What Books Are You Bringing On Your Next Cruise?

[NYHartChapp]

Am trying to get some ideas for deck/beach reading on upcoming Dawn cruise. Thanks in advance.

[Planer's Edge]

Anything current (in paperback) from Koontz, Grisham King or Baldacci.

 

PE

[mpk218]

Anything current (in paperback) from Koontz' date=' Grisham King or Baldacci.

 

PE[/quote']

 

I like your choice of authors . mine too.

 

Also a nice easy cruise read " Water for Elephants "

[OceanDreaming2]

I generally make the library one of my first stops - before all the good books are gone. Less weight in my bag.

[buelah111]

The new Lincoln Child's book comes out the end of this month. I'm going to make myself wait to start reading it until my flight to Barcelona in April! Anything by Child's and/or Douglas Preston (they've co-authored quite a few) is a great vacation read!

[asand5554]

For light reading, anything by Bill Bryson - "Thunderbolt Kid", "A Walk in the Woods" are the two I just finished on my 4 nighter on the Sky. Very, very funny.

[biker@sea]

Am trying to get some ideas for deck/beach reading on upcoming Dawn cruise. Thanks in advance.

 

Harley Davidson service manual. :D

[Stillfloatin']

I can never decide, so I bring my Kindle which currently has 21 books loaded onto it, with a wide range of authors so I can pick whatever I'm in the mood for. Love, love, love my Kindle! :D

[NYHartChapp]

For light reading, anything by Bill Bryson - "Thunderbolt Kid", "A Walk in the Woods" are the two I just finished on my 4 nighter on the Sky. Very, very funny.

 

 

Agree...loved The Thunderbolt Kid.

[Seago2]

I went on the Spirit with the kids one summer and read THREE Nelson B. DeMille books in 6 days! OK, so maybe I seemed a little... detached... but hey, greatest orgy of reading EVER. He is an awesome writer- he keeps you hanging on the edge of your lounge chair, so to speak...

 

This time I'm bringing: Me Talk Pretty One Day (David Sedaris) and Why We Suck (Denis Leary). DH is bringing Looking for Jimmy, a Search for Irish America (you could just go to my in-laws' house- no search" necessary) by Peter Quinn.

[jocap]

:) Just having a break from PACKING!-leaving on Thurs. for Barcelona-Taking the latest Grisham:The Appeal, as both can read it, and Alan Bennet's "Talking Heads", plus a Louise Bagshaw for a bit of escapism. I leave them on the paperback shelf in the library when finished.-jocap.

[rlmlcb6]

already read it but would suggest it. i will be bringing the new wally lamb book and maybe 2 more---plus great idea. i will make the library my FIRST stop---even before the cabin or food!!:)

[retiredonthesea]

Loved Skinny Dip and Sick Puppy, both by Carl Hiaasen. Skinny Dip about a cruise. They both kept me reading and had a hard time putting them down!

[shellmisi]

Am trying to get some ideas for deck/beach reading on upcoming Dawn cruise. Thanks in advance.

 

HAIL PURDUE! DH and I are both grads and raising a couple future boilermakers!

 

I am planning on taking The Host by Stephanie Meyer on our March cruise. I've been saving it up!

[NYHartChapp]

HAIL PURDUE! DH and I are both grads and raising a couple future boilermakers!

 

I am planning on taking The Host by Stephanie Meyer on our March cruise. I've been saving it up!

 

 

Go Boilers! Thanks for the tip.

[NYHartChapp]

Loved Skinny Dip and Sick Puppy, both by Carl Hiaasen. Skinny Dip about a cruise. They both kept me reading and had a hard time putting them down!

 

Liked Skinny Dip, but was a bit disappointed in Sick Puppy, so I haven't picked up any of his others.

[nlt46]

Anything by Michael Connelly, Harlan Coben, James Patterson, Nelson Demille.... I love to read on a cruise. Nancy

[Stillfloatin']

Liked Skinny Dip, but was a bit disappointed in Sick Puppy, so I haven't picked up any of his others.

 

I felt exactly the same way. His last two didn't do it for me either, one about his golf and the other a children's book. By the way, all three books by J. Maarten Troost are among my all time favorites. Start with "The Sex Lives of Cannibals; Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific," follow with "Getting Stoned with Savages; A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu," and finish with "Lost on Planet China." Laugh out loud funny, and really interesting perspective of life in these countries.

[mailbroad]

I will probably bring a couple of Cat Who... books. They are fun to read and small!

[NYHartChapp]

I felt exactly the same way. His last two didn't do it for me either' date=' one about his golf and the other a children's book. By the way, all three books by J. Maarten Troost are among my all time favorites. Start with "The Sex Lives of Cannibals; Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific," follow with "Getting Stoned with Savages; A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu," and finish with "Lost on Planet China." Laugh out loud funny, and really interesting perspective of life in these countries.[/quote']

 

Interesting titles. And I love laugh out loud...

[Stillfloatin']

Interesting titles. And I love laugh out loud...

 

You might want to go to Amazon.com, search for them, then read some random pages from each book to get an idea of the author's writing style. I suggest you click on the "surprise me" option and check out a few pages.

[NoPiratesPlease]

Harley Davidson service manual. :D

 

Better memorize that one--it's gonna get a LOT of use!

[Ms belp]

I love Debbie Macomber books! My sister just brought me The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs. I've been laid up sick and was getting bored, even though I have enough unread books to last me through my life, and beyond. Everyone is also recommending The Shack.

[NoPiratesPlease]

I never know what I'm going to bring until I know what I've already finished. Last cruises I read David McCullough's "John Adams", Meg Cabot's "Every Boy's Got One", and Ursula K. LeGuin's "Lavinia". Came home and read two Wilbur Smith adventures, stand-alones, not the Courtney, Ballantyne or Egypt series. Now I'm into the old Bourne Ultimatum. I expect the next will be a biography of Einstein.

[Ms belp]

I made a notation the other day to get Benjamin Franklin, An American Life by Walter Isaacson. It's supposed to be very good. Don't know if it's cruise reading material or not.