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Have you ever finished a book in one sitting? What book was it?
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Have you ever finished a book in one sitting? What book was it? How long did it take?
did you go potty at all during the sitting?


>inb4 50-page short story or manifesto
>inb4 my diary tbqhwyf
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PKD's Valis, it was a great time. Haven't read it since, but still consider it one of the best books I've ever read.
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In the miso soup by the other murakami. Probably the worst book I've ever read
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Not quite one sitting but I read TFIOS in 24 hours.
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>>7883831
I read this 100ish page book called Monster in one sitting when I was younger. All I know is I enjoyed it when I read it but I don't remember much because I read it when I was 12-13.
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nope. I'm a weakling. I can't even read most long short stories in a sitting
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>>7883855
kek, same thing here, read it through 2 classical antiquity lectures (I didn't realize the first one had ended)
It is indeed a horrible book, way too edgy to be written by an adult. Embarassing
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>>7883831
i read the fault in our stars immediately followed by anansi boys by neil gaiman over the course of like 6 or 7 hours once. didnt even get out of bed
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Tao Lin's 'Richard Yates', The Catcher in the Rye, and some poetry collections.
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>>7883831
Reminder that based Poe said that all works of literature should be able to be read in one sitting.
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>>7883831
The Stranger, took a couple of hours. Did Slaughterhouse 5 on the journey to and from uni, a fair few others too.
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>>7883879
that was my shit
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>>7883831
Frisk by Dennis Cooper. It took about two and a half hours but I wasn't able to sleep afterwards
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You're supposed to read FW in one sitting, start over at the beginning, and repeat ad infinitum according to Joyce
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>>7883831
Pretty much anything by Vonnegut.
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