Help! Help!

[ceebee_eebee]

I am leaving for Punta Cana on Monday and I need beach book recommendations! I know a lot of you guys are big readers, so I'm hoping you can help me out. What I am in the mood for is CRAP. But a very specific kind of crap. I am desperate for some new virus/plague type books. Let me explain.

For beach reading I have always been HUGE into Michael Crichton but I've gone through all his stuff. I love Richard Preston's books, read those too. I love time travel back to the black death stuff like the Doomsday Book, Timeline, and the Plague Tales.

PLEASE tell me there are more books in this 'genre' that I haven't read yet. Anything fast-paced, gripping, and involving some kind of virus or plague outbreak would be SUPERB!!!

Thank you, flist!

Comments

[stunt-muppet.livejournal.com]

Ahahahaha you have picked the one genre I absolutely cannot read. Virus stories scare the living shit out of me like nothing else does. I can't even look at the book covers without wanting to pour bleach on everything. XD

There's always The Hot Zone? I think that was about an Ebola outbreak, but it was also a real-life situation from what I recall. And even if it wasn't, there were still a bunch of descriptions of people sicking up their own liquified organs and other Ebola-type crap, so...not sure how that'll go as beach reading.

[elyssadc.livejournal.com]

Ha! Great. But YES, I loved the Hot Zone soooo much. That's Richard Preston and everything by him was equally as superb. Really tense, really terrifying, and very well told so that even a layperson can understand. Totally dig him. But as crazy as this sounds, reading about ebola is TOTALLY my kind of beach reading. ;)