Comments for Win The Exchange
The rules for the contest are as follows:
Comment #1: Monday, December, 29, 2008 at 18:56:38
christopher harner
the moon is a harsh mistress by robert heinlein, a classic science fiction tale of liberty and revolution, set in the exotic location of the moon
Comment #2: Monday, December, 29, 2008 at 16:19:49
susan varney
from here to eternity by james jones an absorbing drama about soldiers caught up in the surprizing attack on pearl harbor
Comment #3: Tuesday, December, 30, 2008 at 01:17:30
David Bertolo
Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis
Zorba the Greek resists easy definition. Like the Odyssey and Don Quixote, it is nearly plotless but never pointless. Like the heroes of those fictional sagas, its hero, Alexis Zorba, casts a larger shadow on the world than the world does on him.
Comment #4: Monday, December, 29, 2008 at 12:01:47
Shaun Wallner
I like Busted Flush by George R.R. Martin. It is about a group of people that get these powers by some sort of nuclear attack and the go to various parts of the world helping others.
Comment #5: Monday, December, 29, 2008 at 08:06:41
Judith
The first book that comes to my mind is "The Island" by Victoria Hislop, which was given to me by a girlfriend to read at the airport while I waited for a flight to Crete. "The Island" is set on the island of Spinalonga, Greece's former leper colony, off the coast of Crete, which I was scheduled to visit towards the end of my holiday in Crete. I thoroughly enjoyed the visit to Spinalonga because I had read "The Island" before arriving there.
Comment #6: Monday, December, 29, 2008 at 01:24:25
My favorite book that takes place in an exotic location is A Spell For Chameleon by Piers Anthony. The exotic location is a magical land, lived on by people with magical talents and gifts. There are all sorts of magical creatures and occurrences. It's an excellent series.
Comment #7: Tuesday, December, 30, 2008 at 18:22:50
One of my all time favorite books is the Thorn Birds by Colleen Mccullough. It is about a priest and the woman he falls in love with. It is centered in New Zealand and Australia.
Comment #8: Monday, December, 29, 2008 at 13:49:17
Linda Pinto
I like the Mitchner book on Alaska. I read it before taking a trip to the state.
Comment #9: Tuesday, December, 30, 2008 at 22:34:56
I'd have to say 1984 by George Orwell. I know it's not technically an exotic location, but in a lot of ways, when you read a book like that, you're entering an alternative world (although less and less so it seems, sadly). I've always had a fascination with Utopia and anti-Utopian literature. 1984 describes a world where Big Brother watches everyone and everything and the world is supposed to be doubleplus good, but in reality, it's doubleplus ungood. Watch out, the bad guys will win in the end.
Comment #10: Thursday, January, 1, 2009 at 15:26:14
mary teneyck
gone with the windby Margret Mitchell,and I've was given an orignal copy from a friend because he's collects them, my 3 boys are all reading it, along with the extra one has already read it, I'm in the last half of it, and I'm enjoying it, because of the description of the sceneery as well because its done of the old south, with love of it all.
Comment #11: Thursday, January, 1, 2009 at 10:53:01
Jill Miller
Angels & Demons, Dan Brown, similar to The DaVinci Code in style, this fast-paced book takes place in The Vatican. You cannot put this book down!
Comment #12: Friday, January, 2, 2009 at 19:39:36
Carol Drury
Aztec by Gary Jennings - a bawdy, intriguing, scenic, fascinating novel about the civilization - histocially almost accurate but fictional - a cant put down read - i am ready to read it again - one of my all time favorites!!!!
Comment #13: Saturday, January, 3, 2009 at 05:48:40
dianad
The Copper Beech by Maeve Binchy
This was about Ireland as so many of her books are. It's about personalities, familes and dwelling in a small town
Comment #14: Sunday, January, 4, 2009 at 04:08:34
My favorite in an exotic location would be The Jewel Trader of Pegu. A Jewish merchant travels to Pegu in Burma in 1598 where he doesn't have to endure the prejudice and oppression he faced in the ghettos of Venice. Thanks for your contest. I've added it to my blog.
Comment #15: Tuesday, January, 13, 2009 at 21:17:29
bina edwards
Pendragon series by D.J. MacHale originally I bought the series for my son but ended up reading and enjoying them. They are about a boy who travels to other worlds, in order to save his own, against an aggressor. These are great if you enjoyed the HP series
Comment #16: Wednesday, January, 14, 2009 at 02:12:41
Christina
The Lover, by Marguerite Duras, is set in Vietnam and written by a young girl that is chosen by a wealthy man to be his incidental mistress. She complies because she needs the money for her family, but she starts to love him, although her only encounters with him are when she is picked up in a car and taken to a hotel to have assignations. This is a true (autobiographical) story.
Comment #17: Sunday, January, 18, 2009 at 20:02:17
Denise Sachs
Never Enough by Joe McGinness was great. It was a true crime book about an American woman who murdered her millionaire husband while they lived in Hong Kong.
Comment #18: Saturday, January, 24, 2009 at 12:32:44
Stephanie Ray
Revolt Of The Angels By Anatole France. It's an early turn of the 20th century novel that reads like an abstract for 21st century terrorism novels.
Comment #19: Sunday, January, 25, 2009 at 19:29:14
ray davison, II
Alice in Wonderland! Can you get any more exotic than that place?
Comment #20: Tuesday, January, 27, 2009 at 23:30:40
Leann H Swinnney
The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis. 4 kids travel through a wardrobe to a mythical land with a god like Lion.
Comment #21: Wednesday, January, 28, 2009 at 10:55:32
Carrie Baird
I am reading a book called The Testament by John Grisham that takes place largely in South America in an area called The Pantanal. It is about an a lawyer trying to find a missionary living amongst a primitive tribe. The missionary is the illegitimate child of one of the world's richest men. He has committed suicide after signing a hidden will that leaves her everything and his 6 other ungrateful, greedy children and their families very little.
Comment #22: Wednesday, January, 28, 2009 at 14:18:57
Purgatorio by Dante. Is hell considered an exotic location?
Comment #23: Wednesday, January, 28, 2009 at 18:15:24
Ed Nemmers
"The Alchemist" by Paolo Coelho, uses the settings of Europe and Africa to tell a personal, spiritual journey.
Comment #24: Thursday, January, 29, 2009 at 05:36:23
dianad
The Glass Lake by Maeve Binchy. This was about a small town in Ireland bordering a lake. It was a wonderful story about a family their lives.
Comment #25: Thursday, January, 29, 2009 at 06:52:10
Alexa Marie
I love all of Clive Cussler stories. They are all in exotic places, but I have to go with Inca Gold. In the Peruvian Jungle, is as exotic as you can get.
Comment #26: Thursday, January, 29, 2009 at 10:05:52
Amy Tucker
Lord of the Rings -- Takes place in Middle Earth -- lots of adventures happening here between the battle of Good and Evil. JRR Tolkien is the auther.
Comment #27: Thursday, January, 29, 2009 at 11:22:32
Buddy Garrett
Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen is a memoir that recounts the events of the seventeen years the author made her home in Kenya, then British East Africa. It recounts life on her coffe plantation and some of the people who touched her life. It captures the country's transition from British Colonial rule to the emergance of Kenya.
Comment #28: Thursday, January, 29, 2009 at 11:41:43
Pamela White
Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff shows live aboard ship and in the south pacific ocean.