Any good suspensful/funny books to read on a long trip?
Posted By Admin on May 30, 2007
WHOA asked:
I’m going on a 9 hour car ride and I need a good book to read. I like suspenseful and/or funny books. If any of you have good ideas, I’ll definately look into it. When you post what book you think I should read, it’d be nice if you put a summary there as well to help. Thanks!
Charlotte
I’m going on a 9 hour car ride and I need a good book to read. I like suspenseful and/or funny books. If any of you have good ideas, I’ll definately look into it. When you post what book you think I should read, it’d be nice if you put a summary there as well to help. Thanks!
Charlotte
I really like anything by David Sedaris, especially “Dress Your Family In Corduroy and Denim”.
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Da VInci Code is a good read. Just don’t take it too seriously!
little women
flyy girl by omar tyree
it isn’t really that suspenseful but it does have a lot of drama in it. it is about a girl named tracy growing up in Philidelphia. the book takes you from when she was about six to her mid-teens. it has sex, drugs, and fights in it. there are issues dealing with ***** addictions and issues dealing with children getting along with their parents.
i just got done reading the book and now i am reading the sequel. it’s called “for the love of money” by omar tyree. i think the book is good and it’s long but if you are like me and get into the story you might be done earlier than 9 hrs. so i would reconmend you to get the sequel as well…just in case.
da vinci code is suspenseful
godfather or any other mario puzo
good fun n gripping enough for travel
Harry Potter books are wonderful on tape. Jim Dale does a great job reading them, and they are both funny and suspenseful. If you’ve already read them all, I would do Order of the Phoenix on tape. It’s Dale’s best performance.
Nacy drew books. i cant give a summary because theres over 100.lol.
If you haven’t read the Plum series by Janet Evanovich, they’d be a good read. The 12th in the series is out Tuesday. The books are laugh-out-loud funny and there’s also suspense – the main character, Stephanie Plum, is a bounty hunter.
‘The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon’ by Stephen King
the creek by jennifer holms… very suspenseful
I often read John Sanford novels. He has one detective, Lucas Davenport in a series of books with the word “Prey” in their titles. It is worth spending a few min. on the internet to find which one came first, since they are best read IN ORDER.
My wife tends to read Patricia Cornwell novels, espec. those featuring Kay Scarpetta. She also likes Sandra Brown and Janet Evanovich novels. Evanovich’s books are both suspenseful and funny. You cant go wrong starting with her book with the number ONE in the title and then going up the scale of numbers. I think she’s on about 12 now.
Sorry–no time for summaries, but Amazon. com has them and can be easily found. They would also have the year published.
For funny the very BEST i can recommend is the series by Janet Evanovich. This series always contains a number in the title. Her first of the series was ONE FOR THE MONEY. Pick them up, you won’t be disappointed
If you want suspensful, Rebels Angels by Libba Bray is perfect, though, you may want to read A Great and Terrible Beauty first, seeing as how Rebles Angels is a sequel… Another suspense, is Witch Child by Celia Rees it’s really good, I’ve read ten times at least, and I’m still not tired of it yet! Also Stephen King is said to be really suspensful/excellent. I’ve never read any of his stuff but I’ve been told that his stuff is totally AWESOME!
For funny go for Girl 15, Charming, but Insane by Sue Limb…It’s a “chick lit” and set in England, but it’s soo hilarious. Also there’s Angus, Thongs, and Full Frontal Snogging by (arrrrrrgh! I forgot the author!) but I’m sure that you’ve heard of it, anything written by her is terribly funny, you’ll laugh till you’re ready to cry! but it is another “chick lit” and an English novel, but that makes all the funnier.
have fun on you nine hour car ride…
Well, Terry Pratchett books are very humorous and can be a light read at times; Agatha Christie books for suspense and books by Helen Fielding or Lauren Wiesenberger(sp?) for a light read.
The Bourne Identity (Ludlum)
Red Storm Rising (Clancy)
Wyrd Sisters (Pratchett)
Couldn’t put any of the three down.
Sahara (Cussler) and other Cussler books are good reads.
janet evanovich has 12 books about a female bounty hunter,, they are hilarious,, start with the first one and read in sequence!!!! you will laugh so hard, you will need potty breaks!!!
suspensful/action packed,, go with matthew reilly,,, read these three in order also:
ice station,,,, area 7,,, scarecrow
lee child is great== read “tripwire” “die trying” and he has lots of others ,, very suspenseful!!!
1. The Da Vinci Code
2. Harry Potter books
3. Expect the Sunrise ( plane crash survivors in Alaska, terrorists trying to destroy trans-Alaskan pipeline, main characters fall in love but there is a dramatic secret)!
4. The Life of Pi
5. The Named, The Dark, The Key by Marianne Curley ( have to go back in time to save the future, traitor in their midst, good writing, very suspenseful especially The Dark).
I can think of four. They are all mysteries, and all funny.
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The Amelia Peabody series by Elizabeth Peters
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The Mrs. Pollifax series, by Dorothy Gilman
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The Cat Who series, by Lilian Jackson Braun
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The Catering mystery series, by Diane Mott Davidson
gil woman & 4115 are right. you’ll fall out laughing
Okay, few people have heard of him, but Jonathan Carroll is the author for you! He has been described as the author of “adult fairy tales,” in that the fantastic happens to completely ordinary, flawed, regular people. Each of his books is filled with the bizarre, yet have a deep sense of mystery and heart. I suggest “Land of Laughs” to start out, because it was his first book and has a great surprise ending.
“Land of Laughs” is about Thomas Abbey, the reluctant, bored son of a famous, Nicholson-type actor. He makes an impromptu decision to write a biography of his favorite author, the enigmatic children’s book author Marshall France. When Abbey and his girlfriend go to France’s hometown to learn more about the mysterious man, they get much more than they bargained for. Galen, Missouri and its inhabitants are as magical and mysterious as France’s stories, and that is the sort of secret that they would never let Abbey just walk away from.
After I read this book I quickly got any other Jonathan Carroll book I could and devoured each with zeal. He really knows how to throw the unexpected at his reader. I also suggest Sleeping in Flame, The Marriage of Sticks, and White Apples. His website is really great too! Happy reading!
Rebecca Paisley-A basket of wishes.
Its about a fairy Splendour who is ordered to marry a human( a duke).The poor hero is confused by the woman who will shrink if not kissed regularly,drinks apricot scrubs.On top of that he is harassed by splendour’s sister who even turns him into a snail.His cousin Emil thinks that Splendour is exactly what the doctor ordered for the staid ,boring Jordan.
Mary Balogh-Lady with a black umbrella(Funny romance).The heroine is always rescuing the hero-whether he wants to be rescued or not.
Lynsay Sands-A bride promises her father that she’ll obey her husband ‘always’.I mean ‘always’.The poor groom didn’t know what he was going to get when he was coarced to marry the king’s daughter.
Anne Gracie-The perfect rake.The heroine just wants to save her sisters from their abusive grand father.However one lie led to another and another.The hero was perfectly willing to go along with the charades.
For suspenseful novels read The door to december,Intensity,Odd Thomas,Forever Odd by Dean Koontz.You will be chewing your nails till the last page.
Ring for Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse for total hilarity! All about a superhero kinda butler who has inventive solutions to all of his bumbling master’s break neck troubles! LOL. A pure classic if ever there was one! For suspense try John Grisham’s Runaway Jury. Nail biting plot about a couple who swung the jury in one of nation’s biggest trial.
Algonquin Elegy: Tom Thomson’s Last Spring by Neil J. Lehto. It is a fictional investigation into the remarkable true story of Canadian landscape painter Tom Thomson’s drowning in Algonquin Park’s Canoe Lake in 1917. Visit the book’s website at.
-Freaky Green Eyes by Joyce Carol Oates (great sort of mystery,intrigueing)
-Harry Potter books are great tooo
-A Great And Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray (my favorite!mixes fantasy and historical-real life.Suspensful, funny at time, well written, great!)
Da vinci Code is interesting.