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I'm going on a two week long voyage in a few days. What books should I bring with me?

>> No.8939576

>voyage
faggot

>> No.8939583

>>8939576
Love you man

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>>8939574
https://archive.org/details/deanoflismoresbo00macluoft

>> No.8939587

>>8939574
What kind of voyage? And Moby Dick of course.

>> No.8939591

>>8939574
huntsman sketches and saki

>> No.8939593

>>8939587
It's for work, I am an engineer on the ship.

>> No.8939604

What's a country you know absolutely nothing about?

Buy a few books about various critical time periods in that region's history, (not the 'complete history of'). If you're traveling somewhere significant as opposed to inconvenient, read some history of that region in a timeframe you don't commonly hear about.

>> No.8939667

>>8939593
that sounds so very comfy.

it probably isnt and i dont have the required skills anyways but i like the idea of being in an isolated place. i'd love to have a reading room on the ISS or some shit

i liked the sense of uprootedness (?) and constant travel in Journey to the End of the Night. might work well with the setting youre in. other than that, maybe just a bunch of short story collections ... nothing too heavy for when you're tired after a shift, and a broad menu of different stuff

>> No.8939796

>>8939667
>>8939604
Thanks guys, this is good advice. There can be long days, so short stories might be a good idea.

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If you want short stories anon, go with Hemingway, especially if you haven't read his "Old Man and the Sea" yet.

If you're into poetry, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is pretty much THE classical poem about the mystical nature of the sea. If you want something lighter, go with poems by William Blake or Robert Frost