Leaving on 10 day boat trip and need help picking books

[ajax090]

Hello everyone this is my first post because I just found all of you great people. I have spent the last few days reading topics spread out over the last few years. I love what you guys have to say so i figured I would ask a question to start off my new home.

I coach soccer for a U16 team. One of my players parents owns a big boat and are taking a group of us down to the caribbean in a couple of days. I will be gone for 10 days and I need a few good books. I would like a few suggestions by thursday at noon so i can stop by the library and bookstore and pick up a few things.

I would like it to be somewhat light...who would want to read Ulysses on a boat in the caribbean.

Things i have read in the past. A lot of pulitzer prize books, a lot of mystery (crichton, Grisham, Cussler, Demille), Reading right now the Hobbit, a heartbreaking work...(by eggers) , 1984, and just finished Slaughterhouse 5

Ok...now that you have a little background, i am open to great suggestions, but make sure you get them in fast this ship sails on Thursday evening

[Eryk]

I would like it to be somewhat light...

Nick Hornby (somewhat light).

P.G. Wodehouse and Saki, comedic geniuses.

[dfloyd]

Three men in a boat (to say nothing about the dog).

[papayahed]

Three men in a boat (to say nothing about the dog).

Nice one.

[Travis_R]

If you enjoyed Slaughterhouse-5, give Catch 22 a try. It has quite a bit of dark humor and is very satirical. I enjoyed it greatly, however not as much as I did Slaughterhouse-5.