I need a new book.....

[fryguy]

Off for a few days on the beach in Florida and need something to read. Any suggestions?

[politicaholic]

1. "Why Not Me?" by Al Franken...

Easy read and hilarious. Perfect if you just want to be entertained.

[KitchenWitch]

2. I am reading "Ball Four" right now.

It is a good read if you like baseball!

[flamingyouth]

18. That's a great book

One of the classic sports reads, if you ask me.

[StopTheMorans]

3. you already finished coloring the last one?

:shrug:

[Joe Power]

4. "Hey Rube" Hunter S. Thompson

It has had me laughing out loud more than a few times.

[jonnyblitz]

23. i am reading that right now!

not a big sports fan but i will read ANYTHING he writes! :thumbsup:

[Joe Power]

24. Not much actual sports, anyway

More like politics and his usual weirdness mixed in with degenerate gambling. ;)

[jonnyblitz]

25. well when you are as indifferent to them as i am

it seems like lots even though i know it isn'g (the sports talk)! but i can deal with it ....I found his prior book amusing also, i forget the name off the top of my head. I will read anything he writes. nobody makes me laugh harder. my sister has a mad crush on him.

[Joe Power]

36. Same here

The guys is a national treasure.

[MsAnthropy]

5. "Naked" by David Sedaris

Funniest man on the planet

[Mojambo]

14. Funniest book I've ever read. n/t

[Reverend_Smitty]

20. such a funny book...

The bit about the nudist colony had me crying with laughter!

[MsAnthropy]

22. The way he writes about his mother reacting to his tics

cracks me up every time.

[Reverend_Smitty]

28. I've read all of his books...

and by the description of his mother in them, it seems like she must have been quite a character. I think the whole family was pretty much off their rockers, because his sister Amy Sedaris is so funny as well

[Freebird12004]

6. "Good in Bed" by Jennifer Weiner

On days that you don't really want to think - this is easy reading with lots of laughs and tears.

[Worst Username Ever]

7. What do you like to read?

"The alienist" and its follow up "angel of darkness," by caleb carr, are great. Mystery-type books, written as if it were the 1890's. GREAT WRITING. Good fun books, I don't like to read about politics when I am relaxing.

[Az]

8. The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality

By Brian Greene (Author of The Elegent Universe). Looks like some good lite reading. Haven't read it yet but Greene is always an informitive writer.

[JimmyJazz]

9. I *highly* recommend "the Gospel According to Biff" -

I've never done so many spit takes reading a book - It's by Christopher Moore and he's a laugh riot.

[progressoid]

10. His latest is a good quick read too "The Stupidest Angel"

[JimmyJazz]

12. I'm so far behind in my reading - I can't find my lamp on my night stand!

But, thanks for the recommendation - I'll add it to my list. :)

[MissMarple]

11. Still Life With Crows by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child

Or their "Brimstone". Both are good beach reading, yet curiously articulate. "Cabinet of Curiosities" is good as well.

Or "Running on Empty" by Peter G Peterson. It's quite informative and has good reviews. And it's an easy read.

:D

[Mojambo]

13. Jennifer Government by Max Barry. n/t

[yellowdogintexas]

15. for strictly fun silly stuff, get some Stephanie Plum books

very light detective fiction..

start with "One for The Money" and move on from there; a fun series with hysterical characters.

author is Janet Evanovich

on the other hand: you are going to Florida so you could take along some Elmore Leonard, Carl Hiaason, or Dave Barry.

Dave's novel "Big Trouble" is very funny, and if you can find it, the serial novel that is a chapter apiece by about a dozen south Florida writers is really fun. It is called "Naked Came the Manatee"

[shesemsmom]

16. I am currently reading Point of Origin by Cornwell and

Michael Moore's Down size this.. both good reads

[Freebird12004]

17. "Trace" by Pat Cornwell was good too

"Southern Cross" was the first of Cornwell's works that I read years ago. I fell into the Scarpetta series when I read "Black Notice". Each book in the series can stand alone, one book at a time - however it was great to go back and start with "Postmortem" and follow Scarpetta through her career.

[shesemsmom]

26. I havent read trace yet

I am still about 3 behind. But working on it

[Freebird12004]

30. it's worth the effort

B-)

[shesemsmom]

31. Oh I will read it but still have to read Blow fly I am out os sequence

and one more I can't think of right now

[Freebird12004]

32. Blow Fly was also a good read

[shesemsmom]

35. I think but am not sure that Benton returns from the dead there

lol

[Tafiti]

19. It's a few years old now, but...

...check out Trials of the Monkey by Matthew Chapman.

Chapman is the great-great-grandson of Charles Darwin, an Englishman screenwriter living in New York City, who travels to tiny Dayton, Tennessee, the site of the famous 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial. He's an excellent writer, and the book goes back and forth between a Chapman memoir, history of the South and the story of his travels, creation vs. evolution (peculiarly American, he adds), and of course the trial. It's truly a fantastic read.

[CornField]

21. For a good fantasy read: Amulet of Samarkand

by Jonathan Stroud. (That's the first book in a series of three)

[auburngrad82]

27. Two recommendations

The Dogs of Bedlam Farm by John Katz. If you like dogs you'll like this book.

God's Politics by Jim Wallis. How we can win back the truly religious from the pseudo-religion of the Right-wingers.

[InformedSource]

29. "The Librarian" by Larry Beinhart. Also his "Wag the Dog"

which was originally published as American Hero but has been reissued under the Wag the Dog title.

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34. Anything by Elmore Leonard

if you haven't already read all of his stuff.
Great beach read.