Mine too. But I've not flown for a while...the last in-flight book was "A Secret History"(Liked it muchly. Was not All That.)
Seems like everyone's got a tale to tell.
Mal ,'Safe'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
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."
erikaj - Jun 18, 2004 11:14:13 am PDT #3528 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
Jesse - Jun 18, 2004 11:15:19 am PDT #3529 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
The last trip I took was five days, and I think I brought six books. And magazines.
§ ita § - Jun 18, 2004 11:18:59 am PDT #3530 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm a double nerd, because not only do I make a packing list when taking a flight anywhere, "BOOKS!!" is the first thing on the list.
I hate carrying books. So I need to finish my outgoing book before I get on the flight back. And leave it there, wherever there is. And buy another one for the way back. And read borrowed books while I'm there.
Sheryl - Jun 18, 2004 11:20:07 am PDT #3531 of 10002
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
I hate to think how many books I will be taking along on my honeymoon. What? All I meant was, there will be a few long plane trips and train trips between cities. I read quickly, so many books need to be taken.
sarameg - Jun 18, 2004 11:31:38 am PDT #3532 of 10002
I usually take either one huge one (one time it was A Problem from Hell: American and the Age of Genocide - that got me left alone. Blackhawk Down, nsm. And I never even left the airport that time...) or several thin ones. Compilations of short stories or essays work well too. I get a little ADDish when I'm travelling.
I just got a huge box of new-to-me books from the parents. There's a theme happening. Read Naked in Baghdad the other night. And then there is Bookseller of Kabul, Kite Runner and Storyteller's Daughter.
Don't remember if Reading Lolita in Tehran is in this shipment. Pretty sure The Hemingway Book Club of Kosovo is.
I have plenty to choose from for the next trip.
juliana - Jun 18, 2004 11:43:01 am PDT #3533 of 10002
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
I'm debating hauling either Gravity's Rainbow or Infinite Jest on the plane with me next week. On the one hand - both are very heavy books. On the other - 5.5 hour flight, both ways, direct. I'll need something to occupy my brain.
Connie Neil - Jun 18, 2004 12:06:51 pm PDT #3534 of 10002
brillig
I took a bunch of books with me on a business trip that was supposed to last a month. The trip got extended to two and a half months. Was I panicked at the thought of being away from Hubby that long? Nope, I panicked at the idea of running out of books. I shipped a separate box home, because I'd found books I'd been meaning to buy for my library. I left a grundel load for the boarding house's loaner book shelf.
Ginger - Jun 18, 2004 12:12:00 pm PDT #3535 of 10002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I usually figure out what books I'm taking on a trip before I think about clothes.
Hayden - Jun 18, 2004 12:12:11 pm PDT #3536 of 10002
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Gravity's Rainbow is definitely a time-eater, Juliana. I'm a fast reader, and I usually take weeks to read it.
deborah grabien - Jun 18, 2004 12:52:36 pm PDT #3537 of 10002
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
juliana, Gravity's Rainbow makes Finnegan's Wake look like a lightweight; it eats the brain as much as it eats the time. I don't know if you've read Pynchon before, but if not, be warned: he's very much a love it or hate it proposition. I've never met anyone who was lukewarm about him.
And I just got a birthday prezzie from Kristin T, and it's on now sitting on my incunabulae shelf, where I can not only keep the cats away from it, but where I can drool over it at a safe distance without risking spotting it with my own saliva.