I'm planning on going to Indo for my monthly escape from work.
I want to treat it like a health retreat, so that means no late nights and lots of surfing.
Any books you can recommend to keep me on track.

Much appreciated

Red river. Cane river. Great books about the deep south during and after slavery.
Aztec, the forgotten soldier, anything of the virgil cole/ everett hitch series by robert b parker awesome westerns...

White doves in the morning. Great true American civil war book told from the perspective of a southern rebel

The old 2 wallets on the way to Uluwatu seems to work quite well.

enjoy the 40+ in a lineup that is surfing in indo

Yeah, 100 plus at Ulu's and else where.
It can be soul destroying looking at the crowds.

What type of books do you like to read? I love private detective stories and mysteries like Agatha Christie. If this interests you I would suggest any of the Alfred Hitchcock collections of short stories, they are not stories he wrote but rather a collection of different authors.

Tim Winton has written some really good books ........

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Yeah, 100 plus at Ulu's and else where.
It can be soul destroying looking at the crowds.

100 + at ulus would shatter my intentions of a health retreat type holiday and drive me to the bottle. Or a plane ticket to a far flung corner of the archipelago.

^^ that one about bodybuilding supplements?

Just because you're going to Indo.
"Journals from the Edge" by Bill Boyum, I read it twice, I rairly read a book twice.

Let Bill introduce you to the book:

"A friend and I motorcycled and finally hiked along an isolated beach that we discovered in 1972. We walked the line between the big surf of the Indian ocean and an untouched jungle on the SE tip of Java, Indonesia, camping and surfing a perfect left for three days until our supplies ran out. Later we made more trips on boats and finally my brother Mike and I began a Spartan camp for surfers, the first of its kind in the world. It's name is Plengkung but in the surf world it's known as G-Land.

This January (2014) I just released my book "Journals From The Edge" that recounts the journey to that wonder of the world and beyond. It was a dream finding a new wave back then but now I enjoy a new world of adventure right here at home on Maui. Downwind paddle surfing on extra-long boards keeps me in touch with the adventure I've enjoyed all my life. I'm also fortunate to have the ultimate state of the art, easy to apply protection from wear and tear on the rails of my board with my hibiscus RSPro. These boards are expensive and one thing you learn in an adventurous life is how to make your equipment last.
My book is available on the Kindle app. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00SAEQZ7U"

Cheers Bill"

For more~
www.rspro.org/blogs/news/16989217-journals-from-the-edge-by-bill-boyum

Many moons ago I spent 6 weeks on an island south of Nias, it was essentially uninhabited apart from two transient workers. Pretty easy to find a spot to yourself.

I took Moby Dick, Robinson Crusoe and The Old Man and the Sea all of which made for excellent reading given the circumstances.

Make sure you get the original versions.

something heavy



something light

^ I guess that means you only have to take one book... for a month!

I like reading, but that's a very thick book!

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This one was good but the follow up book was unbearable.
Give " South" a try written by Ernest Shakleton about his failed expidition to Antartica. Shows how tough men were back in his day.

My all time fave reads
Killing Pablo
Endurance
50 dead men walking
Spandau Phoenix
Wasted reads on a good holiday though, you carnt put them down

Jose SaramagoAlbert CamusHemingway, Bob Dylan wrote a bookGabriel ScottWaldenGabriel Garcia MarquezGiangjang (sic), Xio Dante,Plato, Ari, Copernicus, HG Wells, JD Salinger (while we are into initials), AA Clarke, Isaac Asimov, PD James, James Herriot, Enid Blyton.JRR Tolkien, Stephen King, Jack Higgins, Loen Uris, Clive Cussler! Aldous Huxley, Carl Jung, William Lewis Carrol, Shakespeare of courseT.S Eliot, Harper Lee, Ben Elton,Frederick Nietzsche would have to be a great waste of time, Dosteovsky(Sic), Lenin, Solszhenitsyn, Alexandre(sic) was a good man. En god del fra Nabokov, the story about eggs, the dog man? Who invented Ivan Illich and with him a literary example of nihilism? Anna Karenininin..a.Billy Brighton, Banjo Patterson, Henry Lawson George Orwell, his, pigs, his tvs and his Flying Apodistria(sic), His Essays are among the best I have read. Giancomo Leopardi(sic) “Moralske småstykker”. I.Kant “Den evige fred”. Jack London has also written more than ”the call of the wild”. Some of his essays are golden. “A way of being free” Ben someone. Machiavelli(sic). Marque de sade. The german bloke that wrote ‘daniel’ and “Peter cama…”. Who would love to google?Erich(?), the mountain climber that got stuck in Tibet. Whympers’ travels and some of those of Thor Heyerdahl, Rudyard Kipling andMarin Sorescu must be the greatest of poets. Virgils “The Aeneid”. Homers bible which I am not even going to bother to spell.The “state of the world” from 1996 onwards. Ayn Rand(sic).Just to name a few….

gutenburg.org

Barbarian Days - William Finnigan..best surfing book I have ever read...probably because it was written by someone who isn't a surf journo
Conquerer Series - Conn Iggulden about Ghengis and his family amazing books
Axis of Time Trilogy - John Birmingham...a bit of light fun