Then laugh yourself silly.
Particularly after you realize PIDagent forgot to write down WHO recommended this book and thus cannot return the favor.
So, what are you reading now (or recently) that was page turning, unputdownable and LONG?
I need to replenish my armory!
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Puppy! Seriously, where do you get all these pictures of fierce-looking cute squishy animals?
I had to Google PID (Proportional Integrative Derivative comes up more often than you'd think) ... But no, there it is, lurking as the #3 meaning in the Urban Dictionary. And no, you're not. Just busy. But I don't have time for that ... Puppy!
Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything by Kang and Pedersen. Only 352 pages but...Holy Crow! It's a wonder we all survived!
That puppy!!
Adele I think I may have been too clever for myself: PID poor innocent defenseless (agent) from the blog post title.
I had to look up your reference.
It amused me to google "urban dictionary" and see the google menu listed "urban dictionEry" first.
Desolation Mountain and Ordinary Grace, William Kent Krueger. Just finished In the Blood, Lisa Unger. On the library wait list for Jessica Strawser's new book.
The Vagrant. Creepy weird sci-fi. The main characters are man who can't speak or sign with more than gestures, a baby, and a malevolent goat.
It works absolutely brilliantly.
Reality Dysfunction by Peter F. Hamilton
Baby Teeth by Zoje Stage - creepy kid on steroids
The Ruin of Kings by Jean Lyons - fantasy with anti-hero sort of twist.
The Invisible Library Series by Genevieve Cogman, starting 3rd book (The Burning Page) this week I hope
Identity Man, by Andrew Klavan.
It's not long ... a mere 280 pages. But 280 pages of WOW!
Did Leviathan Wakes get shortened? The one I read was 561 pages. That was seven long books back in time. The other six were the rest of that Expanse series. All of them were over 530 pages when i read them.
I ran through them so I could watch the Syfy series. They almost stayed on track.
I'm reading Brandon Sanderson's YA series from a couple of years ago. The Reckoners? Not long, by any means, but definitely a study on how to write backstory and inciting incident in the first ten pages.
I read Leviathan Wakes. I even finished it, which I manage with about 30% of the books I read. It wasn't bad, but I kept wondering: if one of the authors wasn't George R.R. Martin's personal assistant, would a book this long even get an agent, much less published?
The Air You Breathe at 464 pages (is that long enough)
An Anonymous Girl at 375 pages(okay, not long but unputdownable)
The Last Trial at 444 pages
The Room on Rue Amelie at 400 pages (Is that long enough?)
To the Bright Edge of the World at 417 pages (not recent, read maybe three years ago, but great book)
Brandon Sanderson, "The Stormlight Archive" series. First book, "The Way of Kings", word count 395,000+. Page numbers vary based on edition, but it's more than 1000.
Most books I read nowadays are on audio. Anything longer than 8 CDs makes me seriously consider whether I want to spend the time, and I usually choose not to start. My experience is that most longer books could have been shortened and not lost anything. I prefer 6-7 CDs.
A book on the long side [for me] that I wanted to continue driving until I finished it, was GREETINGS FROM WITNESS PROTECTION by Jake Burt. All you folks who like mystery/thriller books and don't think you'd ever be interested in MG, read this book and learn how great MG can be.
I'm currently devouring Maggie Stiefvater's Raven Cycle series. I saw one of her workshops advertised and started reading The Raven Boys just to get a sense of her work. Fifty pages in I'd signed up for the workshop and bought the next three novels.
I haven't been this consumed by a book in ages, and in YA for even longer.
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles is unputdownable. Best transitions I've ever seen.
I’ve just finished Diana Gabaldon’s ‘I GiveYou My Body.’ Staggering.
Those Bones Are Not My Child by Toni Cade Bambara
It's 689 pages, and well worth the read.
Megan V you evil temptress you.
I just ordered the book.
Can you please come to Brooklyn and answer the influx of email about why I am not at work?
(kidding...I hope)
Janet If trials didn't prevent traveling...
Alas, I'm afraid the most I can do, under the circumstances, is take the blame.
Hope you enjoy the read.
I'm on my debut kick, so LONG isn't anything I'm running into. Page-turning and unputdownable, on the other hand, are slapping me on each cheek.
I just finished CJ Tudor's THE CHALK MAN, which was the best debut I read for 2018. I'm about 30 pages into TANGERINE by Christine Mangan and it reminds me of some deft advice a sharp-toothed sage once delivered: readers will stick with you if they're confused, but they'll abandon you in a hurry if they're bored.
Here is the problem I keep having when I'm reading a good page-turner: I desperately want to tear into the next chapter. But but but but ... I desperately need to get back to my own writing. Ack, there's never enough time in the day.
Keep writing. (Okay, and reading.)
Funny that you post Leviathan Wakes. I've been working my way nonstop through the whole Expanse series. Half way through book 6 at the moment.
A recent read: Polaris Rising by Jessie Mihalik, 450 pgs. It's SFF Romance/Space Opera. I loved the voice, the kickass characters, the dialog/banter, the almost non-stop action. I rarely spend that much on fiction these days, but I kept hearing such great things about it so I gave in. Totally worth it.
Chiming in a bit late - but I read EDUCATED by Tara Westover recently. OMG.
Chiming in late as well! Name of the Wind. I read it on the T every day a couple summers ago, and holding it open strained my thumb so much that I thought I was getting carpel tunnel at work until I realized it was from the book!
A day late (and possibly a dollar short), but JADE CITY by Fonda Lee is the 400+ page kung fu Godfather saga you didn't know you were missing. Fans of Netflix's Russian Doll will dig the Agatha Christie-esque time loop in THE SEVEN AND A HALF DEATHS OF EVELYN HARDCASTLE (not a spoiler, it's in the initial premise). S.A. Chakraborty's CITY OF BRASS is a doorstopper about con-women, Djinns and court politics and I loved it (sequel is just out, too).
Another latecomer to the post, but I can't resist talking about books. Recently finished THE SILENT PATIENT by Alex Michaelides. At 323 pages, it's a suspenseful, slow burn - loved it!
For those who like their nonfiction in size doorstop, I highly recommend MIDNIGHT IN CHERNOBYL by Adam Higginbotham (561 pages). Despite the length, it's fast-paced and reads like a political thriller - except far more chilling, as everything in the book actually happened.
On the fiction side, a recent read I quite enjoyed is THE MERMAID AND MRS. HANCOCK by Imogen Hermes Gowar (496 pages).
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