Kevin's Watch

What's the most you've ever read in one sitting? For me, it'd be A Storm of Swords. Then again, it really wasn't a sitting. More like I enter my bedroom at 5:00pm and didn't leave till 5:00AM. Must've read at least 500 pages.

Can't remember which series, but I also recall blazing through at least two doorstop-sized books in the space of 15 days. Was probably A Game of Thrones and A Clash of Kings. Heh.

I started reading The Silmarillion for the first time on the stall in my parent's apartment when I was on leave for the Navy in 1980. In the mean time my parents went out to dinner, took in a movie, came home and went to bed. Three hours later I arose enlighted, abliet in extreme pain.

Oh yeah, I also read the Foundation trilogy in 2 days starting on New Years Eve '77.

Entire book: Capricorn One while waiting for a connecting flight in Chicago. (2 hours - thin book)

Runes the night it came out. Was a work night, too.

Reckless, huh?

i read all the Travis Magee novels in two weeks
(john d macdonald) felt like i spent two weeks in Longboat Key, Florida. and i didn't even get a freakin tan.

In one sitting? Probably Jordan's The Shadow Rising, WoT 4, and Terry Pratchett's Only You Can Save Mankind, (very thin), both in one night. (I'd borrowed them from 2 different people, and had to return both the next day.)

I would have read Runes in one night too, but it was a birthday present, so I deliberately chose to save the last 100 pages or so for my actual birthday.

Have read all 10 of the Mission Earth books in 10 days before as well, and...ah hell, I'm a fast reader, ok?

It's not always a good thing...imagine waiting years for a book, then the next day you've finished it. Quite sad actually.

--A

One sitting? Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. 23 hours it took to finish.

heck, you guys...i can't count the one-sitting marathon reads...
that's why i put the 2 wk travis magee thing...i've had too MANY reading marathons...(well, one can never really have too many!)

words...my drug of choice

Stephen King, I usually read his new stuff in one day.

let me COUNT the kings i have read in one day....

can you say CUJO!

all but the Stand, that one is just too long.

i won't claim to have read ALL kings in one day but many many of them, totaly skimmed Misery.
it made a much better movie than it did a book.
which is more than i can say for CUJO! heh.

i also tend to cluster read. King one week, Donaldson the next, Martin's WIldcard after that.

well now that i'm into series books...that would be series clusters, right? Erikson, Donaldson, Bakker, Gabaldon...

Right now, I am reading two books:
Whirlwind (X-Files episode) & Drawing of the Three
Almost finished both books.

If i really love a book i'll take an entire night to read it if i have to, but not continuously.

My whole life is a freaking reading marathon - I read at least one book a day.

Most books in the shortest time? +/- 150 of the 'Longarm' series in just over 3 weeks.

When I describe myself as a reading addict, I'm not kidding.

i read the illearth war in 2 days...pretty much start to finish, only stopping to eat, use the bathroom, and sleep...though not for long