If you want a book that's the definition of "unputdownable," read:
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His new one is GOOD GIRL, BAD GIRL, and it's unputdownable.
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Each month I'll pick one unforgettable, unputdownable, discussion-worthy novel or memoir.
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It is all rendered unputdownable by Winslow's unrivaled skill at his game.
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In my mind, a beach read is something that's "unputdownable," whatever that means to you.
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Ann Petry, the woman, had it all, and so does her insightful, prescient and unputdownable prose.
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But it's not all talk, as The Witcher features one particular characteristic that made the games unputdownable: creative, elegant, brutal combat.
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Since the spring (almost summer!) is upon us, it's time to break out the juicy sagas, the rom-coms, the "unputdownable" thrillers.
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Though perhaps there's one requirement for a good beach read: It has to be "unputdownable," an adjective reserved entirely for good books.
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Translated from French, it's a collection of 21 six-page comics about a little girl in Ivory Coast, and it is utterly unputdownable.
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That's a 98% discount on 13 hours of life-changing lessons that will help turn any book you touch into an unputdownable page-turner.
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Some entries on the list will be labeled as "unputdownable," based on how fast readers read the entire book relative to the others on the list.
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"Unputdownable" is the adjective a book needs in order to sell, and selling is the thing that makes a book pick-up-able by the publishing house.
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It's in the last section of the novel that the scars of Tracker's childhood come together with the story of the missing boy in a shocking and heartbreaking melding of strands — and that's when Black Leopard Red Wolf became unputdownable for me.
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In her review for Pitchfork, Katherine St. Asaph pointed out that "Exile" is "delivered in a wearied whisper". St. Asaph deemed "Unputdownable" to be "a traditional Murphy extended metaphor—lover as page-turning book", continuing on to say that "'House of Glass' delivers grand statements, often set stark against the music". Monk described "Hairless Toys (Gotta Hurt)" as a "lovely ballad" and thought "Unputdownable" to "end the album on a downer, before it transforms into something quite uplifting".
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" Maurice Richardson in The Observer of 15 November 1964 began, "A most encouraging return to somewhere very near her best unputdownable form. ... Suspicion nicely distributed among guests, many of them raffish adulterers. Not very hard to guess, but quite suspenseful. Good varied characterisation including a particularly excellent octogenarian tycoon.
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Only after a few weeks, the book received numerous praise from fans for the intriguing plot and fascinating twist. Popular online magazine eve.com.mt describes it as: "This is hotter than lava - unputdownable!!!" His third novel - "Bormla Babes - Behind-The-Scenes" - is a drama/thriller which has cemented itself in the top 10 Bestseller list for a record 3 months.
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11 December 1975 (p. 14). Maurice Richardson in The Observer of 5 October 1975 summed up: "One of her most highly contrived jobs, artificial as a mechanical birdcage, but an unputdownable swansong."The Observer, 5 October 1975 (p. 23) Robert Barnard, in A Talent to Deceive, less favorably writes: > Written in the 'forties, designed for publication after Christie's death, > but in fact issued just before it.
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Stephen King described The Ancient as "Scary and unputdownable." She wrote a history of Glasgow's Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum to mark its re-opening in 2006. She appears on the BBC Two programme Grumpy Old Women. In 2014 she contributed a new piece of writing for the 21 Revolutions project which had been inspired by the collection held in the Glasgow Women's Library.
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The book received critical acclaim, especially from the American government. U.S. President Ronald Reagan had pronounced the book, which was given to him as a Christmas gift, as “the perfect yarn” and “unputdownable”; his endorsement eventually boosted the novel's sales and solidified Clancy's reputation as a bestselling author. Regarding the reception, Clancy remarked: “I was thunderstruck, dumbfounded, bowled over, amazed. But I wasn't surprised.
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Rosina Doyle Wheeler married Edward Bulwer-Lytton (at that time surnamed simply Bulwer) on 29 August 1827. This was against the wishes of his mother, who withdrew his allowance, so that he was forced to work for a living.World Wide Words - Unputdownable His writing and efforts in the political arena took a toll upon their marriage, and the couple legally separated in 1836. Her children were taken from her.
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The novel received a highly positive reception from critics. The Guardian described it as a "gleefully black, knowing first novel", also noting that it "effortlessly glides [from a detective novel] into literary fiction". For The Independent, the novel presented a "hugely commendable debut, assured and memorable" and "a genuinely creepy, grisly little tale". The Sunday Times described The Cutting Room as: "one of the most intriguing, assured and unputdownable debuts to come out of Scotland in recent years".
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" Greatandhra gave the film a 3 out of 5 stating "Apart from few minor issues, the movie is right on track. Director Surender Reddy’s slick direction, Aravind Swamy’s terrific acting and Ram Charan’s makeover added with good cinematography make the film worth a watch." The Hindu rated "‘Dhruva’ leaves you with the feeling of having read a fast-paced, unputdownable thriller." In contrast, Hindustan Times rated 2 out of 5 stars and commented "Ram Charan’s performance is so physically fit that it screams for attention.
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" Vipin of Music Aloud said, "Just a week since Udaan hit the shelves, Amit Trivedi continues to amaze with his consistency as he churns out another unputdownable soundtrack for Aisha. Respect!" Mukund Laddha of Music Perk said,"Amit Trivedi adds another feather in his hat with this album. The music album of Aisha has a jazzy song in its title track which is surely one of best songs of 2010 along with "Gal Mitthi Mitthi". None of the other songs create any interest though.
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Gould's controversial thesis was that if the history of life were replayed over again, human level intelligence would prove unlikely to ever arise again. In his review, the biologist Richard Dawkins wrote that, "Wonderful Life is a beautifully written and deeply muddled book. To make unputdownable an intricate, technical account of the anatomies of worms, and other inconspicuous denizens of a half-billion-year- old sea, is a literary tour-de-force. But the theory that Stephen Gould wrings out of his fossils is a sorry mess."Dawkins, Richard (1990).
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As all the arrangements are finally organized, an eagerly awaited fight night arrives. All hell breaks loose with the haughty professional champ going all out against the unputdownable prison warrior. Chambers knocks down Hutchens twice (and with the London Prize Ring Rules, each knockdown counts as the end of a round, as the boxer is given only 60 seconds to get up.) In the third round, Hutchens charges back and knocks Chambers down for the first time in his career, sending the crowd of prisoners into a frenzy. Finally, in the fourth round Hutchens officially KO's Chambers to become the undisputed champion.
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At NPR, Amal El-Mohtar called City "(b)rilliant, compelling, and frankly unputdownable", comparing it to a Socratic dialogue, while at Booklist, Michael Cart described it as a "remarkable novel of ideas", conceding that it may be somewhat "abstruse", but emphasizing that this does not detract from the quality of its plot and characterization. Publishers Weekly stated that City was "impressively ambitious", but criticized Walton for overuse of sexual violence and for a "reductive" portrayal of the Greek gods. Similarly, Kirkus Reviews considered the protagonists to "have a certain appeal", but stated that the novel was "more thought experiment than plot".
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I set myself rather high standards: > that unless the story is at once as unputdownable to a taxi driver as to a > university professor, it is not good enough; that unless a novel is, at the > end, quite clearly an epic poem, as well as a story, it is not good enough. > My work has resulted in the publication of eight novels by 16 publishers, > now adding up to 22 editions. At least something in my work has been praised > by such readers as Conrad Aiken, Anthony Burgess, David Rabe, Noel Coward, > Alan Harrington, Janice Elliott, Mark Van Doren, V. S. Pritchett and Alec > Guinness. > > Sometimes critics have found flaws in my work and pointed them out: a title > they didn't think was good, a character, a technique.
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After re- launching teenage magazine Just Seventeen as J-17, she spent five years as editor of UK women's magazine Company, before resigning to write her first novel, Fashion Victim (described by Time as one of the five break-through first novels of the summer of 2005). Her second novel, This Year's Model, was published by Random House in the US, and Orion in the UK. Her third novel The Stepmothers Support Group was published by HarperCollins in 2009 (The Other Mothers Club / Avon / 2010 in the US). Her fourth novel, To My Best Friends, was published by Harper in May 2011. In Spring 2016 she published The Woman Who Ran, HarperCollins, a critically acclaimed reworking of Anne Brontë's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, described by Marian Keyes as, ‘Wildly gripping and unputdownable.
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It was selected as an Oprah.com Book of the Week and chosen as one of its "Unputdownable Mysteries." Her latest novel, The Last Pearl Fisher of Scotland, was published in August 2016. It tells the story of Brodie McBride, the last expert in the ancient art of pearl fishing, who is on a quest to track down the pearl that will complete a necklace for his wife, Elspeth, convinced that the love token will save their marriage. But Scotland’s rivers are running out of mussels, Elspeth is running out of patience, and their daughter, Maggie, is running wild with her moustachioed pet rabbit. And when Maggie takes matters into her own hands, determined to keep the family together, the McBrides are soon at the centre of international commotion that will change everyone’s lives forever.
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Think of a potent mix of Lord of the Flies, Heroes and Lost and you get an idea of the audience this will appeal to." Describing the pace of the novel as "frantic and frenetic" Howarth summed up: "This is an incredible mystery story, with twists and turns, cameos and protagonists, to keep readers engrossed... Violent in parts, Grant does not hold back at showing the feral nature of humans when faced with a world without order. Unputdownable." Dinah Hall, reviewing Lies for The Sunday Telegraph, also drew comparison with Lord of the Flies and Lost, and wrote: "While it's never going to make it on to the GCSE syllabus, it definitely has the addictive pull of a cult television series... I would sell my soul for the next installment." Toby Clements, reviewing Hunger for The Daily Telegraph, wrote: "Grant's world is hard-edged but thought-provoking, a Stephen King novel for youngsters in which the children are challenged with reshaping society while fighting off evil.
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