and why?
and why?
it may never try
but when it does it sigh
it is just that
good
it fly
I would have to say The Road by Cormac McCarthy. My sister was down visiting over the weakened and she had just finished reading the book and brought it to lend to me, and it just so happened that the movie was going to be released on the next Friday, so since I had the book I wanted to have it read before seeing the movie, so I got that book read within a week.
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
Well, I read The Bell Jar in one day not too long ago. I think I read 1984 in a day, too.
During one particularly productive period, I managed to read The Stranger and Notes from Underground on the same day.
I think the one I'm proudest of, though, is Gaddis' The Recognitions clocking in at 950 pages, which I read in exactly two weeks (Down to the hour, oddly).
I read In Search of Lost Time in a day when I was hospitalized.
Now that is impressive. Even if I had all day, with nothing else to do, I do not know if I would be able to pull that off.Originally Posted by Sir Lord Oliver
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
Really... doesn't a lot of this come down to the length of the book. There's certainly any number of shorter books that I've read in a single sitting.
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Exactly...
I'm only able to read "fast" for two reasons: it's a short work, or I can no longer stand the writing, characters, or storyline so I skim my way through just to be done with it.
Do you mean, "Which books could you not put down? Why? For how long?"
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yes, there's a million of them, but I have to be boring and admit to the classics: Jane Eyre, To Kill A Mockingbird, and Huckleberry Finn.still the books I read the fastest!
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That could be a perfectly way of addressing it yes.
I agree that reading fast can be due to boredom, but I tend to skim rather then read fast or I skim,skip to get it done and over with.
it may never try
but when it does it sigh
it is just that
good
it fly
Catcher in the Rye, fourteen hours. I had a date the next day with a guy, and I heard it was his favorite book through the grape vine. "No ****, that's your favorite book? Mine too!!! Didn't you just love that one part..."
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Haha..this is great it reminded me of Sense and Sensibility, Marianne and Willoughby showing off their similar reading interest over a Shakespear's sonnet 116.
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it may never try
but when it does it sigh
it is just that
good
it fly
It does depend on the book of course, I read 'the story of the eye' in about an hour or 70 minuets but it's only100 pages and big letters so in a sense it did take me a long time. But I read 'American Gods' in a week and 'Ilium' in a week but that was because I had to read them for school and only had a week to read them.
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I was able to polish off the entire K-Pax trilogy in an afternoon of solid reading. Each book is only about 150 or so pages long, but it certainly fulfills the unputdownable category.
Shame about the film though.
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That is impressive I could not do it if I tried.
why? did you not take to the film?Shame about the film though.
it may never try
but when it does it sigh
it is just that
good
it fly
How is that humanly possible?!? I guess it depends on reading habbits. I only read at night and sometimes first thing in the morning so my quickest will be no shorter than a week.
I can't read more than fifty pages in one siting before everything loses clarity and my mind (and body) get restless and wants to do other things.
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