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Current location (12 June to 30 June):
Tahiti
Departure: 23 Nov 2000
Itinerary:
Budapest>London>
India
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Myanmar>Laos>Thai Islands
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Singapore>Borneo
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Reading List:
The Razor's Edge
by Somerset Maugham-- about boy from Chicago who rejects working and travels to India to find meaning of life. Strangely familiar.
The Passion
by Jeanette Winterson-- beautifully written book about love, Venice in the Napoleonic Period. Highly recommend!!!
The Story of My Experiments with Truth
by Mahatma Gandhi-- fascinating autobiography of Gandhi's life until 1927.
Art of Yoga
by S. Iyengar --classic with severly difficult advanced postures
Interpreter of Maladies
by Jhumpa Lahiri --2000 Pulitzer Prize winning book of short stories about Indians living abroad, interesting but depressing
Burmese Folk Tales
extremely violent absurd tales
Genome
by Matt Ridley -- discourse on modern genetics
The Mismeasurement of Man
by Stephen Jay Gould -- development of intelligence testing, very interesting...
Foundation
by Isaac Asimov -- excellent classic science fiction
Java Spider
by Geoffrey Archer -- trashy British spy/intrigue set in Indonesia. Easy quick read.
Santaland Diaries
by David Sedaris --funny book about the experiences of a Macy's Santa and other stories.
Foundation and Empire
by Isaac Asimov -- Foundation sequel.
Catch 22
by Joseph Heller --great classic
The Quiet American
by Graham Greene -- excellent short novel set in Indochina
Investment Biker
by Jim Rogers -- tale of supertrader Rogers' round the world motorcycle journey in 1995.
The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
by Douglas Adams -- short classic sci fi. cute and funny
Timeline
by Michael Crichton -- excellent time travel thriller from Jurassic Park author set in 14th Century France
Serendipities- Language and Lunacy
by Umberto Eco -- investigations in linguistics and history-- too obstruse, couldn't get into it
Midaq Alley
by Naguib Mahfouz -- great collection of characters of old Cairo by Nobel prize winner
The Diamond as Big as the Ritz
by F. Scott Fitzgerald --funny satirical short stories from the Jazz Age
The Red Queen
by Matt Ridley -- interesting discourse on evolution of sex and human nature
The Brethren
by John Grisham -- pretty stupid easy read legal thriller
Cause of Death
by Patricia Cornwell -- strange crime fiction thriller with female Quincylike medical examiner
Beach Music
by Pat Conroy
melodramatic
The Fatal Shore
by Robert Hughes -- story of the founding of Australia
Lord of the Rings
by JRR Tolkien -- classic SF
On Writing
by Stephen King
