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Post 06/28/2014 21:33     Subject: Do you ever find yourself totally consumed by a book that it sticks with you? Too long?
Cutting for Stone
Anonymous
Post 06/28/2014 21:02     Subject: Do you ever find yourself totally consumed by a book that it sticks with you? Too long?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Yes, a Thousand Splendid Suns. It was beautiful and heart breaking.


Was just going to post this. Miriam! (And I rarely remember the names of characters).
Oh yeah, that was great!
Anonymous
Post 06/28/2014 20:53     Subject: Do you ever find yourself totally consumed by a book that it sticks with you? Too long?
Anonymous wrote:The Unbearable Lightness of Being[/quote

The only book I ever threw across the room in disgust at the end!

Mine is A Prayer For Owen Meany. I plan to read it again soon.
Anonymous
Post 06/28/2014 20:52     Subject: Do you ever find yourself totally consumed by a book that it sticks with you? Too long?
Anonymous wrote:The Road


Me, too, but because I hated it so much!
Anonymous
Post 06/28/2014 18:13     Subject: Do you ever find yourself totally consumed by a book that it sticks with you? Too long?
Speaking of Unbroken ... Seabiscuit consumed me. I bought the movie, too.
Anonymous
Post 06/28/2014 18:10     Subject: Do you ever find yourself totally consumed by a book that it sticks with you? Too long?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Yes, the book was Little Bee.

Still haunts me.

I just can't....


+1 and One hundred years of solitude and the Cairo trilogy. I have reread them all dozens of time and it feels like a death when they end.


I could not get through 100 years for love or money. It just confused the hell out of me.


One Hundred Years . . .
just could not deal with it

same for Heart of Darkness

LOVED Perfume by Susskind
Anonymous
Post 06/28/2014 11:59     Subject: Do you ever find yourself totally consumed by a book that it sticks with you? Too long?
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Anonymous
Post 06/28/2014 11:20     Subject: Do you ever find yourself totally consumed by a book that it sticks with you? Too long?
Angela's Ashes stuck with me forever. Perhaps it was because my children were very young at the time. I even dragged DH to the author's gig at the Ford Theater about 10 years ago.
Anonymous
Post 06/27/2014 23:40     Subject: Do you ever find yourself totally consumed by a book that it sticks with you? Too long?
Anonymous wrote:Mine are The Poisonwood Bible and 100 Years of Solitude.


Poisonwood Bible for me too. Towards the end of the book I felt such sadness that soon I'd no longer have that book in my life; so I savored it, making sure I didn't finish it too fast, reading only a few pages at a time. I've re-read it a few times.
Anonymous
Post 06/27/2014 17:12     Subject: Do you ever find yourself totally consumed by a book that it sticks with you? Too long?
Anonymous wrote:
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Anonymous wrote:Yes! For me it was The God of Small Things. I was wrecked for weeks after finishing it. Also The Red Tent has stayed with me for years...beautiful work!


Ditto on the God of Small things -- OP here.


+2 The author was so good at capturing the sights and sounds and smells that I was right there during the monsoons and have thought about Estha and Rahel over the years.


So glad to see this. I read God of Small Things years and years ago and still think about it. Loved it

Agree with another poster re Lowlands...so slow and depressing
Anonymous
Post 06/27/2014 16:30     Subject: Do you ever find yourself totally consumed by a book that it sticks with you? Too long?
Unbroken
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Post 06/27/2014 09:15     Subject: Do you ever find yourself totally consumed by a book that it sticks with you? Too long?
Anonymous wrote:Yes, these are some books that come to mind that affected me like that:

Vampire Winter
The Hot Zone
A Thousand Splendid Suns (kudos 13:13)
Swan Song (listened to it on Audible)
Enclave Series (listened to it on Audible)

FWIW, Enclave is a YA series, and I'm almost 40. Should I hang my head in shame to?


Loved The Hot Zone! Truth can be scarier than fiction.
Anonymous
Post 06/26/2014 23:51     Subject: Do you ever find yourself totally consumed by a book that it sticks with you? Too long?
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Anonymous wrote:Definitely! Little Bee is the main one that comes to mind.

Also, I just read The Circle, by Dave Eggars, and I think it will stick with me, too. Very fast and fun read on the surface. But it raises some disturbing issues with haunting implications.


I WISH the circle could have been more nuanced. I felt like it did raise issues, but with such a blunt touch that it almost negated the importance of them. It was way too black and white.


Yes, I agree. I'm a huge fan of Dave Eggars, and on some level I was actually surprised by his lack of finesse.

But on another level, it worked for me given the specific book. The tone was so light. The main character so immature. The speeches so preachy. Pieces of the plot so facile. If it were another author, I'd probably just take all that at face value and write it off as poorly written to some degree. But I give DE a lot more credit than that. Perhaps too much, but I took those qualities of the book as another facet of his point that it's such a quick, easy and predictable slide to there from where we are now. Maybe too meta? Either way, it made me think a lot about my own choices as well as our collective choices.
Anonymous
Post 06/26/2014 22:10     Subject: Do you ever find yourself totally consumed by a book that it sticks with you? Too long?
Hey OP, don't feel ashamed. I felt the same way after the Divergent series. I was obsessed with Four. I had it even worse off with the Hunger Games. Part of it is that I read the books in quick succession, so I basically eat sleep breathe the books. On goodreads, there was a thread about needing therapy or a support group after finishing the Hunger Games. It's totally normal!
Anonymous
Post 06/26/2014 22:10     Subject: Do you ever find yourself totally consumed by a book that it sticks with you? Too long?
Anonymous wrote:Definitely! Little Bee is the main one that comes to mind.

Also, I just read The Circle, by Dave Eggars, and I think it will stick with me, too. Very fast and fun read on the surface. But it raises some disturbing issues with haunting implications.


What is the What was so amazing but upset me for such a long time after. Just heartbreaking. I love Dave Eggers.