If you're in an airport, stay away from this book...

Robert B. Parker's "High Profile."

The worst novel I've ever read. Characters were poorly developed, the plot was shallow and stupid.

Could we have a thread on good airport novels? Or bad ones. I just got burned for $25, and would like to see other people avoid it.

I'm flying in six hours. I'll be looking for a book to read. Any suggestions on what I can pick up at the airport?

 

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Trash?

 

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I'm partial to Tom Clancy and David McCullough myself.

 

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Tom Clancy is a good option. Maybe if you can find some Mike Lupica, he's always a good read.

 

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Slap, I'm looking for specific books out now, something you've already read and believe is good.

I swear I'd like to slap the smile off Robert B. Parker's face on the back of this book. He knows he just stole $25 from me.

 

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I used to get all of Lupica's books. Never finished one of 'em and I try to finish every book I start. Hated this Parker book and I still finished it.

 

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Hang on, let me go look... are you into history? If so, what general era?

 

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novels that i can pick up at the airport bookstore, slap.

 

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If Jones' book is available, I highly recommend it.

 

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In no particular order, these are what I would grab as airport books...

Tom Clancy, The Bear and the Dragon
Sins of the Father, Ronald Kessler -- bio of Joe Kennedy
No Ordinary Time, Doris Kearns Goodwin -- FDR and Eleanor Roosevelt, the homefront in WWII
John Adams, David McCullough
Fighter Boys, Patrick Bishop -- Battle of Britain
Mornings on Horseback, McCullough -- Teddy Roosevelt.

 

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Whitlock --

It's part of a series, so that might be the reason for the lack of character development you noticed.

It was OK, but not one of Parker's best...

 

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Jason, your boy Lupica wrote that Christopher Buckley's "Boomsday" was one of the funniest novels he had read in a long time.