Airplane reading suggestions?

[eyesroll]

I'm going to be spending a lot of time on airplanes and in hotels next week. Anyone read any good books lately? No hardcovers please (too heavy), and nothing that will get me detained for a body-cavity search at airport security, but I'm OK with getting evil looks from other passengers.

[Superfly]

1. A list of 50 books

can be found right here.

Follow the link in the original post.

[eyesroll]

4. Wow -- I took a look and I've only read 14 of them...

Usually I've read a lot more on sci-fi lists (this one only goes back 50 years, though).

I own a good 5 more and just never got around to reading them. Maybe I should. Thanks!

[Hawkeye-X]

2. Hmm..

I would suggest William Bernhardt books.

He's a great author, and he's from Tulsa, Oklahoma, and he's what I consider the left John Grisham, and he's very consistent with his characters.

Start with "Primary Justice" and work your way through. My all-time favorite? Cruel Justice.

All of his books are decently priced ($5.99) and in paperback (almost all of them. His latest book is called Criminal Intent, and it isn't in paperback yet)

On edit: Woohoo - another hardcover book to buy! /me runs to the bookstore and orders his book. "Death Row" is his latest.

Hawkeye-X

[Shrek]

3. Read the safety briefing card in the seat pocket in front of you.

It might save your life!

:thumbsup:

[eyesroll]

5. Passengers with 80s hair will be cast into the ocean immediately!

http://modernhumorist.com/mh/0005/airtoons/

[qb]

6. The Betrayal of America... by Vincent Bugliosi

It's a good read (about the theft of election 2000) and even if you've had enough of this subject, it's a compact little paperback with mug shots of the Supremes on the front - good for sending subliminal messages to fellow travelers and/or starting conversations.

[Wickerman]

7. A great new novel of International Intrigue

if you like a page turner, is An Echo of War, by Grant Blackwood.
In 1918, four Allied soldiers stumble across a biological weapon that could destroy the world-and take a vow to keep it falling into the wrong hands. Now, a group of Bosnian terrorists want it. Enter agent Briggs Tanner. His mission: follow a trail through the Alps, to the heart of where it all began-before millions of lives are lost.

its good crisp writing and as well researched as anything by Tom Clancy.

[greatauntoftriplets]

8. The Cabinet of Curiosities

Lincoln Preston and Douglas Child. It'll have you on the edge of your airplane seat.

[dofus]

9. For something light and frothy,

try Le Divorce by Diane Johnson.

Shadow Baby by Allison McGhee is somewhat darker, but excellent.
The New Girls by Beth Gutcheon. Actually, anything by her.

Any book by Donald Westlake.