Finishing a Book

[IronyTaken]

I bet everyone has encountered this but I will ask anyway.

Has anyone finished tearing through a book in a day or two only to want more after finishing it, and feeling bad for reading through it so fast?

I just finished the first book in a new series, book was called the Black Prism.
I finished the over 600 page book in about two days and it ended at such a climactic point that you are left wanting to know more.

It's like playing a video game and finally getting immersed in it only to find yourself at the end cutting it off right before you get to the best part.

I know an Author usually does this in a book series to keep readers interested and wanting to buy the next book, but it's quite annyoing when you have to wait a year or more for the next release and then forget everything and have read the first book again.




So what are your experiences.

If you are going to give spoilers please use the spoiler filter.

[$$$]

I read House of Leaves in about three days. Around 700 pages, probably the fastest I've ever gone through a book.

[Ronin]

I just finished Candid by Voltair.

The thing about it is, that is more or less all built to climax in revealing itself as an endeavour that amounts to nothing but to take the irony out of the double meaning of the very last sentence of the book.

When you read it it appears less than witty at times, like some sort of genre work; Just the end finally justifies the book and perfectly concludes it.

I found that more satisfying than those books that just "ended" without any sort of conclusion strong enough to carry the content.

I must say coming from this direction books like all those replaceable fantasy series, horror novels and even the all hailed lord of the rings are failed attempts at writing.

[$$$]

Oh lord, Eragon was dreadful. But to each his own, I suppose.

Anyway, once time I read Fahrenheit 451 in about four and a half hours. One of my favorite books. (And no, I didn't skim.)

Haha, it took my like four tries to get through that. I don't know why, I just couldn't get into it.