Toby's journal

Hey all,
I have a couple of ultra-long flights coming up, and I don't want to have to rely on the in-flight entertainment options.. I like reading on flights. I like reading fun, easy and engaging novels.
I do have various books in my "half finished" or "to read" piles, but by virtue of their presence in that stack, they can't meet my criteria.

Have you read any books recently that you liked, and think I'd like to read in those circumstances?

Thanks!

Edit: Possibilities, have you read these? What did you think?
* House of Suns - Alistair Reynolds
* The City & The City - China Miéville
* Pygmy - Chuck Palahniuk

Another possibility is that I might just go back and re-read something, maybe Look to Windward by Iain Banks. Although I suspect I have it in hardback :/

I have read all my books at home.
Please, recommend some interesting books to me, that I may not have already read.
Ideally, they will be available in paperback, and not tooo heavy; I tend to do most of my reading on public transport, and lugging grrm's "A feast for crows" around was just too hard. It also wasn't that thrilling reading material - it reminds me a bit of Frank Herbert's Dune saga. First trilogy starts well, and then the fourth book* (feast for crows and God Emperor of Dune) just bogs down into politics, dialogue between characters you don't care about, and a whole lot of nothing really happening.. at great length.

Hopefully GRRM will manage to pick up the pace again in the next few books, as Frank Herbert did, before wrapping up the second trilogy (as Frank Herbert didn't, RIP).

[*: I call A Feast for Crows the fourth novel, despite it being the fifth in the series, because the *actual* third and fourth books were meant to be taken as a single book, but just became too large and were split in half.]


Actually, what do other readers think about the two different ways GRRM coped with splitting the books? A song for Ice and Fire was split in the middle chronologically, but A feast for Crows has been split geographically, and we're told the next book will contain the events that occurred in the same time period as AFFC, but in the north and east.

This leads to some odd bits where we hear about news from those quarters, such as the betrayal and death of Davos, and yet will be reading about the events leading up to that from Davos' perspective in the next novel. Hmm. Unintentional spoiler from the author, do you think, or misdirection?