Good books to read while commuting...

killbilly said:
That is a very good book. Have you read his really early book, "The Rum Diaries?"
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Indeed I have - enjoyed it.

I like many of his books, but Hell's Angels really remains my favorite. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas was good...but I actually liked others more. He had some books published later that were essays and such that I also liked...although toward the end he was almost becoming a caricature of what he used to be in some ways.
 
Seggy said:
I would like to get a thread going about suggestions for us to read while commuting. I am going to get it started.

machnumber let me borrow and am curretly reading...

'I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell' by Tucker Max
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Funny book!

Just finished it the last trip.
Laughed alot. Funny situations, etc.

You can read them all in short story formats too-eg you dont have to sit down for a long time to finish a chapter or story. Normally i can get through a few stories during each flight.
 
That Tucker Max had me laughing so hard while jumpseating all the passengers around me came to ask me what I was reading! The format of that book was great with the short stories.

I don't read to many books. It literally took me 6 months to finish the Bourne Identity book. Which btw is also a very good book.

Those of you that have not read the Tucker Max book, I highly recommend it! Also, he has a website you should check out!

www.tuckermax.com
 
fender_jag said:
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Great read!

I also have the iTune version.
 
taildragger173 said:
The World is Flat
Hard Landing
Fate is the Hunter
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I try not to read flying books when I was going to work, I didn't want to think about working on my way to work. However, I did just get this book called "flight discipline," which is pretty cool and has numerous anecdotes and accidents etc. Interesting read.
 
A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present by Howard Zinn.


This is in my top three favorite books of all time and definitely one of the best books I've read in the past 10 years.
 
I always really liked biographies as well - John Adams and Truman by David McCullough are both exceptional. I am wanting to get the new one about Andrew Jackson that just came out.
 
I'm pretty burned out on fiction so most of what I read is non fiction these days. I did pick up a book by Christopher Moore, per the other thread but so far I just haven't gotten into it.

But here's what I've got out from the library now.

Blink - Malcolm Gladwell
Ernie Pyle's War - James Tobin
Strange Tribe - John Hemingway
Stick To Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain! - Scott Adams


I saw before somebody mentioned Freakonomics... If you liked that, you'd probably like Gang Leader For A Day by Sudhir Venkatesh. Similar premise but just about an inner city housing project in Chicago.
 
Helter Skelter was great.

In Cold Blood - great.

Texas Monthly actually put out a neat book I read over Thanksgiving. It was Texas Monthly True Texas Crime (or something like that).

Texas Monthly is an awesome magazine, and they always will have a true crime story in every issue - Skip Hollandsworth usually writes it. Anyway, they compiled a book out of the articles that appeared monthly. Was an awesome read. Actually, I read Volume 2 - Volume 1 is all the famous stuff - JFK, Whitman at the Austin tower, etc.
 
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