okay

[fox]

so, two eight-hour plane rides in the next week. i'll enjoy the relative comfort of business class, so that's all right, and i'll probably sleep for a large part of the time, but when i'm not asleep, i would like not to be BORED.

to that end, please will you all recommend for me things to read. non-fans can play too!

fanfolk: i'm livin' in the land of HP these days, but i'll read anything if it's good and/or recced to the skies. have at.

the rest of y'all: tell me the most interesting thing you've read recently. or not recently. or something you've heard people tell you you should read.

hmm, i don't think i have a discman anymore. i shall be Without Tunes. gah.

[more planning, more printing, more packing (or, there will be more packing once i get home and do some laundry ...)]

Comments

[datlowen.livejournal.com]

Was it you I went book shopping with? Either way, I thoroughly enjoyed A Confederacy of Dunces and am engrossed now in Master and Margarita. If you're in a literature way.

Also, BUY AN iPOD WHYNOT?!?!

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

book shopping: that one time, yes.

iPod: (a) between now and Saturday? (b) with what $? (c) doesn't it matter that i run Windows?

[datlowen.livejournal.com]

a) Um, yeah. You can buy them at Best Buy, or at the Apple store over by that place, or any number of places.

b) This I can't help you with.

c) Did you miss the big hoo-hah about them releasing iTunes for Windows? I only run Windows and I got one for Christmas.

They're totally worth it, if you can scrape together the cash. Eight hours is, coincidentally, the life of a full battery charge.

there are other mp3 options

[autiger23.livejournal.com]

Hey, I've got to say here, I have had three different Rio mp3 players and the only reason I've had three is I lost one. They rock just as hard as ipods and are half the price. Oh, and my battery power on my $200, 20gig Riot is more like twelve hours. I'm not saying theres a thing wrong with ipods (other than the price), but the people who have them shout so loud about how much they rock that I feat the other, cheaper options go unheard. :)

On the book front, a new Dave Sedaris book came out (some old stuff that's been in magazines and stuff in there), and if my roommate finishes it/let's you have it for a week, I'd happily loan you that. It's AWESOME, as Dave himself is. :D

[drglam]

I'm several chapters into The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger, which I'm really loving.

[shezan.livejournal.com]

If you are travelling with a notebook/pocketPC/Palm, save one or several of these terrific long HP fics:

- Gateway Girl's "Blood Magic" (WiP but there are 77 chapters!)
- A.J. Hall's "Lust Over Pendle" followed by "Dissipation & Despair" (she has made them available as ebooks at her website, www.shoesforindustry.net
- Sam's "Stealing Harry"
- Salamander's (GreenGecko's) "Resonance"

Saving as Pocket Word if you run Windoze or have a PöcketPC saves space & needed memory.

If we're talking actual books in paper that you pay for, have you read Louis Begley's "Wartime Lies"? Gregor von Rezzori's "Memoirs of an Antisemite"? Joseph Roth's "Radetzky March"? Turgenev's "Sketches from a Hunter's Album"?

[wholenother.livejournal.com]

Well, you've probably heard enough from me about Vaidhyanathan.

Read Motherless Brooklyn! Now! Or on the plane. But why wait? Fast, non-academic, engaging.

[merrycontrary.livejournal.com]

I will whole-heartedly second shezan's recommendations of Lust Over Pendle, Dissipation and Despair, and Stealing Harry ( http://oojahs.snoo.org/stealingharry/stealingharry.htm ). All wonderful and all long. Good for plain flights. And delays. And any lay-overs.

[axiom_of_stripe]

i still recommend good omens by neil gaiman and terry pratchett. as a bonus, it's popular enough to be available in airport bookstores, should you get desperate and need a last-ditch book! :)