<p>What books have you read that were just too captivating to put down? I mean, really fascinating, books that just force your pupils to hurt? </p>
<p>Im currently reading Hit List by Lawrence Block.</p>
<p>Life of Pi
The Great Gatsby
The Jungle (I am the only one)
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Harry Potter!!!</p>
<p>Those of some of my favorite books. Some other good ones are were: Andromda(sp?) Strain, It, East of Eden, Of Mice and Men, Slaughter-house 5, and many others I cannot think of right now. :)</p>
<p>Harry Potter is heroin to my eyes.
On a more intellectual level, Brave New World, The Catcher In The Rye and Lord of The Rings.</p>
<p>Oh, and The Bible isn’t half-bad for a quick storytelling fix.</p>
<p>^ Brave New World is another good one. So is Farhenheit 451.</p>
<p>Brave New World. Nineteen Eighty-Four. We. As you can see, I relish reading dystopian fiction.</p>
<p>rmadden15, I have to read Life of Pi during the summer for AP English Literature. Sad to say, I have not picked it up yet, and I return to school soon. What were your impressions after reading it?</p>
<p>Well, it is hard to get into at first, becasue the author seems to over-do simple facts. However, it gets really exciting, esspecialy when he is at the island in the Pacific. Also, all that annoying crap you read in the beginning actually has a purpose.</p>
<p>Are You there Vodka? It’s Me, Chelsea. by Chelsea Handler. She is a comic genius and has the best stories.</p>
<p>The whole Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series (although the end isn’t as good as the beginning). Watchmen, World War Z, and The Monkeywrench Gang are also pretty good.</p>
<p>Any well-written How-To book. I love receiving advice.</p>
<p>Anything by Kurt Vonnegut, The Sybil by Par Lagerkvist, Hemingway, and so many more.</p>
<p>ludlum, dan brown, white boy shuffle</p>
<p>Shadow of the Wind (best book I ever read)
Freakonomics</p>
<p>recently: On the Road</p>
<p>The Cosmos by Carl Sagan. Sagan is an unbelievable astrophysicist and writer.</p>
<p>There are a lot of books that are great and very difficult to put down (Catch-22, Freakonomics), but I end up putting them down anyway because they’re too long to finish in one session. The only ones that I can really not stop reading until I finish are Meg Cabot chick lit novels; they’re so short that I just want to speed through and get to the end.</p>
<p>Books written by Bill Bryson… A Walk in the Woods is my favorite</p>
<p>My son is a constant reader (audio book listener, actually) and goes through hundreds of books.</p>
<p>Favorites include Douglas Adams’ Hitchhikers Guide and other works; Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game, Speaker for the Dead, …; Bryce Courtenay’s The Power of One, Tandia, Brother Fish, …; The Count of Monte Cristo; lots of fantasy/sci-fi novels (Philip Pullman, Isaac Asimov, Tamora Pierce, …); he like Freakonomics but loved Terry Burnham and xxx’s Mean Genes and Malcolm Gladwell’s Tipping Point and Blink; Ayn Rand’s Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. From an earlier era, The Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter.</p>
<p>I think Michael Crichton Books are pretty captivating.<br>
The Darwin Awards are hysterical!</p>
<p>More intellectually…i liked the Great Gatsby, Slaughterhouse V, and Catcher in the Rye</p>
<p>ohhh a walk in the woods by bill bryson is soo funny! </p>
<p>the twilight series is good, but no HP. AJ JAcob’s book about reading the entire britannica is hilarious too–One man’s quest to become the smartest man in the world–i think is the title</p>
<p>The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. </p>
<p>You could probably read this in one day and I wouldn’t doubt that you might cry reading this book. It is such a great story and will put to rest any stereotypes you may have of Afghanistan and Afghans.</p>