What's a Good Book for the Trip Down?

acishere

acishere

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Do you look for Disney related reading on your way down or are you looking for some general reading suggestions? I have a lot of suggestions if its the latter.
 
The Duck

The Duck

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I have to recommend "Mousejunkies!" by Bill Burke. The second edition was just released on Amazon and should be in the stores soon. The first edition was a hilarious collection of anecdotal stories of the author and his family and friends on their many trips to WDW. It's loaded with tips for a Disney vacation but it's not your typical travel guide since it's one of the funniest books that you'll ever read.
 
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Disney Dawg88

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I just got done reading Project Future by Chad Denver Emerson, which is a book about the beginnings of Walt Disney World. It was absolutely amazing reading about some of the things that they had to do to get the land which is now WDW. Pretty good book and you can definitely finish it pretty quick, it's about 160 - 175 pages.
 
olinecoach61

olinecoach61

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Disney Dawg88 said:
I just got done reading Project Future by Chad Denver Emerson, which is a book about the beginnings of Walt Disney World. It was absolutely amazing reading about some of the things that they had to do to get the land which is now WDW. Pretty good book and you can definitely finish it pretty quick, it's about 160 - 175 pages.
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I have read this book also, it does have some good information but I thought it was a little dry. Just my 2 cents.
 
docandsix

docandsix

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Unbroken

The true story of American Olympian middle-distance runner and WWII Japanese POW camp survivor Louis Zamperini. Easy read and very difficult to put down. I just hope it doesn't keep you in the hotel reading when you should be at the parks.
 
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Disney Dawg88

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olinecoach61 said:
I have read this book also, it does have some good information but I thought it was a little dry. Just my 2 cents.
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I would agree with you on this, I should have mentioned that I'm finishing up my masters degree in construction management and development so I had an extra added interest in the book and probably why I enjoyed it more than others. But either way there aren't many books out there on the development and construction of WDW, that I know of, which is why I picked it up. So if you're interested in this then I think others should enjoy it too.
 
acishere

acishere

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My book suggestion isn't the happiest story ever, but Into the Wild is my favorite book so its hard for it not to be my recommendation. Its a true story and the ending is stated right on the back sleeve so while I won't spoil it here, its pretty sad. And it has a great film adaptation that was directed by Sean Penn. Though I will say if you are planning an Alaskan vacation in the near future to save it for that plane ride over.

Since you are an author I'm trying to be more obscure with my other suggestion which is A Good and Happy Child. Its a horror novel about someone who was possibly possessed by a demon entity as a child. I don't think many people have ever heard of that one.

Right now I'm reading The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo to finally see what all the commotion is about. It took the writer half of the book to set up the plot, which makes it feel very slow moving. However I reached a point where I was up until 3am reading it last night because the story just started chugging along all of a sudden.

While watching Jurassic Park during the part where Ian Malcolm quips that when Pirates of the Caribbean breaks down they don't eat the tourists, I had a sudden urge to track down a copy of the Westworld screenplay to read while heading down to WDW. That or watch the movie on the flight down. Or watch The Simpsons episode that parodies it.
 
BlueLightningTN

BlueLightningTN

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Thanks, everyone, for the suggestions. I finished work on my first published novel a couple of weeks ago, and it will be nice to read Walt's Vault on the way down (reading for fun, what a concept! lol).

Come join me on Rock'n Roller Coaster! =)
 
dramamama

dramamama

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cowanfamily said:
Kingdom Keepers. Pretty good novels that take place in the parks.
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Ditto. Sure the four books may be written for the elementary/middle school set, but they are quick reads that stay with you when you are in the parks. Some of the harrowing events in the books make you keep looking over your shoulder in IASW as well as other rides, and having finished the fourth since my last trip, I am not looking forward to riding the Norway ride on our next trip! Ridley Pearson was able to include lots of actual park info in the books per his tours that he weaves in with the fiction.
 
blueboxdoctor

blueboxdoctor

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Obviously Ayn Rand's "The Fountainhead, over 1000 pages of size 8 print is quite the relaxer on an airplane with turbulence and people talking :p

But in all seriousness idk, I usually listen to music and end up falling asleep unless there is a lot of turbulence that wakes me up.

I'd imagine What Dreams May Come would be a good read since it's pretty hard to put down and makes the time fly by. A few others would be Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke and if you want to walk off the plane depressed I'd suggest A Clockwork Orange (ignoring the extra chapter for the American version, and it's far superior to the abomination that was the movie). Jurassic Park is also a good one, also a lot better than the movie.

I don't really read happy books (usually sci-fi or drama type), but I do suggest Childhood's End as some really neat sci-fi. It's also a rather short book (around 240 pages I think), so it should be easy to read on a flight. The best part about it is there is no violence at all in it, making for a very well thought out piece of sci-fi rather than falling back on some intergalactic war or an invasion of evil aliens.
 

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