Reply to: Holiday Book Recommendations

[Board Game Geek]

Regardless of your ancestry, it's always good to learn and appreciate other cultures.

Not advised if you are travelling to Iran or other similar states..

[BrowneIssue]

...excluding Slough or Stevenage or Swindon or Swansea obviously...

(Note how the really poor UK towns always start with an "S" ?)

Swansea's alright. Great nightlife; loads of totty; plenty of non-poundland, non-mobile phone and non-charity shops.

May I suggest sCumbernauld, sBasingstoke or sGreat Yarmouth instead?

Anyone got any good recommendations for holiday reading?

Napoleonics are usually good.

C S Forester's Hornblower books.
Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey / Maturin books.
Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe books.

All are fictionalised but based on real events.

[Board Game Geek]

CC Posted : Anyone got any good recommendations for holiday reading.

How about a travel guide book on the area you are going to visit ?

This is a good place to start, and I always buy a guide on the place I'm about to visit to learn more about the history, culture, nightlife, bars, etc.

I always buy a guide on the place I'm about to visit

...excluding Slough or Stevenage or Swindon or Swansea obviously...

(Note how the really poor UK towns always start with an "S" ?)

[eliquant]

World War Z by Max Brooks, its a zombie apocalypse book which is told in interviews after the war. Its nothing short of amazing and Brad Pitt's production company are making a movie of it.

Incidently Max Brooks is Mel Brooks son but don't think that nepotism is in play here, this is a damned fine book that is the advancement of even some of George Romero's fillms.

[Amiga500]

IT by Stephen King, if you don't read it, it still makes for a handy footrest, stool or paperweight.

[d000hg]

Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
A Spot of Bother
Life of Pi

These are all great stories that are a bit different, not your formulaic trash.

Bill Bryson fits the light-hearted vein. "Notes from a Small Island", "Walk in the Woods", "Notes from a Big Country" - it's really a bunch of anecdotes thinly disguised as a travel book, so good on holiday.

Pratchett is loved by some and hated by others, if you never tried then take one of the early ones as an experiment. Easy to read anyhow - I recommend "Mort" or "Reaper Man" as good introductions.

Iain Banks is also very good. He writes slightly off-centre novels under that name, and science-fiction as Iain M. Banks - "Player of Games" is my favourite probably.

Although it falls more mainstream, two of Tom Clancey's books are pretty good. Hunt For Redoctober is one, but my favourite is "Rainbow 6".

[sasguru]

this one looks good

[Amiga500]

Mein Kampf

LOL

[realityhack]

I can heartily recommend The Cruel Sea for some very engaging and thought provoking reading, if you have a week to spare.

[DimPrawn]

Mein Kampf

[Drewster]

Anyone got any good recommendations for holiday reading. Don't mind if it's fiction or non-fiction. I'd rather avoid a hefty tome, and nothing too deep. Don't fancy wading my way through "war and peace" or "the decline and fall of the roman empire" in between cocktails, but equally, I'm not one for formulaic popular trash either. I've read a couple of Clive Cussler and Grisham books, and I find them as interesting as watching repeats of top gear on "dave".
So, any suggestions?

1) Apparently "Stig of the Dump" fits your criteria.......

2) Sorted a stack of Cussler and Grisham does it then..............

[Moose423956]

Dan Brown

[gingerjedi]

Last chance to see, fascinating, thought provoking, one of my all time favourites.

[Scary]

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
The Mind's I

[DaveB]

Anyone got any good recommendations for holiday reading. Don't mind if it's fiction or non-fiction. I'd rather avoid a hefty tome, and nothing too deep. Don't fancy wading my way through "war and peace" or "the decline and fall of the roman empire" in between cocktails, but equally, I'm not one for formulaic popular trash either. I've read a couple of Clive Cussler and Grisham books, and I find them as interesting as watching repeats of top gear on "dave".
So, any suggestions?

Have a look at some of Terry Pratchetts books. The early ones especially are light, easy to read and very funny.