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ITT: Books you read in a day (and enjoyed).

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Looking for Alaska by John Green
Hamlet by William Shakeseare
The Stranger by Albert Camus

>> No.1588290

Robinson Crusoe

>> No.1588322

Rashomon and Other Stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Hojoki by Kamo no Chomei
The Dancing Girl and Other Stories by Yasunari Kawabata
Kappa by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
The Stranger by Albert Camus
The Key by Junichiro Tanizaki
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov
The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea by Yukio Mishima
Beauty and Sadness by Yasunari Kawabata

>> No.1588327

>>1588290
this! I love this book!
Survival tales grip me well.. I also read Hatchet by Gary Paulsen in like 4 hours.

>> No.1588333

Fires on the Plain by Ooka Shohei

>> No.1588334

Belljar - Sylvia Plath
Brave New World - Aldus Huxley
The Stranger - Camus
A Christmas Carol (every Christmas) - Charles Dickens
Too many short stories

>>1588275
I have that exact same edition about 6 feet away from me

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We by Yevgeny Zamyatin

>> No.1588377

The Stand
Ulysses
Swann's Way
Atlas Shrugged
Anna Karenina
Infinite Jest

>> No.1588384

>>1588377
Webster's dictionary
Encyclopedia Britannica

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>> No.1588392

Um....every book I read in a day more or less. I wouldn't read it that fast if I didn't - unless it was some last minute class shit.

>> No.1588396

>>1588384
>Webster's dictionary
No, you aren't going it right. OED or GTFO.

With that out of the way, I definitely remember reading Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas in a day and enjoying it. Childhood's End as well, that was a very quick read.

>> No.1588400

ITT supermen who've read the entire western canon before lunch

>> No.1588409

THE RED LAUGH - ANDREYEV
THE BLACK MONK - CHEKHOV
WARD NUMBER 6 - CHEKHOV
THE PORTRAIT OF DORIAN GRAY - WILDE
BOBOK - DOSTOEVSKY
THE DOUBLE - DOSTOEVSKY
THE GAMBLER - DOSTOEVSKY
THE COSSACKS - TOLSTOY
MUMU - TURGENEV


REALLY, I COULD GO ON

>> No.1588417

>>1588396
Sort of nostalgia'ed...
I read Fear and Loathing in the tub in one sitting, I was shrivelled and water was pretty cold at the end. I have nothing else of importance to add to this anecdote.

>> No.1588420

Andromeda Stain -- by Micheal Crichton

>> No.1588423

>>1588417
SWEET, I'LL BE READING THIS QUITE SHORTLY.

KEEP PUTTING FORTH THOSE SHORTS GUYS!

NO LONGER HUMAN - DAZAI
A CONFESSION - TOLSTOY
THE KREUTZER SONATA - TOLSTOY
BARTLEBY THE SCRINVATORLATOR - MELVILLE
BENITO CERENO - MELVILLE

>> No.1588431

>>1588409
>>1588423
Please stop with the short stories.
"Mumu" and "Ward No. 6" aren't exactly books.

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Bartleby the Scrivener

>> No.1588439

>>1588431
WARD NUMBER 6 AND MUMU = ARGUABLY NOVELLAS

>> No.1588447

>>1588423
>BARTLEBY THE SCRINVATORLATOR - MELVILLE
are you fucking kidding me

I know I put it down but I mean jesus

>> No.1588448

>>1588396
Is that a good read? I've heard it was basically evangelion without the robots

>> No.1588450

>>1588423
>>1588438
>>1588447
Never heard of it....

>> No.1588464

every harrypotter
hope on a tight rope by cornell west
war and peace tolstoy
screwtape letters cs lewis

>> No.1588467

>>1588447
I AM AWARE OF THE ORIGINAL NAME, JUST I ADDED A BIT OF SPICE TO IT.

GO D&E, POST MORE WORKS.

>> No.1588469

also illusions adventures of a reluctant messiah

>> No.1588475

>>1588467
>I AM AWARE OF THE ORIGINAL NAME, JUST I ADDED A BIT OF SPICE TO IT.
Yeah yeah I know but come on

It took me one cup of coffee to read through that you chancer

>> No.1588476

Heart of Darkness

>> No.1588481

>>1588475
SORRY YOU REACTED TO STRONGLY TO ME BEING WHAT I AM NORMALLY LIKE, D&E.

SPEAKING OF CONRAD

THE FREYA OF THE SEVEN ISLES
FALK

THROW IN THE SORROWS OF YOUNG WERTHER BY GOETHE TOO

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>>1588439
Are you fucking kidding? "Mumu" is less than 30 pages long in this book, which isn't long and doesn't have big text.

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The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton.

I had been in the seventh grade, and the experience was gripping.

>> No.1588495

>>1588485
COPY I FOUND WAS 58 PAGES, AND EXTRACTED FROM A COMPILATION OF OTHER STORIES, PUBLISHED ON ITS OWN. IT'S A BOOK MAN

http://www.amazon.com/Mumu-Ivan-Turgenev/dp/1161586296/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=129878
1699&sr=1-2

EVEN A SHORT STORY PUBLISHED ON ITS OWN IS STILL A BOOK, BECAUSE YOU'RE READING A BOOK.

>> No.1588497

The November 14th edition of the Edmonton Sun

"An engrossing publication, worthy of study in any reputable university."
-Anon

>> No.1588506

Myth of Sisyphus - Camus
Looking For Alaska - Green
Man Walks Into a Room - Krauss

>> No.1588512

>>1588506
THANKS MAN, BEEN MEANING TO CHECK OUT THE MYTH OF SISYPHUS FOR SOME TIME, BUT ALWAYS JUST HAPPENED TO SLIP AWAY. THANK YOU KINDLY FOR REMINDING ME.

>> No.1588523

Why so capslock?

>> No.1588528

>>1588523
CAPSGUY.

NICE TO MEET YOU, WELCOME TO /LIT/.

>> No.1588531

SAGE BECAUSE SAGE BECAUSE CAPS LOCK GUY IS NEW TO LIT AND ONLY D&E HAS THE RIGHTS TO SHITPOST BECAUSE THAT'S BECOME THE ROLE HE LIVES FOR ALMOST AS IF HE WERE AN UBERMENSCH OF SHITPOSTING

>> No.1588532

SOME MORE

THE METAMORPHOSIS - KAFKA
THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING - KIPLING
NETOCHKA NEZVANOVA - DOSTOEVSKY
MY LIFE - CHEKHOV
SNOW COUNTRY - KAWABATA

REALLY SAD, ALMOST EVERYTHING I'VE MENTIONED WAS READ WHEN I WAS IN JAPAN, AND WHEN THE TITLES COME TO MIND, I REMEMBER WHAT I WAS DOING AT THAT STAGE OF MY HOLIDAY. OH LORD...

>> No.1588581

ONE MORE POST BEFORE I GO TO WORK

THE MOON IS DOWN - STEINBECK
ONCE THERE WAS A WAR - STEINBECK
RED CAVALRY AND OTHER STORIES - BABEL

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>>1588531
>capsguy
>new

>> No.1588604

So is this still a 'books you read in one day' thread, or has it turned into a general short books thread? i am confus.

>> No.1588614

>>1588495
Do you think OP has never read a short story? Or did he just FORGET them in the post?

Honestly

>> No.1589212

>>1588604
EVERY BOOK I LISTED, I READ WITHIN 24 HOURS. IF YOU GOT ANY, PLEASE POST THEM