What's the longest book you ever read?
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Fall of Constantinopol 2 volumes at about 1400 pages.Great novel too bad nobody outside of my country never heard of it.(and probably never will)
It's either Atlas Shrugged or A Storm of Swords for me. Not quite sure which was longer, but both were around 1100 pages. A Storm of Swords was much easier reading, though: Atlas Shrugged tends to drag a bit in places. Especially Chapter 27.
Longest 70 pages of my life.
Longest 70 pages of my life.
The Hitchikers Guide to The Galaxy
but i find once im finished i still cant make sence of it (if thats posible) and so i read it again and again
but i find once im finished i still cant make sence of it (if thats posible) and so i read it again and again
I was going to say one of the Harry Potter books until I read this and remembered I read the unabridged version of The Stand over a few months in 11th grade. I wound up skipping some parts but I went back and read them, and then not sure if I read them, read them again, so definitely at least the whole thing. If you're going to read the unabridged version and have only seen the movie or read the abridged (original) version (and I know this from the foreword), you should be on the lookout for "The Kid", he's the sickest guy in the whole book besides RF himself, and the writing conveys that rather... well.Inverse Skies said:
Counting series as one, definitely the seven Harry Potter books, unless...
unless that's longer (the four main books), but I don't think it is.PoisonUnagi said:
Dante Alighieri, and AFAIK it was the first real novel written in Italian (rather than Latin)sonicmaster1989 said:
In about a week it'll be Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. But at the moment it's probably one of the Lord of the Rings.
The Stand, the uncut version is 1421 pages long whilst It is.... I can't check how long it is because my friend has borrowed the book off me. But from memory It isn't as long as The Stand.MajoraPersona said:
I'm just remembering the scene with him in bed with the Trashcan man... that was particularly nasty and wrong for so many reasons. (Shivers). Yuk.General Vagueness said:
My word it is, fantastically imaginative and one of those books it's hard to put down despite it's length and long sections where nothing much happens. I never could quite figure out what was so amazing about it when not much happens in the actual story. I guess the characters are really strong in it and are quite complex. I still don't think it's my favorite book by him, but it's still one of his best.ClaptonKnophlerHendrix said:
Well, I know I've read a few that were over 1000 pages. If any one has read the following book, they have officially read the longest book in print. It is 7 times as long and the Illiad and the Odyssey combined, and is 3x as long as the ENTIRE bible.
It is the holy book of the Hindu's! Topping the charts at over 10,000 pages! We read a VERY small fraction of it in religion. The section was called the Bhagavad Gita.
It is the holy book of the Hindu's! Topping the charts at over 10,000 pages! We read a VERY small fraction of it in religion. The section was called the Bhagavad Gita.
Eisenhorn 764 pages
All of them enjoyable to read except for the last one
I didn't want it to end =C
All of them enjoyable to read except for the last one
I didn't want it to end =C
I'll be honest it does get pretty dull at moments, mostly the peace part. But Tolstoy is such an incredible writer and the war part is worth reading. If you're bored easily, go onto the internet, look up a synopsis on each book (because War and Peace like so many novels from the era is actually a collection of books) and choose which ones you want to read. Sure there'll be a couple of plot-holes you won't understand, but there are so many characters you'd have trouble remembering everything about everyone anyway (there were many moments when I'd go "Wait, didn't he die in a duel?... no that was the guy married to her, or was it her?... now he was definitely dead a minute ago... or was he?).DuplicateValue said:
What you gotta remember is that authors were paid per word in the 19th century, so they wrote a lot of words. You gotta have the right motivation to sit down and read them through or you'll fail. I'm the kind of person who'll read or do something for the simple reason of being able to say i've done it. And no matter what anyone says, I'll always say it was worth reading.
