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Which Was the Last Book You Read in One Sitting?

Interesting question it doesn't happen often for me, but it has been done:

Skipping Christmas- John Grisham
Animal Farm- George Orwell
Anthem- Ayn Rand
Boy's Life- Robert McCammon (multiple sittings in one day)

The last two were for school when I had a bad habit of leaving them to the last minute to read.
 
There have been several lately that I have finished in one long sitting after getting through the preliminaries up to about half-way. The half-way point seems to be the hump where it is all downhill afterwards, and I will stick with it to find out what happens. So the last book that I finished in one long burst of reading was in fact the last book I read, Blindfold by Siri Hustvedt. Not the most riveting book, but I just had to find out how it ended.

The last book that I actually finished entirely in one sitting from front to back cover was so long ago I hardly remember. But I do remember the very first, Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis, as a school reading assignment. I started and finished in one weekend, and had the thrill of realizing for the first time that I could read a 'grown-up' book without pictures and enjoy it. That was the beginning milestone in my more or less continual reading since then.

Glad to see you posting.
 
Peder said:
There have been several lately that I have finished in one long sitting after getting through the preliminaries up to about half-way. The half-way point seems to be the hump where it is all downhill afterwards, and I will stick with it to find out what happens. So the last book that I finished in one long burst of reading was in fact the last book I read, Blindfold by Siri Hustvedt. Not the most riveting book, but I just had to find out how it ended.

The last book that I actually finished entirely in one sitting from front to back cover was so long ago I hardly remember. But I do remember the very first, Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis, as a school reading assignment. I started and finished in one weekend, and had the thrill of realizing for the first time that I could read a 'grown-up' book without pictures and enjoy it. That was the beginning milestone in my more or less continual reading since then.

Glad to see you posting.
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Funny, Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis is the next book on my TBR list. How funny. :)
 
AquaBlue said:
Funny, Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis is the next book on my TBR list. How funny. :)
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I hope you enjoy it. I forget completely what it is about, but I do remember that it was an interesting story that kept me reading right along. It was my first real immersion into a fictional world in the pages of a book.
 
Yup, there would be ALOT of books I would finish in one sitting if I had the time, but alas, I don't.
 
The last one I finished in one sitting was,

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Unfortunately I haven't had as much time lately so it takes me a bit longer.
 
The last one I read in one sitting was In the Beginning...was the Command Line. It was less than 200 pages and I was on a plane so it was easy to get through.
 
Alexander McCall Smith, Blue Shoes and Happiness.

All in one television-free evening. I know the characters in this series and the reading goes very fast.
 
Every time a new Diana Gabaldon Outlander series book comes out I practically read it in one sitting, well, two...but with those monsters, two counts as one. :cool:

It's been ages since I had the straight time to accomplish that feat, but gee it was fun and I wish I could remember what it was.

AIE: Oh, I forgot, after the hurricane went through 3 years ago we had no electricity or phone, hence no computer for quite awhile, I remember reading Pride of Carthage in, if not one sitting, one day.
 
The one and only book that I did that with was "Coraline" by Neil Gaiman. Though “The Invention of Hugo Cabret” by Brian Selznick came awful close. I read it all in one day, but took various breaks throughout.
 
sparkchaser said:
The last one I read in one sitting was In the Beginning...was the Command Line. It was less than 200 pages and I was on a plane so it was easy to get through.
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Gosh, that reminds me, I made it through a book in one sitting a few months back. I think it had less then 180 pages and bad enough that I forgot the title and author.
 
Mine was Airframe, by Michael Crichton. It's not often I can reading something in one sitting. It has to be quite fast paced, and easy to absorb. :D
 
Only read two books ever in one sitting and one was only like 30 pages.
Henry David Thoreau - Civil Disobedience
Michael Crichton - Prey
 
There are only a few that I have had the time and willpower to read in one sitting.
Intensity by Dean Koontz (the only book I've enjoyed by him as well) I read in one sitting. I just couldn't put it down. The others were part of the Anita Blake vampire hunter series by Laurell K Hamilton. Excellent books to have at the beach. I almost finished Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows in one sitting, but I had company arrive that pulled me away from it (unwillingly, I might add) until the following morning.
 
I read Cell by Stephen King in one sitting...it is a pretty small ovel and was pretty good til the end...the ending sucked! Too bad :(. I really like Stephen King for the most part.
 
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