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Top 5 suggestions:
1. Harry Potter books - fun books, easy to read and long enough to last you the whole trip
2. Douglas Adams - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy omnibus - on sale at Barnes and Nobles for 6 bucks (although I would actually pay the retail price of 18.00 for it), a GREAT series, funny and smart. Always entertaining.
3. On the trashy romance novel front - anything by Christina Dodd or Jane Quinn. I read these when I drove to Florida ( LONG ASS RIDE from NY) with my family. They're fun books and fairly modern by romance novel standards. I didn't want to throw the book away in fury at how dumb the heroine was, which was refreshing (am I the only one who feels that way about most romance novels? like why would any woman in her right mind go within ten feet of this asshole?)
4. Dune - my favorite book ever, I don't know how travel-ready it is but it's just an awesome book.
5. The Dilbert Principle - funny book, easy read, makes you TOO glad not to be in the office
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It may be said with rough accuracy that there are three stages in the life of a strong people. First, it is a small power, and fights small powers. Then it is a great power, and fights great powers. Then it is a great power, and fights small powers, but pretends that they are great powers, in order to rekindle the ashes of its ancient emotion and vanity.-- G.K. Chesterton
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