Books I Couldn't Put Down

When I think of books I couldn't put down, I suppose lowbrow books come to mind like the Clan of the Cave Bear series by Jean Auel, or Harry Potter, Twilight, etc. I consider books I can't put down to be books that are easy to gobble up. You get sucked into the plot, read fast, can't put it down because you just want to know what happens! O.M.G.

The books I can put down are the most interesting to me, and they are usually my favorite books thus far, or at least my top reads. I still want to know what happens, I just don't mind taking my time to get there because it is so good. I took my time reading Haroun and the Sea of Stories, I never wanted it to end it was so magical. The Following Story, while I could have read it in two hours, took me nearly 10 days to finish because finishing the book meant Mussert would tell his story and it would end, I wanted more of the story, I was also interested in the connections and I like to write notes in the margins. The Black Book by Orhan Pamuk was another one like this. I wanted to read sentences outloud to Sutter on every page, and wonder about epithets. The Manuscript Found in Saragossa is a read that lasted a couple months because I would pick it up and read for a bit, then when he found himself under the nooses in the morning I would pause to go do something else because it was going too quickly. All of these books came to an end, so I am happy to know that Finnegans Wake has no end as it has no beginning. I know someone who as been reading Love in the Time of Cholera her whole life because it is so good she refuses to finish it.

Sutter wants me to tell you that he couldn't put down Ulysses at the last episode because there were no periods.