NSW
113 posts
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
QLD
1211 posts
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...
QLD
1211 posts
White doves in the morning. Great true American civil war book told from the perspective of a southern rebel
NSW
113 posts
The old 2 wallets on the way to Uluwatu seems to work quite well.
QLD
1451 posts
enjoy the 40+ in a lineup that is surfing in indo
NSW
113 posts
Yeah, 100 plus at Ulu's and else where.
It can be soul destroying looking at the crowds.
1595 posts
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.
VIC
5904 posts
Tim Winton has written some really good books ........
WA
23647 posts
^^ that one about bodybuilding supplements?
QLD
1241 posts
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.
WA
15100 posts
^ I guess that means you only have to take one book... for a month!
I like reading, but that's a very thick book!
QLD
1371 posts
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
VIC
3829 posts
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
