i'm looking for a certain kind of book for my summer holiday to read, i want to read something about escaping to a diferent country or running away, maybe something like the story line to thelma and louise. i read a book a few years ago called The Last Chance Cafe and it was kind of similar to this kind of genre, it was about a girl who goes to visit an aunt for the whole of her summer holiday and meets all these great people at the last chance cafe.

If anyone can recommend something that fits this kind of genre it will be greatly appreciated, it dosent matter if its fiction or a biography.

Umm..Sayonara Bar.....I forget that author.

It's good, it's not exactly what you're looking for but it's a page-turner, light, entertaining read about a foreign hostess in Tokyo.

Great read.

"Under the Tuscan Sun" is this absolutely amazing movie that makes me think it came from a book. You could check into that. This woman gets divorced, then goes to Italy to "visit," but ends up impulsively buying a house and just staying there. Part of the appeal of the movie was the atmosphere and the beautiful landscape, so I'm not sure if the book's as good. She tries to find love and has a hard time making it, but it's one of those stories that really sticks with you, about how you can find happiness even if things aren't "perfect" like you envisioned them to be.

That's all I could think of.

Hey, I just googled it and it does in fact come from a book!

thanks i will check both of those out now on amazon, have you ever read any books about running away from home?

Generation x by Douglas Coupland, is sort of along those lines. It's about a group of people who move to the nevada (i think) desert to escape the regular way of life, nothing holding them down & stuff.

It's a good book

oh i read that a few years ago and loved it, i will go find it now, it cant hurt to read it again.
thanks

The Drifters by Michener.

It's about a group teenagers in the late 60's who go to spain each escaping something different. They end up travelling through portugal and africa and doing a lot of drugs. It's a really good book but the end is sad. It's one of my favorites though.

wow that sounds great i will definately look that one up.
thanks. xo.

you could try on the road, that's a very summer-y running away type book

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i read it in high school. i loved it.

i recommend Go Now by Richard Hell

Go Now is a novel, set in 1980, about a burnt-out junkie punk named Billy Mud who thinks he's gotten a chance to renew his relationship with his French dream soul-mate Chrissa while also outdistancing his dope habit and proving he's good for something when a longtime benefactor/admirer of his, rock 'n' roll entrepreneur Jack, commissions him to drive a 1957 DeSoto Adventurer from California to New York with Chrissa along, the idea being that she'll take pictures--she's a photographer--and he'll take notes and they'll make a book out of the experience.

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Six hundred pounds of sin
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Hideous Kinky?

I loved this book, but it's funny I never think of it as a "road trip" novel-- I should read it again. It wasn't "lovable" by any means but it just struck me as very true, the characters & the relationship. BTW I love your username

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