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Gentlemen, ladies - I need help.
My wife is going on a trip this weekend, and will have about 16 hours on airplanes while travelling. The sad bit is that she has no books to read. So, because she dared me to, I'm coming to the Forum for advice.
She wants to read fiction - Nothing dark or depressing, but nothing too fluffy and girly (ala Sex in the City). She likes Janet Evanovich and Christopher Moore and the like, and - much to my chagrin - does not read science fiction.
Any good books out there?
My wife is going on a trip this weekend, and will have about 16 hours on airplanes while travelling. The sad bit is that she has no books to read. So, because she dared me to, I'm coming to the Forum for advice.
She wants to read fiction - Nothing dark or depressing, but nothing too fluffy and girly (ala Sex in the City). She likes Janet Evanovich and Christopher Moore and the like, and - much to my chagrin - does not read science fiction.
Any good books out there?
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Kurt Vonnegut would be kinda dark, I think. That would depend on her tastes
she may not read sci fi, but how does she feel about fantasy?
Catcher in the Rye too deppressing? How about Siddhartha? or Fight Club?
I'm kind of failing the demographic... Uhhh... hmmmm... my wife likes... I don't know, she reads Alan Moore comic books, so that's no good.
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Terry Pratchet's and Neil Gaiman's book Good Omens
Sounds like that might fit in with the Christopher Moore stuff.
or maybe...
An Arsonists Guide to Writers Homes in New England by Brock Clarke
Might be up her alley too.
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Nick Hornby is a great recommendation. I'd also suggest Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen - read that on the plane myself; was perfect for the occasion.
Hillarious, heartbreaking and uplifting.
At the very least, I have a copy of Good Omens - I'll have to dig it out for her, perhaps as a gateway drug to some of Neil Gaiman's other work.
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I would go with this and then lead into the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy.
It occurs to me that I don't read much fiction that couldn't be called sci fi/fantasy.
Recent books I've read that aren't sci fi in any way:
I'm Perfect, You're Doomed by Kyria Abrahams: About a woman who grew up in the Jehovah's Witness community (nonfiction)
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory McGuire: The other side of The Wizard of Oz (fantasy)
The Southern Vampire Mysteries by Charlaine Harris: I really just started this. It's probably pretty solidly in the 'dark' category, but I suppose it might appeal. It's not really just about vampires, but everything else that might bump in the night as well. I'm not sure what I think of it yet.
Long Way Down is all dark humour though and really is more humourous than dark.
If she likes Janet evanovich she'll love anything by this man http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_B._Parker
the spenser novels are the best, though they're pretty macho the sunny randall novels are like the Evanovich novells but with a female protagonist that starts out competent.
I was going to recommend Water for Elephants too. My wife blew through it in two days and really liked it--sounds like the perfect book for a long flight.
You get Bones the TV show in book form, I like it, the womenfolk seem to like it, it's hereby recommended.
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It's BEEN translated! Can't wait to read it.
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try this one "Carry On, Jeeves" by P.G. Wodehouse.
The Harry dresden books might work, unless she feels that they are too outlandish for her tastes.
The Pleasure of My Company is even better.
Both written by Steve Martin.
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As far as other things, Good Omens is sounding like it's already on the list which is great.
Stardust is rather quick, but if you can get the graphic novel as opposed to just the straight novel it's all the more enjoyable, my wife really liked it.
Freakanomics is a strange little book that's again rather quick to read but is packed full of what I think are excellent debate/argument starters. Exploring links between things like Roe v Wade and Crime or the NFL and drug dealers in Chicago. I'd picked it up expecting an economics book but it's really just a bunch of interesting lines of research nicely explained.
If you're trying to avoid dark stuff in favor of more amusing or even absurd things, there's always the Xanth novels by Pierce Anthony. They're by no means the greatest novels of our time but the plays on words and the rather strange magic at work is amusing.
There's also "The Two Georges" by Harry Turtledove. A detective novel of sorts in a world where America didn't win the war for independence. Of all people my mother actually enjoyed this one a lot.