20 Novels You Can Read in One Sitting

[James Robertson]

Admittedly it was a second or third reading

On Friday, March 20, 2015, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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
>>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','against.the.dave at gmail.com');>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> https://review.oysterbooks.com/p/mo6Kw62WSbdNv55PraL9wJ/20-novels-you-can-read-in-one-sitting
>>>> -
>>>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>

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