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?!?!

[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! :)