Five Books to Make Long Flights Bearable
Good Reading Makes Flights Go Faster
If you're planning a long-haul flight, let me give you five suggestions for books that can make the flight a lot better.
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Palis Christopher Moore's masterwork of speculative historical fiction. It's funny. It's moving. It's creative. You'll follow Biff, the Robin to Jesus' Batman, through the childhood, missing years and eventual death of the Son of God. The first time I read this book, I laughed so hard that people at coffee shops thought I was going into convulsions.
Joshua Davis' The Underdog proves he has mommy issues. He's spent most of his life trying to please his former beauty queen mother. This leads him on a quest to be the best at something ... anything! He takes up backward running, bullfighting, extreme sauna and more as he struggles to be more than a bespectacled data entry clerk.
Matt Ruff's Bad Monkeys is a twisting, turning mash-up of cyber-spy thriller with the very real possibility that the protagonist is simply off her rocker. Jane gets arrested and claims she is part of a super-secret group that aims to rid the world of incorrigible evil. But is she actually that evil? A crazy and unpredictable book.
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex reinforces Mary Roach's place as one of my favorite authors for non-fiction ponderings of life's mysteries. Her latest tackles sex, and how researchers have poked and prodded the world's oldest deed through human history. Any author willing to shag her husband in an MRI tube for a book deserves my props.
Nick Hornby is one of the few authors who's both ubiquitous and genuinely deserving of his success. In Slam, he writes about the perils of teenage relationships and pregnancy without sounding preachy. He also presents a neat plot device involving 16-year-old protagonist Sam and a Tony Hawk poster. Hornby is also a master at writing in the perfect voice of his characters.
Count on these five to get you through a transcontinental flight with your sanity intact.
Published by Justin Schmid - Featured Contributor in Travel
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2 Comments
Post a CommentYou enjoy long haul flights?! I wish I felt the same way. I am usually sat by crying children, or snoring passengers, so it's never a lot of fun for me when I have a long haul flight ahead of me!
Sophie
I've never read any of these, maybe I'll have to!