- The Most Immersive Book You've Ever Read -

[Soviet Heavy]

X-Wing: Rogue Squadron is a fantastic book.

Even though it is part of a long series, it is still great as a standalone. Wedge Antilles for the win.

Oh, and another thing (Badum Tish) HHGTTG

 

[Johnnyallstar]

Game of Thrones series by George R. R. Martin.

The song of ice and fire? Hell yeah!! One of the most complex and dark fantasies I have read. Such a wonderfull sense of realism in a fantasy setting. I just hope the author can finish it before he dies, still waiting for "A dance with dragons"

I'am also a huge fan of Terry Brooks works. 23 books has made his shannara universe so vast and rich of detail and backstory that it is awe inspiring, but then again he has been writing since Tolkiens time and is still going strong.

You and me both. A Dance with Dragons is only 4 YEARS LATE... He's on book 5 of a projected 7 now, and he's only getting older and slower. I'm afraid he will die before it's all finished, and Jon Snow is revealed to be the son o-HRNNNNNGGGGGH

 

[Caligulove]

Everything by Neil Gaiman.

And the Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian.
Not just because its an immense 20-book series, but because it goes through large parts of these two guys and their friendship.

Its truly epic.

 

[barinelg]

Oh some others I forgot:
1984
Slaughterhouse 5
A Gathering of Old Men

 

[Gwen Hall]

Gone with the Wind.

 

[Urgol]

Game of Thrones series by George R. R. Martin.

The song of ice and fire? Hell yeah!! One of the most complex and dark fantasies I have read. Such a wonderfull sense of realism in a fantasy setting. I just hope the author can finish it before he dies, still waiting for "A dance with dragons"

I'am also a huge fan of Terry Brooks works. 23 books has made his shannara universe so vast and rich of detail and backstory that it is awe inspiring, but then again he has been writing since Tolkiens time and is still going strong.

You and me both. A Dance with Dragons is only 4 YEARS LATE... He's on book 5 of a projected 7 now, and he's only getting older and slower. I'm afraid he will die before it's all finished, and Jon Snow is revealed to be the son o-HRNNNNNGGGGGH

Hopefully the HBO/time warner adaptation turns out good and puts som more pressure on him and expands the series fanbase.I just pray that it will be good. The fact that it will be one season per book seems like a mad undetaking though. But the team from the "Rome" serie is on it so I have faith.

Here's for hoping!

 

[Crowns18]

i do not know about the books you people are talking about, but i am a huge fan of novels, yes i am and proud of it! but well a good book, it has to be CRIME AND PUNISHMENT that thing is immersive as hell. If you don´t feel anything while reading that book well something has to be wrong with you

 

[Discord]

The Working Poor by - David K. Shipler

It's a book about the struggle many americans face trying to work and survive in america. Read it for a class back in high school and I learned alot.

 

[lewism247]

Probably going to have to be The Road by Cormac McCarthy.

It was a difficult book to read. Very slow, very depressing, very dark, very moody. Even still, I could not put it down because the relationship between the Man and the Boy was so wildly compelling. McCarthy's descriptions of the world and daily struggles the two face is beautiful. Haunting and at times disgusting, yes, but beautiful nonetheless.

And hey - screw you, Nicholas Sparks, for saying your writing is far better than McCarthy, Hemmingway, and Shakespeare. You massive butthead. Yeah, I went there. What? That's what I thought. Go staple gun your face to lava, Mr. Cliched Romance Novel, I want none of your pish posh. :|

This, oh god this

It was so depressing most of the time but that made the small parts that were uplifting so much more powerful

 

[Greyhald]

Since we are on immersive and not "the best book" I'm gunna say Stephen King's Pet Sematary. Weird one to choose being a pulp novel but I was 15 and lived about a quarter of a mile from a real cemetary. We lived in a small country town and I could literally see headstones from my bedroom window through the trees with my brother's GI Joe binoculars (and those were nothing spectacular).

That was probably the spookiest night of my life.

 

[imperialus]

Dune. Most definitely Dune. It's like the Empire is real.

Yes Dune.

Also Lord of the Rings if you read it with an understanding of the history of middle earth.

Moving into the realm of literature though I gotta give a nod to Brothers Karamazov. At least if you can get through Dostoyevsky's writing.

*edit* heh, I see Crowns18 likes wading through depressing Russian authors too.

 

[SuperGilfer]

My way of getting immersed into a book, I don't read it as quickly as I can but take time to actually visualize everything that they're doing, or most of what they do.

If you have a good imagination, this can easily be better than movies.

Yay, someone else who does this!

My imagination broadcasts in the mental equivalent of 1440HD, which makes it very easy for me to get immersed in what I'm reading, especially if it has some really bizarre or flippin' awesome scenes in it (like the Artemis Fowl series, or Discworld).

 

[Misterian]

The Giver, by Lois Lowly.

Best book I ever read, it especially gets good in the end.

 

[sirpwnsalot65]

definitley i would say the theif. man that was great. By the end i wasn't able to put down the book. i was phisically unable.

btw is anyone else waiting for yaghtzee's book? i think it gonna be great.

 

[spartan231490]

Sword of truth series drew me in, as did the eragon books. But the most immersive books I have ever read were the Fifth Ring trilogy by Mitchell Graham. It was actually one of the more poorly written books that I have read in my adult life, but it was so immersive that I didn't notice until my third or fourth time reading it.

 

[wall5970]

The Road.

I'm still terrified of seeing the movie because I'm scared it won't be nearly as emotionally stirring. I don't really want to take the risk of sullying my memories of the book.

 

[ThatSexyGuy]

The Very Hungry Caterpillar.

Couldn't have said it better myself.
Anyways I'd have to say Redwall by Brian Jacques.I found it very easy to picture what was going on in my head.I liked how Matthias only fought one battle in the whole book and that was at the very end.The only problem is I think the copy I read had a few pages missing.

 

[rees263]

Twilight. Lawlz. Nawh, I'm joking.

Totally ninja'd. Do you know what though, I didn't hate Twilight. I can't really read it again though because every other page I'm laughing my head off at some piece of god awful dialogue. There were bits in the second one that made me want to cut myself because all the self pity was so painful to read. Wait... does that actually make it immersive?

More seriously:

Game of Thrones series by George R. R. Martin.

Love those books. There's just so many sides to every character I keep wanting to read more. I like some characters more than others, so the immersion breaks somewhat when I turn the page and groan "oh not bloody Sansa again!" Now I just need GRRM to pull his finger out of his arse and get ADWD released. It's been 5 years man!

 

[Ze_Reaper_Of_Zeath]

Brisngr - I finished that book in 2 days. Loved it. Can't wait for the last book.