Books you can’t put down

[callmemadam]

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[lsugaralmond]

At the moment I am loving the Millennium Trilogy by Stieg Larsson. I am onto the third book now and it is as utterly compelling as the first two. These are the first books I've read in ages where I will go on reading into the small hours, even though I'm really tired, because I just have to find out what happens next.

[callmemadam]

I just have to find out what happens next.

That's it exactly! I hope you've laid in a good supply of similar stuff for the next few weeks :-) Robert Goddard is good for thrillers.

[huskyteer]

I read volume 1 of the Harlem Cycle a couple of weeks ago and absolutely could not put it down as the action just kept on coming. I'd never even heard of the author previously, but wow.

Anything by Tom Wolfe has the same effect.

[callmemadam]

Don't know the first one. Tom Wolfe: yes.

[ramblingfancy]

Sometimes I know it's really not a well-written book, but you're unable to put it down just the same. I found Twilight absolutely gripping even though I knew it was rubbish. Oh dear, how embarrassing is that confession! You'll have to knock me off your friends' list now;)

[callmemadam]

Never! Though I've no intention of reaading it.

Sometimes They Stay With You ..

[tisfolly]

I'm reading 'The Thirty Nine Steps' right now as it happens.

My recommendation is 'The Book Thief' by Marcus Zusak. When I was reading it I couldn't put it down and when I wasn't reading it, I was thinking about it. I often glance over at it on the shelf and I'm off again, pondering over it all over again.
'The Lovely Bones' was another. I read that years ago now it seems and couldn't put it down or stop thinking about it.

Re: Sometimes They Stay With You ..

[callmemadam]

Opnions are so divided over The Book Thief. It's one of those books I feel I ought to try.

[callmemadam]

Agree, although I do like Greenmantle once you've got through the first chapter.