It's very compelling, very gripping.
It is a very enjoyable read and in some places very gripping!
For me also, the sections on Ishmael's (and others') rehabilitation were very gripping.
For AN Wilson in the Spectator, the novel is "very gripping, very funny and deeply mysterious.
In what is a very gripping read, he recounts the story of the coup and how it came about.
"No Country for Old Men" is, nevertheless, very gripping — it knocks the socks off, say, "The Ambassadors" — and can be read in a few idle hours.
There is nothing very gripping about American breakfast TV, unless you fetishize traffic updates and perfect dental arrangements, but behind the scenes, it is currently providing one of the most gripping dramas in the industry.
Les Blancs, National Theatre This was recommended to me by the outgoing chairman of the National Theatre, and it's one of the best productions I've seen there: it was powerful and very gripping.
Before that, Peace's Red Riding Quartet of novels – contracted into a trilogy of TV dramas set in Leeds and around Yorkshire, the episodes being set in 1974, 1980 and 1983 – begins on Channel 4 tonight, and very gripping it is too.
The fact is, though, that if you find your attention wandering to moustache jewellery in the middle of a climactic fight to the death, it's a sign that the film you're watching isn't very gripping.
