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I think the longest book I've ever read was 'Les Miserables' by Victor Hugo
A Dream of Red Mansions
（I just read short and simple English works)
Shogun by James Clavell. 1152 pages in paperback.
Les Misérables (1493 pages pb)
To be fair, I'm only 900 pages into it but plan on finishing it by the end of the week. I suppose the longest I've finished is War & Peace. I'm not counting the bible, though.
It by Stephen King. Although it has a lot of pages, it was a quick read.
It has to be the Bible! Aside from that, "The Dream of the Red Mansons" by Tsao Xuejin and Gao E.
War and Peace at 992 pages.
Les Miserable ~ Victor Hugo; 4 or 5 books at about 500 pages each...well worth reading the complete text!
and Josef K, good for you reading the full-length version. It is a tremendos book!
The Stand by Stephen King. 1141 pages. A great book overall with an infuriating conclusion.
lord of the rings 1, 2 & 3. it took me almost a whole year.
then gravity's rainbow. HUGE. and chaotic. anna karenina, yeah.
I would say "In Search of Lost Time" by Proust, if you combine all six volumes it is close to 3000 pages.. and then "Les Miserables" and "War and Peace" and "Gargantua and Pantagruel"
Atlas Shrugged
1168
And again, if you combined all three LOTR books into one massive book (as was J.R.R's original intent, if I'm not mistaken?)
I think I posted here before and I believe I wrote either The Bible (which I suppose isn't one but many books) or Tolstoi's War and Peace.
But I recently finished Milton's Paradise Lost, which at least felt like the longest thing I'd ever read. Honestly I think I'll wait a decade or two before I start on Paradise Found. Wondefully crafted but long neverthless.
Seven volumes for the Search of Lost Time (but maybe you're leaving out the most boring one - La prisonnière :D ).Quote:
Originally Posted by islandclimber
And you can add Le Tiers Livre, Le Quart Livre and Le Cinquième Livre to Pantagruel's adventures (I haven't read them, personally - stopped a the first two).
I think my longest must have been the three volumes of the Lord of the Rings or maybe War and peace. But I'm very intrigued now about the works of Adolf Wolfli, so I'll have to go to Berne to read all his pages :p (thank you wikipedia).