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

[elyssadc.livejournal.com]

Oooo! Thanks! I love both the Stand and Andromeda Strain so that sounds like it would be perfect for me.

[janissa11.livejournal.com]

Seconding the rec. It's really intense, and a lot of the tension in later parts of the book comes from an unexpected source -- obvious in hindsight but hits you hard in context.

Have you read Cell? I can't even explain, but it was the most terrifying SK book I've read. I still can't reread it completely. Creeps my shit right the hell out.

He has an Amazon-only e-novella called "Ur." V. fun read.