what book was literally stuck to your hand..ie you couldn't put it down

At the moment its comac mc carthys' The road in fact I'd nearly say its the best book i ever read

tSubh Dearg

The Story of Mr Y by Scarlett Thomas. I thought it was great, I really needed to know what happened next.

PonyP

Am always glued to the Alexander McCall Smith books, particularly love the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency ones!

kittensoft1984

mariaalice wrote: »

At the moment its comac mc carthys' The road in fact I'd nearly say its the best book i ever read

Ive read that i think - its very good

Im reading High Society at the moment and i cant put it down!! its mental what goes on :rolleyes:

Valmont

whats high society about?

When I was younger I read all of Darren Shans vampire books in one sitting.

Recently I couldn't put down John Higgs' biography of Timothy Leary. An absolutely unbelievable life - Prison escapes, terrorists, LSD, kidnapped by the Black Panthers among other things.

PurplePrincess

Fate is the Hunter by Ernest K. Gann.

I don't know what it is about the book but I find I regularly pick it up and re-read a few random chapters.

jenmcd

Amongst Women by John McGahern and The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver. House and kids were totally neglected while I read these.

Silent Partner

I have to confess
I read the last Harry Potter novel in one sitting. 11 hours. Nearly blind by the end of it!

raah!

Life of Pi by Yan Martel was such a book for me, read it in a day I did. Good stuff!

davyjose

There's many, Offhand I guess Life After God by Douglas Coupland, High Fidelity by Nick Hornby. Ditto on Life of Pi. And I've just started Candy Girl by Diablo Cody at the behest of my Girlfriend, and it's got a distinct unputdownable factor

Black Swan

The Eye of Jade (2008), by Diane Wei Liang is rather engrossing. Read half before I put it down tonight. Cast in present day Beijing, a young woman leaves her secure government job to start a detective agency in a country that doesn't approve of such businesses.

mcgovern

Lord of the Rings the first time I read it as a kid.

r3nu4l

Yup, when I read the Lord of the rings all those years ago, it was unputdownable and is every time I re-read it.

Most recently however it has been Susanna Clarke's "Jonathon Strange and Mr. Norrell". One of the most novel and interesting books in a long time. Excellently written and a great plot and story to boot.

grames_bond

rules of attraction by bret easton ellis....so easy to read and impossible to close! loved it!

navin.r.johnson

The Road most definitely. Norweigen Wood was another one sitting job.

buck65

American psycho

Spent a week in 97 in Hong Kong on hols and just demolished this book, my girlfriend was a little afraid of the glint in my eye during it,
gotta go have to return some videos.

grames_bond

buck65 wrote: »

American psycho

Spent a week in 97 in Hong Kong on hols and just demolished this book, my girlfriend was a little afraid of the glint in my eye during it,
gotta go have to return some videos.

i loved it too! (as most people have realised now im a big B.E.E fan) all of them are so addictive they cant be put down without struggle!

life_is_music

Harry Potter.....

Also The Hobbit. I thought Lord of the Rings was desperately boring at times!

RedXIV

The da vinci code, chapters were too short. I kept saying "just one more chapter" until i finished it. great book though

randomguy

Am I the only one being driven mad by the title of this thread? I wouldn't complain about bad spelling and bad grammar on the internet, but this bloody title really bugs me.

NO book was LITERALLY stuck to my hand. Plenty of books have been figuratively stuck to my hand, but none have been literally stuck since my Airfix accident of 1987.

I normally wouldn't say anything, but given that we're in the literature section I thought I'd point it out. I have been trying to resist, but it has been here for what seems like ages now, (literally ) driving me mad.

Thomas_S_Hunterson

The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B by Donleavy had me gripped into the wee hours. Just kept piling on the chapters.

RuggieBear

Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

full of LOL moments

davyjose

randomguy wrote: »

Am I the only one being driven mad by the title of this thread? I wouldn't complain about bad spelling and bad grammar on the internet, but this bloody title really bugs me.

NO book was LITERALLY stuck to my hand. Plenty of books have been figuratively stuck to my hand, but none have been literally stuck since my Airfix accident of 1987.

I normally wouldn't say anything, but given that we're in the literature section I thought I'd point it out. I have been trying to resist, but it has been here for what seems like ages now, (literally ) driving me mad.

You need a holiday dude

Chinafoot

mariaalice wrote: »

At the moment its comac mc carthys' The road in fact I'd nearly say its the best book i ever read

Read this recently and I agree 100%. I'll be curious to see the film too.

Another one for me was We Need To Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver.

Umbrella Corp

Gearlds Game by Stephen King.

Photi

randomguy wrote: »

Am I the only one being driven mad by the title of this thread? I wouldn't complain about bad spelling and bad grammar on the internet, but this bloody title really bugs me.

NO book was LITERALLY stuck to my hand. Plenty of books have been figuratively stuck to my hand, but none have been literally stuck since my Airfix accident of 1987.

I normally wouldn't say anything, but given that we're in the literature section I thought I'd point it out. I have been trying to resist, but it has been here for what seems like ages now, (literally ) driving me mad.

It's the i.e. part that gets me.

Anyhoo, back on topic, I'd have to say A Confederacy Of Dunces. Having been introduced to Ignatius J.Reilly I couldn't close the book until I gleaned everything I could about him.

FruitLover

randomguy wrote: »

NO book was LITERALLY stuck to my hand. Plenty of books have been figuratively stuck to my hand, but none have been literally stuck since my Airfix accident of 1987.

Bah, I was just logging in to post "the glue manual" or something... Foiled again.

RuggieBear wrote: »

Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

Also to post this. It's a daunting-looking book sizewise, but I really ploughed through it.

Another would be Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

Hermy

The Summer of Katya by Trevanian

kerry4sam

The Alchemist by Paolo Coelho ... It has hit me on a personal level being so insightful and meaningful and once you start it just owns you in that anyone can and will take something from the book .. well worth a read IMO

AJG

I couldn't and didn't. Could anyone suggest why this book was so insightful. It baffled me why this guy is so liberating to so many people. Is there any other books of his that might change my mind.

When it comes to South American literature I've never read anyone better than Borges or Garcia Marquez.

Anyone else I can add to my very limited list.

kerry4sam

AJG wrote: »

I couldn't and didn't. Could anyone suggest why this book was so insightful. It baffled me why this guy is so liberating to so many people. Is there any other books of his that might change my mind.

When it comes to South American literature I've never read anyone better than Borges or Garcia Marquez.

Anyone else I can add to my very limited list.

The Alchemist is about following your dream, no matter what the obstacles ... that to find your path and follow your destiny means happiness, fulfillment, and the ultimate purpose of creation ... in my opinion anyway...

I've read all of his books now at this stage ... maybe you could try Fifth Mountain ... the story attempts to answer the question of why problems and tragedies seem to befall on people when they are at their most secure and confident time of their lives

life_is_music

The Alchemist was an incredible book!!! Veronica decides to die is fairly good too

AJG

If I ever get through the stack of books I have here I might give one of those a try.

kerry4sam

life_is_music wrote: »

The Alchemist was an incredible book!!! Veronica decides to die is fairly good too

after you mentioned it i decided to re-read 'Veronika decides to die' and I really appreciate the way against all odds she struggles to live her last few remaining days appreciating every second of her life ... another good read, thanks for mentioning it ... fogot how good it was

Oral Slang

The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger. Only got around to reading it about a month ago after having it for about 2 years. Loved it so much, really great book!

Skellington

As someone else mentioned, High Fidelity and Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas were two books I couldn't put down.

The only other books I've finished in one sitting were A Million Little Pieces by James Frey and Kingdom Of Fear by Hunter S. Thompson.

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Life of Pi- but that may have something to so with the fact that i should be studying, so it was a pleasant distraction.

Didn't like the alchemist at all, but I've actually just realised I read it in one go, it's a short book though and I was pretty bored.


"The Alchemist is about following your dream, no matter what the obstacles ... that to find your path and follow your destiny means happiness, fulfillment, and the ultimate purpose of creation ... in my opinion anyway..."

Just your opinion is it, not like he says it about a hundred+ times in the book. Gets old very quickly.

funkycat83

kerry4sam wrote: »

The Alchemist by Paolo Coelho ... It has hit me on a personal level being so insightful and meaningful and once you start it just owns you in that anyone can and will take something from the book .. well worth a read IMO

OH MY GOD! i have found another person who realises how brilliant that book was! A true personal favourite and i recommend it to my friends or buy it for a milestone birthday for them.

as for the OP has to be Lord of The Rings, and all the Harry Potters!

Amanda

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by mister Crazy Ken Kesey. I had seen the movie but as is with a lot of books, just doesn't do justice to the read, even though Jack Nicholson does a good job of it, still, read it if you haven't. I was in my first fortnight in Australia it helped the jetlag along nicely. Great book!

Slidey

Low brow i know, but i really enjoy Lee Childs books. They are the die hard of books but I always demolish them in a few hours.
Leon Uris Trilogy. Remember ready this when i was about 13 and it blew me away, got caught reading it in class instead of Silas Marner(sp?)

Tetra

Ninteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult.

doonothing

The world according to Garp. Wowzers.

LoLth

The Cryptonomicon - neal stephenson . utterly fantastic.
I've also started the malazan series by steve ericcson and after reading the first one, i bought the next 8 (?) , anyway right up to the current one. Brilliant so far and I'm just about to start the last (most recent rather) book. Up to now I thought the Song of Ice and Fire was the best fantasy series I had read. IMHO, the malazan series leaves it standing.

HalloweenJack

I loved Fear and Loathing... by Hunter S. Thompson.

Other books that are undroppable are Futebol: The Brazilian Way of Life by Alex Bellos; Back From The Brink by Paul McGrath; Garrincha by Ruy Castro; Amercian Psycho by Brett Easton-Ellis.

Lizzykins

r3nu4l wrote: »

Yup, when I read the Lord of the rings all those years ago, it was unputdownable and is every time I re-read it.

Most recently however it has been Susanna Clarke's "Jonathon Strange and Mr. Norrell". One of the most novel and interesting books in a long time. Excellently written and a great plot and story to boot.

God I absolutely hated that book. I read about 50 pages and couldn't make head nor tale of it. One of the few books I have given up on. The other one I threw away in disgust was My name is Red. I must be a complete Philistine!

randomguy

Lizzykins wrote: »

God I absolutely hated that book. I read about 50 pages and couldn't make head nor tale of it. One of the few books I have given up on. The other one I threw away in disgust was My name is Red. I must be a complete Philistine!

There are very few books i haven't finished, and usually I go back to them and try again. Funnily enough they are two that stand out.

With 'Johnathon Strange and Mr. Norrell' I gave up one-third of the way in, then a few weeks later I went back, and gave it another go, and was sorry I did. Waste of time. Can't see any point to it at all.

With My Name is Red, in one way it seemed intriguing but i just couldn't get into it. I gave up after 20 or so pages. have it sitting on the shelf here and thinking about tackling it again, but I have yet to meet someone who thinks it is worth reading.

Some books are just hard to get into - it took me three or four gos to get past the first 40 pages in "Oscar and Lucinda" but once I did it was fantastic and I couldn't put it down. Not sure if "My Name is Red" is one of those books...

owlwink

Ullysses had me gripped from beginning to end. It pages flew past. The ony thing I found hard was making time for it.:D Steve Abbott's Holy Terror is a fantastic read also.

RonMexico

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Kingdom of Fear by Hunter S. Thompson are absolutely addictive.