I read Les Miserable a while back and I think it took me 6 or 7 months to finish it. War and peace on the other hand took longer time almost a year, during which my aunt died and I had to put it off for a few months.Originally Posted by haydenliu
I read Les Miserable a while back and I think it took me 6 or 7 months to finish it. War and peace on the other hand took longer time almost a year, during which my aunt died and I had to put it off for a few months.
Probably The Gulag Archipelago, by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn at 615 pages.
The Pickwick Papers (Dickens first novel) is one of the longest, if not the longest story I have read. It was so enjoyable that I wished there had been another 804 pages. It was apparently immensely popular in its own day - I've heard that there was something of a "Pickwick mania" (akin to Beatlemania) at the time, with shops selling "Pickwick hats" and "Pickwick cigars" and with "Pickwick clubs" springing up all over England.
A just conception of life is too large a thing to grasp during the short interval of passing through it.
Thomas Hardy
Must have been Jin Yong novels or Dream of Red Mansions or Jin Ping Mei or something. Proust counts but it flows well to the point where you don't put it down.
I read The Pickwick Papers for the first time about two years ago and enjoyed it immensely. I've been given to understand it was hugely popular in Victorian England, a view which is supported by your comment.
EDIT: This post is in response to 108 Fountains' post. I'm new here and trying to get the hang of the controls. Please forgive.
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