SaraPepparkaka Posted September 19, 2011 Share Posted September 19, 2011 I had to take a long bustrip, and I was reading of course. I thought it was lovely to escape the bus and mentally be on a romantic beach- but then I started thinking. Are there any books that take place on a bus, or have a crucial scene on a bus? I couldn't think of any, can you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankie Posted September 19, 2011 Share Posted September 19, 2011 The Wayward Bus by John Steinbeck comes to mind. It's not entirely set in a bus, though. I really liked it, there were some quirky characters and jolly good dialogue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaraPepparkaka Posted September 19, 2011 Author Share Posted September 19, 2011 Great! At least one book! I just started thinking that a bus would be a very challenging environment to write about, instead of, you know, beaches and castles and such places. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maureen Posted September 19, 2011 Share Posted September 19, 2011 The woman on the bus by Pauline McLynne. An uncomplicated, easy to read chick lit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hayley Posted September 19, 2011 Share Posted September 19, 2011 Do plays count? We read 'Our Day Out' by Willy Russell years ago at school and I remember quite a lot of that being on a bus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppyshake Posted September 20, 2011 Share Posted September 20, 2011 The Lilac Bus by Maeve Binchy ... it's not all set on the bus, but it's what links all the characters together. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaraPepparkaka Posted September 21, 2011 Author Share Posted September 21, 2011 I thought of one myself too, One by Finnish writer Arto Paasilinna, "Hurmaava joukkoitsemurha" (A charming mass suicide), which despite the title is a funny book about a group of people who want to commit suicide, but rather than doing it alone, they arrange a bus trip to do it together. Well, it all ends with them having had so much fun on the trip that they decide living is too much fun for a suicide. I'm really fascinated: there are even books (and good ones as far as I can tell) about buses! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankie Posted September 21, 2011 Share Posted September 21, 2011 I thought of one myself too, One by Finnish writer Arto Paasilinna, "Hurmaava joukkoitsemurha" (A charming mass suicide), which despite the title is a funny book about a group of people who want to commit suicide, but rather than doing it alone, they arrange a bus trip to do it together. Well, it all ends with them having had so much fun on the trip that they decide living is too much fun for a suicide. I'm really fascinated: there are even books (and good ones as far as I can tell) about buses! Oooh, thanks for that! I've once read the blurb to that novel and wanted to read it but never remembered to add it to my wishlist. Now will Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chesilbeach Posted September 21, 2011 Share Posted September 21, 2011 I saw All The Materials for a Midnight Feast by Gary Dexter in Waterstone's today and although not a bus trip but a coach journey, it looks quite interesting: A story of love, nuclear terror and Philip LarkinBorn at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis, 'at the very moment when the world looked most as if it were going to blow itself up', Nicholas has spent his life in terror of atomic meltdown. Now, on the eve of his 48th birthday, he is on an overnight coach ride to join an anti-nuclear rally at Faslane in Scotland.His fellow travellers remind him of his younger self at Hull University in the 1980s -- a time he spent under the twin clouds of unrequited love and apocalyptic terror. As the coach rumbles through the night, the floodgates of memory open, and Nicholas begins to scrawl episodes from his past into a notebook. At first these memories -- sometimes poignant, sometimes comic, and often involving Philip Larkin -- appear almost random. But in time a picture emerges: of a thwarted first love, and a fragile mind struggling to keep hold of sanity in a world that seems headed for annihilation.This delightful, eccentric novel and its tragi-comic hero will be relished by mavericks and misfits, rebels and renegades the world over. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigWords Posted September 22, 2011 Share Posted September 22, 2011 There are lots and lots of books for children set exclusively on a bus - my niece has been making me read them to her. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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