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Train books Anonymous Mon Oct 22 16:41:08 2018 No.11973318 [Reply] [Original]

I've been told this is the best place for this question. What are the best train books? I want train novels, nonfiction books about trains, railroad engineering books, anything train related

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 22 17:18:11 2018 No.11973446 File: 95 KB, 449x450, 8537E6C8-4FEA-4064-BAC5-3B6E4C1724F6.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 22 17:20:43 2018 No.11973455 Atlas Shrugged

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 22 17:31:58 2018 No.11973498 >>11973318 Murder on the Orient Express

Anonymous Mon Oct 22 17:40:47 2018 No.11973533

If On A Winter's Night A Traveller by Italo Calvino opens very promisingly in a train station, but the printing of my edition was messed up and I couldn't get past chapter 1. Tried going to the shop for another copy and you wouldn't -believe- the shenanigans that ensued. Long story short, I never found out what happened next in the train station.

You might have better luck though.

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>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 22 17:46:10 2018 No.11973563 >>11973533 underrated post

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 22 19:15:18 2018 No.11973898 >>11973446 What should I read/know before reading this? I'm going to stop by my bookshop and see if they have it

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 22 19:16:15 2018 No.11973900 Any good books on just the Trolley Problem?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 22 22:18:40 2018 No.11974465 The girl watcher, train man

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 22 23:44:12 2018 No.11974912 >>11973318 murder in the cars is pretty funny as a short story, if you like twain

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 23 12:32:35 2018 No.11976845 Leaving Atocha Station

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 23 14:17:48 2018 No.11977227 File: 25 KB, 179x293, simenon.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

Anonymous Tue Oct 23 17:01:31 2018 No.11977892
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>>11973318
andrew martin is yer man
he wrote an entire series of detective novels set on railways as well as non-fiction books about trains

or if you want something a bit more twee try LTC Rolt

>>11973560
it's also a good time of year for reading the signalman

Anonymous Tue Oct 23 17:12:04 2018 No.11977931
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>>11973318
Sup OP

I recently read The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia. It was a decent read but was glad to finish it and move onto something else.

I've been recommended Moscow to the End of the Line

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 23 21:20:43 2018 No.11978929 File: 25 KB, 400x400, rSAG1cRa_400x400.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11973318 did someone say they were looking for a book about trains?

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 23 21:28:58 2018 No.11978962 File: 160 KB, 248x454, 1539305381569.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >reading on the train. Is there anything more pretentious, more attention-seeking?

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 23 21:37:27 2018 No.11979010 >>11978962 bogs..

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 23 23:16:56 2018 No.11979433 File: 29 KB, 213x320, boggs.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11979010

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 24 03:12:16 2018 No.11980069 >>11978962 >not reading on the train Good job with wasting so much lifetime by doing nothing in an almost perfect environment for reading.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 24 03:17:15 2018 No.11980080 The Old Patagonia Express is essential train lit

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 24 03:25:44 2018 No.11980103 >>11973318 Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith La Bete Humaine by Emile Zola Also, avoid Stamboul Train by Graham Greene. One of his worst.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 24 03:27:54 2018 No.11980108 First chapter of The Idiot

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 24 06:31:34 2018 No.11980608 Trainspotting, by Irvine Welsh

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 24 06:42:48 2018 No.11980631 Why are some people so autistically obsessed with trains?

Anonymous Wed Oct 24 06:44:57 2018 No.11980641

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/sep/03/top-10-books-trains-dickens-zola-andrew-martin
http://www.entomologyofabookworm.com/2010/08/guardians-top-ten-train-novels.html
http://www.dicconbewes.com/2013/12/04/eight-great-books-on-trains/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_transport_in_fiction

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 24 07:04:46 2018 No.11980689 >>11973898 Inferno by Dante

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 24 07:08:00 2018 No.11980697 File: 20 KB, 598x554, FarNeedyFennecfoxposter.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11973533 You cheeky bastard

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 24 09:22:15 2018 No.11981070 File: 131 KB, 407x407, 1484918089697.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11973318 t. Nick "President of the DSA" Mullen

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