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Yes of course, seven volumes haha... I forgot about that.. I read it a few years and I always think it is 6 volumes for some reason :p
I have read the first 3 volumes of G&P. the last two I never found a copy of (well to be honest I may have not put that much effort in :p) so I gave up.. I think I have seen all 5 online recently though.. so maybe I can go back to it again..
I cannot recall what the longest book I have completed was. But right now I am reading Stone of Tears by Terry Goodkind and The Fires of Heaven by Robert Jordan, and I cannot decide between the two of them which one is fatter but they are both tremendously thick. And both these books are the longest within each of their series, so of course I would end up reading them at the same time.
Bible : 1500 pages
Shogun (Clavell) : 1200 pages
Noble House (Clavell) : 1390 pages
Les Miserables (Hugo) : 1490 pages
I'm not sure really, but I guess the last book which really take me aback was Tolstoy's W&P.
In no particular order,
The Bible
Lord of the Rings
Crime and Punishment
Anna Karenina
The Brothers Karamazov
Don Quixote
The Complete Illustrated Strand Sherlock Holmes
and currently, Les Miserables.
The Stand, also the biggest waste of my life, ever.
A long book for me would be something badly written, dull, flat lifeless characters and a pain to read however long or short it may be. I can think of plenty of books like that, e.g the da vinci code.
I remember reading a biography on Queen Elisabeth I by someone named Cornelia Wussowski (or something like that, can't be bothered to look it up). I think that was about 1000 pages.
The Complete Illustrated Strand Sherlock Holmes
1400 pages! How could I have forgotten!!
For interest and for sharpening my grasp upon the world around me, I read an Oxford history book from cover to cover, which dealt primarily with Classical Greece and Rome, and the book stood at just over a 1000 pages.
For fiction, i've read Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (1168 pages), War and Peace by Tolstoy (1388 pages), The Stand by Stephen King, uncut version (1233 pages), and The Bible (1152 pages in my version)
For non-fiction, the prize winner is "The Structure of Evolutionary Theory" by Stephen Jay Gould, at 1343 pages, or the extended special edition of "The Descent of Man" at 1135 pages.
The Lord of the Rings
War and Peace.
Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy. And I've read it three times!
The longest book I have read was a 3 volume compendium of novels by Alphonse Daudet, the novels being: 1) Jack. 2) Le Nabab. 3) Les Rois en Exil.
The last two were brilliant but the first was contrived and padded to such an extent that when Daudet asked Flaubert his opinion of the story, Flaubert replied 'Trop de paperasse!' (Too much waste-paper).
The whole book including notes and appendices came to1512 pp.