Caught up in a Book?

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Caught up in a Book?

Posted: 10/6/06 at 9:41pm

Have you ever started reading a book that was so good that you stayed up all night to finish reading it?

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re: Caught up in a Book?

Posted: 10/6/06 at 9:44pm

Yes. The one I can think of on the top of my head, is The Talisman. I think I started it at 4pm and ended around 8am the next morning.

"They're eating her and then they're going to eat me. OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!" -Troll 2

Updated On: 10/6/06 at 09:44 PM

re: Caught up in a Book?

Posted: 10/6/06 at 9:57pm

Yes, two of them. WICKED and Son of a Witch.

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re: Caught up in a Book?

Posted: 10/6/06 at 10:03pm

I did that with The Outsiders when I was in the seventh or eighth grade.

Too many to count, really. Of course, the ones that keep me up all night are far from "Great Books". Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination kept me up all night, and it's Chick Lit. I also stayed up all night reading The Star of Kazan, and it's a kid's book.

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re: Caught up in a Book?

Posted: 10/6/06 at 10:18pm

Many, many times. Most recently The Memory Keeper's Daughter. I'm the queen of "just one more chapter."

re: Caught up in a Book?

Posted: 10/6/06 at 10:22pm

I think the most 'caught up' I've ever been in a book was when I decided to read Atlas Shrugged. It was an interesting book, but I think my immersion was more out of wanting to get through it quickly, rather then truely enjoying it to the point where I couldn't put it down.

re: Caught up in a Book?

Posted: 10/6/06 at 10:23pm

Yoda--I am the same way. I have to force myself to put the book down, or I will not be able to stop . . . which results in me almost passing out at work all day.

"They're eating her and then they're going to eat me. OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!" -Troll 2

re: Caught up in a Book?

Posted: 10/6/06 at 11:04pm

Every Harry Potter book. I'm such a dork, but that's what I do.

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Posted: 10/6/06 at 11:14pm

I think Harry Potter is a "given" in this category. Everybody stays up all night to finish them now, otherwise within 24 hours somone's going to let fly with a spoiler. With the last book, I completely sequestered myself until I was finished - but I was working in a bookstore at the time and we did a midnight release party. I just knew if I went back into work without having finished it, some schlub would walk up and say, "Can you believe so-and-so did such-and-such?" and ruin something for me.

And no one grew into anything new, we just became the worst of what we were."

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re: Caught up in a Book?

Posted: 10/6/06 at 11:39pm

WAY to many to count. My dad had me reading by myself really really young and I could never sleep (still can't, insomnia) so I would read and read and read. Sometimes I would finish more than one book in a night. The best memory I have of this experience was reading a book called "Nobody's Boy" when I was really young. It was this beautiful old used copy and it felt like who ever had owned it first had stayed up to finish it as well.

Lately I've been reading a lot of history, particulalry African Civ, and it's fascinating. Totally keeps me up.

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Posted: 10/7/06 at 12:17am

Allllll the time. Most recently I believe it was The Princess Academy, and I feel like crap for not remembering the author because it was quite good. It's mostly a children's book but it was still interesting.

Every Harry Potter book. I'm such a dork, but that's what I do.
ME TOO! I read the last one in 12 hours straight - from when I got it (at noon) to midnight. How could you even think of putting down Harry Potter?
Although I will try to save Book 7, as it is the last one.

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re: Caught up in a Book?

Posted: 10/7/06 at 12:19am

i just finished Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast, which I did so in one day.

i like to savour books, so i think that's pretty fast for me.

i LOVED it

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#14

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Posted: 10/7/06 at 12:32am

All the time. I usually have to force myself to stop reading...but sometimes, I just can't manage to do it. hehehe

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Posted: 10/7/06 at 12:41am

The Princess Academy keeps getting recommended to me, but I haven't picked it up yet.

I also get The Sea of Trolls recommended to me. It's by Nancy Farmer, and her last book - The House of the Scorpion - was one that I read in one sitting (although not at night).

I do love Children's Literature. I think with the Harry Potter success, it raised the bar of quality. Children's literature when I was growing up was so dry and boring, but it's some of the best stuff being written these days. People name books like The DaVinci Code as being such wonderful reads, but I can name dozens of other books that are even more amazing if they would just open their minds and drop the stigma of reading a "kid's book".

And no one grew into anything new, we just became the worst of what we were."

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Posted: 10/7/06 at 1:02am

How could you even think of putting down Harry Potter?

To make it last longer of course! I worked very hard to make the last two books last more than one day. Of course if I had had to go to work the day after they came out I probably wouldn't have done that to avoid spoilers.

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Posted: 10/7/06 at 4:10am

The Peter Wimsey mysterys by Dorothy Sayers, whenI was in University. I SO wanted Peter and Harriet to get together!

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Posted: 10/7/06 at 11:17am

I love to read so much that ANY book for me has the potential to be an "all-nighter". I used to work in a bookstore, and I know at least 2 or 3 of my co-workers read HP6 all night, AND had to be back to work the next morning. :) Considering we started selling the book at midnight, that was quite a feat!

Two of my current co-workers read Nora Roberts books daily, and then have a lunchtime discussion.

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Posted: 10/7/06 at 11:24am

I can still remember the first all night read. William Peter Blatty's - The Exorcist. What a splash that book, and film made back in the day...

Life is...just a bowl of cherries...

#20

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Posted: 10/7/06 at 12:06pm

Harry Potter books of course. I used to stay up all night and read when I was a kid/teen.

"All the while making faces like a baby platypus who forget to take some Beano before eating a chimichanga." FindingNamo in reference to Jessica Simpson's singing.

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Posted: 10/7/06 at 12:13pm

I always stay up to finish the Harry Potter books, mostly because i don't want to be spoiled, but, i do this with Chuck Palahniuk books, especially Survivor, and A Confederacy of Dunces

#22

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Posted: 10/7/06 at 12:17pm

Notes on a Scandal.

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Posted: 10/7/06 at 12:43pm

I haven't been really reading recently, but Anthony Rapp's Without You is one. Also The Lovely Bones, one of my favorite books of all time (which I just found out is going to be a movie).

"Some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, take the moment & making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity."
-Gilda Radner

#24

re: Caught up in a Book?

Posted: 10/7/06 at 3:59pm

Yeah. Most of the Harry Potter's and Catcher in the Rye.

Updated On: 10/7/06 at 03:59 PM

#25

re: Caught up in a Book?

Posted: 10/7/06 at 7:53pm

I've never stayed up all night to finish a book. I would just fall asleep.

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