Have you ever read a book in one sitting?
kjbudd@home.com
I have read 'The Girls Guide to Hunting and Fishing' and 'House of Gentle Men' in one sitting. Loved them both!
Marallenla@aol.com
Little Altars Everywhere
R2532@aol.com
It was Roots, when it first came out...and I had to get glasses after that and have worn them ever since
FaithAnnD@aol.com "The Cradle Will Fall" by Mary Higgins Clark
"To forget one's Ancestors is to be a brook without a source, a tree without roots"
MAXX01@peoplepc.com
While I was recovering from injuries to both my rotator cuffs one evening I opened the book by Mary Higgins Clark titled Loves Music, Loves To Dance. I had to sleep sitting up on the sofa as everyone went up to bed I kept on reading. Next thing I knew light was breaking and i had just finished the book. That one stands out in my mind but there are other books that I have also not been able to put down and finished in one sitting . I will have to think about that a little bit.
DKast62484@aol.com
Read a book in one sitting? Well, Yes, yes I did...and it was Gone With the Wind...I was about 21...living in San Francisco...and my husband was in the Navy...he had two day duty...I started "Gone with the Wind "...did not want to put it down so I read and called in "sick" the next day to finish...I never went to sleep...probably 16 hrs of reading...since then I have read many in one sitting...but "Gone" and "The Thornbirds" are the most memorable for me...
JMM231@aol.com
Without a doubt - Bridges of Madison County !!!!!
Lankford0714@aol.com
Most recently, "Plainsong" by Kent Haruf.
cjuenger@columbus.rr.com
One for the Money by Janet Evanovich
ConnieDonovan@webtv.net
I read "Coming Home" by Rosamunde Pilcher in one sitting. Watching "Judith" grow up without her parents, and become a very independent woman, facing the death of her parents (and the uncertainty of knowing if they were alive or dead after the fall of Singapore during WWII) and how she coped showed her inner strength. Her relationships with her "adopted" family, the Carey Lewises, and her friendship with Loveday, was the underlying theme of the book. How she coped with the death of her "first love" by joining the WRENs, and her postings over the world, and then learning that her younger sister was alive, and finally making her "own" home for herself, her sister and friend Phyllis after the war makes very clear how much the war affected England and the families that lived there. I have re-read this book many times. I consider it one I would want on a desert island if I were ever marooned.
ArtProse@aol.com
Needless to say, when a book is the length of ANNA KARENINA, the world falls away for many days and nights when the reader is so immersed that she cannot leave till she gets to the denouement. This novel proves to me that Tolstoy knew the ins and outs of jealousy, and it is amazing to think that a male writer could get into the workings of the female heart in such a profoundly insightful manner. A classic is labelled as such because it strikes a universal chord through the generations. Leo, thank you for making yourself heard in an immortal way. I only wish I could have had a glass of wine with you and analyzed it all from my own life's perspective. Bravo!
DDobrjansk@aol.com
I read Frederick Forsythe "The Dogs of War" in one sitting. I picked up the book at a bookstore near New York's City Hall (I worked in the neighborhood) and started reading it on the train going home. That night I stayed up until 2:00 AM and finished it. There were other books that I did in one sitting but this was my first one.
Lcm2108@aol.com
I read Talk Before Sleep, by E. Berg, in 1 sitting. It was very good and it helped that it wasn't too long!
BLM221@aol.com
I often read books in one sitting. Most of the Nora Roberts and Jayne Ann Krentz I read gets devoured in a few hours. I read Congo by Michael Crichton in one afternoon and Timeline in two days.
GAYLE1916@aol.com
Mystic Lake, was just great
RSteele124@aol.com
"I Know This Much is True", Angela's Ashes; 1000 Acres did it for me. There are others I have to recollect. I read a lot.
MuSpirit2@aol.com
Daughter responded: "I do this all the time. I read very fast. I read 'Dolores Claiborne' by Stephen King in one sitting as well as 'The Green Mile'. Besides..gobs more.
JGB41056@aol.com
Jaws it was a real page turner and afterwards I never, ever wanted to swim in the ocean. I liked it very much and liked the movie even more then the book.
DCRAIGS7@aol.com
All of Diana Gabaldon's novels are non-putdownable. Simply the best. They are the fastest 900 page reads around!
LMorris804@aol.com
It wasn't in one sitting, but almost, that I recently read Nelson DeMille's The Lion's Game. Wonderfully engrossing.
Ferrellac@aol.com
Left Behind by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins!! That one kept me riveted to my seat.....and had me writing a hot check (and crossing my fingers it wouldn't bounce) to buy the second book in the series!!v
IdaPearl@aol.com
I read "Affliction" by Russell Banks in one sitting...just could not put it down. Love the writing of Mr. Banks....I am surprised I have never seen anything about them on your site!
AnniejoB@aol.com
I was so into Lighting by Dean Koonce, that I called in sick to work and finished it.
tamaraf@publishingonline.comv The last book I did that with - for pleasure, and for the first time since I was a kid - was The 100 Secret Senses by Amy Tan. The plot moves, and part of the movement is the delving deeper and deeper, in a tantalizing way that makes you want to find out more, into the spiritual realm that one character firmly believes in and the other is coming to terms with. I truly enjoyed this book.
NitneeLin@aol.com
Not just one book, but actually a series ... The JD Robb "IN DEATH" series and the Laurel K. Hamilton "Anita Blake" series. Just read one after the other without stopping. Highly recommend to anyone who likes mystery and sci-fi fantasy.
CShank1246@aol.com
Great Gatsby
C14525@aol.com
I usually like to draw out my reading pleasure no matter how short the book, but I do remember reading...in 1967...Ira Levin's Rosemary's Baby in one sitting. I was home alone, of course, and I just couldn't put it down even though it chilled me to the bone. Though I am normally a lover of literature with more substance..this book, for some reason, took my fancy and imagination...and I was caught up and couldn't stop reading. When I was through, I took my cat and crawled into bed....and willed myself to think of something else!
HOSTOPRHLadyj@aol.com
Actually I have read a number at one sitting - but the two that come to mind (have read them again and all in one sitting) Black Lyon and Sweet Lair - by Jude Deveraux
Cipsi2@aol.com
Most recently, Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer, in spite of the fact that it is an old book that has been talked about a lot, and that I knew the outcome!
Y2kmerlin@aol.com
If Tomorrow Comes by Sidney Sheldon
Catlvr14@aol.com
I couldn't put down Ira Levin's "The Boys from Brazil".
Peachcesca3@aol.com
A Fire in The Heart by Katherine Sutcliffe and The Magic of You by Johanna Lindsey and Secret Fire by Johanna Lindsey
Nana1248@aol.com
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. I had borrowed it from a 10 year old and had to return it or else!
Cacp123@aol.com
I usually read Mary Higgins Clark in one sitting...and regret that I don't save some for the next day. Dean Chintz...mostly because I'm to scared to go to sleep. On more than one occasion Jonathan Kellerman has kept me up all night.
KJ4FM@aol.com
Bridges of Madison County
PPartri727@aol.com
I read Hemingway's "A Moveable Feast", in one sitting. Normally, I read myself to sleep each night and that takes roughly an hour or so. However, I got so caught up in the character and the challenges of his life that I simply didn't get sleepy and I didn't even think of putting the book down. Hemingway is still America's greatest story teller in many ways and this book deserve greater accolades than it has.
Zee123123@aol.com
Phantoms by Dean Koontz and The Shining by Stephen King. Two books that gave me actual honest-to-goodness goosebumps.
HRHannah@aol.com
I'm an avid fan of Lawrence Sanders and many other authors of various types of fiction. But, when I get my hands on one of his "McNally" series books, I can never put them down till the last page. In fact it's been awhile since his last and I can't wait to see what "Archy's" up to next!!! If you're reading this Mr Sanders all I can say is PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE! :)
Jackie2mm@aol.com
When I was 16 years old I stayed home sick from school one day. I found a copy of The Color Purple on my mothers dresser. I sat in her room and read the whole book in one sitting. Great book and a great day. I wasn't really sick.
NURSEANGSD@aol.com
Not the whole book, but most of it...to the best of my recollection it was The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis
dottib001@aol.com
yes...the book was titled "Other Winters, Other Springs" ...stayed up all night and into the next morning till it was Done!
jimart@inct.net
Happily, it has happened many times. The Hobbit was one.
JuliPro35@aol.com
I could not stop reading I KNOW THIS MUCH IS TRUE by Wally Lamb. It is the best book I have ever read. I laughed, I cried and I came to know the characters. A truly remarkable book.
CCook939@aol.com
I read the book Meg in one sitting. It was a book reviewed on Book Report and I bought it the day it came out. Once I started it I couldn't put it down. It was one of the books that you can't turn the pages fast enough! It was a fun adventure book to read and a great escape from grading papers and writing lesson plans, (I'm a teacher!)
DKSVW66@aol.com
I read "Love Story" in one sitting. Since I missed a previous question, may I also say that it is also the most romantic book I've ever read. I've read many longer books in one sitting because I seem to be addicted to reading to the total disregard of whatever else is going on around me.
ToTMgcmom@aol.com
Yes, I have read a book in one sitting more that once. I can't remember which ones but I do know that they were Mary Higgins Clark books.
Mwktkt@aol.com
Hi, The most recent one sitting read for me was "Aretha, From these Roots" by Aretha Franklin and David Ritz. I couldn't put the book down. So many memories were brought out for me - places in New York in the 60's. Music from the era. All the rumors that I'd heard were either confirmed or put to rest. I'd always heard that Aretha would never fly. I wondered about that. That rumor was only partly true. So I didn't stop until I got all the info I was looking for.
Peanutcove@aol.com
James Paterson's Cradle And All. His chapters were very short but action packed. I couldn't wait to get to the end.
Gaildona@aol.com
The Exorcist
ShonniD@aol.com
Have you ever read a book in one sitting? If so, what was it? Stephen King's "The Stand." I spent days reading it until I finished - without sleep...It was the only book that captured me that way.
HAN92833@aol.com
"Marathon Man." (No joke intended)
wddimock@aol.com
My first experience of two novels in one day -- with squirming physical discomfort -- was R. L. Stevenson's Kidnapped and David Balfour, when I was twelve. Since then, when time permitted, I've read many in a day. Memorable was my reading of Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy in 4 days, in spite of three young boys, stopping only for quick meals and personal care. Yes, they are all avid readers.
karen4191@home.com
Some books consume me. I read all the Harry Potter books, as quickly as time would allow. I am an adult so responsibilities interfere, but a good book will keep me up late, and can spend pleasant weekends with me.
MARILYN190@aol.com
I have read a few books in one sitting. The Bridges of Madison County a couple of years ago was one of them. Also Message in a Bottle.
ThePorros@aol.com
Silence of the lambs--stayed up until 4 AM to finish it because my husband was going away on business and I couldn't bear to finish it alone in the house!
FLOSAY@aol.com
Each one of Jean Auel's Earth Children Series' books was read in one sitting. The second and third reading of each was done more patiently. Keyword: Patience - as we await another masterpiece.
Mocharles1@aol.com
To Kill a Mocking Bird...in one sitting...on more than one occasion!!!
Klynnm@aol.com
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, it scared me to death.
KHoll43@aol.com
Yes in 1957 I read "The Last Hurrah" by Edwin O'connor in one sitting. I liked it so much I read the entire book again the very next day. I have probably read it five or six more times since then. The book told the story of a fictional(?) mayor of a large city (Boston?) and his last run for office. Many believe that the story was a parody of the life of the late James Curley , Mayor of Boston. In fact, one time Curley met O'Connor and told O'connor how much he enjoyed the book. "I especially liked the part where i died," Curley told him. This had to be one of the funniest books ever written. Others by O'Connor, who became my favorite author, are "The Edge of Sadness" and " I Was Dancing." All of them reflect the humorous and sad parts of life in a typical Irish-catholic ghetto of the 1950s.
AWElmore@aol.com
Not in one sitting. But I when I was seventeen, I read How Green Was My Valley and when I read the last page, I turned back to the beginning and reread the whole book again. The words were magical to me at that time. I tried to read it again about 20 years later and couldn't even finish it, it was too depressing.
RobertW841@aol.com
The two books I've read in one sitting are Anthem by Ayn Rand(it's short) and Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card.
Kclynn1525@aol.com
Is there any other way?
JBrown2511@aol.com
yes several times :) The Immigrants by Howard Fast comes to mind...a friend called and told me about the book said I must read it ASAP so I went to the bookstore bought a copy and began it the next morning...finished it the very same day...I loved that whole series but The Immigrants was my favorite of all..also The Romance Reader by Pearl Abraham I remember reading in a day...a day I was feeling very low and needed escape....there are many others but these are the two I immediately thought of.
sybilb@interlog.com
The book i found to be absolutely gripping and spellbinding was the Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
rodgerr@QWest.net
Poisonwood Bible by Kingsolver. As was possible, Anna Karenina
VRich65584@aol.com
Book read in one sitting: Jeffery Deaver's "The Coffin Dancer" - 2 weeks ago. There was no question of going to work on Monday morning without knowing how everything turns out.
MShalett@aol.com
Any of James Lee Burke's books
JEarh13191@aol.com
The Horse Whisperer
dbelk105@adelphia.net
THE NOTEBOOK by Nicholas Sparks
Rkmg20@aol.com
Angela's Ashes!!!! I could not put it down!
DUGMAC@aol.com
I have read all of John Grisham's books in one setting. I have to purchase his book on the first day they go on sale. I am truly a fan of his.
SABU30@aol.com
Yes, When Scott Turow's "Presumed Innocent" came out, I picked it up before the buzz on the book took over. I started reading it at about Noon on a Saturday and didn't stop until noon the next day. When I was done, I gave the book to my wife, and she did the same thing, reading it straight through in one sitting!
Pjosiefield@aol.com
I've read several books in one sitting, but the one that comes to mind is The Amityville Horror. Part of the reason I read it in one sitting was that I was scared to death to walk through the rest of the house!
MPHazlett@aol.com
LA confidential
BFLE67@aol.com
I loved the Notebook by Nicholas Sparks. Ofcourse all of John Grisham's books are like that. Once you start reading you can't seem to put them down until it is finished. Also, Richard Paul Evans's books are great.
RVRCAMP@aol.com
Fear Nothing introduces us to Christopher Snow and man with XP (the disease that makes the individual who has it avoid all light sources) . Finds our his dead mother has caused the end of the world, as we know it, by creating gene altering virus that is running rampant in his town. Wonderful, exciting story full of suspense, violence and terror. We can imagine it happening today with all the cloning and gene splicing happening. Shades of Koontz's Watcher. Seize the Night is a continuation of the story which also leaves you waiting for the next installment of the Christopher Snow saga. Wonderful reads.
Wvirgil2@aol.com
It was, "I'd LoveTo Kiss You" Conversations With Bette Davis by Whitney Stine and also, "The Kid Stays In The Picture" by Robert Evans which is a great show biz read. There have been others.
kettil.johansson@se.worldonline.com
The Old Man and the Sea - Hemingway. I was 18, didn't go to school the next day
Neysa7777@aol.com
Sugar Busters: Cut Sugar to Trim Fat, by H. Leighton Steward, et. al. A Walk in the Woods by Nicholas Sparks.
Humphrey.Serjeantson@harpercollins.co.uk
The Beach by Alex Garland. On a Sunday, started on a train at 14.00, read for three hours, read for half an hour on the tube across London, and then carried on when I got home, finishing at about midnight. Not just because I wanted to read it before seeing the film either.
MTK12345@aol.com
Lance Armstrong's It's Not About the Bike !
JME22779@aol.com
I have read a book in one sitting it was the Body Project by Joan Jacobs Brumberg.
Fgiitter@aol.com
I've scanned a book in one sitting, well enough to know the plot and answer key questions if asked, but can not say I've truly "read" a book in one sitting. I enjoy reading and like to take my time, sometimes re-reading a section to clarify a later development. Most of the books today are several hundred pages in length and require several hours to read - more than I have at one time.
RLZAK@aol.com
Anything by Mary Higgins Clark or Rosamunde Pilcher
Patty2213@aol.com
A Drink Before the War by Dennis Lehane
Inkpen33@aol.com
The only book I have every read in one sitting was a Child Called It. I almost had to read it all the way through, because I don't think I could have handled bawling that much more than once.
Saavylady@aol.com
The Exorcist
Onceuponamidnte@aol.com
Catcher in the Rye, one of my all-time favorate books. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, not an extremely long book, but a very good one, the last page of the book makes the whole book worthwhile. Several of the Narnia Chronicles by C.S. Lewis, A Farewell to Arms, The Sun Also Rises.
Dado4suds@aol.com
The first book I ever read in one sitting was Clive Cussler's "Raise The Titanic" and I have been hooked on his books ever since. He cannot write enough books for me. Susan.
ShaynaPnm@aol.com
Scarlett, all Lisa Scottoline books
Gidgemnstr@aol.com
I read DARWIN'S RADIO by Greg Bear in one sitting. I was trapped overnight in an airport and had nothing else to do. Luckily it was a great book.
clare.morris@sap.com
Tim by Colleen McCollough and Outerbanks by Anne Rivers Siddons
Nad857@aol.com
The book I could not put down was "Noble House" James Clavel - 1200 pages or so in paperback. One week-end straight with no sleep and barely any food (nice diet if you think about it)!
DEBREADER@aol.com
When Stephen Kings The Stand came out. I was 18 or 19 and I started to read it on a Sunday morning. I read it through out the day and finally put it down at 3 am Monday morning. I set my alarm for work at 8a Monday morning and when the alarm went off I called in sick and spent the rest of the day finishing the book.
Myskas@aol.com
I often read books in one sitting. I get so engrossed in the book that I lose all track of time. I've done it with all six books of Stephen King's "The Green Mile", Richard Matheson's "Hell House", and several of Lillian Jackson Braun's "Cat Who..." books. Most recently, it was Bentley Little's "The Walking" and Peter Straub's "Mr. X". Tonight I'll start Patricia Cornwall's "The Last Precinct"... I may have it finished before I go to sleep! As long as there are books to read and cats to curl up on my lap, I'm a very happy person!
Dwdickens@aol.com
I read "Bridges of Madison County" in one sitting.
TLWood61@aol.com
The only book I read in one sitting was "Where the Heart Is". I loved it but was sorry to see it end!
BeanaSimp44@aol.com
I have read a book in one sitting and that book was "A Child Called It"
MPMRN@aol.com
I read The Exorcist straight thru. finished it at 4am.
Spider1014@aol.com
It was about 15 years ago. It was titled "If Tomorrow Ever Comes" by Sidney Sheldon. I kept promising myself that I would quit reading at the end of the next chapter but I just couldn't. I kept saying, just one more chapter, just one more chapter. It is the only book that I have ever read in one sitting.
CVA436@aol.com
When I was seventeen I read Peyton Place all through the night. I finished it in the early morning hours and still went to school that day. That was the first book I read in one sitting. It was by no means the last. I still cannot put a good book down and I still manage to go to work in the morning.
tanyabilyara@a1.com.au
I have read quite a few books in one sitting over the years - but the most recent one (last weekend) was Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Wilson. Funny and very enjoyable.
Resqmeb4@aol.com
Really there have been several books like that, The Perfect Husband, Lisa Gardner, The Maze, Catherine Coulter, Night Sins and Guilty As Sin, Tami Hoag. Just to name a few, once a book gets me really hooked, I'm gone. Thats why I try to limit these books to weekends/ vacaations, its hard to get for work at 4:30 when you've been into a great story. Patricia Cornwell's Point of Origin still haunts me.
BROOKEEEE7@aol.com
Hi, I read Judy Blume's "Are You There, God, It's Me, Margaret," in one sitting, flipped it over and read it again. I would have read Jurassic Park in one sitting but I had to sleep in between.
Eliza129@aol.com
Any book by Mary Higgens Clark.
gevans@icon.co.za
If I can get away with it, like I did this week when I had a serious dose of flu and had to stay in bed. I read "The Constant Gardener." John Le Carre. Started when my husband took the kids to school. Got out of bed once to go and fetch them from school. Finished in time to get up again at six, supervise homeowrk and cook supper. All I can say is "Thank God for flu!!!"
AJL040382@aol.com
Answer to question: The book was NIGHT by Elie Weisel.
