Does anyone have suggestions for good summer reads? I'm looking into everything from Lance Armstrong's books to Spartacus. All comments will be greatly appreciated.
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I read "My Losing Season" by Pat Conroy last summer and enjoyed it. It's about his last season of college basketball.
Try "Riotous Assembly" and its follow-up, "Indecent Exposure" by Tom Sharpe. Funniest books I have EVER read.
True story: A friend of mine was reading "Riotous Assembly" in bed and was laughing so hard, he fell out and broke his wrist. He insisted on taking the book with him to the emergency room, so he could keep reading while he waited.
Another excellent, funny book: "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy O'Toole.
-LBJ
" Daring the Sea" is great.Its a true story about a couple of fishermen who rowed an open 15' dory from New Jersey to France in 1890 (?) Pretty amazing.
Speaking of Lance Armstrong - the book "Lance Armstrong's War" is an authorized "profile" of Lance written by a writer given long term, close access to Lance. It is not entirely flattering but is a fascinating portrait of Lance. It shows how ultra-competitive he is and is full of details on how he trained to beat specific cyclists (e.g. Ullrich) and how he trained with Dr. Ferrari.
Also - "Shadow Divers" is a great true story about deep water wreck divers who found a U-boat off the Atlantic coast and spent years trying to identify it since all obvious markings on the boat were gone and no military records knew about the sub.
"Freakonomics" is a very interesting read too. A rather different approach to explaining a variety of social phenomena by a Harvard economist. Some controversial theories in this book...
Obviously I don't read much fiction.
