<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>