Vortex, each ship I have been on has a library with a variety of qualities of books.
That's how I read...I forget. But I totally read a book that way! Maybe Shadow of the Hegemon ? I may have brought that with me.
Mal: Well said. Wasn't that well said, Zoe? Zoe: Had a kind poetry to it, sir.
'Out Of Gas'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Polter-Cow - Dec 18, 2008 8:09:36 am PST #8173 of 28431
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
DavidS - Dec 18, 2008 8:14:46 am PST #8174 of 28431
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
If I can't read, surf the web or watch TV, WHAT WILL I DO!?!?!?!?
Pick up cabanas boys for cheap sex and thrills?
Connie Neil - Dec 18, 2008 8:19:46 am PST #8175 of 28431
brillig
Pick up cabanas boys for cheap sex and thrills?
What do you think this is, Hec, the Love Boat?
DavidS - Dec 18, 2008 8:22:14 am PST #8176 of 28431
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
What do you think this is, Hec, the Love Boat?
When Vortex is aboard, every ship's the love boat, bay-bee!
Ginger - Dec 18, 2008 9:07:40 am PST #8177 of 28431
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I thought of some others that might be pretty available used. Here they are, in case you decide on emergency bookbuying today.
The three books by the tragically short-lived Sarah Caudwell, very funny mysteries about young barristers in London:
Thus Was Adonis Murdered
The Shortest Way to Hades
The Sybil In Her Grave
Dorothy Sayers, of course. The Harriet Vane books are better for being read in order: Strong Poison, Have His Carcase, Gaudy Night and Busman's Honeymoon. The rest of the Peter Wimsey books are pretty stand-alone
Ngaio Marsh: The Roderick Alleyn books are not particularly harmed by being read out of order. He gets a wife, he gets older and PC Whats-his-face continues to be a hypocondriac.
Sharyn McCrumb: The Ballad Books ( If Ever I Return, Pretty Peggy-O, The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter, She Walks These Hills, The Rosewood Casket, The Ballad of Frankie Silver...) have some common characters, but can easily be read out of order.
John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee novels
Robert B. Parker: The early Spenser novels (1979-1989) are excellent. They go downhill after that, plus there's the Susan Silberman factor.
Josephine Tey
I haven't read a lot of the mass-market thriller writers, but Tess Gerritsen and Iris Johansen are pretty readable.
I always recommend Jennifer Crusie and Connie Willis, except that Willis' Passages is not really a good choice for a cruise. It's about the Titanic.
Dana - Dec 18, 2008 9:18:23 am PST #8178 of 28431
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
The three books by the tragically short-lived Sarah Caudwell, very funny mysteries about young barristers in London:
There's four. If I can just figure out which one you're missing...
Nope, I had to check Amazon. "The Sirens Sang of Murder."
Typo Boy - Dec 18, 2008 9:20:49 am PST #8179 of 28431
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
except that Willis' Passages is not really a good choice for a cruise. It's about the Titanic.
The disadvantage of being terse. That last sentence is what computer nerds would call "lossy information compression".
Ginger - Dec 18, 2008 9:26:23 am PST #8180 of 28431
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Thanks, Dana.
That last sentence is what computer nerds would call "lossy information compression".
TB is right. The book is about life after death, heroism and a lot of other things, but it was the Titanic part of it was what I thought was the critical factor in cruise reading.
Jessica - Dec 18, 2008 9:30:47 am PST #8181 of 28431
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I always recommend Jennifer Crusie and Connie Willis, except that Willis' Passages is not really a good choice for a cruise.
Also, it's terrible. (YMMV of course. I love Willis generally, but that book....ugh...)
Vonnie K - Dec 18, 2008 9:38:59 am PST #8182 of 28431
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Yeah. Passage is easily my least favourite Connie Willis. To Say Nothing of the Dog, on the other hand, is marvellous. I also love Doomsday Book, but that's probably too depressing for a cruise.