If you're in an airport, stay away from this book...

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A great book, a long but easy read, is Paul Theroux's Dark Star Safari. Since Theroux cut back on Naipaul-style whining and digs further into the people he meets, he has become the best travel writer extant. IMAO. He goes all the way down the Nile and further south, and he knows many of the places and some of the senior people from his stint in the Peace Corps in the late '60's. An honestly written and revealing book.

[If this is a DB on the books thread, my apologies.]

 

Nick Hornby's "A Long Way Down."
Hilarious, charming, touching.
Everything you want in a book about mass suicide.
Hornby is the man.

 

"Airport."

 

Anything by Ian Rankin, especially if you like Scotland
Has developed a great character in Detective Rebus

 

Ed McBain's endless supply of 87th precinct novels.

 

Great call, I'm a big fan of these books.

Was just at the library with my son and saw several copies of Robert Parker's Double Play, a novel about a guy who was Jackie Robinson's bodyguard. I was a big Parker fan at one time but this book was a complete piece of shit. Must have taken him an afternoon to write.

 

You'd be better off reading the toilet paper and wiping your ass with the book, my man.

 

Any of Lee Child's Jack Reacher novels.

 

Those pink drinks still playing hell with your GI tract or something?

 

I don't think Tom Clancy could be classified a good "airport" book. Every Clancy book I've ever read involves some serious time, not something you can burn through in a flight or two.

Does John Grisham qualify as a good "airport" book? His stuff seems more conducive to keeping you occupied on a long flight.

 

I've never finished a Clancy book although Lord knows I've tried. Grisham definitely writes airport books.