The Book You Stayed Up All Night For

[leeb1977]

Faith Of the Fallen by Terry goodkind was the first book i read through the night on, followed by 'Harry potter and the half blood prince' and most recently 'The Face' by Dean Koontz (which to be fair - i didnt rate).

 

[Taltos]

Bujolds "Komarr" or was it "Civil Campaign", as I had to return the book next day (Usually it won't take all night, but if I have less that 100 pages untill the end of the book, I can't put it down while it's not finished)

 

[Faceless Woman]

I cannot possibly name all the books which have kept me up all night. The first, I think, was Polgara the Sorceress when I was about nine, maybe ten. The most recent was A Feast For Crows.

 

[hedgeknight]

Jurassic Park - started in the early afternoon and finished early the following morning. Great book! Movie sucked - but the book was awesome.
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[Pyan]

Lord of the Rings, or more precisely, Return of the King. I swore I'd go to bed after the first half, and then made the mistake of setting off again with Frodo and Sam.

 

[aarti]

I don't know what the first book that kept me up late at night reading was. But within the last few years, I stayed up very late to read GRRM's books and Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles. I think, based on my experience last night, that I'll probably do the same with Steven Erikson's Gardens of the Moon!

 

[Steffi]

Lord of the Rings, or more precisely, Return of the King. I swore I'd go to bed after the first half, and then made the mistake of setting off again with Frodo and Sam.

That's the problem, isn't it...you're reading in bed and it doesn't matter what book it is, the situation is....."right! I'll just read this chaper to see what happens next...or where they're going".... and then....."Oh! I'll just read another chapter....he's in grave danger....you can't leave him there!!!!! "

Before you know it, it's morning.

 

[goddess_of_hades]

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince! Actually, HP and the Order of the Pheonix, as well. Not to mention all three parts of Clare Dunkle's Hollow Kingdom trilogy, and the Lord of the Rings trilogy, too. And the Bartimaeus trilogy. And the Artemis Fowl books. And those are just the recent ones...

 

[The Technophobe]

I stopped reading in bed years ago. I got fed up going to work cream crackered. Any book will make me stay up if I take it to bed, but Pratchett wakes up my wife with my laughter - he is a bugger for making me choke on my coffee, seems to know exactly when my cup will be raised.

 

[Talysia]

I haven't stayed up all night to read a book for ages, but two stand out recently for me. The first was Fudoki by Kij Johnson. I just had to keep reading this beautiful book. The second was War of the Flowers by Tad Williams. My sister lent me this a while back, and I couldn't put it down.

 

[Spade]

The last two books I remember staying up all night to read were Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, and The Dark Beyond the Stars by Frank M. Robinson. I don't read terribly fast or too often, but sometimes I just can't put a book down. I try to stay up and read books a lot, but I usually fall asleep with a book in my hand and wake up with a terrible neckache.

 

[Adasunshine]

Every single Harry Potter book has kept me up through the night, I include the shorter first 3 in that as I read them all in one day and night so it was like reading one biggish book.

Others that have kept me up are GRRM's ASoIaF, Robin Hobb's Fool/Fitz/Liveship trilogies and David Eddings did when I first started reading Fantasy a few years ago...

The Time Traveller's Wife & A Blade Itself also kept me up until the small wee hours.

xx

 

[sci-fi girl]

Harry Potter 2, 3 and 4. I've read the firt book almost by chance, then the day after I rushed to my favourite book-shop and bought them all. *my groanning woke up everyone at 4 in the morning when I realized I would have to wait for the rest of the story*

 

[Tau Zero]

I used to do this all the time. And it's been to long ago to remember the first time i did it. Back in the 70s, sci fi was usually a thin paperback. For a while, during the summer, i would knock off a book a day. Crash at 4 AM, up at noon and start over. What a life!

 

[Nesacat]

Many books have kept me up all night over the years and I guess they will keep doing so in the years to come. I never ever mean to stay up all night. It just happens. Often the intention is to just just finish this chapter and then sleep and then I just have to finish the next chapter and the next and it's suddenly the morning.

Some of the books have been the Lord of The Rings trilogy and the Gormenghast books. I read the first four Harry Potter books in one sitting and all the Brian Lumley Titus Crow books. I remember pretty much keeling over in bed after that and falling asleep surrounded by the books.

 

[Cloud]

Well, I said earlier that I would stay up for "Mistral's Kiss," but I didn't. Too short and not compelling enough since little in the way of plot actually happens.

BUT . . . last night it was "A Brother's Price," by Wen Spencer. Started at 9 pm; finished this morning at 4:45 am. Whew!

Imagine a society where women outnumber men by so much that a 10 to 1 ratio is considered abundant; an early industrial society, with rifles and microscopes, that evokes the Wild West--with Queens. Talk about role reversal! Men are pampered, sequestered, and classed as property; swapped, bought, and sold as husbands for entire families of sisters.

"A Brother's Price" is the story of one young man, Jerin, approaching marriageable age. He is the grandson of famous soldiers and spies, and capably cooks and cares for his 27 sisters and mothers and 3 brothers. He is a very likeable character--no magic powers, no extraordinary abilities, just a caring, competent young man who finds and rescues an injured princess. Soon he is thrust into a tale of courting balls, palace intrique, and romance.

Okay, that last sentence is probably a little too dramatic for the tone of the book, which is remarkably down-to-earth, but it's a good read! Wen Spencer is just getting better and better. Gotta read that sequel to Tinker . . .

 

[The Ace]

"Watership Down," and "The Half-blood Prince."

 

[Kitera]

Hmm Robin Hobb's, 'Fool's Fate. '

I couldn't put it down when the Fool's life was in jeopardy!

Kitera

 

[Alurny]

I haven't stayed up all night to read a book for ages, but two stand out recently for me. The first was Fudoki by Kij Johnson. I just had to keep reading this beautiful book. The second was War of the Flowers by Tad Williams. My sister lent me this a while back, and I couldn't put it down.

It got you too

This book kept me up quite a few nights. One night I fell asleep with my face in the book.

The best book I have read. Or at least the one I most enjoyed. Maybe because I fancied myself as the Lead character (both failing musicians) and Applecore was so awesome. She deserves her own book Tad.

 

[Saolta Oiche]

What kept book/s me up all night?

The Picture Of Dorian Gray, that was ace. Redwall by Brian Jaques, that was cool, The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll and Mister Hyde, those were some of he more recent ones that come to my mind.