What is your favorite book to read when on the road? Not necessarily travel or location related, but what do you like to read when on the road?
I don't travel that much as I work for an travel agent. Sometimes I have the opportunity to travel and I always take a Lonely Planet with me. It's helps a lot for navigate whenever I am.
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Mark
Reply to this Well it's a really good idea to bring along a book while travelling. We get plenty of occasions to read on the way.
I like to read conspiracy stories. Really makes you feel excited and all.
I had this great book called the Threshold. It was very interesting.
About a boy and his spiritual experiences
Reply to this Oh gosh, where do I start. I always try to read at least 3 to 8 books while traveling. I cherish the time I can escape in a book! I seem to be on a mainstream kick right now, and when traveling I try not to buy books that are too too deep.
Absolutely loved
The Road by Cormac McCarthy. I think its a movie now...was susposed to be released in November 08? Just bought
Water for Elephants but haven't read it yet.
I'm a huge fan of CANADIAN authors, and every so often I come across a really great read....say for example
The Time Travellers Wife by Audrey Niffennegger or the
Birth House by Ami Mckay. We have some real talent in Canada. Brilliant story tellers!
I'm always attracted to books that are about the Middle East, or Southern Asia area. Just read
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and enjoyed it. Loved the
Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, and the second book
A Thousand Splendid Suns.
I could probably list a hundred more but those are the ones that come to mind right now.
Reply to this I'm pretty open to anything. I'll grab whatever I'm reading at the moment and take it along. I'll usually grab National Geographic if one has come in the meantime.
Mistyeyed
Content Manager,
Reply to this A few days ago I picked up Dr Martin L. Kings autobiography and the Motorcycle Diaries (I hope to partially follow Che's route when i go to SA). Both verfy good, particulary Dr Kings book....I haven't been able to put it down and have had moist eyes more than once.
Reply to this I like to read something from Dean Koontz, keeps me entertained on the go.
Reply to this Hi,
I generally read the comic books and story books during the trevaling period.
Snoreta
Reply to this I have been following advice from my father(a traveller as well)and always read a writer from the country I am in.Its easy ,I can get them where I am and if I like it ,its great to take home as a memoryof that travel.If I cant read in the langage of the country,I get it in any language I know before I go.It is fast becoming an important part of any trip I take,I call it a trip within a trip.
Reply to this And, if anyone is interested in hearing why I hate Into the Wild:
I just finished reading that book and also your post and though I empathize with the kid to an extent, I also hear what you're saying. What he did was stupid, but he generally wasn't a dumb kid, and was on his own fending for himself for nearly 2 years by the time he went to Alaska. He knew what he was getting into, but logic was defied by his need to push the limits. If it wasn't for a few bad potato seeds he would've made it out there too.
What I took from the book was this. There are two ways to approach your travels, which I think is relevant in this forum. One is to do it because you're responding to a "pull" effect, that draws you to chase the experience, your dream. There's also the "push" effect, which he evidently had quite strongly, that bred from an enormous discontent with the world around him, the pressure from his parents, school, and what he perceived as rampant hypocrisy in his world. His fate in Alaska bred more from that than a singular bad decision to defy mother nature. I think that's where I feel for him more.
How does that quote go? Man went traveling the world in search of meaning only to find it when he returned home. Something like that?
Reply to this I'm not allowed to take any books when we are travelling, I'm the only driver. Seriously though I usually take an MP3 player and a stack of downloaded science programs, when my wife wanders off to the gym I listen to it, same if we are on a coach trip.
Reply to this I like to pick up brochures along the way. Essential information can be gotten quickly.
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Reply to this sidney sheldon. the frist three days I read two if his books. after getting out of the office and all the
office politics, three days of reading was perfect!
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Reply to this Read The Linger Loco! if you're off to South America. Trust me, i laughed all the way through. Comedy about two brothers travelling through argentina and Brazil. funny.
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Reply to this I read The Christmas Sweater by Glenn Beck when I went to New York. Not an easy one to read on the plane, kept having to hide the fact that I was crying.
Reply to this The book that started my interest in travel was Rosie Darling by Rosie Swale.
Hokkaido Highway Blues by Will Ferguson based on a hitch-hikers journey through Japan is one of the best travel books I've read.
Generally we just take the 3/4 thickest books we have sitting unread on the shelves.
Reply to this I like to read story or light books when travelling. I like thrilling story books too.
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