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Originally posted by Not Bob
And while I am on my way there, I will need something to read. Any suggestions? I'm not interested in any non-fiction that has anything to do with any events after 1980. With respect to fiction, my taste is pretty eclectic, though I am not usually a fan of stuff that is too high-fallutin. In other words, no Umberto Eco, Toni Morrison, Thomas Pynchon, or Mickey Spillane.
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Here are some good, lightish reads that I've had on airplanes recently:
I recently read Christopher Moore's "A Dirty Job," about a man who becomes Death (sort of). Very funny, in a morbid and creepy way. I'm now reading Bloodsucking Fiends by the same author, which is also pretty enjoyable.
Read Johnathan Strange & Mr. Norrell over the summer, which I liked a lot but is LONG and a bit hard to get into. Read it only if you really like history and things magical. It ain't no Harry Potter, but it's not as hard on the brain as Eco or Pynchon. Good plane read, with the caveats above.
Read John Twelve Hawks' The Traveller last year, which was a fun, relatively light read (if you can ignore just how seriously the author takes himself.) That's worth a try.
If you haven't read Middlesex, I highly recommend it. I didn't read it on an airplane so technically it doesn't fit on this list, but it was recommended to me by a woman I met in an airport bar. (She was hot, and TOTALLY checking me out -- Whoo-Hoo!) I recommended Helen DeWitt's The Last Samurai to her, which she thought was wonderful -- but that's getting a little more into the high-fallutin that you want to avoid.
