Which books have you read that you couldn't put down after reading?

Dune and trilogy

Sorry. I did not like this. Full of sadomasochism if you ask me.

Yep.

Darn, forgot Neal Stephenson's Snowcrash.

Dr Mary's Monkey
Behold A Pale Horse
Trigger Men by Hans Halberstadt
The Art of War
The Prince
The Joy of Sex
On Palestine
Bouchon by Thomas Keller
A Day at El Bulli


Im sure theres more, just the first few that popped into my head

The Key to Rebecca - Ken Follett
Strange Pilgrims (short stories) - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Stand - Stephen King
The Woman in the Window (thriller) - A.J. Finn
Stillhouse Lake (thriller) - Rachel Caine

Happy reading! ;-)

I dont usually read fiction, but I did read the stand. I did enjoy that one. Pretty long book

The Way of Kings
Under the Dome
Guards! Guards!

The Creature from Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin

The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown

The Course of Honor by Lindsey Davis

Piercing the Darkness by Frank Peretti

Camp of the Saints, by Jean Raspail 1973

“Better than Orwell or Huxley
Huxley wrote of the effects of class and technology and Orwell wrote of omnipresent government control. Raspail, in a 1973 book, wrote of the demise of a weary and guilt ridden Western Civilization and the swamping of the white race by third world immigrants. Unfortunately Raspail's book is so accurate that it scared the living bejeebers out of me. Oh sure Orwell and Huxley had accurate warnings of possible future human calamities, but Raspail described what is happening today to the tiniest detail.

How can anyone have been so accurate? It's almost unbelievable. While Raspail didn't use the term "social justice warriors," the work of these people is seen as a key to the loss of our culture. He has the Pope as a social activist and mentions that the World Council of Churches. Raspail has the liberal media continuously pecking away at western values and promoting racial guilt. Things become so bad that police officers really do little to enforce laws and norms are weakened more and more. The military is soft and more concerned with social issues than defense. More and more the media grind away at social and economic inequality. More white guilt. And on it goes. Previous third world immigrants are shown as mostly invisible to white Europe but are seething, in Raspail's words, with envy and hate. At the first chance, they join with the new third world immigrants, and European culture is forever changed and the white race is lost.

Horror comes at the end of the book as a motley group of 20 or so whites who are still defending the south coast of France are killed in a bombing raid by the new multi-racial government. A document is later found noting the 20 had fought and killed some hundreds of "ganges' and "fellow travelers." Raspail's point is to show how easy it would have been for Europeans to defend themselves had there been any remaining will or belief in the West of its institutions.

Looking at current events and reading Raspail is beyond unsettling. How could anyone see this coming so clearly from 44 years ago? I mean no hyperbola but Raspail provides the most terrifying book I have ever read.”

Awesome

Ty for list!

Sounds good

To me it was his best book. But I also loved the series of paperbacks of The Green Mile. The fact that all 5 parts were sold one month after each other also contributed to that.

Cheers!

the slow burn series on kindle unlimited. zombie apocalypse characters were interesting. i am going to reread it again shortly.

Heard it was thrilling

Thx for the rec. Just got it - love cave diving!

meh - too formula imo

Under the dome was good

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I just read this again and it was as good as it was 30 years ago. If you like fantasy, this is a must.


At four-thirty one Saturday afternoon the laws of physics as we know them underwent a change. Electronic devices, cars, industries stopped. The lights went out. Any technology more complicated than a lever or pulley simply wouldn't work. A new set of rules took its place—laws that could only be called magic. Ninety-nine percent of humanity has simply vanished. Cities lie abandoned. Supernatural creatures wander the silenced achievements of a halted civilization

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I read it in three days! (literally could not put it down!) One of the best books ever!!!!

Fry the brain.

So many

The Koran revised

John Christopher, The Tripods

Lots.

Start with Night Watch or Mort.

The Hot Zone by Richard Preston - All about an early Ebola outbreak

The Demon in the Freezer also by Richard Preston - Smallpox as a bioweapon

411 series by Paulides - I'm sure you know what these are.

American Gods by Gaiman - This supernatural American road trip fantasy tells the story of a war between the ancient and modern gods.

Neverwhere also by Gaiman - Fantasy about finding ones way back to a society he grows to hate
Command and Control by Eric Schlosser - Nuclear Weapons, The Damascus Accident, and the illusion of safety

The Motorcycle Diaries by Che Guevara - About his journey through South America in his youth.

The Horus Heresy series if in the mood for a VERY long scifi series (seriously it's 54 books...)

Add Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad