20 Novels You Can Read in One Sitting

[Mark Thibodeau]

Amen to that.

On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 8:25 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> List has too many recent books which won't last.
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> Sent from my iPad
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> On Mar 19, 2015, at 7:12 PM, Charles Albert <cfalbert at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I would add
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> Walter Van Tilburg Clark's The Ox Bow Incident
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> love,
> cfa
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> On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 8:01 PM, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> I was very happy to see Miss Lonelyhearts (and I think probably you could
>> do Day of the Locust in one long sitting), but how come no Death in Venice?
>> I know it's always referred to as a "novella", but surely if Pafko
>> qualifies... And anyway, to me, DiV is one of the ultimate single-sitting
>> reads. It's so damn impactful when read that way.
>>
>> Also, I would add:
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>> Don Delillo's Point Omega
>> Stephen King's The Mist (seriously)
>> J-K Huysmans' A Rebours (aka Against Nature)
>> Knut Hamsun's Hunger
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>> On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 2:45 PM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>>> https://review.oysterbooks.com/p/mo6Kw62WSbdNv55PraL9wJ/20-novels-you-can-read-in-one-sitting
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