/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.6401974]

ITT: Books you finished in less than a day. Pic related.

[Anonymous No.6401976]

>>6401974
I read CLo49 yesterday

[Anonymous No.6401983]

>>6401974

I heard this one's pretty brutal. I guess you enjoyed it since you read it in a day?

[Anonymous No.6401990]

>>6401983
Yeah, since it's particularly engaging with its stream of consciousness narrative style and the profound emotional attachment forced upon the reader.

[Anonymous No.6403663]

>>6401974
This book gave me my first nightmare in about 9 years.

I couldn't finish it.

[Anonymous No.6403684]

>>6401974
loved this book. my history professor, who used to play devils advocate all the time, gave this book out as an assignment. one of my favorites to this day. so much heavier than most war novels.

[Anonymous No.6403693]

Bible

[Anonymous No.6403698]

There have been many. Most recent was pic related. Read in one sitting while tripping on acid.

[Anonymous No.6403702]

>>6401974

No Country For Old Men. My wife was reading it recently and I picked it up to see where she was up to and before I knew it I'd re-read the whole thing.

[Anonymous No.6403705]

In Search of Lost Time.

[Anonymous No.6403716]

boule de suif and other stories (old green cover penguin classic collection)
Siddhartha
old man and the sea

[Soraya No.6403738]

The catcher in the rye

[Anonymous No.6404203]

GOAT book.

[Anonymous No.6405354]

The only book of merit I've read in a single day was Of Mice and Men.

I read 1984 in a weekend while camping, though.

[Anonymous No.6405600]

>>6401974
For it's size it's quite the breeze.

[Anonymous No.6406063]

>>6403698
what's reading on acid like? I feel like I would get distracted way too easily

[Anonymous No.6406985]

>>6401976
I spread that book over 4 days to fully comprehend everything that is going on. It's short, but very dense; it has a lot going on. Do you think you'll read it again soon?

[Anonymous No.6408156]

The last four Harry Potter books.

[Anonymous No.6408159]

In Search of Lost Time

[Anonymous No.6410162]

[Anonymous No.6411709]

[Anonymous No.6411727]

Orwell's "Why I write". ~100 pages of dago bashing

[Anonymous No.6411729]

>>6410162
This.

Also Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, several other Vonnegut books

[Anonymous No.6411799]

Old Man and the Sea
Metamorphosis
Ender's Game
The Princess Bride
Slaughterhouse V
God Bless you Dr. Kevorkian
The Mouse that Roared
The Count of Monte Cristo
-long list of YA books and equivalent shite

[Anonymous No.6411809]

I finished the TBK -- Dostoevsky in a day. I started it in the morning, and finished around 11pm. Skipped my classes and all my obligations. I could not put it down; it was absolutely gripping. That was around my 1st year at Uni (graduated in winter this year) when I read pretty quickly, now my reading speed is incredibly slow, so I could never do that again.

[Anonymous No.6411840]

>>6403698
How can you read on acid? That acid must have been a weak dosage.

[Anonymous No.6411895]

>>6411840

Honestly this. I can't read seriously after more than 3 drinks, psychotropics are beyond my conception.

[Anonymous No.6411960]

>>6411809
How? Even with nonstop reading I've always had to go very slowly with Dostoyevsky and give some of the stuff time to sink in.

[Anonymous No.6411975]

Ulysses

[Anonymous No.6412012]

>>6403693
>>6403705
>>6405600
>>6408159
>>6411709
>>6411799
>>6411809
>>6411975
>ITT: people who lie on an anonymous imageboard

Pathetic.

[Anonymous No.6412013]

I can't even finish a <100 pg novel in a day. Or poetry or even a play.

[Anonymous No.6412016]

not big deal

[Anonymous No.6412075]

I binge-read a 150k word serial I found on /tg/ on Sunday.

Not sure that counts as a book, but it was definitely the most fun I've had reading in months. I wish I could get the same enthusiasm up for the classics though, I wind up needing a break every few hours...

[Anonymous No.6412084]

>>6412012

The Count of Monte Cristo was supposed to be a joke. The rest were individual days. Ender's game was one 12-14 hour sitting, Princess Bride was two 9-10 hours sitting. It might not have been in one 'day' but it was in two sittings, between which I did not sleep. I had to eat at one point.

[Anonymous No.6412088]

>>6412075

Material density and dryness are real. It took me longer to read Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling vs. Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls

[Anonymous No.6412119]

>>6412075
>serial I found on /tg/ on Sunday.
>the most fun I've had reading in months

I'm intrigued, please elaborate.

>>6412088
This is the truth.
Dryness aside, a fair number of the classics are too dense to digest properly in a single sitting. Better to nibble at them and think for a while.

[Anonymous No.6412243]

>>6412119
It's called the All Guardsmen Party.

Honestly I don't know if you'd find it palatable. It's an amateur work, if you get twitchy over occasional comma misuse I wouldn't recommend it. Additionally, it certainly is a piece of /tg/ writing, and while not required, basic knowledge of the background makes it much more enjoyable. I'd even recommend skipping the prologue chapter if you aren't familiar with /tg/.

Those caveats aside, it's a wonderful series of military science fiction stories. There's amusing dark humor, enjoyable action scenes, and I actually found myself caring about the characters. It's a fun read, and I'll probably go re-read it in a month or so when the next chapter is published.

Sorry for the essay, I'm not sure why I felt the need to write a miniature review in a thread no one is likely to read. Here's a link to the 1d4chan page, from there the actual story is hosted on a google site as well as the /tg/ archives.

http://1d4chan.org/wiki/All_Guardsmen_Party