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Posted: 05/10/04 - 16:55 Post subject:
I recommend just about anything by Scott Adams. The Dilbert Principle and The Joy of Work are great... very Office-Space-ish. Easy, funny reading.
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Posted: 05/10/04 - 17:00 Post subject:
| shelee wrote: | | What type of fiction do you like? |
I like laughing... "Sweet Potato Queens' Guide to Love" I thought the guy next to me on the plane when I read that was going to get up and move I was laughing so hard "Bridget Jones' Diary" had me laughing out loud, etc. Which is why I might bring "one for the money" But I also like thrillers ala John Grisham (and I'm way behind on his books). I also like a good biography or other non-fiction.
Some that co-workers have recommended: Secret Life of Bees, The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, Tears of the Giraffe, Confession of a shopaholic (I think I may resemble that one)
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Posted: 05/10/04 - 17:01 Post subject:
| shelee wrote: | | Pug wrote: | Rainlight - Alison McGhee
The Last Juror - John Grisham (alternatively, The Testament)
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - Dave Eggers
Animal Dreams - Barbara Kingsolver
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
That's a start...I'll think of some more. [/b] |
Atwood is excellent...but not what I'd consider a light read....The Handmaid's Tale still gives me shivers. ACK!
Ender's Game even the nonscience fiction readers, like me, can enjoy that one. |
I was going to try light reading, but then i realized i don't read a lot of light reading. The Atwood is just so stinkin good that it is highly recommendable. Same with Ender's Game, it trascends genre.
But my favorite may be Rainlight.
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Posted: 05/10/04 - 17:04 Post subject:
I second Shelee's Anne Tyler recommendation. She's my favorite contemporary author.
I'm also loving Alexander McCall Smith's No.1 Lady's Detective Agency series. It's a mystery set in Botswana with a delightful detective named Precious Ramotswa.
Another good one I just finished is The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson. It's about the 1892 Columbian Exposition in Chicago and contrasts Daniel Burnham's work in putting it together with a serial killer who was operating at the same time.
And, when you finish Harry Potter try Cornelia Funke, a German writer who's extremely popular with kids. I haven't read The Thief Lord, but I loved Inkheart. Great for adults.
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Posted: 05/10/04 - 17:07 Post subject:
| Library Chick wrote: | I second Shelee's Anne Tyler recommendation. She's my favorite contemporary author.
I'm also loving Alexander McCall Smith's No.1 Lady's Detective Agency series. It's a mystery set in Botswana with a delightful detective named Precious Ramotswa.
Another good one I just finished is The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson. It's about the 1892 Columbian Exposition in Chicago and contrasts Daniel Burnham's work in putting it together with a serial killer who was operating at the same time.
And, when you finish Harry Potter try Cornelia Funke, a German writer who's extremely popular with kids. I haven't read The Thief Lord, but I loved Inkheart. Great for adults. |
Thief Lord was good. Very imaginative.
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