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I read the three books (I have a single-volume copy and they were always intended to be one single, enormous book) over and over the summer I was 13, and got the infamous "pancake tan" (i.e., lying on back in order to read, resulting in one "tanned" side and one "not tanned" pancake side).

MIND MELD: Members of Book View Cafe Reveal Their Favorite Books 2009

I could wish for the overarching plot (as opposed to the single-volume plot, which was fine) to be moving forward a bit faster than it was.

Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway alecaustin 2009

It sounds like Tokyopop plans to put out a single-volume omnibus of the story.

Tokyopop’s Dreaming to Become Movie » Manga Worth Reading 2010

In "Bro"—the first book in this single-volume trilogy—we're in "Zhivago"-land, moving from a lavish czarist-era estate to World War I, the Russian Revolution and an expedition to find the meteorite.

From Russia, With Lurid Storytelling Tom Shippey 2011

An anthology, though, is one man's vision, and the better for that, and this is the best available single-volume collection of Irish poetry yet published.

Author, author: Nick Laird Nick Laird 2010

Unfortunately single-volume histories purporting to cover the entire war have rarely provided as coherent or satisfying an account of the war's scope and fury.

Hell's Ethos Jonathan W. Jordan 2011

Solanin, a single-volume telling of how a group of young adult friends make key life decisions.

*Solanin — Recommended » Manga Worth Reading 2009

At 946 pages of text, the book is the heftiest of the single-volume histories, but one of the easiest reads.

Those Desperate Hours Edward Kosner 2011

This is still the best single-volume history of the war and likely to remain so for a long time to come.

Essential Reading On World War II Richard Snow 2011

Molly Bloom's monologue from "Ulysses" (1922) --36 pages in the thinly margined, micro-fonted 1986 single-volume corrected text (and actually two long sentences, thanks to an often-overlooked period 17 pages in) -- sets an impossibly high standard for the art of the run-on.

The Book-Length Sentence In The Age Of Twitter New York Times 2010