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What book could you not put down?(both)

We have all done it. Started reading a book and before we know it 6 hours have past. Or it has gone past 3 am and you need to rise in 3 hours.
Two books have had that effect on me.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky's House of the Dead.
Lyall Watson's Gifts of Unknown Things.

House of the Dead is a semi-autobiographical account of Dostoyevsky's time spent in a Siberian Prison. In a time when the Tsars ruled supreme. Published in the early 1860's.

Gifts of Unknown Things is a non fiction account of time spent on an Indonesian Island. It documents Watson's observations regarding mystical occurrences, magical feats, miraculous phenomena and psychic healing.

Dostoyesky was a Russian Journalist, Novelist, Aristocrat and Philosopher who died in 1881. Some of his writings being, Crime and Punishment, Brothers Karamozov, The Idiot and notes from the Underground.

Lyall Watson was a South African Botanist, Zoologist, Biologist, Anthropologist and Ethnologist. Author of Supernature, Lifetide, The Romeo Error, Dark Nature and many more.
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xixgun · M
Splinter of the Mind’s Eye, by Alan Dean Foster. My mom bought me 3 paperbacks to occupy my summer and I finished it in 2 days.
Gusman · 61-69, M
@xixgun Engrossing then, yeah? Genre?
xixgun · M
@Gusman Science Fiction, it was a Star Wars themed book. The Empire and Luke Skywalker were trying to find a crystal which gave one the ultimate power over the Force. Out of print now, sadly.
Gusman · 61-69, M
@xixgun I notice that Dymocks have it for sale as does Amazon