What's the longest book you ever read?

[Inverse Skies]

Hated Cell, hated The talisman, never read lisey;s story of from a buick 8. Lol.

Really? No way! Those two books were amazing! I loved how original Cell was, and The Talisman was a sad but wonderful book, becoming amazing by the time Jack enters the Blasted Lands. From a Buick 8 you might like, it's just about cops who find this abandoned car which heaps of weird things happen with, like it spawns monsters and things like that, and Lisey's Story is just a love story about a woman whose husband had died, but of course that isn't the whole story, as it never is with King's things. That one took ages to find the point, but when it did it was fantastic.

 

[Samurai Goomba]

If we're just counting single books, I read The Count of Monte Cristo front-to-back. Full version, two times all the way through. That book has about 120 Chapters, and almost 1300 pages.

If compilations count, I read The Foundation Trilogy. It was technically a single book.

I've also read the Bible, but I hesitate to say I've ever just sat down and read the ENTIRE book. There's some parts about family lineage that are not very entertaining.

 

[Zealous]

5th Harry Potter book (Order of the Phoenix) in French. 13 hundred and some pages. I might have read a bigger book but I can't recall any right now.

 

[ClaptonKnophlerHendrix]

If a book series doesn't count (and I'm guessing it doesn't) then it would be The Stand By Stephen King, around 1400 pages long. And I've read it four times. A very good book that one.

1421 to be exact (yeah I just went and got it from my bookshelf).

OT: Well I was going to say Lord of The Rings at just under 1200 pages but now Im going to have to go with Inverse Skies' answer of the Stand.

 

[ClaptonKnophlerHendrix]

DO NOT SAY I AM A LOSER!!
it was for a bet
i read the complete works of william shakespeare in 2 days.
i got $40!

Be calm young grasshopper, you are among friends here. In fact I really respect your devotion there, how many pages would you estimate the complete works to be?

 

[life is peachy]

The lost world by Michael Crichton

 

[dududf]

The Reality Disfuntion. Part one in the series or 3 space operas.

1094 pages... took 2 days... *ugh*

 

[Inverse Skies]

1421 to be exact (yeah I just went and got it from my bookshelf).

OT: Well I was going to say Lord of The Rings at just under 1200 pages but now Im going to have to go with Inverse Skies' answer of the Stand.

Hey! I checked the number of pages as well at some stage in this thread. 1421 it is!

 

[Flishiz]

The Fountainhead.

Best. Book. Ever. Howard Roark is a hero.

Fuck I love the Fountainhead. Read it twice

Incidentally, my literary behemoth was Atlas Shrugged

 

[WhiteFangofWhoa]

The omnibus edition of the Faded Sun Trilogy. Maybe it would be a more dramatic series in the original three seperate installments- I found myself getting bored around the third one, possibly due to how two-dimensional and cliched the main race comes across as. As it stands the omnibus is about 1800 pages.

If collected works don't count, probably whichever Harry Potter book is the longest, which I believe is the Order of the Phoenix, my least favorite of the 7. Amazingly no book by Mario Puzo or Bernard Cornwell has such length to it.

 

[oppp7]

A dictionary. I was 5. Skipped some parts though...

 

[heyheysg]

Lord of the Rings?

Gave up on War and Peace at page 108.

Unabridged The Count of Monte Cristo, 1200+

Series wise

All of Terry Pratchett books,

If you count the Sandman as a book, it's pretty massive as well.

Plus Simarillion and The Children of Hurin.

And Harry Potter

 

[PlasticTree]

Atlas Shrugged, probably. Or some fantasystory divided into multiple books, if that would count.

 

[Mr. Squirrel]

I'll add a second King: It. Around 1000 pages, so not quite as awesome.

The Lord of the Rings in a single book.

One of those two for me. Don't really know which has more pages.

 

[Distorted Stu]

Mr Bumps walkabout.

 

[Terramax]

The Hungry Catapilla.

It was epic.

Seriously, the only books I read or Terry Pratchett's Discworld, so whatever is his longest running book is my answer.

 

[Lazy Kitty]

The dutch translation of the Lord of the Rings, all three in one book + the extra stuff in the back.

 

[Trotgar]

Probably Harry Potter 5, but I thought it sucked. Althalus (internet is slow here, so I'm not going to check what's the full name in english) is the second.

I tried reading the LotR trilogy in one book, but the writing is quite bad and boring. Tolkien did very much work, but he wasn't a good writer. I did't finish it.

 

[Spacelord]

I read the first 6 volumes of the Malazan Book of the Fallen series by Steven Erikson. Does that count as a single book?