10 IMPRESSIVE ADJECTIVES TO DESCRIBE BOOKS / USEFUL VOCABULARY FOR CAMBRIDGE EXAM BOOK REVIEWS

If you ever have to write a book review book for an English exam, it's a good idea to use some advanced adjectives in order to describe the book effectively and get some valuable extra marks from the examiner! In addition, these adjectives (one noun!) are useful for general English conversation, especially if you're a bookworm!
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0:00 Why you need these words
0:36 Free vocabulary flash cards
1:12 Unputdownable
2:28 Page-turner (noun)
3:34 Absorbing, Engrossing, Gripping
5:14 Long-winded
5:51 Tedious
6:29 Evocative
7:22 Edifying
7:59 Illuminating
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[@tothepointenglishwithben.]

I had a technical issue and had to delete the example for "evocative". So, here it is: "Jane Austen's books are evocative of rural life in England in the 19th century."

[@civinetceskaaslovenskarepu4314]

😊

[@annabarc1177]

Recently I've read a really gripping book "I wish you well" written by David Balldaci. The story was really touching and captivating. It was an absolutely unputdownable book! Surprisingly different than you could expect knowing this author - full of twists and turns and at the same time really heartwarming and uplifting. Highly recommend you to read it.

[@diegodiniz3628]

Your teaching they are of the greatest worthy!My respect and admiration on your educative job,it has been fitspiration for so many learns around the globe.Thanks!!

[@abfr48]

Thanks a lot have a great summer

[@ramonoblanca-rojo5433]

Thank you so much, Ben, for those cards. You are a legend!

[@tothepointenglishwithben.]

My pleasure!

[@SaHo757]

Hi Ben Thanks for these useful adjectives. As always, your videos are of great value 😊.

[@tothepointenglishwithben.]

My pleasure!

[@KsuCielly]

Thanks a lot!

[@mihaicaragheorghe5217]

Great adjectives!Although I had already known them,thanks to you I can understand them better!Congrats for another great video!

[@marylkap6498]

And did you also know the adj "unputdownable"? Unbelievable 🤔 If so - wooow!

[@tothepointenglishwithben.]

Glad you like them, Mihai!

[@irinarimskaya2067]

Thank you for an amazing lesson !

[@tothepointenglishwithben.]

My pleasure!

[@estelalopez4596]

Thanks for sharing the Advanced Vocabulary flashcards, I found them really edifying ! They helped me to improve my confidence while using English.

[@tothepointenglishwithben.]

Wonderful!

[@moverecursus1337]

Thx! I love your videos

[@tothepointenglishwithben.]

Thanks for watching!

[@rash9892]

Thanks ben❤

[@tothepointenglishwithben.]

You're welcome 🙂

[@RaulVillalobos]

I found this video illuminating.

[@khalidmohammed7720]

Great Vocabulary Many Thanks

[@tothepointenglishwithben.]

You're welcome 🙂

[@montesierra717]

I am planning to read On The Road before a road trip in the States this summer. Thanks for the lesson!

[@tothepointenglishwithben.]

It's a great book but quite challenging. A lot of 50s "beat" vocabulary that we don't use these days. Let me know if you like it!

[@montesierra717]

@@tothepointenglishwithben. I will.

[@diegodiniz3628]

I am learning from you for in the future,I can be passed down it to my learns also.Of course they will be spreading away in the world all this knowledge.

[@lauraa.6418]

A brilliant video, Ben 😊

[@tothepointenglishwithben.]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@lauraa.6418]

@@tothepointenglishwithben. 😊😊😊

[@TeacherZdenek]

cool video Ben. Unputdownable is a fun word.

[@tothepointenglishwithben.]

It's curious that we don't say "putdownable" so much, isn't it?

[@TeacherZdenek]

@@tothepointenglishwithben. Yeap. I think it's the combination of sounds. It seems like too much effort :D

[@user-oz7qg2nx1d]

Recently l've been reading an illuminating book called "The seven habits of highly successful people" and l'd possibly say it's so eidfying not only has it helped to shift my mindset, but also implement new habits that enable me to become my future self. Additionally, this book has an absorbing narrative and l like the way the author gave great examples.I wholeheartedly believe it was the most unputdownable book l have ever read and l reckon it'll transform people's lives. ❤

[@tothepointenglishwithben.]

Excellent 👍

[@Jaime-im3cs]

Please, someone, give this man a medal! Great content!

[@tothepointenglishwithben.]

Thanks, Jaime! I'm glad you like my videos 🙂

[@marrk.yeahIknew]

I passed my CAE exam. Thank you!!!

[@tothepointenglishwithben.]

Congratulations!

[@hmp999]

I'm really into detective stories as I found them more gripping and absorbing than other genres of books. Of course, the success of the book depends on the author's ability to pique your interest, regardless of the genre. However, each time I delve into a crime story, I feel on the edge of my seat, and put myself into the shoes of the detective to figure out who the culprit is.

[@janhuisman1874]

Thank you very much indeed for your helpful tips. Recently scored 198 points on my CAE exam, grade B. And on top of that I am 55 years old, never too old to learn. Now studying English literature and culture so these adjectives will be helpful indeed.👍

[@tothepointenglishwithben.]

Great job!

[@turicoppola9815]

Hi Ben! As usual, great video and truly useful adjectives. Insofar this topic, I've been reading for 3 hours "Leading" by Sir Alex Ferguson. It is unputdownlable! Should you like football and leardship, I'll suggest you to read it. A heartfelt thank you for sending me the flash cards and I'm looking forward to getting your C1-C2 grammar course. Have a good one!

[@tothepointenglishwithben.]

Thanks for the recommendation, Turi! Sir Alex is a legend (although I'm not a Man U fan)

[@Jaime-im3cs]

It would be great if you could record, edit, and upload a video on compound adjectives. I’d appreciate it if you could explain how they work in detail. They are a tricky part of the English language. They’re something I struggle with from time to time. Anyways, I look forward to perhaps seeing this video on your channel. I have to say that all the videos of yours, that I have watched so far, have been incredibly helpful. They have come in handy. I am currently preparing to take the C2 CPE. I will be taking it in September. Best regards. Stay awesome and keep doing what you do, Ben! You’re the best English teacher I have come across out here!

[@tothepointenglishwithben.]

You're very kind. I'll look into making a video on compound adjectives

[@samposampo9432]

Oh, I have to read "on the road" again, this time in english!👍

[@satyamkaskar1034]

Coincidentally, On the 3rd of this month I was watching the video on movie vocabulary, it was Guru Poornima, the day of the Thanksgiving to the mercy of the one's teacher. When you said " I am feeling gracious" about giving more examples that day . I felt you as that merciful Guru .. You're Guru indeed.

[@tothepointenglishwithben.]

That's nice! Thank you

[@vanessadimarco158]

I am a bookworm, so this video is super useful for me. Thank you very much Ben.

[@tothepointenglishwithben.]

Glad it was helpful!

[@mastermindsethub]

Alhamdulillah learnt too much !

[@jacquesvernier7004]

What about riveting or compelling? 🙂 Your videos are both riveting and compelling ‼️

[@ivonnerivera425]

The novel "Les miserables" by Victor Hugo is an unputdownable. In my personal opinion, the part in which Cossete and Mario meet is touching. Here, it is the heart warming relationship between a beautiful woman, Cossette. Cossette whom was a sweet, compation and educated girl. And, Mario who was a handsome, intrepid man but educated as well

[@samlipolis]

Well, I've been reading an absorbing novel written by Tolstoy called Anna Karenina which I find unputdownable.

[@franciscopontesvelasco4315]

Ive read over 20 books so far this year and some of them were riveting and engrossing and some of them were hell, although horses for courses lol

[@kerfuffle131]

Ben your flash cards are ILLUMINATING. Self-help books are edifying only for those making money out of them, though :)

[@kamalDeep-pl2sg]

Hi iam from Punjab could you tell some tips about ielts reading I failed in reading plz

[@tothepointenglishwithben.]

I'm sorry but I don't have much experience with IELTS. I specialise in the B2 First, C1 Advanced and C2 Proficiency Cambridge English exams

[@user-oz7qg2nx1d]

I was wondering if it's correct to say that a story or movie is evocative?

[@tothepointenglishwithben.]

Yes, it's possible

[@dammypospisil]

Ben, I took the CAE exam almost a month ago, the results came in a week ago and I failed by two points.. I got 178 :( honestly I feel sad and dissapointed at the same time, because my expectations were pretty high and franky, the computer-based style seemed to me quite organised, yet still I didn't pass. Until this day, I still can't process the fact that I got 150 points from reading part, which means I filled zero correct answers? I don't know.. but maybe Cambridge could send all of us the task, with a watermark on it, so people can actually see what they got wrong and all the mistakes in general. I was considering a second take this fall, because I had been studying a special 1-year "school course" that prepares students for B2, C1 and C2 exams and I am afraid that I will forget most of my vocabulary and knowledge, if not practised regulary, so thererefore I would like to try the CAE exam again. Do you think it is a good idea? Maybe you can perhhaps make a video about that, so students won't be demotivated or dissapointed if they don't pass their chosen level? That would be nice! Anyway, thank you for all your videos and effort you put into them, I personally got inspired and in speaking part, for instance, I used many phrases and adjectives reccomended by you. 😁

[@emanoelpaulino1935]

Can I have this advanced words please

[@tothepointenglishwithben.]

Sure! The link is in the video description 🙂

[@user-vb9sh7wl9q]

А я читала "Мастер и Маргариту" около 20 раз.

[@marylkap6498]

And the same in English, pls

[@marylkap6498]

Mogłabym napisać to po polsku ale przez szacunek dla czytających wybrałam napisanie po angielsku. Jednak 😉

[@user-vb9sh7wl9q]

@@marylkap6498 по-польски не умею писа́ть, извините:) Но как ни странно, понимаю ваш язык.

[@marcellofadda9474]

Hi everyone! Have you ever read books by Alexander McCall Smith?

[@dianaivosevic1165]

Merci !

[@tothepointenglishwithben.]

Thank you so much!

[@satyamkaskar1034]

Your video is unghostable

[@tothepointenglishwithben.]

That's a new word for me!

[@satyamkaskar1034]

I didn't know that there wasn't any word as Unghostable 😸

[@user-du7nd9ns5b]

Has Justin Bieber written an autobiography? Really?

[@tothepointenglishwithben.]

It was published in 2010. When he was 16!

[@user-du7nd9ns5b]

🤣 it sounds hilarious! An autobiography when he was sixteen!! Now I am craving to read it.

[@ramonoblanca-rojo5433]

I'm reading J Austen's classic Sense and Sensibility.... a long-winded and tiresome narrative, evocative of a priviliged social class of which you can still witness traces in today's Britain....

[@fleurblanche7642]

Can you say the book was mind erodingly boring I couldn't finish it The writer just repeats hmmself over and over again and in bad style Or It was the most trepidating read I had in my childhood days The Little Prince

[@tothepointenglishwithben.]

I would say "mind-numbingly boring". "Trepidating" doesn't exist (as far as I know!)

[@fleurblanche7642]

@@tothepointenglishwithben. thanks I mean from trepidation but again you are perfectly right The noun is in the dictionary not the verb And as for mind erodingly I came across the word once in my reading A Kingsley Amis's novel Forget which It must be an individual neologism Thanks

[@fleurblanche7642]

@@tothepointenglishwithben. trepidate in Webster's Dictionary is qualified as archaic so nanned by learners of English These things are interesting Learners for Proficiency must be conscious of this problem The same goes with the word insupportable classified by some teachers as Victorian

[@fleurblanche7642]

The adjective for The Little prince Evocatively touching with sensibilities that will ideally stay in those happy happy fews' personalities @@tothepointenglishwithben.

[@Crisguay]

I'm on cloud nine since I was able to receive your flashcards in my inbox. They're a powerful tool for further learning, which is why I'm in awe of your enlightening work and as grateful as ever, teacher of "tothepointers"; )

[@tothepointenglishwithben.]

Glad you like them!