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What's the "must" read books you recommend?

Recently we took our vacation and I'm heading to equip my time with reading so I'm now wondering which book to read in this 3 weeks vacation.
Thanks for advance.

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    Jan 21 2013: It really depends on the amount of time you plan to devote to reading during those 3 weeks.

    The Giver by Lois Lowry is good for roughly a solid day of reading. A fiction book about a future dystopian society and the life of a child growing up to realize what has been lost by people.

    While considered a children's book, I always found the ideas rather adult which inspire introspective thought.
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    Jan 18 2013: If you are going on vacation, enjoy the sites and gather experiences the place has to offer....Then maybe you'll be able to write your own book!

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      Jan 18 2013: Thank you for the note Saima, but actually I'm into writing an article that might be published in my college magazine.
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    Krisztián Pintér 200+

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    Jan 18 2013: ray bradbury - fahrenheit 451
    written in 1953, still actual and fresh today

    p.s.: just now realized that for a vacation, this might be not as ideal as it first seemed

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    Jan 18 2013: You might want to go to a site like..........librarythings.com and look around at what people say about the books you are considering to read.

    I also recommend to not just take one kind of book.

    I usually take several genres along on any trip............a brainteaser book to help my mind, a magazine or fiction book, to entertain myself, and some spiritually upbuilding book or magazine to feed the soul. And if I vacation in an unknown place, I take along a travel book to guide me.

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    Jan 18 2013: This depends on how old you are and your interests.

    My fourteen year old son on his last vacation worked on Hawkings' The Brief History of Time. My eldest daughter's favorite book was called There Once Was a World. My younger daughter is an academic quantum physicist and mainly likes to read in her field.

    An interesting recent book I read last year is Clay Shirky's Here Comes Everybody.

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