My oldest cousin asked me a very important question today. What is The Book? What book will come along on my trip? Her younger sister chose War and Peace when she went. Long enough that it takes a significant amount of time to get through.
Qualities to be sought:
-length. It should be something that will take me a while to read.
-readability. I have to like it, since I won't have my whole bookshelf of options available to me. It can't be something I'll get bored with or sick of
-I can't mind too much if it gets lost, which means that if it's a book I like, it has to be replaceable
Thoughts?
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I recommend Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything.
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What kind of book are you looking for?
Gone With the Wind is pretty long and I found it incredibly good.
The Mists of Avalon is also quite long and quite good. It's based on the Arthurian legends, though it's kind of smutty.
I'm going to think about this now, instead of reading Literary Theory.
Sorry, I'm commenting too much.
I just thought of Anna Karenina as well. I've only read about half of it, but I really like it.
I have all kinds of good books but not necessarily long ones.
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I'd agree with Martha about "Mists of Avalon". Tis big, and I totally dig the Arthurian stuff.
Personally, I'd take a big long classic of interest. One that most ppl hardly ever get to read, but it seems everyone knows something out of it. When I think of such a book to suggest, I'll get back to you. *L*
In the meantime, does it HAVE to be only ONE book? Why not a collection? Like the Complete Works of Shakey? Or the entire Hitchhiker's Guide in one book? Or something like that?
I have the entirety of Hitchhiker's in one book, but I just read that over the summer. I was figuring one (or two) books just because of weight and bulkiness.
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The Mists of Avalon is full of slightly lascivious Arthurian sex scenes!
The question is, do you want something that reminds you of home, or something that makes you more inclined to travel?
Robertson Davies books are good. You can get the trilogies in a single paperback , so it's both long and light. The Cornish trilogy was my moving to Vancouver book, and the Salterton trilogy was my France book. Although maybe you've read them all?
Yah, I'm in the middle of the Deptford Trilogy and its great!
If you want something to take a bite out of you could do anything Russian.
But what I actually recommend is a book called Brothers K. Its about baseball, religion and war but you can know nothing about baseball and its still awesome!!! It was one of Gabrielle and my Brazil highights, which is funny because you'd think other things would be much more highlighty.
I recomend "The Brothers Karamazov" by Dostoevsky. It got me through many train rides and my daily commute to San Francisco when I was living in Berkeley, California. It isn't a book that can be read fast. Needs a bit of a commitment at times, although I never was bored. It was just so dense that I needed time to process it all!
Although I'd also recommend any Robertson Davies Trilogy (I'm working on the Salterton trilogy at the moment!) as well as "The Mists of Avalon."
me: "I'm surprised no one has suggested the Bible yet"
Preston: "that's too obvious"
I do have every Robertson Davies novel in my collection. Those are amazing.
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