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

So far my list includes:

Killing Pablo
Reefer Madness


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political is good
i've read everything HST so thats out
Totally love Greg Palast's style.

prolly not a 2 week read for any of these but here's what I've been into:

Himalaya by Michael Palin

Life of Pi by some dude

The Lost World and The Poison Cup by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Prince by Machiavelli

Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

Have you read Band of Brothers? Damn good book. Also, Of Men and Mountains by William Douglas is a good outdoors book.

Jane Austen. Thomas Pynchon. "Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrel". Tolstoy.

"under the banner of heaven"

If you havn't already.

The Greening Of America by Charles Reich old (1970) but interesting

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"Undaunted Courage" - Stephen Ambrose

and depending on where you're sailing... "Endurance" or "Moby Dick"

Ohhh and Money by Martin Amis. It is the M103 of books.

Not historical.....but funny and Nautical

Fluke by Christopher Moore

Pick up whatever you haven'r read by Bret Easton Ellis.

Hawaii by James Michener

The heart of the sea

Snow in the Kngdom, by Ed Webster.

Good Everest story about his three attempts at the mountain.

Any book by Ambrose.

Moby Dick.

Shogun and Tai Pan by Clavelle

Anything by Naguib Mahfouz: The Harafish, Palace Walk, The Thief and the Dogs, Respected Sir. The guy has an amazing touch and vocabulary, a palpable conduit of Egyptian life.

Anything by Chuck Palahniuk (author of Fight Club). Just about everything he writes has some sort of twist to the end. Great stuff.

Death, Daring, and Disaster. Don't remember who wrote it, but it chronicles the history of search & rescue in the national parks. Great stories in there. Some of them will make you question your desire to go into the back country.

Brighten The Corner Where You Are by Fred Chappell. Fred was my buddy's advisor while he was getting his MFA in writing. A good book to pass a little time.

Stranger In A Strange Land by Robert Heinlein. Yeah, it's sci-fi, but the unabridged version will definitely take some time and there are a lot of socio-political overtones to it that could still be applied today (you could really say that about a lot of sci-fi writing).

Red Badge of Courage -- Stephen Crane

Blue Latitudes, by Tony Horwitz

"Boldly going where Captain Cook has gone before"

"The Sett" by Ranulph Ffienes.

Oh yeah, did you see this thread?
http://tetongravity.com/forums/showthread.php?t=36733

A Fool's Progress by Edward Abbey

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Pick up whatever you haven'r read by Bret Easton Ellis.

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

The Prize by Daniel Yergin.

Shadow divers

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The Prize by Daniel Yergin.

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

and abbey and more abbey

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.

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

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

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

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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).

2 weeks at sea? I guess The Perfect Storm might be a poor choice.

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

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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)

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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?

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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."

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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?

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

The stories are decent, the execution is shameful.

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

The stories are decent, the execution is shameful.

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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".

I would also recommend Youth in Revolt by CD Payne.

What Huckleberry Finn would have been if Hunter S. Thompson had written it.

I will not trust the reccomendations by someone with the username "Pink".

Kafka by the Shore - Mirikami
Haunted - Chuck Palanchuk
Jitterbug Perfume - Tom Robbins

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

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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.

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.