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Book Suggestions?

Discussion in 'Entertainment and Technology' started by DestinyH, Nov 20, 2017.

  1. DestinyH

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    Okay, to all of my fellow book lovers, I leave for my trip to Spain on December 31st. The flight there is going to be 22 hours long both there and back and I’m looking for books I should read during my plane ride. Any ideas?
     
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    What kind of books do you like reading? Any particular genre?

    The last time I was on a longer flight/trip I read Romain Puertolas' The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir Who Got Trapped in an IKEA Wardrobe. It was a pretty entertaining read and it was something easy to follow on a flight. It kept me entertained from Munich, Germany to Toronto. :slight_smile:
     
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    I'm not very picky when it comes to books, if its a good read, I'll read it. I read a lot of fiction, Oceanography, astronomy, philosophy, romance, Oscar Wilde, Shakespeare and so on lol.
     
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    The demon haunted world -Carl Sagan,
    a room of one's own -Virginia woolf, To the Lighthouse -Virginia Woolf, Farenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury,
    1984 - George Orwell,
    Animal farm - George Orwell,
    Walking - Henry David Thoreau,
    Literally everything of Nietzsche,
    Anna karenina - Leo Tolstoy,
    War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy,
    Literally everything of Goethe,
    Walding - Henry David Thoreau,
    Being and nothingness - jean Paul Sartre,
    Madame Bovary - Gustav Flaubert,
    Ethics - Spinoza,
    Literally everything of Franz Kafka
    The secret garden,
    The raven -Edgar Allen Poe,
    Dream psychology- sigmund Freud,
    Literally everything of Karl Raimund Popper, Arthur Schopenhauer or Immanuel Kant,
    Candid- Voltaire and
    The selfish gene - Richard Dawkins
     
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    Ah okay. That's quite the eclectic range. Not bad. :slight_smile:

    Here are a few suggestions in addition to the ones posted above:

    The Good Soldier Svejk by Jaroslav Hasek
    Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov
    The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
    Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
    The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

    Stoner by John Williams
    The Door by Magda Szabo
    Iza's Balad by Magda Szabo
    Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol

    A General Theory of Oblivion by Jose Eduardo Agualusa
    A Mind at Peace by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar
    Snow by Orhan Pamuk
    My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk
     
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    It really depends on what kind of books you like. There's light books where it's a good story and then you have those dark dreary ones which have some deeper meaning. I liked the Goddess books by P.C Cast. There not a series they are stand alone but they are really good.
     
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    The Fear Index by Robert Harris is such a great psychological thriller. Harris also writes fantastic historical fiction.