“I read the whole thing in one sitting on a weekend and spent the next hour just staring at the wall in total silence. It completely wrecks you in the best way possible.”

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"It's a quick read, but dang, it's good."

"The first half of the book makes you feel the majesty of Everest and that climbing Everest would be the greatest thing ever. The second half of the book makes you feel the horror and insanity of anyone ever attempting to climb Everest."

"100% a book you start at bedtime, then realize you stayed up all night with."

"It just draws you into its world and sometimes succeeds in making you see things through ancient eyes."

"I had to put the book in another room just to get to sleep."

"My all-time favorite book. It’s a masterpiece."

"An unserious man named Mark once told me, 'It's about bunnies. It'll blow your mind.' Holy crap, was he correct."

"I just learned about the movie earlier this year, and have been totally transfixed by it. I had NO IDEA it was based on a book. I have watched the movie maybe 6 or 7 times so far, and I really love it. Now I get to go read the book!!"

"The movie tells a visual story of part of the first novel. The books go so much deeper and crazier.

Imagine telling the story of Star Wars, but not mentioning the Death Star. That's what the movie did.

I wish I could read them again for the first time."

"I took away a sense memory with this book, something that doesn't happen often."

"Me too, actually. Very rare, but I can still see full scenes years later."

"This is the only book that categorically every person I have recommended it to has come back to thank me and tell me how amazing it was."

"I actually picked this up after seeing it as a top recommendation in a 'what’s the best book you’ve ever read?' thread on Reddit. It did not disappoint, and I could not put it down from cover to cover. 10/10 would recommend."

"The opening five or six pages of that are some of the most beautiful writing I’ve ever read. I go back every now and then just to read that part."

"This book was what got me back into reading. Definitely my favorite piece of historical fiction."

"This was one of the first books I read after grad school, and it really helped me get back into fiction after being burnt out on research. I read it in 2020 (didn't help my anxiety), and it's still one of my favorite books of all time. It's beautiful, inspiring, and truly captivating."

"Yeah, man! His writing steered me into magical realism – Salman Rushdie, Haruki Murakami, you pick’em. The little orphan girl who carried around some of the bones of her parents in a bag around her neck, and when it rained flower petals until they were knee-deep during the father’s funeral procession are two things that have always strongly stood out in my memory."

"It's my favorite book for life. Read it when I was 15, had me in tears, and I think about it so many times. Always wanted to re-read it, but I am scared of the feelings that'll hit me. I found the story so powerful, and it was such a beautiful description of death."

"Read it aloud! Nobody ever told me this, and stumbling on it was a revelation. But of course it was WRITTEN to be read aloud — family entertainment!"

"Lonesome Dove is a fantastic book from start to finish. Even if you're not into Westerns, give it a shot. It's so much more than that. True epic literature."

"I’m in the last few chapters, and I am SICK at the thought of this book ending. I love it so much."

"I envy anyone that has not read this for the first time. The Robin Buss translation is the best and most available."

"I put off reading it for years because the length seemed intimidating, but then I accidentally stayed up until 4 a.m. to finish it and called in sick the next day."

"This is a good book, but it is a FANTASTIC book to read aloud to your kids. It just has the right pacing and structure and sound cadence. Some of the best memories of raising my kids to love books stem from bedtime chapters of Charlotte."

"I’ve read this book probably 20 times. It’s incredibly pleasant to read and just so clever. Infinitely quotable, too."

“I am talking about mercy,’ Woland explained his words, not taking his fiery eye off Margarita. ‘It sometimes creeps, quite unexpectedly and perfidiously, through the narrowest cracks.”

"I have never been a reader. Because of finding the AMC show this year, I have read four Anne Rice books: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, Queen of the Damned, and The Tale of the Body Thief."

"For me, it was also the journal-style writing that made it feel like I was reading the recovered logs of a real Mars mission. Made it feel pretty realistic."