Need A Beach Book

[Cuttingboard]

Going to the beach in a couple of weeks for a long 4 day weekend and I need a good paperback book to read. I get really bored reading, so I'm looking for:

1. Fiction;
2. Thriller/Suspense/Action;
3. Easy Read/Page turner.

The last book that I took to the beach during the summer was Angels & Deamons, which was a good book but a little long for 4-5 day trip. I read slow!

 

[Fnord5]

A book I have read many times, and each time it gets better.
http://www.aislebuyaisle.com/product_info.php?language=en&currency=USD&products_id=1063930

 

[AndrewWiggin]

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card.

Great book, easy read. It is Sci Fi though. You should consider pretty much anything by John Grisham too, they're all simple reads.

If you want something really good, but long, consider Shogun by James Clavell. Spectacular book overall.

 

[Fnord5]

A book I have read many times, and each time it gets better.
http://www.aislebuyaisle.com/product_info.php?language=en&currency=USD&products_id=1063930

Also a sci-fi book, but not one of those technical, overly detail oriented one like some writers put out.

 

[Commander Quan]

Anything by Brad Thor. They're Excellent!

 

[AndrewWiggin]

Off topic: isn't it a little late for a beach trip?

 

[sol92258]

I'll tell you what you need, Jerry - a beach book about beach books!

 

[Cuttingboard]

Off topic: isn't it a little late for a beach trip?

Its never a bad time to go to the beach!! The resort is open all year and my wife and I like to go there when its quiet. Pictures below are from our last visit in June.

 

[DaveAri]

This is just what you are looking for:
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/The-Day-After-Tomorrow/Allan-Folsom/e/9780446600415/?itm=1

This book was huge when it came out, if you never read it you will enjoy it.
The title, "The Day After Tomorrow" has nothing to do with the movie.

 

[Cuttingboard]

Found a book here at work by Grisham called "An Innocent Man", anyone read this and offer an opinion?

 

[Macion grey]

The Pyrates by G.M.Fraser

Very beachy.

 

[gone down south]

Its never a bad time to go to the beach!! The resort is open all year and my wife and I like to go there when its quiet. Pictures below are from our last visit in June.

Donde esta?

 

[Stubblefield]

I'd go for American Gods by Neil Gaiman, or Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. Either that, or anything by Pratchett or Christopher Moore.

 

[Gruder]

Yann Martel's "Life of Pi". Great beach read, as looking out over the water will help set the scene.

Whatever you choose, enjoy the trip!

 

[Cuttingboard]

Donde esta?

Maroma Resort and Spa just north of Playa del Carmen, Mexico. I cannot recommend this resort highly enough.

 

[TimmyBoston]

Jonathan Kellerman writes my favorite easy reads.

 

[fidjit]

Promoting Australian Authors........

Any of Matthew Reilly's earlier books.

Pure fast pace action.............no brainers to read. Good airplane, beach, weekend reads.

I'm a bit disappointed in his last couple though.

http://www.amazon.com/Matthew-Reilly/e/B001IGJXU8/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1

 

[Mazeman]

"The Road" by Cormac McCarthy

It fits all your criteria, including page-turner. It is also powerfully haunting/moving, so decide if that's what you want to read on a beach. I was in tears at the end.

"The Road is a wildly powerful and disturbing book that exposes whatever black bedrock lies beneath grief and horror. Disaster has never felt more physically and spiritually real."
—Time

"Devastating. . . . McCarthy has never seemed more at home, more eloquent, than in the sere, postapocalyptic ash land of The Road. . . . Extraordinarily lovely and sad. . . . [A] masterpiece." —Entertainment Weekly

 

[Brodirt]

"The Road" by Cormac McCarthy

It fits all your criteria, including page-turner. It is also powerfully haunting/moving, so decide if that's what you want to read on a beach. I was in tears at the end.

"The Road is a wildly powerful and disturbing book that exposes whatever black bedrock lies beneath grief and horror. Disaster has never felt more physically and spiritually real."
—Time

"Devastating. . . . McCarthy has never seemed more at home, more eloquent, than in the sere, postapocalyptic ash land of The Road. . . . Extraordinarily lovely and sad. . . . [A] masterpiece." —Entertainment Weekly

I will second The Road and agree with its impact. It's setting, however, couldn't be more different than the Mexican Riviera...perhaps reading it in such a setting will add even more power to it.

 

[Cuttingboard]

^^^I'm not sure whether to be scared or excited...?