Recommended reading for a week on the beach...

lilsalty · Post by **lilsalty** » April 12, 2006 12:04 pm

Heading to St. Thomas & St. John on Saturday and I need a great lie-on-the-beach-soak-up-the-sun-drink-a-margarita book. Any good recommendations (besides the Buffett books....read em all at least once!)

PA PAR8 HED · Post by **PA PAR8 HED** » April 12, 2006 12:38 pm

I like the Tom Corchran novels set in Key West. They are detective type themes, are all pretty good.

I also just started the Doc Ford series by Randy Wayne White. So far so good.

buffettbride · Post by **buffettbride** » April 12, 2006 12:39 pm

Jahfin · Post by **Jahfin** » April 12, 2006 12:44 pm

SharkOnLand · Post by **SharkOnLand** » April 12, 2006 4:05 pm

Don't Stop the Carnival

or

Anything by Tim Dorsey... Serge makes a great beach/travelling companion.

captenuta · Post by **captenuta** » April 12, 2006 4:11 pm

Blue Latitudes : Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before (Paperback)
by Tony Horwitz "When I was thirteen, my parents bought a used sailboat, a ten-foot wooden dory that I christened Wet Dream..."

This is a great book. Part history part travelogue. Set in the South Pacific going from island to island. Drinking beer and learning history. What more do you need.

rednekkPH · Post by **rednekkPH** » April 12, 2006 4:16 pm

Big 'Uns.

blackjack · Post by **blackjack** » April 12, 2006 4:22 pm

Any of the books by Carl Hiaasen or the "Doc Ford" books by Randy Wayne White.

Light reading and usually set in Florida or the Caribbean.

PA PAR8 HED · Post by **PA PAR8 HED** » April 12, 2006 4:26 pm

captenuta wrote:Blue Latitudes : Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before (Paperback)
by Tony Horwitz "When I was thirteen, my parents bought a used sailboat, a ten-foot wooden dory that I christened Wet Dream..."

This is a great book. Part history part travelogue. Set in the South Pacific going from island to island. Drinking beer and learning history. What more do you need.

Blue Latitudes is great.

Two others are A Trip To The Beach by Melinda Blanchard and An Embarrassment of Mangoes by Ann Vanderhoof. Both are true stories of people who gave it all up to live in the Caribbean. Great beach reading!

Malibu Stacie · Post by **Malibu Stacie** » April 12, 2006 4:51 pm

Any Travis McGee novel.

Tequila Revenge · Post by **Tequila Revenge** » April 12, 2006 4:57 pm

SharkOnLand wrote:Don't Stop the Carnival

or

Anything by Tim Dorsey... Serge makes a great beach/travelling companion.

Serge Rocks! Check out Sonofabeach's sig line!

lilsalty · Post by **lilsalty** » April 12, 2006 5:42 pm

I have read all the Corcoran books and Don't Stop the Carnival. I'm writing these recommendations down...keep em comin'! Headin to the bookstore tomorrow!

Left Field ParrotHead · Post by **Left Field ParrotHead** » April 12, 2006 5:51 pm

Fantastic read...

Minty · Post by **Minty** » April 12, 2006 5:55 pm

I've got 2 books for ya by Gil Gevins.

Heck, I'll deliver it and read them to ya on the beach!!! Give me a call and maybe we can hook up. I love meeting parrotheads.

Email me!

jamaica mistaica · Post by **jamaica mistaica** » April 12, 2006 9:46 pm

This is random but i found the book The Five People You Meet in Heaven pleasing when i was at the beach

seaswirl3 · Post by **seaswirl3** » April 12, 2006 10:29 pm

I suggest any Carl Hiaason book... Tourist Season, Skinny Dip...I just finishe Native Tongue...they are all amusing if a bit outlandish. Good beach reads.

Coconuts · Post by **Coconuts** » April 12, 2006 10:33 pm

Just re-read Don't Stop the Carnival before you decide to stay...

Lundah · Post by **Lundah** » April 12, 2006 10:43 pm

Coconuts wrote:Just re-read Don't Stop the Carnival before you decide to stay...

I second the vote for Tom Cocoroan (or however it's spelled, too much rum).. I'm working on "Bone Island Mambo" right now.

And after being 3 weeks into my 3-month gig here, I can certainly recommend while this is a nice place to visit, living here is a whole other story...

bravedave · Post by **bravedave** » April 12, 2006 10:45 pm

My first thought was Jaws (thanx for the pic, Jah).
It really is the best.

Also, Treasure Island, by RLS.
(Jimmy would approve.)

trojan_sixtyone · Post by **trojan_sixtyone** » April 12, 2006 10:54 pm

You can never go wrong with "The Old Man and the Sea" (and you can easily read it in one afternoon, including taking breaks for swimming and making rum drinks).

My personal suggestion is "Forrest Gump" by Winstom Groom--the original novel, not the movie adaptation. It's quite possibly one of the most underrated novels written in the past hundred years. It's amazing!

"A History of Pirates: Blood and Thunder on the High Seas" by Nigel Cawthorne is also a fun, educational read. Especially sitting right on the water!