Recommend a book

[Tuckahoe]

Planning to hike from Front Royal to Harpers Ferry next week and would like to take a book. Was thinking something along the lines of A River Runs Through It and Other Stories.

Looking for something light and entertaining and that I can read at the end of the day laying in the hammock. No scifi or fantasy (bleh!), and no non-fiction as that is what I am always reading.

[rafe]

Ann Patchett -- State of Wonder
Snow Child -- Eowyn Ivy
Anything by Carl Hiassen, Elmore Leonard, Mark Haskell Smith

Jon Krakauer tells a good story, always.. but that's non-fiction.

[perrito]

I am about half way through this and am enjoying it so far.

Wild Men, Wild Alaska: Finding What Lies Beyond the Limits (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0785289011/ref=wms_ohs_product?ie=UTF8&psc=1)

[Namtrag]

You want fast reads, try a Spenser novel by Robert Parker, or any Travis McGee by John MacDonald.

[volleypc]

Born to Run.. Check the reviews.. great book.. hard to put down. http://www.amazon.com/Born-Run-hidden-ultra-runners-greatest-ebook/dp/B0028MBKVG/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1403271771&sr=8-1&keywords=born+to+run

[Ricky&Jack]

I never get tired of "Into The Wild"http://i1294.photobucket.com/albums/b607/Ricky_Sanftner/into_the_wild_zpscb3c990a.jpg (http://s1294.photobucket.com/user/Ricky_Sanftner/media/into_the_wild_zpscb3c990a.jpg.html)

[No Directions]

Bear in the Back Seat by Kim DeLozier

Adventures of a wildlife ranger in GSMNP.

[Just Bill]

My wife hates sci-fi and fantasy-
She greatly enjoyed Ender's Game (movie sucked as always)
I found Bryson's other books to be decent reads.
The classic Leatherstocking tales, James Fennimore Cooper, make a good read for non-fiction (Deerslayer, Last of the Mohicans, etc) and can be downloaded free if you have an appropriate device.

Abraham Lincoln Vampire slayer- actually a fantastic book. The vampire aspect is very underplayed. Very nice piece of fictional history that was well researched and written- Co-incidentally, I read it on the very section you propose. Fits the bill and because it was made into a crappy movie, can be found on the shelves of Target and Wally World for cheap.

[58starter]

Try on of Bill Walkers books on hiking the AT, PCT or Camino De Santiago. some of them were free on Kindle

[Just Bill]

Try on of Bill Walkers books on hiking the AT, PCT or Camino De Santiago. some of them were free on Kindle
They were worth the cost for sure!
Decent reads, woulda paid a few bucks each for them, woulda been pissed if I paid full price.

[Bobby]

Planning to hike from Front Royal to Harpers Ferry next week and would like to take a book. Was thinking something along the lines of A River Runs Through It and Other Stories.

Looking for something light and entertaining and that I can read at the end of the day laying in the hammock. No scifi or fantasy (bleh!), and no non-fiction as that is what I am always reading.


Kenneth Roberts - Northwest Passage.

One of the greatest American stories in my opinion. Great adventure story, and totally appropriate for a hike in the woods - seeing as there is a great deal of it in the book, albeit under much different circumstances! It's historical fiction.

[Lone Wolf]

Planning to hike from Front Royal to Harpers Ferry next week and would like to take a book. Was thinking something along the lines of A River Runs Through It and Other Stories.

Looking for something light and entertaining and that I can read at the end of the day laying in the hammock. No scifi or fantasy (bleh!), and no non-fiction as that is what I am always reading.
The Monkey Wrench Gang by Ed Abbey

[mad4scrapping]

If you like dogs, try The Art of Racing in the Rain, Following Atticus (which is about hiking also), or Merle's Door. The second two are non-fiction but entertaining and easy/fast reads.

[bigcranky]

RRTI is good, and light. The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon is sort of an AT book, though don't get it unless you like Stephen King.

[Venchka]

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Girl_with_the_Dragon_Tattoo)
The Girl Who Played with Fire (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Girl_Who_Played_with_Fire)
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Girl_Who_Kicked_the_Hornets%27_Nest)
By Stieg Larsson (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stieg_Larsson).

Wayne

[fredmugs]

With an emphasis on light and entertaining I have to go with Skywalker's AT book.

[rocketsocks]

Planning to hike from Front Royal to Harpers Ferry next week and would like to take a book. Was thinking something along the lines of A River Runs Through It and Other Stories.

Looking for something light and entertaining and that I can read at the end of the day laying in the hammock. No scifi or fantasy (bleh!), and no non-fiction as that is what I am always reading.This has really been a challenge for me, not that I'm well read...But like you, Non fiction is all I read...I got nothin Tuckahoe. :(

[scudder]

"I Should Have Stayed Home: The Worst Trips of Great Writers" edited by Roger Rapoport . Amusing travel disasters told by folks who can really write.

[Meriadoc]

Mark Twain's "Roughing It"

[Leanthree]

Real life adventure: River by Colin Fletcher

[Venchka]

I guess Deliverance would not be appropriate. Hey.

Wayne


Sent from somewhere around here.

[MuddyWaters]

"A walk in the woods"

Just kidding.

I met a NOBO in Ga a couple yrs ago, a well-intentioned family member had given him that book and a couple of inspirational (religious) books to read on his trek. He burned it to get a fire started in damp conditions at Hawk Mtn shelter. He never read the book, or had even heard of it or what it was about.


Born to Run by Chris McDougall
Ultramarathon Man by Dean Karnazes

Shadow Divers
A Brief History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Heart of the Sea
The Perfect Storm
The Wreck of the Whaleship Essex
Seven Years in Tibet
Lone Survivor
Into Thin Air
The Endurance Expedition
Mutiny on the Bounty
Alive
Skeletons on the Zahara