Books you could NOT put down

[Ranb]

Presumed Innocent, The Martian, Foundation's Edge, Foundation and Earth, Navajo Weapon, Love and Hate in Jamestown, Operation Overflight, Skunk Works, Case Closed, Bruce Gamble's The Black Sheep.

Ranb

 

[Monza]

Presumed Innocent, The Martian, Foundation's Edge, Foundation and Earth, Navajo Weapon, Love and Hate in Jamestown, Operation Overflight, Skunk Works, Case Closed, Bruce Gamble's The Black Sheep.

Ranb

Very good recommendation. I enjoyed the book more than movie, which was quite well done.

 

[Crossbow]

I just read Wetlands and it is an easy, fast and quite entertaining read. All the more so since so much of it is autobiographical.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wetlands_(novel)

Also, the John Cryer autobiography is quite easy, fast, and entertaining as well. Also, it has some great photos.

 

[Darat]

I looking at a 16 hour trip on an airplane in about 8 days and I can't sleep on airplanes.

I need something that grabs me from page 1 and keeps me reading.

I tend to gravitate to crime/psychological thrillers, but I'm open to anything as long as it grabs you and doesn't let go.

Any recommendations for me?

16 hours of solid reading - bliss.

Suggestion for the first three books, given your likes:

Michael Marshall's Straw Men trilogy

....Michael Marshall's unique voice adds a chilling intensity to the serial-killer plot, combining dazzling narrative, a white-hot pace and a deeply disturbing backdrop of conspiracy....​

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B071S1CQ4W/ref=series_rw_dp_sw

 

[Ranb]

Very good recommendation. I enjoyed the book more than movie, which was quite well done.

Too bad they didn't make it into two rated R movies to do the book justice.

 

[theprestige]

Crime/Thrillers?

My go-tos are:

The Bourne Identity
Gun, With Occasional Music
Hyperion
Murder Must Advertise

 

[Spindrift]

Another vote for the Foundation Trilogy. I had read it years ago and re-read it last year and it was still great.

I just finished "A Higher Call" about an encounter between a heavily damaged B-17 and a German fighter and how the German pilot not only did not shoot down the plane but escorted it out of anti-aircraft range. It's mostly the story of the German pilot and then the American pilot of the B-17 who tracked him down 40 years later. True story and a very good insight in the Luftwaffe during WWII.

 

[The Don]

I don't read much fiction but I've found Wallander books very hard to put down. Jo Nesbo books are too scary to put down

 

[The Great Zaganza]

Nursery Crime books by Jasper Fforde are very entertaining and cleverly constructed.
So are most of his other books.

 

[Faydra]

Thank you all - I have samples to read and decisions to make.

This is tough, they all look good.

 

[Beelzebuddy]

If you're looking for newer books, Charlie Stross's Laundry Files series is excellent. It's nerdy urban fantasy/horror, in which spells are computer programs, Cthulhu is real, and the only people stopping elder things from outside the universe from eating all of us are underpaid British computer scientists.

Also, for a lighter take try out Drew Hayes's Fred, The Vampire Accountant series, about a boring accountant who becomes a vampire, and discovers that it does nothing for his night life.

 

[Hutch]

Just another vote for "The Martian", it is the one book I cannot put down.

Would add one more: Longitude by Dava Sobel. Short read, but for a topic that wouldn't seem to be of great interest, I read it cover to cover on an airline trip.

Last one in the "Couldn't put down" category is World war Z by Max Brooks. VERY much superior to the movie.

 

[Polaris]

Black Hawk Down was this way with me. Read it in one sitting on the way back from Cape Cod in 2001.

 

[Greedo]

Fight Club; The Psychopath Test (read in literally one sitting); Homicide (SO GOOD); Just Kids (had to stop myself from reading it too quickly to savor it); Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas; All the Presidents Men

 

[crescent]

Among newer books: Uprooted by Naomi Novik.

It's just sort of a light-hearted escapist fantasy book, but it was fun to read.

We are Legion We are Bob

It's about a guy who has his brain frozen, comes back after he's been loaded into a computer matrix and is then turned into a space probe, hi jinks ensue.

That shares some similarities with Solis, by A.A. Attanasio (one of the most under-appreciated SF/Fantasy writers out there).

 

[fromdownunder]

Back in the day, I had a number of books that I needed to keep reading without stopping. Stranger in a Strange Land, The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Compulsion, anything by Leon Uris.

Today, not so much.

Norm

 

[Cavemonster]

I bought a book of flypaper strips.

I could not put it down.

 

[Vixen]

I bought a book of matches.

It was really hot stuff.

Couldn't put it down quick enough.

 

[abaddon]

The Perils of Superglue by E. V. O. Stick.

 

[Faydra]

Back in the day, I had a number of books that I needed to keep reading without stopping. Stranger in a Strange Land, The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Compulsion, anything by Leon Uris.

Today, not so much.

Norm

I loved Stranger in a Strange Land - I usually don't like to re-read books, but I might make an exception in this case. It's been a long time.