20 Novels You Can Read in One Sitting

[Leandro Poblet]

Lot 49 is intrincated enough to be read in one sitting, let alone for
reading it just once.

2015-03-19 22:56 GMT-03:00 Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>:

> Okay, THAT is a different beast altogether.
>
> I maintain that a one-day first-read of Lot 49 would be difficult if
> comprehension and grasping subtleties was a goal.
>
> MT
>
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 9:54 PM, James Robertson <
> james at themutedposthorn.com> wrote:
>
>> 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>
>>> 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
>>>>>> -
>>>>>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>> --
>> —
>> James J. Robertson
>> @jamesjrobertson
>> james at themutedposthorn.com
>> themutedposthorn.com <http://www.themutedposthorn.com>
>>
>>
>>
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