page-turner
a very exciting book
TRANSLATION
page-turner = ein fesselndes oder spannendes Buch --- How important is this English word? page-turner: 3,760,000 Google Hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
I found this book a remarkable attempt of bringing the real world back into his stories, much like he has done for Rose Madder. Most of all Bag of Bones is a real PAGE-TURNER which keeps one guessing the truth until the last twenty pages. Among his best yet, and highly recommended.
(from a review of Bag of Bones, a Stephen King novel)
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There are few revelations in My Life (Bill Clinton's autobiography). But even if this book is not a PAGE-TURNER, it does offer more useful insights into the first baby-boomer President's life and political legacy than even more self-serving memoirs did for Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan.
(www.thenation.com)
(from a review of Bag of Bones, a Stephen King novel)
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There are few revelations in My Life (Bill Clinton's autobiography). But even if this book is not a PAGE-TURNER, it does offer more useful insights into the first baby-boomer President's life and political legacy than even more self-serving memoirs did for Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan.
(www.thenation.com)
Did you
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page-turner
noun
A very interesting, exciting, or suspenseful book, usually a novel.
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WORD ORIGIN:
Most of us have read books that were so exciting, we couldn't wait to “turn the page” to find out what happens next. Thus we like to say that an exciting or thrilling book is a page-turner.
Publishing companies have released page-turners in untold numbers through authors like John Grisham, Ken Follett, Stephen King, Dan Brown and Mary Higgins Clark to name just a few. And of course a discussion of page-turners is not complete without mentioning Joanne K. Rowling, whose Harry Potter series has sold more than 200 million copies worldwide in more than 60 different languages.
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say something like:
“You must read this book. It's a brilliant page-turner!”
noun
A very interesting, exciting, or suspenseful book, usually a novel.
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WORD ORIGIN:
Most of us have read books that were so exciting, we couldn't wait to “turn the page” to find out what happens next. Thus we like to say that an exciting or thrilling book is a page-turner.
Publishing companies have released page-turners in untold numbers through authors like John Grisham, Ken Follett, Stephen King, Dan Brown and Mary Higgins Clark to name just a few. And of course a discussion of page-turners is not complete without mentioning Joanne K. Rowling, whose Harry Potter series has sold more than 200 million copies worldwide in more than 60 different languages.
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IMPRESS YOUR FRIENDS TODAY
say something like:
“You must read this book. It's a brilliant page-turner!”
