I have finished reading the old testatment and the new testatment. And the book of mormons. That took me a while.
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I have finished reading the old testatment and the new testatment. And the book of mormons. That took me a while.
I've thought about it, and I'm pretty sure that the longest book I've read in its entirety is A Storm of Swords from George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series. I keep feeling like there must be something else really long that I've read, but perhaps not.
Arnold J. Toynbee's "A Study of History" ...volume three. He's the guy who said "Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely". Not for everybody but history buffs and phds ...for them, a must try.
Alessandro Manzoni's "I Promessi Sposi"....I read it because of the school but didn't like it that much...actually, I found it quite boring even though I see why it is so important in Italian literature.
Tom Jones. I know its not that long, but I did it in a day, but by that time I couldn't be bothered to read the last few pages, which I gather is the point in the book. Oh well.
Oooh, I remembered another.
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski (I think).
I thought it was kinda stupid though by the end, and a lot of the pages only had 1 or 2 words on them. Bret Easton Ellis apparently loved it though...
Who knows.
David Copperfield and War and Peace
The Conte of Monte Cristo, The Fountainhead, and the Harry Potter Books, off of the top of my head. I've just started Atlas Shrugged, which is pretty boring so far.
The Stand by Stephen King. I would have cut about 800 pages from that book. I was actually happy when main characters were getting killed. It was like a heavy book was leaving my hands. What joy! and I kind of like his books..
Shakespeare's works are the heaviest.
Lord of the Rings, before the whole movie craze came on. the longest it ever took me to read a book was Walden by Henry David Thoreau, i hated that book with a passion, it took me 2 years to read ti because i would set it down for months at a time
the stand
king at his best
Well, I have just finished reading this history. It is fantastic to say the very very least.
Often being accused of having stone like emotions, I actually shed a tear towards the end (literally) and the meeting of the two adversaries at the end kept me turning page after page to find out the fate of either.
Belford's reformation was admirably wonderful and courageous.
This may be regarded as the longest novel in English literature, and even though it may be about 250 years old, it is an absolute stonkin read.:thumbs_up
That's unfair, my copy of The Count of Monte Cristo has only 700 pages :lol: (It's unabridged Finnish translation, but the pages are quite large and the text quite small, so that explains it...)Quote:
Originally Posted by Adolescent09
The Summa Theologica by Thomas Aquinas. 5 volumes. Over 3,000 pages.
Moby Dick