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I just read the whole of The Old Man and the Sea in one sitting
it's really terribly good
(I helped save b3ta! lemony, Wed 8 Aug 2007, 0:32, archived)
It's cocking ace
and needs to read in one sitting, definitely.
(I helped save b3ta! wotofco pissing in your swimming pool, Wed 8 Aug 2007, 0:32, archived)
The misunderstanding with the tourists at the end is competing with the sense of abject defeat at the end of The Great Pearl (Steinbeck)
for my favourite moment in any book ever
(I helped save b3ta! lemony, Wed 8 Aug 2007, 0:42, archived)
Surely
it's where Bentley/Spielberg got the character of Quint in Jaws from?
(I helped save b3ta! wotofco pissing in your swimming pool, Wed 8 Aug 2007, 0:51, archived)
Hahaha... I see what you mean
I can't say I read him that way though...
(I helped save b3ta! lemony, Wed 8 Aug 2007, 0:57, archived)
Right. Now back to On the Road
interspersed with reading about the 1961 Luptse expedition

night all
(I helped save b3ta! lemony, Wed 8 Aug 2007, 0:59, archived)
Night

(I helped save b3ta! wotofco pissing in your swimming pool, Wed 8 Aug 2007, 1:03, archived)
I did that too
I have wanted to read it again ever since, but lent my copy and haven't replaced it.
(I helped save b3ta! Enigmatic ™                 Voice No More                  ©, Wed 8 Aug 2007, 0:40, archived)
I've only done it with a few books
1984
l'etranger
portrait of dorian grey
Old man and the sea
to kill a mockingbird
Candide

All books I will now never lend to anyone after my fight to get candide back
(I helped save b3ta! lemony, Wed 8 Aug 2007, 0:45, archived)
oh...

and the harry potter books
(I helped save b3ta! lemony, Wed 8 Aug 2007, 0:46, archived)
yes, I did it with a heap of books as a kid
Arthur Ransome books, Enid Blyton, and HG Wells (I read The Time Machine all the way through in one day at the age of 7 - I had a weird childhood)
(I helped save b3ta! Enigmatic ™                 Voice No More                  ©, Wed 8 Aug 2007, 0:50, archived)
ahhh... I'm not counting anything I read before the age of 18
as that would make the figure vastly larger
(I helped save b3ta! lemony, Wed 8 Aug 2007, 0:51, archived)
fair point
I had forgotten till you reminded me of my avaricous reading
(I helped save b3ta! Enigmatic ™                 Voice No More                  ©, Wed 8 Aug 2007, 1:03, archived)
I used to do it all the time as a nipper
it's clearly where my insomnia started.
(I helped save b3ta! wotofco pissing in your swimming pool, Wed 8 Aug 2007, 0:52, archived)
To be honest
if it's under 300 pages, and I've got the time, I'll pretty much always read the whole thing...only problem is, you can't really remember much of the plot that way.
(I helped save b3ta! wotofco pissing in your swimming pool, Wed 8 Aug 2007, 0:53, archived)