# Helpl Me Compose a Vacation Reading List

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**Created:** [October 21, 2009, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helpl-me-compose-a-vacation-reading-list/514643 "2009-10-21T18:12:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2009, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helpl-me-compose-a-vacation-reading-list/514643/1 "2009-10-21T18:12:22Z")

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On November 28th I board the Carnival Liberty for seven days of drinking and… stuff. Mostly drinking. And maybe a little reading on the deck.

I’ll read just about anything - fiction, nonfiction, memoirs, biographies, you name it. I’d prefer something not too dense, however (so a tome of Antonin Scalia’s ruminations on Supreme Court proceedings would be _out_). I do loves me some horror, comedy, and sci-fi/fantasy.

So far I’m planning on tackling:

_A Confederacy of Dunces_ by John Kennedy Toole (I’ve never read it! An article on [cracked.com](http://cracked.com) said it’s the funniest book ever written, so…)

_John Dies at the End_ by David Wong

Any other recommendations?

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**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2009, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helpl-me-compose-a-vacation-reading-list/514643/2 "2009-10-21T19:39:16Z")

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Since you’re not leaving until the 28th and since you like horror, why not pick up Stephen King’s new book, _Under the Dome_? It’ll be out on 11/15, and Wal-Mart and Target (and Amazon) are selling it for $9. It’s about 1100 pages so it might last through the whole cruise.

It’d probably also be a conversation starter, if that’s something you’d like on a vacation. Just about everyone has read King and will have an opinion.