20 Novels You Can Read in One Sitting

Mark Thibodeau jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com
Thu Mar 19 20:47:47 CDT 2015


Yeah, Lot 49 canNOT be absorbed properly in one sitting (IMO). It would
leave your ears smoking.

MT

On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 8:50 PM, Charles Albert <cfalbert at gmail.com> wrote:

> I thought about Lot 49 but, like The Man Who Was Thursday, Fathers and
> Sons, and Hero of Our Time, though short, I can't see sucking it down in
> one sitting.
>
> love,
> cfa
>
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 8:31 PM, James Robertson <
> james at themutedposthorn.com> wrote:
>
>> I would add these novels:
>>
>> Distant Star, by Roberto Bolaño
>> Slaugherhouse 5, by Kurt Vonnegut
>> The Sorrows of Young Werther, by Goethe
>> Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad
>>
>> and of course
>>
>> The Crying of Lot 49
>>
>> (perhaps some of those are novellas, but hey who’s counting)
>>
>>>> Sent from Mailbox <https://www.dropbox.com/mailbox>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 7:46 AM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> https://review.oysterbooks.com/p/mo6Kw62WSbdNv55PraL9wJ/20-novels-you-can-read-in-one-sitting
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>>
>>
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