Travel Affords Time to Read

The television in my latest hotel room has no cable. This has afforded me ample time to read, something at home I always aspire to do more of. So far on this trip I have read:

1. Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
2. A Very Short History of the World by Geoffrey Blainey
3. The Gum Thief by Douglas Copeland
4. You Shall Know Our Velocity by Dave Eggers
5. Life Expectancy by Dean Koontz
6. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
7. And a few pages of some horrendous novel I bought in an airport and later threw away.

Bonfire of the Vanities is my runaway favorite, but they're all worth a read except for "Life Expectancy". Pure dross, unless you love narratives about psychotic clowns.