Ella Enchanted did that for me, too... even the second time I picked it up to read.

And Twilight, too. But I thought I was reading about vampires and not a teenage romance. I just wanted to get to the good parts! And there weren't any.

I think I've pretty much read all of the Harry Potter books straight through.

Oh, and East by Edith Pattou. It was quite an engaging book.

First they killed my father.
About Pol pot and a girl who lived in Phnom Pehn
,Cambodia, during the Khmer Rouge takeover.
Its a true story and its sad but definitely captivating.
The language isn't hard, (told from a 5 yr old girl perspective),
but it can be graphic.

That happened when i was in sixth grade and I started reading the Vampire Chronnicals.
My math teacher kept taking my books away because I'd never pay attention, but the books were just so interesting.
I let my english teacher borrow it but she didn't read it becuase she said she couldn't get into it. Lestat and Louis became my favorite characters for a long time, that and I think it's funny that I was reading Anne Rice books while others were reading Harry Potter.

i've definitely had that experience many times. One notable time was when I started reading The Dark Queen by Susan Carroll. It was amazing, and I've given copies of that book to some friends who all say the same thing: that it's imporrible to put down.

One funny experience my friend had while at the bookstore was when she found a book on a shelf and didn't look at the cover or the title or anything, she just started reading it. She read a good portion of it when she finally closed the book and looked at the cover, and it had the stupidest cover and the stupidest title (The Decoy Princess, i believe it was called) and she read the summary on the back of the book, and it was a really stupid summary that summarized the plot really badly. So she bought the book and gave it to me to read, saying "don't pay attention to the stupid cover and the bad title, it's actually a really good book." And it was pretty good. Just goes to show that a badly titled book with a stupid-looking cover and a summary that doesn't do it justice can easily still be a book you can't put down.

Actually, once, I was reading something in class in highschool, and the book wasn't even particularly amazing but it was at a really good suspenseful part, so even though i was in class, i kept reading, and suddenly i heard the teacher say "and some people like Kat who aren't really listening" and I looked up in shock, and the teacher said "so if you could put away whatever you've got there" and I reluctantly put the book into my bag.

When I first borrowed Christopher Moore's Dirty Job from the library I literally stayed up until 4am to read it. I could not put that book down; I read or hours (with interruptions early in the night)

Yes, if the book is good then sleep won't touch me the whole night. I don't care if I lose the sleep I have to finish the book. I once missed school because I wasn't done reading. Dad wasn't happy, mom understood. Though now I have a rule for missing school because of it I'll still read until morning. Can't help it, books haunt me if I stop reading them ^.^

harry potter. its great. im reading the third one now, i read the first three books in third grade but every night i had these creepy nightmares...they were the same every night, only it happened differently each time...and you know you cant stop it and at the back of your head your screaming at yourself DONT DO IT STOP .....

yeah. well, i decided to start again, and so far, no bad dreams :squee:

There has been more than once I started reading a book before bed and before I know it the sun is coming up. It makes me thing "Whoa, did I really just stay up all night reading??

As far as the 'can't put it down', thats only happened to me once in a literal as possible way, and that was with the book Buddha Boy. I mean, I have liked books a lot, but that one was the one I remember not finding any time to do anything else between. (Its easy to read, and pretty short too though.)

The Nature of Jade and Fire Bringer where two I was pretty much stuck to, but I did stop reading them for sleep, school, and people.

Speaking of staying up reading though, it reminds me of how the day before a test I read from page 34 to the end of Enders Game. That wasn't smart.
But I didn't much like that one either.]

The only books that have got the like that have been the ones from Sherrilyn Kenyon I been reading her books like crazy trying to get them all :P

One of the few series that has done this to me recently is the Anita Blake Vampire Hunter series done my Laurell K. Hamilton. The first book is Guilty Pleasures. I was addicted to the series immediately. The story is so engrossing and the characters are magnetic.

definately!

it happened to me with:
Pride and Prejudice
Running with the Demon
Lirael
American Gods

The Twilight Series and The Harry Potter Series were hard to put down once I started them.

yeah i couldn't stop reading the moor child by Jane Yolen the noble dead books by Barb and J.C. Hendee lol i love those books so much lol

I did that with Memoirs Of A Geisha. I know that it isn't entirely historically accurate, but I couldn't stop reading it. =]

No, no, no. You read IN the bathroom. Carefully. (Seriously, my family has bathroom books.)

Harry Potter, the Lies of Locke Lamora, Dragons of Pern series, books by Nancy Farmer, the Ender and Ender's Shadow series, Wicked Lovely and the last book I just read, Thirteen Reasons Why. I wanted to put it down but I couldn't; it was like watching a slow motion train wreck. The only reason I read it was because it's on the Battle of the Books list, otherwise I wouldn't read something so depressing. It was well written, but i don't want to read it again.
Also, I agree with amerin, anything by Garth Nix is TOTALLY addictive.

I have a lot of his books. Every time I pick up one of his books I have a hard time realizing how long has passed since I started reading.

I get that way with a lot of my favorite authors. Laurel k. Hamilton is one of my absolute favorites, Jasper Fforde too. I'm in the middle of Steven King's IT, Phillip Pullman's The Subtle Knife, Neil Stevenson's Zodiac and Quicksilver.

Oh my. I forgot how many books I'd started till I tried to list them all.

Twilight.....was never interested in the book cause i do not romance books and after reading Interview with a Vampire i didn't like many books with vampires as well. Well....let's say that my friend told me and i made a bet that i would give it back to her within a hour and let's just say that i read Twilight in six hours and couldn't wait to read the next one. ( which my friend didn't have with her :(, ended buying my own copies of the entire series since i was hooked)

Funny thing is the Harry Potter was the another time that this happened as well as the Ranger's Apprentice and the Septimius Heap series cause i can't wait for the next of the series to come out dying for it :P

I have never really had a book I couldn't put down; I have three kids, so that level of absorption borders on illegal. However, I have had one book that gave me a severe headache within the first two pages; J.R.R. Tolkien's Silmarillion. For some reason, I could not wrap my mind around the way he wrote that book. I am not joking or exaggerating--it really gave me a headache!.

Thats happened to me with the last couple of books I've read; The Magician's Guild, EVE: The Empyrean Age & a couple of Dragonlance books.

Although I love it.. my grades dont!
xD