Thread 24851861

I'll start.

>>24851861 (OP)
The Pigeon
Hatchet
The Road

Hamster Huey and the gooey kablooey

Siddartha by Herman Hesse. I really like it when he has his profound realization at the end of the book that all women are basically interchangeable. That and the cyclical nature of his son going off to get mad pussy and presumably keep the cycle going.
But that's all of us isn't? The sons of men who got pussy and then had to get jobs.

>>24851904
I couldn't read that. Specifically picked it up because it was short and I wanted to kill an afternoon. Ended up throwing it away.

I once read Vonnegut's Galapagos in one night, many years ago. I think it was pretty long, but I can't remember.. Wish I still had that same kind of focus and attention span.

>>24851911
I think the only people who liked it were me, the person who recommended it to me, and the lady behind the counter when I bought it who said "I love this book whenever I start it I always end up finishing it that day" everybody else hates it.
I liked Vonnegut when I read him, Galapagos was silly. I'm a weirdo though I think my favorite Vonnegut is slapstick. slaughterhouse five is boring! Kurt Vonnegut fell for Nazi propaganda about Dresden and made it every high school kid's problem. Slapstick has magic twins, a king of candlesticks, the Midwest gets to have the nobility it's always craved, Church of Jesus Christ the missing, Chinese so small you have to wear a mask or you'll inhale them. It's got everything you could want and a government assigned extended family to help you out when you need it.

>>24851924
I never read any more Vonnegut after that. He was a little too gross for me. The whole white semen on blue velvet fabric line was a bit much. It was a pretty funny book, even if it was a little too graphic and cynical for my tastes.

>>24851941
Yeah Vonnegut is kind of fleshy, he's not like Cormac McCarthy or Stephen king at the end of it but he doesn't shy away from cocks and whores. Breakfast of champions has every characters penis size whenever they're introduced for the first time, and he includes crude little drawings in most chapters. His picture of a butthole looked a lot like this *.

>>24851861 (OP)
The one conspiracy theory book by William Cooper.
>Behold a pale horse
It was quite fun to read about what the 90s schizos thought about

more generic slop than you can imagine, i've read in a day. back when i was in and out of jail, i'd eat books whole. most of it garbage. many many 300 page books went down within a day, there was even a guard who would make fun of me because i always switched out books every night
>how many today, jack?

>>24851931
same

Literally none. I'm a slow reader, and anything that isn't a short story takes 8-10 hours.

War and Peace

I read Notes From The Underground and Brave New World in the same day.
Behead All Satans (but didn't finish the coloring book section)

I read this little meme hungry and sleep-deprived while slightly overdosing on meth in the middle of the night. It was fun and there are a few parts I will keep with me, and I think I recommend it for those who think they'd like it, but it was obviously scattered and amateurish, not great literature by any means

I also read a lot of classic scifi in one sitting when I was younger but I don't remember things well enough to name which ones. I think I also read the ratzinger report in one sitting. Nothing long or serious, I think. You chuds impress me with that

>>24853977
really?

>>24851924
Siddhartha is overly honest and straightforward. If it wasn't called for detachment it'd be called naive and sentimental. I don't think it's actually that bad, or even bad at all, but it's completely out of tune with current tastes in every way

>>24854988
*calling

Technically two sittings because I started late in the day and I didn't expect to be so enthralled. I read the first half in one sitting and went to sleep excited for more then finished the rest the very next day. People recommend Magus to me but I don't find it anywhere near as engaging as the Collector.

>>24851861 (OP)
That was two sittings for me and I thought it was garbage to be honest

>>24855051
This has got to have the MOST reddit ending I have ever read.

I remember back when the Harry Potter novels were coming out there would be teenagers who, after lining up at their local bookstore for hours, would then go home and read the entire thing (like 600+ pages) in one night. Idk how. The longest thing I've read in one sitting was probably The Old Man and the Sea, or Fahrenheit 451. Also I call bullshit on OP reading House of Leaves in one sitting. You would need to be high on fucking meth and even then it would be impossible. Reading fucking Moby Dick or War and Peace in one sitting would be relatively easier. ... Maybe.

>>24856486
we also accidentally ignited a pot of the smokebomb sludge on the stove in my other friend's kitchen and almost killed his mom's expensive macaw parraot. plus the stump remover had some kind of additive in it that made little blue globs fly everywhere and stained his mom's counters and cabinets with little blue specks. he got his ass beat hard by his stepdad for it.

i also faintly remember some kind of explosive we made in an empty pill bottle that involved hamster feed pellets that we ignited on a stack of plywood in his backyard and it blew out a coke can sized chunk out of the stack and ruined like 8 sheets of plywood. growing up in the 90s was awesome. i can only imagine how cool it woudl've been to have been born earlier. kids today got it rough.

>>24856753
i thought i was in the anarchist cookbook thread, oops

>>24856231
what do you mean? what doesn't have a reddit ending these days?

>>24856229
filtered?

>>24851861 (OP)
The Glass Key