mysh442olds Posted January 29, 2009 #101 Share Posted January 29, 2009 how to dry out after a week of drinking on a Carnival Cruise :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Javajoni Posted January 29, 2009 #102 Share Posted January 29, 2009 Poiseidon Adventure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bfkkbc Posted January 29, 2009 #103 Share Posted January 29, 2009 By Diana Gabaldon!!! Can't read the whole series of course on one cruise but there are 6 books and each of them is at least 1300 pages long!!! A super good read!!!:D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katmu Posted January 29, 2009 #104 Share Posted January 29, 2009 Probably not for everyone, but I'm planning to bring: Banker To The Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty by Dr. Muhammad Yunus (founder of the Grameen Bank who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sam1148 Posted January 30, 2009 #105 Share Posted January 30, 2009 I Loooove Sedaris, but would be cautious reading him in public. You will laugh out loud- and often! Sedaris is much better in audio book form. His delivery is spot on. I had an aquantiance that went to his readings and the book singing. He said "I was reading your book and laughing, then I started coughing..and laughing..then I threw up" Sedaris signed his book. "You make me throw up too". I also second "Skinney Dip" for cruise book....get a audio book version and pod it up for bed time stories. Sedaris is best for that..as his audio are short essays..and great in audio format. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CA_Cruzing Posted June 28, 2018 #106 Share Posted June 28, 2018 I prefer to load up my iPad with movies I’ve missed over the years and documentary shows. Plug in my headphones and check out from the world for a few hours. Perfection! Sent from my iPad using Forums Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GranysT Posted June 28, 2018 #107 Share Posted June 28, 2018 I was all ready to post about a favorite author, I just discovered, when I noticed this is a Very Old thread. I doubt the OP has any interest what so ever in it, any longer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cafedumonde Posted June 28, 2018 #108 Share Posted June 28, 2018 On my last cruise I read "A Pirate Looks at 50" by Jimmy Buffett, its a biography and I really enjoyed it. That sounds good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cafedumonde Posted June 28, 2018 #109 Share Posted June 28, 2018 Probably not for everyone, but I'm planning to bring: Banker To The Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty by Dr. Muhammad Yunus (founder of the Grameen Bank who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006) Sorry, you are right, not for everyone. Sounds exhausting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sebleo Posted June 28, 2018 #110 Share Posted June 28, 2018 I was all ready to post about a favorite author, I just discovered, when I noticed this is a Very Old thread. I doubt the OP has any interest what so ever in it, any longer. Haha! Me too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pspercy Posted June 28, 2018 #111 Share Posted June 28, 2018 Certainly second Patrick O'Brien's tales. I took "I am Pilgrim" by Terry Hayes on a cruise and ended up staying up past 3am reading it one night:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JayDeeJay Posted June 28, 2018 #112 Share Posted June 28, 2018 The Lacuna - very expertly crafted, first person who initially mixed the plaster “just right” for Diego Rivera’s frescos, became close friends with Freda Kalo, wound up as secretary for Trotsky by default when Trotsky was given asylum by Diego Rivera, Came to Asheville to administrate art museum, and much more. I didn’t get a thing done until I finished! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IPlayWithString Posted June 28, 2018 #113 Share Posted June 28, 2018 I like biographies and such. Not really into the romance novels. I do like mysteries too. Any suggestions? I'm going on a 7 day cruise with a forcast of rain, so I'll need to occupy my time with a book that will hold my interest for a while. :) Thanks On our last cruise I finished Phillipa Gregory's "The White Queen" and started reading "The Red Queen". I have an e-reader that holds close to 1,000 books so I've always got something to read. On our Spring Break cruise last year, I read "A Dog's Purpose" and "The Autobiography of James T. Kirk". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
can't hardly wait Posted June 28, 2018 #114 Share Posted June 28, 2018 M.C. Beaton is one of my favorite authors. Both the Agatha Raisin and Hamish Macbeth series are everything. I've never been one to read on a cruise, but definitely have them along for the plane. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmberTeka Posted June 28, 2018 #115 Share Posted June 28, 2018 David Baldacci ….best plotter in the mystery/thriller market. Dean Koontz Like his Jane Hawk books. but some of his stuff is horror. Don't read that. Mike Lawson ( His detective is Joe Demarco. Works for the Speaker of the House as a fixer.) I read all of them They are fast paced, likable characters, witty. C. J. Box and his mystery/thriller/fiction books about a Wyoming game keeper. Beautiful writing At age 71..the entire Harry Poller series. LOVED them Best books written imho? The Number One Ladies Detective Series. Written by Alexander McCall Smith, They are funny. Sad. beautifully written. Makes you want to go to Botswana, and have bush tea with Precious on the veranda of the Hotel. Watch the fly away birds in the thorn trees. Those books had an HBO series filmed about the. And they have won every award imaginable, And..some "Kid's" books are Good. "A Wrinkle in Time" " Up a Road slowly" Science Fiction? S.M Sterling's Ember verse series. First book is "Dies the Fire" Warning they are highly addictive. And if you have never read the Lord of the Rings series, this would be a good time to start. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garth2 Posted June 28, 2018 #116 Share Posted June 28, 2018 "My Accomplishments As First Lady" by Melania Trump. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bookish Angel Posted June 28, 2018 #117 Share Posted June 28, 2018 Lots of good books on this list. Also, on of the best PBS projects ever. http://www.pbs.org/the-great-american-read/home/ I am reading Michael Pollan's How to Change Your Mind. It is about the emerging science of psychedelic substances and their use for treating depression, etc. Fascinating read by a very good author. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
navybankerteacher Posted June 28, 2018 #118 Share Posted June 28, 2018 I was all ready to post about a favorite author, I just discovered, when I noticed this is a Very Old thread. I doubt the OP has any interest what so ever in it, any longer. Good questions, like good wine, do not have expiration dates . If you are interested in well-written histories, Alison Weir has written biographies of prominent women (queens, etc.) in medieval and Renaissance England — from Eleanor of Acquitaine to Elizabeth I. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare cruisemom42 Posted June 28, 2018 #119 Share Posted June 28, 2018 Lots of good books on this list. Also, on of the best PBS projects ever.http://www.pbs.org/the-great-american-read/home/ Great idea, but so many books I consider great that are not on the list. :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NauticalNeophyte Posted June 28, 2018 #120 Share Posted June 28, 2018 @pastorfrank, I second “The Jester”. One of James Patterson’s best, along with “Honeymoon”. If that’s your genre, I’d also recommend “Live Wire”, “Six Years”, “Stay Close”, and “Long Lost” by Harlan Coben. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lucky-in-florida Posted June 28, 2018 #121 Share Posted June 28, 2018 I like biographies and such. Not really into the romance novels. I do like mysteries too. Any suggestions? I'm going on a 7 day cruise with a forcast of rain, so I'll need to occupy my time with a book that will hold my interest for a while. :) Thanks Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain. Just comparing his cruise to the modern day is great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crusinpsychRN Posted June 28, 2018 #122 Share Posted June 28, 2018 OMG--this is the funniest book ever written--for women,that is! Youwill read this book and sit and chuckle out loud! Guys just can't appreciate this "female" humor. Ladies--read this to find out about the greatest chocolate dessert ever made and what you can say to a man to get him to do anything you want!!! OK, guys and ladies----anything by Nelson DeMille or Stuart Woods or Harlen Coben is a great read. But, for a cruise---it has to be Florida writer Carl Hiassen's "Skinny Dip"----about a man who throws his wife overboard and she floats ashore on a...........oh, you just have to read this for yourself. "Skin Deep" by Carl Hiassen is another great one. Great choices. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crzndeb Posted June 28, 2018 #123 Share Posted June 28, 2018 (edited) While this is still a good thread to resurrect (2009), if you are quoting a post from back then, they probably have taken their cruise and may not respond to you. And I would bet that some of the books mentioned, you can get them really cheap now. Edited June 28, 2018 by crzndeb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CruiseGal999 Posted June 28, 2018 #124 Share Posted June 28, 2018 I like biographies and such. Not really into the romance novels. I do like mysteries too. Any suggestions? I'm going on a 7 day cruise with a forcast of rain, so I'll need to occupy my time with a book that will hold my interest for a while. :) Thanks Are you looking for actual books or Kindle or Nook? I'd recommend John Sandford Prey Series ... they are terrific and plenty of them to keep you rolling once you start. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crzndeb Posted June 28, 2018 #125 Share Posted June 28, 2018 Are you looking for actual books or Kindle or Nook? I'd recommend John Sandford Prey Series ... they are terrific and plenty of them to keep you rolling once you start. Please read my post ahead of yours...the OP made this thread in 2009 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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