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best books to read in one sitting? Both fiction and non fiction are allowed.

>> No.19032369

>>19032368
the fall by camus

>> No.19032370

>>19032368
The stranger
I really enjoyed it

>> No.19032383
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>> No.19032388

>>19032368
Anon's Taliban Poetry is pretty and good.

>> No.19032398

Call of the Crocodile

>> No.19032402

>>19032368
So the Wind Won't Blow it all Away, Speedboat, Agape Agape, The Mezzanine, Balcony in the Forest, Exercises in Style, Invisible Cities, A While Life.

>> No.19032405

>>19032402
>A While Life
A Whole Life

>> No.19032411

>>19032398
Hilarious, dude. Isn't it funny how every single thread like this is some dumb basic question with that exact same OP picture and then a cotc response? Hilarious

>> No.19032413

>>19032368
notes from underground,catch-22,hadji murad and heart of darkness

>> No.19032522

>>19032411
Stop being dumb. That book is memed constantly and plenty of anons recommend other books.

>> No.19032551

>>19032368
Death of a salesman. The grammar doesn't have the depth of a poets play, which makes it easier to read (along with modern grammar) and it's theme is strong and consistent.
Treasure island as well. Prose that begs to be visualized, easy read, perfectly written antagonist. Only the intro, especially the flight scene is rather long. Takes a good ~60 pages to get going.
Sherlock Holmes short story. Well written and often humorous mystery of a hyper autistic detective.
>>19032413
Heart of darkness is a good short story, but its so dense and filled to the brim with hidden meanings, it's better to read it slowly imo, over a couple of days

>> No.19032606

Call of the Crocodile

>> No.19032614

>>19032413
Catch 22 is 450+ pages. I guess it’s technically possible to read it in a single sitting

>> No.19032626

>>19032522
Shut up you dumb nigger shill

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>>19032368
Stuff by Roald Dahl.

>> No.19032675

>>19032368
Dune because you wont remember shit if you put it down and try to pick it back up later

>> No.19032975

Any book of the Bible can be read in one sitting.

>> No.19033274

>>19032368
The wanderer or the Battle of Maldon

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>Did you know my name is Frank Edward Gardner Jr? I am 32 years old, a registered Democrat and a derp faced faggot who calls myself an author and spams my YA trash on 4chan. I am named after my father Frank Edward Gardner Sr. who was a former environmental attorney before becoming the water reclamation district commisioner of [REDACTED FOR JANNIES]. He even tried to sue Fox32 TV station once! I tried to run for the same position as my nepotist daddy when I was 27. My mother's name is [REDACTED FOR JANNIES] Gardner (Her maiden name was [REDACTED FOR JANNIES] before she gave it up to marry my rich city government lawyer daddy). I live in [REDACTED FOR JANNIES], Illinois. My location information is readily available online and unredacted in the archives for all of those anons out there who have finally gotten fed up with my incessant shill campaign over the last few months.

>> No.19033348

>>19032368
Das Kapital

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if any anons are for some reason interested in wasting their time reading gardener's dogshit, at least don't also waste your money - it's available for free here:
https://au1lib.org/book/11994656/1ff726

>> No.19033368

The old man and the sea

>> No.19033369

the little prince
no longer human

>> No.19033372

>>19032368
critique of the gotha program. it's pretty kino imo

>> No.19034724

>>19032368
Thomas Bernhard - Yes
Alessandro Baricco - Novecento
Yasmina Reza - Art

>> No.19034752

I honestly no longer read new books lately, I just re-read Blood Meridian whenever I have the time.
how did you guys grow out of your Holden phase?

>> No.19034769

>>19034724
>Thomas Bernhard - Yes
A lot of Bernhard’s stuff is like that, especially if you read it at the right time and fall into his language.
>Yasmina Reza - Art
I picked this up at a quarter bun in college more than a decade ago and never read it. Is it any good?

>> No.19034821

https://8ebooks.net/david-gemmell-collection-2/

>> No.19034859

>>19033369
>no longer human
based

>> No.19035896

Vladimir Nabokov - Mashenka
Amélie Nothomb - Cosméthique de l'ennemie
Ian McEwan - Daydreamer
Alejandro Zambra - Bonsái
Alejandro Zambra - Facsímil

>>19034769
>Is it any good?
I liked it. It is a theatrical play about three friends in which one of those buys a modern art painting, one of his friends gets mad at him because he thinks the painting doesn't pays its cost, and the third one just doesn't care too much. In some way, the three are a bit of pseuds, but it was fun and also exposes some good points overall

>> No.19035920

>>19032413
Catch 22 took me like three weeks. Can't imagine reading it all in a day.

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>> No.19035990

>>19032368
Caligula by Robert Graves

>> No.19036041

>>19032368
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gR_n8win2Vs

You see this?

>> No.19036061

>>19033274
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

>> No.19036258

>>19032368
Flowers for Algernon
I started reading it at 10pm after a tiring day, just a few pages to get a taste. I fell asleep at 4am, after I finished it.

>> No.19036290

>>19032370
I just did this like a week ago. Would recommend

>> No.19036391

Great Gatsby
Catcher in the Rye

>> No.19036425

>>19032368
Invisible Cities

>> No.19036489

>>19036258
really an incredible book, one of my favorites.

>> No.19036646

>>19032370
this

>> No.19036660

>>19032368
How fucking long are yall sitting? After two hours my ass has to move around so my head won't forget shit.

>> No.19036876

>>19036660
you need a comfier chair.

>> No.19037267

all of them XD

>> No.19037363

>>19032368
The Peregrine

>> No.19037398

The Phenomenology of the Spirit by Hegel

>> No.19037642

Aside from a few meme length outliers (Lorenzaccio, Soulier de Satin) all plays fit.

>> No.19038098

>>19037642
Which ones though? That's an incredibly broad subject.

>> No.19038316

>>19038098
The good ones

>> No.19038516

>>19032368
>>18844444

>> No.19038532

>>19032368
not really a book, but this post

>> No.19038534

>>19036660
It doesn't have to be literally sitting without moving, if you take five minutes to have a piss and brew some coffee it still counts as one reading session

>> No.19038678

>>19038098
Wilde and Shaw’s plays are both good light entertainment.

>> No.19038913

>>19038532
Haha :)

>> No.19038944
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This novel

>> No.19038969
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>>19032368
welcome to the nhk

>> No.19038971 [DELETED] 

>>19038944
>>19033357

>> No.19038993

>>19038971
>>19038944

>> No.19039017

Metamorphosis

>> No.19039258

>>19038316
That’s all of them retard

>> No.19039344

>>19032368
ALL TOMORROWS

>> No.19039430

>>19039344
I’m not familiar. But I’m going to look into that one

>> No.19039536

>>19032368
infinite jest

>> No.19039601

>>19039536
Isn’t that long?

>> No.19039611

>>19039344
That freakshow of a book? How ugly.

>> No.19040100

>>19038534
No. That would be 2 sessions, anon.

>> No.19040254

>>19032368
The Lorax
Cat in the Hat
The Giving Tree

>> No.19041384

>>19032368
"Asleep in the sun" by Bioy Casares is fun, the chapters are short and it's a good story

>> No.19041728

>>19038098
Pessoa

>> No.19042165

>>19040254
Lorax nice

>> No.19042169

>>19032368
star by mishima

>> No.19042216

>>19036258
Had a similar experience about a year ago, same book
Cool

>> No.19042723

>>19032368
E.T.A Hoffmann - Der Sandmann

>> No.19043502

The complete works of f gardner

>> No.19043631

>>19032368
The Red Badge of Courage.

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I cannot create threads; I ignore why that is.

So I will ask here:
Where do I get started with white magick?

I have already gone to the wiki, and found nothing but esoteric works excluding white magick.

>> No.19044661

The Time Machine and The Island of Dr. Moreau both by HG Wells

>> No.19045269

>>19032411
Start with the greeks

>> No.19045276

Start with Call of the Crocodile

>> No.19045279

>>19045276
This.

>> No.19045311

>>19032368
Will Durant's The Story of Civilization.

>> No.19045498

>>19032368
The Great Gatsby

>> No.19045514

>>19032368
I read The Stranger in one sitting and thought it was pretty good.

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>>19045276
For me? it’s Jigoku!
Seriously thou why is Croc memed so much compared to this? It’s a billion times better.

>> No.19045970

>>19045645
I've known Frank Gardner since highschool. Feels weird that he's a meme on here.

>> No.19046125

>>19042169
Is this the best Mishima book? I’ve been interested in getting started with him but am never sure where to begin.

>> No.19046769

seems like you're getting a lot of meme responses. if you haven't already read the Death of Ivan Ilyich, you should be able to read that in like 2 or 3 hours. i think it's only around 60 pages and it's a masterpiece.

>> No.19047845

>>19045970
What's it like meeting a genius beyond compare?

>> No.19047856

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

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>>19032370
Any idea why one digital copy would be 12 and the other 1 dollar