as a reader i really feel like ‘one day read’ books shouldn’t be more than 100-150 pages if we’re talking about ENJOYABLE experiences and not just a ‘deadline’ to read a 300 page book in a day. sometimes i feel weird because i read pretty slow, like 2 minutes for a page (i read mostly classics if it’s relevant). and a 300 page book can take even a week, because i’m a regular person: i study, spend time with fam&friends, clean, cook; i’m not an influencer who can just read 12 hours per day and film it. so i really resonate with your opinion and also i liked your recommendations!! if anyone needs good russian classics recommendations to read in one day: i’d recommend ‘the lower depths’ by M.Gorky, ‘white nights’ by Dostoevsky and maybe ‘one day in the life of ivan denisovich’ by Solzhenitsyn
My most memorable one day read was "Siddartha" by Herman Hesse. I read the book on a 5 hour flight and when I landed at my destination I felt like a different person than when I left.
I read Animal Farm in one day many years ago. More recently I read The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe in one sitting and also The Time Machine in one day. Another was And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer I love the short, immersive reading experiences in between longer reads - I am a slower reader
Incredible (and original) recommendations, thank you! David F, Wallace's Consider the Lobster is one my favourites of his. Laozi's Tao Te Ching also - though, I suppose, it came to me at the perfect time. Haven't read Lieh-Tzu yet, but it's on my TBR. For something more fun, I (being a fan of horror) am also very fond of Shirley Jackson's short stories. For poetry, Mary Oliver's work would also be a good place to start. I've seen someone refer to her as a poet for people who don't read poetry, and I would agree. Her style is very straightforward, clear and mostly nature-inspired. Maybe a haiku collection as well, Issa's my personal favourite.
Your final thoughts on the worth of essays were especially fascinating and fulfilling here (nice to hear Hans-Georg Moeller brought in as well). Thank you for all the genuine passion you bring to your videos.
I started reading ficciones by Borges last year but ended up dnf’ing it because I wasn’t in the right headspace for it. I think I might have another go at one of his collections next year when I am less busy. Loved this video 🤍
Nice list! I've really gotta try Borges, I keep seeing his name pop up. Books I've read in a day are: Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal The Stranger by Albert Camus (upon reread) Siddhartha by Herman Hesse All of which I did unintentionally, I just couldn't put them down. I'd also recommend: Ward No. 6 by Anton Checkhov The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy They are longer, powerful short stories that can be read in a day.
I'm surprised that you didn't recommend short story collections. I a read Clark Aston Smith short story a day; it's good fun, weird, horror. I think philosophy should be read in small bits over multiple days. 60-100 pages is all I care to read in a day, because there is such a thing as: "too much of a good".
My personal favourite one day reading experience is reading the sailor who fell from grace with the sea. That is such a visceral and weird book. I couldn't say I loved it but I still remember it so vividly even after 4 years. I would definitely recommend that. A lot of people dislike Mishima for his politics but he was definitely a very fascinating guy and a very talented writer.
Regarding essays.. I started reading Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own today. (Also a book that can be read in one day. Around 100 pages) I’m about 40 pages in, and wow. What a start it has. So far it’s about how she was asked to write something about women and writing. And rather than talk about Austen or the Brontë’s etc. she starts thinking about the subject matter in a different way. It is SO interesting from a female perspective. I would highly recommend (even though I have not finished it yet) I wish I had read it a few years ago when I was doing my MA. I had written a piece on similar lines regarding female artists and about the amount of women depicted in art, compared to the amount of art created by women that are in galleries. But it goes with what you were saying about finding an essay on a subject you’d find interesting and how the author describes and uses language to get their point across that makes you think you’d never have thought of it that way. It’s also eye opening that it was written only 20 odd years before my mother was born and though a lot has changed, there is still that same undercurrent she talks about going on nearly 100 years later.
I loved 'A Room Of One's Own', it was the first thing I read from Woolf. I've been tossing between getting her Diaries, which people have said are brilliant, and I'm definitely keen to learn more about her after having enjoyed 'A Room of One's Own' so much.
To take the idea of one day reading experiences a bit further I'd like to propose to you the one bus ride reading experience: there is a book with transcriptions of short radio interviews that Borges did with Osvaldo Ferrari, which can each be read in about 15 minutes, which was ideal for my daily commute. I believe it's called Conversations in English.
Hey man, I found your channel yesterday and you have been a truly enjoyable revelation, much like Leaf by Leaf and Better Than Food. I hope you can someday find yourself in conversation with either Chris or Cliff, I am certain you would make for compelling company. Anyway, as a massive music enthusiast and a guitar player, I would love if you would delve into your musical sensibilities and perhaps even deeper into your guitars and guitar-playing in one of these videos sometime!
Thank you so much, I really appreciate that! I've sometimes brought some of my music knowledge into the 'Book + Art Combo' videos, but I'm not sure how I would do dedicated music videos. Although, I have been planning some other RU-vid channels to do with Jazz and Modular Synthesis, but I'm still planning how to work it around work + this channel.
@@readreadofficial Yes, you certainly could take the additional channel route. Or you could segment music into part of some videos that are more about you? Maybe even a video exploring sounds and music (like the way you scored Raskolnikov's trauma) that you associate with certain books/scenes/writers?
Per the internet: " While a slow reader will only get through 30 pages per hour, the average person can read around 40 pages per hour. Statistics show that quick readers can even go through 50 or 60 pages in one hour." Thus: 5 hours x 40 pages = 200 pages for the average reader. 150 pages for the slow reader. 250 - 300 pages for the fast reader..
Jokes on you, for me it would be a few-days reading experience, 'cause English is not my first language, I can not for the life of me read some of these books in a day.
As a slow reader, I always double the expected necessary reading time. For example, I just finished Neil Gaiman's American Gods - 635 pages in 11 days.
