Favorite book for plane journey

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Does people have any favorite author or books they like to read while on a plane journey?

Last year I reread "The Holcroft Covenant" by Robert Ludlum. This time I will go hunting for a book tomorrow for two 8+ hour legs of my journey.

Bombay street book sellers, Where R Thou?

stardragon

I haven't read this on a plane, but, "Shantaram" is a good book set in India. I can't remember the name of the writer..but it's everywhere. Maybe you have heard of it?

Happy travels!

Nick-H

A Suitable Boy was my best plane read. Lasted through the whole trip as well

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capt_mahajan

I have a book on collected sufi sayings. can open any page and ponder for a good half hour.

and re-usable for plane journeys

Problem with a novel on a plane is, if it is not absorbing you are stuck with no alternatives.

wp7713

For me, on a 20+ hour journey to India what worked was a Dashiell Hammett collection. I'd never read him before, though I had come across many references.

It was ideal for the plane plus interruptions.

Mikki

People's taste vary so much that it's impossible to recommend anything. However, I loved Vikram Seth's Two Lives. that said, I like to take a book that has something to do with the place I'm flying to. Sometimes I take two books - one for the first leg of the trip and one for the next so I get a feeling of a "fresh start" somewhere in the midst of a very long flight.

shahronakm

During my recent domestic flight on Air Deccan, I was occupied with their in flight magazine.

Ronak.

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puppydogben

After having read Rabbi Jonathan Sacks' 'Dignity of Difference' I would say this would be a useful book to take up anybody's time on an airplane. It gives us a startlingly realistic and pragmatic approach to cross-culturalism and the global economy that we just can't afford to ignore.
The most recent booker prize winner is also a gem of a book about the northeast of India.

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kidsan

i second that. I always try to find a book appropriate for the place im travelling to. Last trip to india was city of djinns which was both a wonderful read and made me so much more enthusiastic about visiting delhi than i had been before!

On a trip to morocco last year, a friend of mine gave me a book called the caliph's house by tahir shah. If you're ever headed out that way it is a lovely read about a foreigner moving to casablanca.

batistuta

I prefer to Take a copy of Nisargadatta Maharaj's 'I am that'.I can ponder on each interview (it is a collection of talks)for some time.

amyl

‘God is beautiful and loves beauty’ and so do I (askance at the airhostess)

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Sama

magazines. lots of magazines. then I can leave them on the plane for others.

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dzibead

Anyone who travels with a laptop that has a DVD reader can carry the entire New Yorker magazine - every single article, every single cover - in fact, every single damn page - from the first edition in 1925 through April 2006 on a set of nine discs available from www.newyorker.com for $30. For $199 you can get the same thing in a small portable hard drive. You won't run out of reading, and if one article bores you there are thousands of others -- including quite a few on India! This solves the "stuck with no alternatives" problem mentioned by the Capt above.

cyberhippie

Bijapuri recommends narrated E books on an Mp3 player or disc, sounds very relaxing to me.

Dzi I bought the entire National Geographic collection on disc, since 1889 for around $100

Darmabum

Shantaram (might even finish the whole thing on a flight from the States) . . . poetry, I use Rumi, read a few, sit back and let them sink in . . . Vikram Seth came up a couple of times, I really liked "An Equal Music" by Seth . . . Last year I read a book called "Eat, Pray, Love" on my flights to India, wasn't one I thought I'd like but by the time I'd landed in Mumbai, I was a fan . . . and again, as someone mentioned, books are a hard call for someone else . . . personally I like Jorge Luis Borges, being a fan of magical realism he's the king, Ficciones is one of his best. Almost poetry in that the pieces are short but very, very filling . . . in that same vein there's Gabriel Garcia Marquez - "One Hundred Years of Solitude" and "Love in the Time of Cholera", both equally great and tremendously different . . .

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