A Turkish writer's(Alev Alatlı) book.Its name was "Schrodinger'in Kedisi_Kabus".It was over 700 pages.But it was not so hard to read.
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A Turkish writer's(Alev Alatlı) book.Its name was "Schrodinger'in Kedisi_Kabus".It was over 700 pages.But it was not so hard to read.
Probably War and Peace. What felt the longest? Middlemarch, but I did enjoy it in the end.
Clarissa by Samuel Richardson.
It was very long. I read and I read and I read and finally at the end I wondered why I read it.
hmmm, Iliad? or Grapes of Wrath...I'm not sure.
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Longest book physically: HP 5 (870) unfortunately. sorta read the iliad. I don't know if the Odyssey was long, but I read that too. Definitely have War and Peace, Les Miserables, Don Quixote, and others in mind though.
Longest book psychologically: Back when I seem to have had an odd case of OCD (which still hasn't completely gone away) that took my reading speed to an all-time low, I spent roughly 40ish (maybe a couple more) hours of a 53-hour period reading I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; almost a complete weekend including most of sat night and all of sunday night. It was for spring break and I stupidly procrastinated uber-excessively (really started on sat. before school). Nevertheless, it was a really depressing book, which made it even worse. Absurdly wierd experience.
Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa. Tiny print and over 900 pages.
War and Peace
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke. 1006 pages.
The Bear and the Dragon by Clancy.
I forgot about that one! It was really good at some points, but sometimes it was a little dull which made it seem longer.Quote:
Originally Posted by MaryEliFit
Le Morte Darthure or The Hoole Book of Kyng Arthur and of His Noble Knyghtes of The Rounde Table, by Sir Thomas Malory. All 905 pages of the Norton Critical edition, in two weeks, for an insane grad-level medieval authors class. It was so worth it, just to be able to say I'd done it. I have run 4 marathons and never felt as tired or as much as if I'd been hit by a truck as I did when I finished that book. I cried more while reading it, too, and I don't mean when the characters died. It was an intellectual torture-test.
Ok, I'm finished whinging. I know there are people out there who love that book, and I'm awed by them. Ye shall have this boke with yow to do with hit what hit please you: that is for to sey, if that ye lyste to reade it yourselff, that is me leveste; and yf ye woll gyff hit unto the dust bin, that is in your choyse.
OOOh, I love this book!Quote:
Originally Posted by MaryEliFit
The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough,
Order of the Phoenix, just starting Vanity Fair...
Le comte de Monte-Cristo, unabridged (original French) edition.
"Juliette" by Marquis de Sade (1216 pages)