what’s a book that starts and immediately has you hooked from the start?
Hello, I have the attention span of a squirrel. I’m looking for a book that grabs my attention right away.
Romance, mystery, thrillers, and comedic books are my favorites.
Strange Sally Diamond, starts with a woman burning her dead father in a trash bag in her back garden, keeps getting crazier from there. Warning, it’s a very fucked up book.
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke, best off going in blind on this one, don’t read reviews, don’t read the back, just know it’s what you’re looking for.
Wasp Factory by Ian Banks is another one that’s best off going in blind, just immediately fascinating.
Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut is an interesting one in that it technically grabs you from the second chapter. Chapter 1 is all about how he wanted to write a book about the Dresden bombing but scrapped it because it was too boring. Chapter 2 is him starting from scratch with a banger of an opening line. “Billy Pilgrim has become unstuck in time.”
Anything by Chuck Palahniuk, they’re edgy, concise, high concept and to the point. Delightful teenage trash fiction. Pick any three of his earlier novels then quit on him entirely, all his books are exactly the same and you’ll get super sick of him, but you won’t notice til your fourth. I recommend Choke, Survivor and Fight Club.
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Dark Matter by Blake Crouch hooks you early and never lets you go
revonahmed on
Why do you not read short stories if you do not like one move to next? I.e., I really liked Isaac Asimov’s Azazel
rhack05 on
The Chain by Adrian McKinty
gnique on
How about a book whose opening line is “I am fucked”? The Martian
cherrybounce on
The Passage by Justin Cronin.
riskeverything on
The secret history by Donna tartt
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Cloud Cuckoo Land has an opening scene that is so intense and such a cliff hanger that it kept me reading for about half the book until you find out what happened
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Strange Sally Diamond, starts with a woman burning her dead father in a trash bag in her back garden, keeps getting crazier from there. Warning, it’s a very fucked up book.
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke, best off going in blind on this one, don’t read reviews, don’t read the back, just know it’s what you’re looking for.
Wasp Factory by Ian Banks is another one that’s best off going in blind, just immediately fascinating.
Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut is an interesting one in that it technically grabs you from the second chapter. Chapter 1 is all about how he wanted to write a book about the Dresden bombing but scrapped it because it was too boring. Chapter 2 is him starting from scratch with a banger of an opening line. “Billy Pilgrim has become unstuck in time.”
Anything by Chuck Palahniuk, they’re edgy, concise, high concept and to the point. Delightful teenage trash fiction. Pick any three of his earlier novels then quit on him entirely, all his books are exactly the same and you’ll get super sick of him, but you won’t notice til your fourth. I recommend Choke, Survivor and Fight Club.
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch hooks you early and never lets you go
Why do you not read short stories if you do not like one move to next? I.e., I really liked Isaac Asimov’s Azazel
The Chain by Adrian McKinty
How about a book whose opening line is “I am fucked”? The Martian
The Passage by Justin Cronin.
The secret history by Donna tartt
Cloud Cuckoo Land has an opening scene that is so intense and such a cliff hanger that it kept me reading for about half the book until you find out what happened