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preferably fiction. i am going on a trip for work to a very isolated island. from all accounts that i have heard, there is absolutely nothing to do there. there might not be any internet access. i can't even bring my bass. i have to try to find something to occupy my time for 2+ weeks. thanks in advance

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im reading the cobra event.. pretty intense so far. id reccomend that. If not then you cant go wrong with the enders game, speaker for the dead, or enders shadow. Also i love chuck palhunic too if u can get a copy of ghost or choke..

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Foucault's Pedulum - Umberto Eco

Homage To Catalonia - George Orwell

A Conspiracy of Paper - David Liss

 

Eco, brilliant....Orwell, not fiction, but freaking amazing, Liss, a great historical detective novel

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preferably fiction. i am going on a trip for work to a very isolated island. from all accounts that i have heard, there is absolutely nothing to do there. there might not be any internet access. i can't even bring my bass. i have to try to find something to occupy my time for 2+ weeks. thanks in advance

 

 

You aren't going to Diego Garcia, are you????? I hope not.

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the once and future king - t.h. white

zero - charles seife

decoding the universe - seife

pretty much any shakespeare

zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance

ender's game - orson scott card

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Okay, two weeks, no internet or music making. You're going to need a good, long book with a gripping story. My suggestions:

 

Shogun by James Clavell - One of my all-time favourite books. It takes place in Japan in the 1600s and is a sweeping saga of political intrigue, beautiful women, and the first big hit in the culture-collision between east and west. Some of the most richly drawn characters I've ever read.

 

Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Cimates by Tom Robbins - Hilarious and captivating, this is the story of CIA agent Switters and how he inexplicably lost the use of his legs because of his grandmother's parrot. It's also about religion, hypocracy, and the futility and glory of belief. Switters is my favourite character EVER!!!

 

The Stand by Stephen King - Easily his King's masterpiece, The Stand is a story of post-apocolyptic America and how society moves on and reforms after the purge. Gripping prose, fully fleshed-out characters, and not your typical King book, I think that everybody should read this at least once. It's simply amazing.

 

Underworld by Don DeLillo - This one's not for everyone, but you've got a couple of weeks and maybe feel up to the challenge? Underworld is not a crime novel, but rather the 'underworld' it speaks of are the layers of life beneath us all - how our pasts don't necessarily reconcile with our present, and how our futures are as unpredicable as guessing the lotto numbers. It's a hulking, sometimes hilarious and sometimes gut-wrenchingly depsressing read, but you'll take something away from it guaranteed.

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John Irving - A Prayer for Owen Meany

 

John Varley - Steel Beach (sci-fi)

 

William Gibson - Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive (sci-fi trilogy)

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Okay, two weeks, no internet or music making. You're going to need a good, long book with a gripping story. My suggestions:


Shogun by James Clavell - One of my all-time favourite books. It takes place in Japan in the 1600s and is a sweeping saga of political intrigue, beautiful women, and the first big hit in the culture-collision between east and west. Some of the most richly drawn characters I've ever read.


 

 

 

I knew there had to be a reason I liked you.

 

You could start the still uncompleted Fire and Ice series by George R. R. Martin, best fantasy series I've read in 20 years. Also Watership Down is a must if you haven't read it, Ender Game, I assume everyone has read LOTR, The Source is also very interesting if you like history.

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I Am Legend

The Straight Man

The {censored} Up

Clockwork Orange

Any of the Harry Potter books

The Wanting Seed

Naked Lunch

The Historian

 

 

They're making a more faithful version of I Am Legend, starring Will Smith!

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Also Watership Down is a must if you haven't read it,

 

I just read Watership Down for the first time earlier this year, and I will proudly second lug's recommendation. It was an amazing reading experience, and it even made me cry at one point. Awesome book.:thu:

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Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Cimates by Tom Robbins - Hilarious and captivating, this is the story of CIA agent Switters and how he inexplicably lost the use of his legs because of his grandmother's parrot. It's also about religion, hypocracy, and the futility and glory of belief. Switters is my favourite character EVER!!!

 

Tom Robbins is a great author IMHO. My favorites so far have been Still Life With Woodpecker and Skinny Legs & All. :D

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Memory, Sorrow and Thorn Trilogy by Tad Williams

Fantasy novels with a little bit of everything in them

Third book alone is over 1600 pages in paperback.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory,_Sorrow,_and_Thorn

 

The Jack Ryan series by Tom Clancy.

Twelve book series covering the life of an ex-Marine, turned CPA, turned stock broker, turned CIA agent.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryanverse

 

Two of my very favorite series, guaranteed to blow days of reading.

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Tom Robbins is a great author IMHO. My favorites so far have been Still Life With Woodpecker and Skinny Legs & All.
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Still Life was the first of his that I read, and it changed the way I look at books. I was seventeen at the time and read it twice that very first night that I got it. Skinny Legs and All is also one of my favourites. Those are both great recommendations.:thu:

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I also support the reading of any/all Tom Robbins books, Ender's Game and Watership Down.

 

Also, how has Kurt Vonnegut not been mentioned yet? Go read Cat's Cradle.

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