Towering Book Slush

[dotinthesky]

I'm going to Brasil on a five-week holiday next week.

Please recommend some holiday reading, and tell me why you think I'll enjoy it.

Comments

[beeorkendurkey.livejournal.com]

myra breckinridge by gore vidal. just because it's perhaps the best and funniest novel i've ever read. or did i already suggest this? eh, i stand by my choice.

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

oooh! that sounds good. You haven't recommended it to me before; I'll look for it.

[beeorkendurkey.livejournal.com]

if you can, try to get it as the double version with both myra breckinridge and myron, the sequel. i didn't think it was as good, but it had its moments. plus, there's a locale that i had problems visualising and i want to see if others have the same problem.
added bonus: film version with raquel welch for superhappy enjoyment, though it's terribly convoluted and admittedly produced "under a haze of pot smoke." plus mae west makes one of her last film appearances, practically blind with glaucoma and really creepy with her old lech lasciviousness.

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

Sounds like the kind of book hard to find; but I'll keep my eyes peeled for it.