couldnt put it down

uncle ernie

What is the most compulsively unputdownable book you have ever read.

For me it has to be Motley Crue - the Dirt (!). Steal this book if you have to. ive never encountered 4 more despicable human beings in my life...makes for the most hilarious biography ive ever read. repeat...steal this if you have to

Mrs. MacGyver

Sophies world by Jostein Gaarder. Excellent mystery journey through the world of philosophy.

BossArky

Cosmos - Carl Sagan
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Man in the High Castle - Philip K.Dick

...and heaps more

toomevara

Where to start?

Atomised: houellebecq
Anything by Banville
Anything by Sebastian Barry
Just read Tourism by Nirpal Singh Dhaliwal which I read in one sitting...

Deer

Anything by Carl Hiassen - he's hilarious. Not a lot of people get him but I think he's great.

Most of Salman Rushdies books - except for the Satanic Verses. I'm mentally preparing myself to restart this next week.

I could'nt put down the Stand by Stephen King - that was great.

Oh and Captain Correlli's Mandolin and Birds without Winds were fairly unputdownable.

r3nu4l

Jonathon Norrell and Mr. Strange - Susanna Clarke (who lives in Cambridge )
The Stand - Stephen King
The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins
The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

EDIT: How could I forget? - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon:)

BossArky

Deer wrote:

Most of Salman Rushdies books - except for the Satanic Verses. I'm mentally preparing myself to restart this next week.

Is it bad? I just started it last night, got through 6 pages or so but was too tired to continue.

Deer

The first chapter is mind blowing. I started the next three chapters last year and to be honest it needed my full concentration so I put it on the bookshelf and I've forgotten about it until now! I'll read it in conjunction with you!!

Valmont

r3nu4l wrote:

The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien

I suppose you could say it was so good that it was unputdownable, but I doubt anyone has read it in one sitting, it would take 5 days non-stop!

John

My friend read it in two. How much he took in I don't know.

odhran

Harldy the stuff of great literature, but for me it has to be the Harry Potter series.

hoody

Mrs. MacGyver wrote:

Sophies world by Jostein Gaarder. Excellent mystery journey through the world of philosophy.

Excellent book, really entertaining.

My own would have to be Naive.Super by a Norwegian author Erlend Loe, a lovely, uplifting book.

dudara

Any of the old Tom Clancy's were unputdownable. Not because they're great works of literature, but the man did know how to weave a good story.

More recently, I found "Post Office" by Charles Bukowski and "The Time Traveller's Wife" by Claire Niffenberger (I think) impossible to put down.

toomevara

dudara wrote:

"The Time Traveller's Wife" by Claire Niffenberger (I think)

It's Audrey Niffenegger, and yep, its an excellent read...:)

simu

Um... mebbeh Donna Tartt's Secret History and Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities. Two that spring to mind, anyway.

John

Lord of the Flies. Each and every time I read it.

Mezcita

"Birdsong" by Sebastian Faulks. Brilliant read.

Dades

For me...

Contact - Carl Sagan

Absolutely loved it.

Bodhidharma

uncle ernie wrote:

For me it has to be Motley Crue - the Dirt (!). Steal this book if you have to. ive never encountered 4 more despicable human beings in my life...makes for the most hilarious biography ive ever read. repeat...steal this if you have to

I'd agree with "The Dirt", really funny yet sad in some places. Very easy to read as well.

NADA

I have to agree with you about Harry Potter. Also I heard of people who read the Lord of the rings in two days. I heard somebody say that their frine did it and then when asked what he thought of aragorn he was just like "WHO?"

is_that_so

Valmont wrote:

I suppose you could say it was so good that it was unputdownable, but I doubt anyone has read it in one sitting, it would take 5 days non-stop!

6 days actually :rolleyes: The very first time I read it.

Other books

Perfume - Patrick Susskind
David Copperfield (surprised me too)
Life of Pi
Stalingrad - Anthony Beevor
The Curious Tale of the Dog in the Night
Of Mice and Men/The Pearl Steinbeck
Pretty much anything by Peter Ackroyd

and Hunger by Knut Hamson( will make you hungry)

Dont be at yourself

I'm surprised people have mentioned Catch-22. One of my all-time favourite books, but with it's meandering plot and writing-style, it can be quite heavy going at times.

The last book I was really hooked on was DBC Pierre's Vernon God Little.

iPink

So many books- so little time!

I have read so many books in my life that have totally consumed me for the time I was reading them...sorry for not including author's names, my memory for names is unforgivable!

The Lord of the Rings (have read more than 30 times, never in only 1 sitting but I believe the title 'couldn't put it down' was figurative, forgive me if I'm wrong.
Magician (& the others in the series)
The Servant of the Empire (Daughter & Mistress)
Anything in 'the riftwar series)
The dark material series (?)
Harry Potter
Eragon/Eldest- can't wait for the new one
Wuthering Heights
Perfume
The Incredible Lightness of Being-is that the one set in New York??
The Dark Tower Series
Ramsees series (except the last one- the black one!)

So many books that I have LOVED to bits when I read them & then forgotten that I loved them, have even re-read books & halfway through realised that I have already read them... my brain is a mush!!!

Chumpski

'Shadow of the Wind' by Carlos Ruiz Zafron, an extremely good book. Someone else mentioned 'The Time Travellers Wife' by Audrey Niffenger, which i also couldnt put down and i read it in about 2 days.

Harry Potter as well but mainly the last 3 books published. Someone said that Harry Potter is "hardly great literature". I think its a shame that readers think about the series like that. Just because its been enormously succesful, doesnt mean that its a badly written book. I think its an amazing story with just the right balance of humour and drama and that each book is very well written apart from the first one. ( I always find that when i re read the first one, the way you are told how Harry is feeling more than actually reading him speak, a little annoying )

dabbler2004

two by Stephen King;

It (enjoyed the film at the time but the book just drew me in and blew me away)

The Stand

uncle ernie

dabbler2004 wrote:

two by Stephen King;

It (enjoyed the film at the time but the book just drew me in and blew me away)

yeah same here, definitely his best

the books of blood series by clive barker are excellent as well

r3nu4l

I should have added "Watership Down" by Richard Adams to my list. Absolutely brilliant!