Yale University Press; 168 pages; $25 and £18 An unputdownable story that takes in child abuse, sexual taboo and a ringside trial seat in front of the famous Supreme Court "hanging judge", Robert Hanophy.Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything.
Nonce coinages from squidlike to unputdownable to Vampire Weekend-esque are all allowed in English.
The book's energy, its wide reach and rich detail make it a confident example of the "unputdownable" novel.
Computer-game designers test their products to make them unputdownable: the line between online gaming and online gambling, he argues, is increasingly blurred.
Worsthorne was so excited by the Conservative Party's intrigues, however, that he concluded, "No lack of literary skill can prevent Mr. Baker's truthful account of the political assassination of Mrs. Thatcher from being unputdownable".
Books An unputdownable, dazzling thrill-ride is 'City of the Sun' by David Levien.
Based on the unputdownable 2004 book by the prolific Swedish short-story writer John Ajvide Lindqvist — it's his first novel — the gothic tale centers on an adolescent loner named Oskar.
Most people might be unable to imagine a duller document, but for those working in the arts — not least those working in classical music — it was as unputdownable as anything by Stephen King.
Something unputdownable, to make you feel better about dreaming of ways to enliven the unpickupable: "Kate Croy looked at the fully dressed but headless corpse hanging from the ceiling fan and realized with a surge of fear that, unless there was another equally well tailored man with the same cufflinks, this was her father".
"Unputdownable," writes one.
Robert Kolker, who wrote about the murders for New York magazine in 2011, has produced in "Lost Girls" a compelling, nearly unputdownable narrative of the case and its attendant issues; a horrific, cautionary tale that makes for a very different type of beach read.
