Wanted: Books to read while at sea for 2 weeks.

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10-17-2005, 10:30 AM
Hutch

Shadow divers
10-17-2005, 10:39 AM
Woodsy

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Originally Posted by CantDog

The Prize by Daniel Yergin.

that will last the trip and terrify you (truth is scarier than fiction)

and abbey and more abbey
10-17-2005, 11:19 AM
Captain Gus

I really enjoyed Charlie Wilson's War by George Crile.

How the United States funded the muj in Afghanistan.

You will weep for our government - keystone cops is an understatement.
10-17-2005, 01:07 PM
The Reverend Floater

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Originally Posted by Pink

Davinici Code, Angels & Demons (Read A & D before D Code)

And easily the worst prose ever to hit the masses. The guy is a great story weaver but his writing sucks.
10-17-2005, 01:46 PM
runethechamp

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Originally Posted by bagtagley

After American Psycho, I've vowed never to pick up another one of his books.

That book took the description of violence to the extreme, but there are plenty of other aspects about that book that are more interesting. His last book, Lunar Park, gives some more insight into his earlier books even though it is some kind of mix between an autobiography and fiction (and it is hard to tell what part is more prominent).
10-17-2005, 02:22 PM
Big E

2 weeks at sea? I guess The Perfect Storm might be a poor choice.
10-18-2005, 07:17 AM
Free Range Lobster

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Originally Posted by Captain Gus

I really enjoyed Charlie Wilson's War by George Crile.

This was an amazing book, and partly inspired my choices for this trip so far.

Taliban - Ahmed Rashid (written pre 9/11)
The World's Most Dangerous Places - Robert Young Pelton

(Killing Pablo is out, Whitewash is in)
10-18-2005, 12:31 PM
Cornholio

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Originally Posted by Pink

I have to totally disagree. I was totally able to lose myself in his writings. I found myself trying to decypher between fact and fiction. What is about his style that you do not like?

Nigga, please.

Get in to Hemmingway, Blake, Milton Wordsworth, Shelly, Keats, Beckett, Conrad, Joyce, Kafka, Mann... translations of Homer, Tolstoy... even Michner. Then get back to Dan Brown and see why he's numbing the minds of an already undereducated generation with bad "literature."
10-18-2005, 01:12 PM
stash

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Originally Posted by Pink

I have to totally disagree. I was totally able to lose myself in his writings. I found myself trying to decypher between fact and fiction. What is about his style that you do not like?

I alternated between cringing and laughing out loud at the dialogue. Just really, really horrible stuff.

The stories are decent, the execution is shameful.
10-18-2005, 03:28 PM
The Reverend Floater

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Originally Posted by stash

I alternated between cringing and laughing out loud at the dialogue. Just really, really horrible stuff.

The stories are decent, the execution is shameful.

Ding ding ding!

Again, it's not the content nor the story itself that is so painful. It's his inability to "write" or to carry the story through the words themselves above a college freshman level that I found to be painful. Not to discount your opinion, of course. I just found it dreadful myself. As my fellow Cornholio said, "nigga, please," to which I'd add a "you gots to be whack to be diggin' this shit, dawg".
10-18-2005, 05:33 PM
Captain Gus

I would also recommend Youth in Revolt by CD Payne.

What Huckleberry Finn would have been if Hunter S. Thompson had written it.
10-19-2005, 10:27 AM
Free Range Lobster

I will not trust the reccomendations by someone with the username "Pink".
11-23-2005, 10:45 AM
girlfriday1080

Kafka by the Shore - Mirikami
Haunted - Chuck Palanchuk
Jitterbug Perfume - Tom Robbins
11-24-2005, 11:49 AM
yogachik

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Originally Posted by The Reverend Floater

And easily the worst prose ever to hit the masses. The guy is a great story weaver but his writing sucks.

God, are people still recommending this book? DaVinci Code reads like a Nancy Drew novel - quick read, good page turner (who can help but turn the page when the chapters end with "He knows the answer, but can't tell yet" - just like Nancy's mysteries), but, ultimately, it's just bad.

It has transformed a whole group of non-readers into readers, though, and that's a good thing.
11-24-2005, 01:46 PM
rip

I agree that the writing in Da Vinci code is not that great but any book that gives the masses a different perspective on their religion, such as, just because I have been told this my whole life, is it true?

is ultimately a good book as far as I am concerned.
11-25-2005, 01:57 PM
Tippster

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Originally Posted by yogachik

God, are people still recommending this book? DaVinci Code reads like a Nancy Drew novel - quick read, good page turner (who can help but turn the page when the chapters end with "He knows the answer, but can't tell yet" - just like Nancy's mysteries), but, ultimately, it's just bad.

It has transformed a whole group of non-readers into readers, though, and that's a good thing.

So did J.K. Rowling's books, and I know which I prefer....

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