Usually on flights to Europe or Asia. Domestic flights are too short, not enough time to read a whole novel. John Nance is an airline pilot and has written lots of really good ones. One of David Baldacci's early novels had an absolutely hair-raising plane crash scene. I have read lots of those kinds of novels on planes. Is that weird that I like to read those kinds of novels while on planes and in airports? Just one of my idiosyncrasies, I suppose.
I bought a first-edition copy of Falling a few years ago just before I thought I was going to fly, so I would have something to read on the plane. I ended up never going on that trip because I was in my early 70s then and, long story short, I'm just too old and feeble to be able to take those 10- or 12-hour flights any more. Because I didn't go on that flight, I never read that novel. I had low expectations of it when I bought it and probably never would have read it. But now, reading y'all's comments, it sounds like that novel is probably quite a bit better than the low expectations of it that I had when I bought it. I might read it after I finish the novel I'm reading now, which is ...
2001, A Space Odyssey. That one, of course, is about a different kind of flying, and a different kind of disaster. I read 2001 in high school, and then saw the movie in 1968. That was the only time I've ever read that novel, but I've seen that great science fiction movie a couple dozen times since then. I think 2001 is one of the best science fictions movies ever. It should have won best picture, in fact. It's WAY better than the movie that won best picture that year. When TCM showed 2001 recently, I watched it for the umpteenth time. I can't NOT watch that great movie when it comes on somewhere. So I'm way overdue for another reading of that novel.
-- Ron
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