If you had no TV and no internet for 3 days....

Chrissy · Dec 19, 2012

What book would you read?

This is me. I'm moving. I'm going to be cut off from the whole wide world (

) for about 3 days. I want something both mesmerizing and time consuming....

What do ya'll think?

Snowstorm · Dec 19, 2012

Ah, bliss! I'd read Benjamin Franklin by Carl Van Doren. It's a lengthy tome. Van Doren's words are deep and profound, and this is the only book I've ever read that forced me read slowly.

Good luck with your move and enjoy the time!

Ken · Dec 19, 2012

... maybe you could print out a lot of threads from AW that you haven't read and read them.
Enjoy, whatever you choose

Chrissy · Dec 19, 2012

Snowstorm said:
Ah, bliss! I'd read Benjamin Franklin by Carl Van Doren. It's a lengthy tome. Van Doren's words are deep and profound, and this is the only book I've ever read that forced me read slowly.

Good luck with your move and enjoy the time!

Thank you Snowstorm! I will download a sample and check it out.

Ken said:
... maybe you could print out a lot of threads from AW that you haven't read and read them.
Enjoy, whatever you choose

That's actually pretty brilliant! And they'd be from P&CE, too. I'm going to be lost without P&CE for 3 days. Maybe it would stave off the withdrawal symptons...

lbender · Dec 20, 2012

I'd just take the next 3 or 4 books from the lengthy stack of 'to read' I have in the corner of a bookcase. I probably wouldn't get through them all, but better to have too many than too few.

maxmordon · Dec 20, 2012

lbender said:
I'd just take the next 3 or 4 books from the lengthy stack of 'to read' I have in the corner of a bookcase. I probably wouldn't get through them all, but better to have too many than too few.

This.

Alpha Echo · Dec 20, 2012

Hmmm...I'd reread Gone with the Wind, oh, and Kate Morton's books are so beautifully written. I'm not sure which one I'd reread. I'd probably read the one I haven't read yet The Secret Keeper. And then I'd need a good thriller to mix things up. Maybe Gone Girl. Excellent. Except I didn't read it all that long ago. Maybe the other book by the same author I haven't yet read.

cmi0616 · Dec 20, 2012

Probably one of those long ones sitting on my shelf that I've been kind of afraid of. Gravity's Rainbow or Infinite Jest. Maybe War and Peace.

Alpha Echo · Dec 20, 2012

Really, I'm constantly reading anyway. Most of my online time is while at work. When I get home, even when the TV is on in the background, I have a book on my lap. So, if I were to go 3 days without TV or internet, not much would really change.

randi.lee · Dec 20, 2012

I do it annually. Camping trip Memorial Day weekend every year--no electronics for three days.

Jess Haines · Dec 20, 2012

I have a load of books on my TBR pile, but I'd probably reach for one of my doorstop comfort reads. Maybe reread C.S. Friedman's Coldfire Trilogy, or King's Needful Things or Tommyknockers.

regdog · Dec 21, 2012

Outlander or Dragonfly In Amber-Diana Gabladon.

Vito · Dec 21, 2012

For fiction, I'll say The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe. Just finished reading it a couple weeks ago, and it really blew me away.

For nonfiction I'll recommend any of Andrew Bacevich's books on U.S. foreign policy, particularly The Limits of Power, Washington Rules, or The New American Militarism. Powerful, provocative stuff! :Thumbs:

blacbird · Dec 21, 2012

Classic Fiction: The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas

Modern Fiction (defined as author still living): The Water-Method Man, John Irving

Nonfiction (from a recent read): Under the Banner of Heaven, Jon Krakauer

caw

bearilou · Dec 22, 2012

Tough call. As I have a Nook and hundreds of books loaded up on it already...

...I'd have nothing to read because not one of the hundreds would appeal to me when I'm stuck with nothing to do.

When I have plenty to do? OMG I can't wait to get to them.

...well that was no help.

I'm partial to omnibusses...omnibusi...omni...collections. I like novel and short story collections.

blacbird said:
Classic Fiction: The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas

Second this.

KellyAssauer · Dec 22, 2012

I would support thee fellow AW's and read:

Dancer and Spy, by Michael Myers

A Dog of War, by Heather Gregson

Sebastian's Poet, by Kevin Craing

=)

KawaiiTimes · Dec 22, 2012

My current reading pile is War of the Worlds (H.G. Wells), The Sorceress (Michael Scott), Lamb (Christopher Moore, I think?), My Husband Betty (the author escapes me... It is 5am in the dark on a Saturday) and something else I can't remember atm.

All are good reads so far!

benbradley · Dec 31, 2012

So this is where you've been! What did you read?

kuwisdelu · Dec 31, 2012

This thread assumes I don't have a computer and a hard drive full of anime.

But if you want mesmerizing and time-consuming, I suggest Haruki Murakami.

Or, y'know, Proust.

readitnweep · Dec 31, 2012

Can I add no husband and kids for three days? And even more important: no phone?? No interruptions? It that... possible?

JournoWriter · Dec 31, 2012

Anything by Diana Gabaldon, and the complete works of Michael Connelly, both for the umpteenth time.

Chrissy · Jan 2, 2013

benbradley said:
So this is where you've been! What did you read?

I decided on Outlander, and I'm still reading it (see below).

I also downloaded The Count of Monte Cristo, because it was 99 cents!!!

I also downloaded a sample of Bonfire of the Vanities, so it's on my TBR list.

And then, the weirdest thing happened.....

I opened up Microsoft Word one morning, and started revising the plot of my WIP!

:Jaw:

Wonders never cease. If I'd made it a goal to revise my WIP, it would never have happened, of course.

Loving my reads, thanks everyone!!!

French Maiden · Jan 2, 2013

readitnweep said:
Can I add no husband and kids for three days? And even more important: no phone?? No interruptions? It that... possible?

Oooh, I love this, it's a great addition.
I dont have one of those 'Hubby' things, but most people complaine about their's, so perhaps it's a good that I dont. I do however have the kids, I got 2 of 'em.

I'd read my go-to series. If I dont have anything planned, or I'm not in hte fram of mind to start something new, I read JR Ward's Black Dagger Brotherhood series.

charmedhorses · Mar 20, 2013

I would read the entire Three Musketeers Series by Alexandre Dumas! I love his work.

Marian Perera · Mar 20, 2013

Chrissy said:
What book would you read?

Well, if it were me being cut off from the internet for 3 days (I don't have a TV), I would try to get through the whole of John Galt's speech.

"Try" being the operative word, because I have attempted to do this before and failed. Sometimes I suspect the speech is the literary counterpart of one of H. P. Lovecraft's Old Ones, something that mortal minds can simply not grasp, at least not in one sitting.

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