what are some books you would say are "page turners"?
First time in years I haven't been able to put a book down.
>>25262514Very decadent books that tease obscenity and antiwitchcraft laws>eroticaAnd I dont enjoy it, but frictionless prose like the Harry pitters where the book reads itself
Adding one of my own, I demolished I Am Legend in a weekend. Should I read more Matheson?
uncanny valley. you'll prob only dig it if u into tech bro shit tho.
>>25262514I'm reading Shogun at work and it's 100% a page turner. 1500 pages, but it's incredibly easy reading, all dialogue and action written in modern English. I'm about 1/5 through and not once has it felt like a slog. The most challenging thing has been remembering all the characters and their motivations. It's a fun, well-written story.
>>25262544i'm about to read musashi next maybe i hope it's good it was originally a serial in a paper so it has to be a page turner
>>25262553I have Musashi on my list.I'm a little concerned about serials dragging to try to pad the length. Count of Monte Cristo was good but had some dull parts, but I don't know if that was the fault of the format or maybe I'm just not the biggest fan of Dumas.
It’s a really good autobiography. I’m over halfway done it already and I just started it two days ago.
>>25262514Infinite Jest, unironicallyI don't get people who call this book a "slog". Maybe the first hundred or so pages but once you get into it, the world building is genuinely excellent, the characters are unique, and though it's not the funniest book I've read its humor is still mostly very intelligently done and almost laugh out loud worthy at some parts. I'm about halfway through, and I haven't been this "in" to a novel since A Confederacy of Dunces, probably. IJ's no masterpiece, but it's genuinely a fun read.
>>25262514The Fifth Head Of Cerberus grabbed me and I read it in a single setting.
I stayed up all night one time on a school night just so I could finish the second ASOIAF book (A Clash of Kings I think it was?). It was mid-May and it was warm and I had the window open and my cats on my bed and the light was low and it was the comfiest shit ever. I read over 200 pages of that book until I finally finished it around 6am. Then I just skipped the entirety of the next school day. Worth it.
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>>25263132My daughter hates this book. She won’t even give it a chance
>>25262514Dumas, Dickens, Dostoevsky, works that are deliberately written to be a "page turner" aside (so most novels), I was surprised at how fast I flew through Herodotus and Thucydides. I expected them to be dry ancient history and a slog, but they're genuinely captivating in a way most modern history books aren't.
>>25262514????I'm the page turner, not the book...
>>25263144I was a massive Thucydides nerd when I was still a teenager. I had a social media profile covered in Thucydides quotes etc.. I’m pretty sure Sam Hyde stole “the weak should fear the strong” from him by taking one of his original quotes and making it dumber.
Politik by Aristotle for some reason, but probably because there's glimpses of his intelligence in every major Western thinkers' works
>>25262514This is definitely one. I've read through it three or four times by now.
>>25263133Unironically what's wrong with her?
>>25262544reading shogun for the first time is such a great experience.
>>25263367Idk. She loves reading, especially Baby Einstein and Winnie The Pooh books.
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Anything by Houellebecq
>>25262514>you asked
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>>25262514for me it's a short chapter, ~10 pages. tartar steppe was a page turner.
