Need a good book for a long plane ride

[Mz Pip]

It's a long flight from CA to NY and I want one of those page turners that are hard to put down. Fiction with lots of twists and turns.

Any suggestions?

Mz Pip
:dem:

[InternalDialogue]

1. You'd never be able to finish it on your flight,

but I highly recommend Shantaram, by Gregory David Roberts.

Just finished it myself. The author escaped from prison in Australia, fled to India, and became a slum doctor, mafia runner, and folk hero in Bombay. The narrator of the book does the same thing, and it's a fascinating epic -- beautiful images of India and its people, details of the Bombay crime world, adventures helping the Afghan rebels, entanglements with two American women (and the whorehouse madam who once owned them).

Might be a little to the side of what you're looking for, but it's a phenomenal book nonetheless. And it's in paperback, which makes traveling with it easier.

[flamingyouth]

31. Yes, I recommend that too.

I'm currently reading it and am almost done. It's excellent. I've had to put it down a couple of times because I've been overwhelmed.

[Parche]

2. books

Its not fiction but.......'Thunder Below' , 'Clear the Bridge' and 'Wahoo'
are the best out there!!!!!!!

[longship]

13. Somebody likes WW II submarine books.

Wahoo is awesome, not for the writing, but for the *story* it tells. "Mush" Morton was the most incredible submarine commander of WW II. (The book's author, Richard O'Kane, was no slouch either.) That book was one of my best reads ever.

Wahoo: The Patrols of America's Most Famous World War II Submarine (Amazon link)

[Mz Pip]

19. Sounds like one

my hubby would like. I'll suggest it to him.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[Onlooker]

3. A few suggestions

The Alienist by Caleb Carr
Quincunx by Charles Palliser
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

[InternalDialogue]

10. Quincunx

I picked this up at a used book store recently, just because it looked fascinating.

S'good, huh?

And The Alienist was terrific. That gets my rec as well as my earlier rec (post 1)

[Southsideirish]

24. I bought that years ago and never read it. How was it? n/t

[InternalDialogue]

29. I'm going to have to wait for a ruling from Onlooker,

or else I need to pull it out and read it myself.

One of the things that made me buy it was the old architectural pattern on the inside cover papers. If anyone wants to sucker me into buying a book, print architectural plans on the inside papers of a book.

[longship]

4. "Conservatives without Conscience" by John W. Dean.

Great read! Just don't sit next to a Freeper.

[wakeme2008]

5. I am listening to the second Janet Evanovich's Barnaby series

Motor Mouth....

Mystery, comedy and every thing you always wanted to know about Nascar... :)

from her site



Motor Mouth is the fast-paced, thrilling sequel to Metro Girl.

The racing season is over and Alexandra Barnaby and Sam Hooker (the Nascar Guy) are on the run, avoiding charges of grand theft auto, multiple counts murder, and the NASCAR awards banquet. From Miami, Florida to Concord, North Carolina and back to Miami this is an action-packed multi-car-crash of shady dealings, stolen technology, drive-thru windows and destruction of personal property.

Don't miss the return of Barnaby, Hooker, Felicia and Rosa-the-cigar-roller..

...

She left out Hooker's new St. Bernard :)

[applegrove]

6. Anything by Malcolm Gladwell.

[bemildred]

7. "No Country for Old Men" - Cormac McCarthy nt

[Sequoia]

40. That book'll give you the heebie jeebies.

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

8. "Tell No One" or "Gone for Good" by Harlan Coban

http://www.amazon.com/Tell-No-One-Harlan-Coben/dp/0440236703/
http://www.amazon.com/Gone-Good-Harlan-Coben/dp/0440236738/

or perhaps "Shutter Island" by Dennis Lehane

http://www.amazon.com/Shutter-Island-Dennis-Lehane/dp/038073186X/

Enjoy the flight!

[Mz Pip]

17. Just finished Fade Away

a couple of weeks ago. Great read.

Read Shutter Island a couple of years ago. I've heard Lehane's crime series is pretty good. Maybe I'll try on of them.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[lala_rawraw]

9. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant

Amazing take on the secretive world of tribal (biblical) women and their own place of power inside what is called "the red tent." Very good read, could not put it down.

[Mz Pip]

14. I read that one

Liked it a lot. Read it for a book club. I think I was the only member who liked it. :-(

Mz Pip
:dem:

[Ian_rd]

11. "The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell" by John Crawford

It'll knock your socks off. Not only was this guy right in the middle of the Iraq debacle, he is a beautiful writer.

http://www.amazon.com/Last-True-Story-Ever-Tell/dp/157322314X

[BOSSHOG]

12. Tyrannosaur Canyon by Douglas Preston

Nice little twisty tale with lots of characters. Murder. Mayhem. Fossils. Bad guys. Secret government organization. Little bit of sex. Cheating researchers. Mysterious Moon Rocks. Death in the Desert. Monks in the desert. A happy ending begging for a sequel.

[Richardo]

15. Any Michael Connelly.

But you knew I was going to say that, didn't you? :D

[Mz Pip]

18. I've read most of his stuff

I think he has a new book out. I need a paperback for easy carrying.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[Richardo]

20. His most recent paperback is 'Lincoln Lawyer'

...also one of his best.

[Mz Pip]

21. Is that a Harry Bosch novel?

I haven't read that one.

I'm off to the used book store will all these recommendations. I should be able to find something to amuse me. :-)

Mz Pip
:dem:

[Richardo]

25. Not a Harry Bosch novel. Half detective story, half courtroom drama

Synopsis:

The Lincoln Lawyer (2005)

Mickey Haller has spent all his professional life afraid that he wouldn't recognize innocence if it stood right in front of him. But what he should have been on the watch for was evil.
Haller is a Lincoln Lawyer, a criminal defense attorney who operates out of the back seat of his Lincoln Town Car, traveling between the far-flung courthouses of Los Angeles to defend clients of every kind. Bikers, con artists, drunk drivers, drug dealers — they're all on Mickey Haller's client list. For him, the law is rarely about guilt or innocence — it's about negotiation and manipulation. Sometimes it's even about justice.
A Beverly Hills playboy arrested for attacking a woman he picked up in a bar chooses Haller to defend him, and Mickey has his first high-paying client in years. It is a defense attorney's dream, what they call a franchise case. And as the evidence stacks up, Haller comes to believe this may be the easiest case of his career.
Then someone close to him is murdered and Haller discovers that his search for innocence has brought him face-to-face with evil as pure as a flame. To escape without being burned, he must deploy every tactic, feint, and instinct in his arsenal — this time to save his own life.

[flamingyouth]

32. I definitely recommend this one

A great read. :thumbsup:

[Truebrit71sbruv]

16. Depends what you are into...

... but I have been making my way voraciously through everything that Valerio Massimo Manfredi has written (admittedly, some are better and more rounded than others), but I can heartily recommend his Alexander triology, along with Spartan and The Last Legion.

Perhaps a bit of a "boy" read - but I found them to be very enjoyable.

[FSogol]

22. "No Picnic on Mount Kenya" by by Felice Benuzzi

"In 1943, Felice Benuzzi and two Italian compatriots escaped from a British POW camp in equatorial East Africa with only one goal in mind--to climb the dangerous seventeen-thousand-foot Mount Kenya. No Picnic on Mount Kenya is the classic tale of this most bizarre and thrilling adventure, a story that has earned its place as a unique masterpiece of daring and suspense."

[Southsideirish]

23. "Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell" It was book of the year last year and its

about 1000 pages. You can't put it down and the list of awards it recieved is extensive. Its out in paper back.

[DURHAM D]

26. Tempting Faith - David Kuo. Read it out loud - should be fun.

[bowens43]

27. 'Survivor' or 'Choke' by Chuck Palahnuik

[saltpoint]

28. How about Don DeLillo's WHITE NOISE? Or

THE LAST PICTURE SHOW by Larry McMurtry?

Tom Robbins' JITTERBUG PERFUME is a great long flight read.

[Mz Pip]

30. Thanks!

Just came back from the used book store with several of these recommendations. I should have plenty of choices to pass the time with as I sit all scrunched up 35,000 feet above the ground.

:hi: Bye bye!

Mz Pip
:dem:

[abluelady]

33. Are you finished the flight , yet?

What did you end up reading?

[Richardo]

34. My thought exactly.

:D

[flamingyouth]

35. Yes. Inquiring minds and all.

:D

[Mz Pip]

37. Lincoln Lawyer

and the Camel Club (good trash by David Baldacci, lotsof good twists)

I have the Lehane, Coben and Preston books for another day.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[Richardo]

38. Yay!

:thumbsup:

[flamingyouth]

39. Good choice

:thumbsup:

[sal paradise]

36. White Noise

is a relatively quick and very good novel. No relation to the film.