What are you brining to read on your cruise

[eye R.N.]

I'm looking forward to a good book and a deck chair. Any suggestions?

 

[natdencro]

The Navigator and info books about the places you will visit! You wont be able to read for too long! Either you will be busy, or dozing off in the comfy chairs - like my DH - who took several books..............all unread after the week! Have fun. Nat

 

[DMS_cruisers04]

Well, if I don't finish it beforehand, Dan Brown's Angels&Demons. The DaVinci Code was wonderful, so I've been trying to start A&D, but things have been so busy. I've also got Stephen King's Everything's Eventual in the wings in case I need that instead.

 

[skyhawk]

I'm looking forward to this also! I'm kind of a history buff, so I'm reading Gettysburg, which is a fictionalized account of the epic battle with an alternate ending. Not everyone's cup of tea, but I can't wait to be on my verandah, eating some cheese, and reading my book.

 

[tkd lisa]

I really enjoy reading, and those deck 4 chairs are THE BEST!

Not sure what I'll take, since I don't cruise until December. But for me, since I read fast, I try to take a longer, more involved book. If I take a "beach book" (i.e. light reading), I'll finish it way too soon.

First cruise, I took Shelters of Stone (last book available in the Clan of the Cave Bear series), by Jean Auel. That lasted me through both flights and about 4 hours of reading on the cruise.

Other good books that would be relatively long reads would be the Tom Clancy books (military/spy fiction), Diana Gabaldon books (historic romance), Robert Jordan books (science fiction), Anne McCafferty's trilogy books (fantasy/science fiction).

Enjoy!!!

 

[bobbiwoz]

I have most often brought a James A. Michener paperback along.

Bobbi

 

[krhardy]

Dave Barry...the columns are short so you can read just 1 or 2, and you don't feel like you have to finish the whole book. It's lighthearted, and always funny.

 

[Karel]

I'm hoping for a good book too.

I was looking at "Angry Housewives Eating Bonbons" at the bookstore last night.

You might want to try Jeanne Ray books. She wrote Julie and Romeo, Eat Cake and Step Ball and Change. Good characters, light plots, humorous.

What do you like to read? Do you want fluffy reading?

 

[WDWCrazzyCunninghams]

If I haven't finished the series by December, I plan to bring on from The Left Behind Series. There are 12 all together, and I am getting ready to start book 4. I devoured the first 3, and took a break to read something else. I"ll start 4 here in a few days.

 

[MBFergie]

Hey--

Angry Housewifes Eating Bonbons was really good. Would be great for a cruise. I like a book that I can read 2 pages, set it down to sleep, talk or people watch, then pick it up again with and get back into the book with out using too many brain cells.

I am saving the new Janet Evanovich book because it's perfect for a cruise.

EyeRN - I will be on the cruise with ya reading on Deck 4!! What kind of book do you like... both me and my DH are avid readers and if you tell me if you want something light I can give you alot of suggestions and even give you some if/when I see you on the ship.

 

[figment52]

BOOKS!!

I am not brings BOOKS again. I will bring Book (and I consider myself a fast reader). I carried 4 on my first 7 day and wasn't sure I had enough. I finished the first one on the plane home.

There was way to much for me to do to read books. Do yourself a favor and preview navigators before you go and make sure that there is the time to read. Books are too heavy and take up valuable space IMHO

 

[Karel]

I never go anywhere without a book of some kind.

My husband tends to go to sleep early, even on the cruise, and it was nice to sit in the lobby at midnight, reading before I went to bed.

But I do try to carry only paperbacks.

 

[tecdavidt]

Cruises are the only time my husband reads. The last cruise he read 1 1/2 books on the ship and finished the second on the plane home. The cruise we took in January he read 3 books! and all were large. On that cruise a lot of people were reading the DiVinci Code and that was the first one he finished. As for myself, I stock up on magazines I like but never have time to read at home. Kathy

 

[tevagirl]

My checkbook! I'll "read" it every day and hopefully it'll stop me from booking another cruise!

 

[lotsofboys]

I agree with Figment I am an avid reader and took 4 books on our first cruise, read 100 pages of 1 book. Didn't learn my lesson and took 2 books on the last cruise and read less than 100 pages of 1 book! I get distracted by people watching too easily.

 

[TraSee]

Try anything by Stuart Woods. Mystery, love, and good endings are found in his books. Also...make sure some of that reading is done on the deck 4 chairs. They are the best!

 

[T1130]

I also just finished reading angry housewives eaating bon bons and I loved it. I haven`t decided what book I am bringing to read on my cruise in august yet. I love to sit by the pool or on deck 4 chairs and read.

 

[Disneefun]

I like to take books where some/all of the plot happens on cruise ships or ocean liners!! Makes it more fun (these are also good for reading ahead of time, to get you revved up). I've taken the following:

Cruising for Murder -- Susan Sussman (Mystery)
It Had to Be You -- Linda Windsor (Christian Romance)
Princess Charming -- Jane Heller (Mystery/Romance)
No Honeymoon for Death -- Mary Kruger (Mystery)
The Night Before 30 -- Tajuana Butler (Chick Lit)
The Chocolate Ship -- Marissa Monteilh (Humor/Romance)
Murder on the Marmora -- Conrad Allen (Mystery -- note that Conrad Allen has a whole series of mystery books that take place on cruise ships/ocean liners, too many to list here)
Murder Walks the Plank -- Carolyn Hart (Mystery)

 

[invaderzim]

Just finished Stephen King's "The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon". I am a total Stephen King fan, but this book is not his typical gore fest. It was a great story about a young girl lost in the woods and sometimes made you hold your breath until the next page. Great reading.

This time I am bringing "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" and some magazines. I've seen all the movies, but never read the books. My DD raved about them, so I promised her I'd start reading them, too.

I always think an autobiography is also a good, relaxing read.

 

[Vivig]

If you love shopping then the following are must read books!!!

I read two on our 7 day cruise..they are light and so amusing....I enjoyed them very much..that's not to say that you will...but I found them to be an easy read

Author Sophie Kinsella

-Confessions of a Shopaholic
-Shopaholic take Manhattan
- Shopaholic ties the Knot

_ Can you Keep a secret ..her very latest novel...

Whatever you read you will enjoy..since you'll be reading in the finest surroundings