I stayed up all night reading Animal Farm once.
All night? It is only about 140 pages long in paperback. I like it too but it was everyone’s go-to book for book reports when I was in school because you can read it in an hour or two tops. Most of us gave many book reports on Animal Farm over the years because of that.
Yup, and that stinky film is on rotation on one of the movie channels this month =(
Did you know there is a sequel to Relic? Reliquary. Well, there are more in the series but we haven’t gotten them so I can’t say if they are any good, but at least Reliquary is still pretty good.
I read the newest to me Janet Evanovich, Smokin’ Seventeen last night, mrAru picked it up at the exchange yesterday.
The Cider House Rules by John Irving literally was something I couldn’t put down. It was excellent.
Really, anything by John Irving. All of his stuff is excellent.
I recently finished The Maze Runner, which was recommended to me by Amazon when I was looking at The Hunger Games. Haven’t read THG yet, but if you liked it, you may want to try The Maze Runner. It’s not quite un-put-downable, but it was entertaining and a fast read.
One I found hard to put down recently was Hater, which had a great build-up for about the first half or two-thirds of the book, but then dropped off sharply at the end. Haven’t read the next book yet.
If you like baseball and have a bit of a knack for history, I’d recommend The Great American Novel by Philip Roth.
ETA: I just saw your prohibition on history books proper, but the Roth book certainly won’t put anyone to sleep–it’s quite funny. Most of the humor is quite viceral, though, so be prepared.
No, I only stayed up until 3. Some of us are slow readers. Thanks for the condescension.
I read the entire Hunger Games series in less than 2 days.
The Magicians kept me up for a while as well.
The Monster Hunter International series by Larry Corriea were each read within a single day of their initial purchase. There are three so far. Great books, lots of fun to read and available in Epub format from WeScription.
Werewolves, vampires, zombies, Great Old Ones, Trailer Trash Elves, helicopter gunship flying Orcs, Ghetto garden Gnomes, and guns…lots of guns!
His Hard Magic (Grimnoir Chronicles #1) was also excellent.
That’s no extra charge here.
And not optional. You get used to it.
I’m just waiting for someone to sneer at my “kid book” selections. Then I’ll pull out my comic book recommendations: “I stayed up all night reading Spider-Man 2099, issues 1-25, written by Peter David… I mean, when I found out Miguel’s secret, I couldn’t put 'em down!”
The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress
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Agreed.
I’m not sure about “all,” but A Widow for One Year and The World According to Garp are first-rate.
LOL - I found much the same. It took a while for it to become gripping.
I’m annoyed at my library system right now, I’ve been looking up practically every book suggested (that I haven’t already read) and it’s had, so far, ONE of them in ebook format.
I’ve read a lot (but not all) of the suggested SF. I’m on the waiting list for To Say Nothing Of The Dog, and am working through the “Three Men In A Boat” which was so heavily referenced in that :).
I don’t know if this counts as a book but there was this instruction manual for a hot glue gun that I just could not let go of. ;):D:cool:
House of Leaves - Mark Z Danielewski
The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
Name of the Wind & The Wisemans Fear - Patrick Rothfuss
This is fantasy, not sci-fi, but I absolutely cannot get enough of the Song of Ice and Fire series, by George R. R. Martin. There’s lots of violence, particularly violence against women, which puts me in a state of RAGE if I’m in the wrong mood…but I just can’t stop! Very crapsack world, but a very compelling story nonetheless.
I read a lot of young adult fiction too; those you listed are good books, but the one I could not put down was **Life as We Knew It **by Susan Pfeffer. Synopsis: an asteroid slams into the moon, knocking it into a new orbit, which causes catastrophic natural disasters on Earth. Eventually people have to make some really tough decisions. It is written as the journal of a teenaged girl. I remember thinking “Oh, I’ll read just one more chapter,” as I looked at the clock: 2:00 a.m.
I couldn’t put down The Handmaid’s Tale.
**Life of Pi.[/**SIZE] [SIZE=“2”]by Yan Martel. It’s a multi tiered allegory about how we assign meaning to experience, it’s a mind-fuck.
Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut. Science fiction I guess, and **Welcome to the Monkey House **by him too. He’s so compassionate.
Heat. Short stories by Joyce Caroll Oates. Good stories about everything.
Woman on the Edge of Time, by Marge Piercy. A utopian fantasy.