“The Road” by Cormac McCarthy held me captive, staying up all night immersed in its pages, awakening the next morning with a lingering sense of melancholy. Stephen King’s works, especially “The Shining,” share that unique ability to make you eagerly anticipate the next page, constantly wondering what twist awaits.
It took me a year before I could break through the first few chapter cause of the whole damn no quotations marks the author got going, but after I got over that, it took me only two seatings to finish the book. I wouldn’t say it was a great book. I don’t think I could even recall a huge middle part of the story, but as far as engaging writing goes, the fact that it was a page-turner is already high enough praise.
The quotation mark thingy also happened to me. At first I thought I had bought an ill formated version (I mostly read digital).
After trying to find out what had gone wrong with my book on the internet, I came across an article talking about this and that’s how I found out it was supposed to be that way.
It took me a bit aback, but after a few pages I forgot about it.