best reading session ever!!!!

[marcolfo]

So it was raining last night there was lightning and thunder, i went to bed, but about midnight the power went off, i woke up because because of the heat (i should mention that I live in mexico, the hot part of mexico, there is no way you can sleep with no AC)
so I opened my room door that leads to the patio, it was very dark, except for the lightning. The wind was cooler outside, i pulled out a chair and did what any normal human being would do, I started reading Bram Stacker's Dracula.

The whole atmosphere gave the book a different kind of feel. I got a few goosebumps, it was awesome.

so how about you guys, what is the best reading session you've had?

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

Sounds like it was a great moment in time.
I recall a time when reading Scott's Lady of the Lake on our patio on a late fall afternoon. The sky was gray and there was a cold breeze coming out of the north mingled with the aroma of smoke from neighboring hearths. I was quite comfortable sitting next to a small fire in my chiminaya.

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[Panglossian]

I remember reading the second part of Thomas Bernhard's Correction in a transfixed state utterly intoxicated by the peculiar prose.

[irinmisfit92]

Wow this is an interesting post. I have no idea but reading Lolita in the canteen makes me really aroused because of the perversity between the lines.

[Big Dante]

Now that sounds like a good reading sessions.

For me probably a couple of months back when I went to town with a few friends, bought The Catcher in the Rye, got home and read it all in one sit. Thought it was great to read at 16, some messages ring strong to the teenage audience and it was good to read it at my age.

[Alexander III]

This is an interesting question - I suppose mine would be when I finished reading the Sorrows of Young Werther. I was sitting on the steps of Pavilion Sully, facing the main courtyard of the Louvre Palace. It was roughly nine at night, and there were few tourists and many lit lamps. A flutists was playing a tune which was like evereything Spring. And the sky was black and starry. I think that was a darn good reading session.

[dwdean]

So it was raining last night there was lightning and thunder, i went to bed, but about midnight the power went off, i woke up because because of the heat (i should mention that I live in mexico, the hot part of mexico, there is no way you can sleep with no AC)
so I opened my room door that leads to the patio, it was very dark, except for the lightning. The wind was cooler outside, i pulled out a chair and did what any normal human being would do, I started reading Bram Stacker's Dracula.

The whole atmosphere gave the book a different kind of feel. I got a few goosebumps, it was awesome.

so how about you guys, what is the best reading session you've had?

my good marcolfo, i am well pleased to hear of another literature enthusiast enjoying Dracula. i seem to be the only one on this forum so dedicated to the work, perhaps teetering towards obsession...

one of my most favored sessions occurred last month. i was reading Frankenstein on Hilton Head Island, SC. nice breeze, wicker rocking chair, cold glass of water beside me... I enjoy listening to certain classical tunes while i read and "Bolero De Ravel" (Mozart, i believe) was playing as i journeyed alongside Victor's Creature. I felt as if i myself was traveling the world searching for the one who had done so wronged me.

in a word, epic.

[AjaxAscendant]

Wow this is an interesting post. I have no idea but reading Lolita in the canteen makes me really aroused because of the perversity between the lines.

Hmmmm...just thinking about doing that is getting me aroused :lol:

Well, my best reading session was one fine autumn day last year when I grew tired with the idiot box and finished reading A History of God by Karen Carpenter in one go. Must've read some 10 chapters in white heat.

[kiki1982]

Wow, they all seem like good reading session.

I like the one in the canteen, that would get me too. :D

[Panglossian]

Once I fell through a trapdoor and landed on a bubble-like cushion. I found myself in a secret underground chamber illumined by candles. Before me on a dusty table lay a small red book entitled The Secret of Secrets. I read that little book for what seemed like hours - its lucid prose revealing to me the very meaning of life.

Unfortunately this was all a dream and when I awoke I'd forgotten almost everything.

[dwdean]

Once I fell through a trapdoor and landed on a bubble-like cushion. I found myself in a secret underground chamber illumined by candles. Before me on a dusty table lay a small red book entitled The Secret of Secrets. I read that little book for what seemed like hours - its lucid prose revealing to me the very meaning of life.

Unfortunately this was all a dream and when I awoke I'd forgotten almost everything.

you had me going for a bit.
"trapdoor? bubble cushion? underground chamber? sounds sick!........ oh. damn."

[davidkk]

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[Kafka's Crow]

Sitting in the ruins of an ancient Buddhist monastery, one of the earliest known universities, reading George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss or all night readings of The Brothers Karamazov in my late teens and my late father looking at me (communication between us was already long dead by then but I knew that he was happy to know that I had inherited his love for the Russian classics).