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What's the longest book you've read in one sitting? How long did it take you?

>> No.5862254

The Wealth of Nations
The Holy Bible

>> No.5862336

The Stranger, 2 hours

>> No.5862478

A Clockwork Orange, 3 hours

>> No.5862482

>>5862254
>the holy bible

topkek

>> No.5862488

I read the third ASoIF book in one sitting, like four hours I guess. I didn't enjoy it.

>> No.5862506

>>5862488
bullshit

>> No.5862509

>tfw in a wheelchair so every book is read in one sitting

>> No.5862510

>>5862509
That was pretty good you should be a stand up comic.

>> No.5862520

Steps
Mother Night
Train Dreams
Less Than Zero

>> No.5862521

>>5862520
I forgot one
Breakfast of Champions

>> No.5862523

Infinite Jest
Nine and a half hours.

>> No.5862525

>>5862523
Nah son
no way

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>>5862510

>> No.5862530

>>5862241
I read The Idiot in a single setting, more or less 12 hours. Took pauses here and there for food and shit.

>> No.5862537

>>5862525
What? You don't believe he read three hundred and fifteen pages an hour for nine and a half hours straight with no breaks?

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>>5862510

>> No.5862560

>>5862510
oh fuck

>> No.5862582

Ayn Rand - The Fountainhead

This is what every Objectivist would do anyway.

>> No.5862588

Prometheus Rising

>> No.5862598

>>5862506
This.

>> No.5862750

>>5862509
kek

Sorry about you condition brah.

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>>5862509
>>5862510
This is the first time in 2 years that /lit/ was actually funny.

>> No.5862759

ITT: Slow readers unable to fathom superior readers. I'm a slow reader btw but have friends and family members that can breeze through dense, long works with remarkable comprehension.

>> No.5862765

>>5862506
>>5862598
Why? It's easy to digest. It's not like I'm studying Hegel or something; Martin is hardly the pinnacle of difficult-to-grasp prose or plot.

>> No.5862810

>>5862765
You are claiming you read an one thousand page book in four hours, or 250 pages per hour, which means you read at a page every 15 seconds.

Even if we use the very conservative estimate of 500 words per page of a hardcover, you are reading 2000 words per minute

In other words, bullshit

>> No.5862816

>>5862810
Bloom is kekking so hard right now.

>> No.5862832

like 6 hours to read a 250 pg reference only novel. i wish i could read fast ; ;

>> No.5862874

>>5862832
Same here , it took me 12 hours to read 380 pp. book (Plutarch - Greek Lives, transl. Waterfield)

>> No.5863033

i take my time baby ;)