What's the longest book you ever read?

[Sven und EIN HUND]

Magician by Raymond E. Feist, probably... Clocks in at around 680 pages, with small text. Excellent book.

 

[TheCheesy4]

Atlas Shrugged, probably

 

[MrGFunk]

Longest books I've read are Robert Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land extended edition (I prefer the original) and House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski.

Don't think I done anything over a grand though.

 

[MajoraPersona]

Which is longer, The Stand or IT?

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.

I know that IT was around 1200 pages, so then the longest book I've read would be the uncut version of The Stand.

Unless there's some other book I'm forgetting...

 

[Animated Rope]

Fellowship of the ring. Followed by the two other books.

Sadly I wasted my time on a very bad translation.

 

[A.I. Sigma]

I think page counts are a bit unfair. For example, Harry Potter has larger font and thus more pages than, say, Dan Brown's Davinci Code or Stephen King's It.

I'd say a SK book would be my longest, though. I'm currently reading It, finally, as I couldn't get it in any of my local bookstores. Curse my stupid area for its lack of literature.

>.<

 

[SilentStranger]

It by Stephen King I think, that book was a BRICK

 

[General Vagueness]

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.

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.

That's what I was mostly thinking of, but there's also how he treated Trash's life like a couple of bucks, to kept or spent or wasted as he saw fit with no consequence but his own amusement-- for me that shows it's a good book and Stephen King is a good writer, a character like that, or more likely him and Trash, could carry a whole book alone, but here he's just a "passing by" character and Trash is pretty minor and you don't get the feeling they should be bigger (because you have bigger, arguably more interesting and deep characters). One of the things I didn't like about the movie is how they didn't really explain Trash and it was about twice as bad seeing it again after I read the book.

 

[Inverse Skies]

That's what I was mostly thinking of, but there's also how he treated Trash's life like a couple of bucks, to kept or spent or wasted as he saw fit with no consequence but his own amusement-- for me that shows it's a good book and Stephen King is a good writer, a character like that, or more likely him and Trash, could carry a whole book alone, but here he's just a "passing by" character and Trash is pretty minor and you don't get the feeling they should be bigger (because you have bigger, arguably more interesting and deep characters). One of the things I didn't like about the movie is how they didn't really explain Trash and it was about twice as bad seeing it again after I read the book.

I don't like to see any movie adaptation of any of King's books, they just don't do the original writing justice. Maybe The Green Mile or The Shawshank Redemption did it properly, but anything involving the supernatural just doesn't work. It didn't, the Shining didn't, The Mist certainly didn't (I love that as a short story, refused to see it as the movie because I know they'd ruin it). I don't think I could ever bring myself to watch The Stand as a film, it would ruin it so badly.

 

[toapat]

The Sword of Shannara
the actual story didnt start for half the book. and it litterally just ended instantly, with a minor overview of what happened. no good ending, just a brick wall stopping any story progression. i mean i cant end a story worth shit, but this book simply just ended instantly with no real climatic ending

 

[MDSnowman]

The Dark Tower, my copy came in at about 1050 pages, of course Wizard and Glass was like 300 pages shorter and took me like five months longer to read.

 

[CRAVE CASE 55]

I don't Remember how long the were but I read "Last Citadel" and "War of the Rats" both by David L. Robbins in the same Day

 

[Zhandarr]

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.

Buick 8 sounds interesting.

/me buys

 

[Bealzibob]

er... i think first three belgaraid (Spell check on that) novels all compiled into one would have to be the longest I've read...

 

[dukethepcdr]

I'd say my Lord of the Rings book. I have an edition that puts all three stories together as one book the way Tolkien intended to publish it in the first place. It makes for one really big book.

 

[Aytasammich(theoriginal)]

Hmm...See, problem here is I have plenty, but none of them good. Certainly none better than Wuthering Heights, which is a paltry several-hundred pager...
Ha! It was an essential X-men book compilation. It's too heavy to pick up. I bet that counts.

 

[Xerosch]

If a series counts I'd say 'The Dark Tower' as the German edition has about 5500 pages.

If it's supposed to be only one book, it has to be 'House of Leaves' with about 800 pages. And it's a pretty weird trip.

 

[A.A.K]

either Eisenhorn or the bible....i dont know if the bible counts, i only read the interesting, bloody, angsty, demonic, justice filled bits of it. and i gotta tell you, from what i read was brilliant. i dont believe in that crap but it was interesting.

Eisenhorn was pretty awesome. a good 780 pages.