uhhh, Lord of the Rings, The Dictionary Unabridged(dead serious, I was desperatly depressed and bored over the summer) or The Iliad. I enjoyed them all, immensly.
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uhhh, Lord of the Rings, The Dictionary Unabridged(dead serious, I was desperatly depressed and bored over the summer) or The Iliad. I enjoyed them all, immensly.
Harry Potter! just kidding.....
The dictionary for sure
I have absolutely no idea. I think about 400 pages tho lol. Because to be honest, if a book is too long I just get bored.
Phonebooks are nice too.
Gawd! I was trying to control the urge since the thread started but now that Tal has brought it up:Quote:
Originally Posted by Taliesin
London Telephone Directory - It is mostly OK and rather informative but gets a little repetitive when you get to Browns and Smiths, I tell ya!
Harry Potter and the OftP. It was 870 pages.
Hmm, I believe it was a Huxley one, whose title I can't remind. The main characters were a man named Walter and a certain Lucy. It destroyed my strenght of spirit; was really boring. War and Peace I have readed and enjoyed it so much, and also Quixote, many times since I was a child.
I can never remember the page count. You guys read phone books and dictionaries??? Your crazy! For me it would be Lord of the Rings, The Fountainhead, or the Oddyssey. I like LOTR and the Oddyssey annyway.
If you read The Goblet of Fire I think it was larger than the Half Blood Prince ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by jakobin
Anyways the largest book I read was HP and the Order of the Phoenix.
LotR
A Suitable Boy (Vikram Seth).. it's around 1500 pages.. haven't finished that one yet, though
LOTR here too, a single-book edition with some silly 1100+ pages...
War and peace
The longest book I've read - about 5 inches.
Sorry, I couldn't resist - I've got the Wilde in me.
I'm not sure what the longest book I ever read was (and I'm assuming that the Encyclopaedia Brittannica dooesn't count) - but "À la recherche du temps perdu" by Proust is definitely the longest I haven't read but would like to have the time to.
Probably Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, and I was so determined to finish it that I read it in about two days. lol
I also read A short History of the World by Geoffrey Blainey, which comes in pretty close as far as length goes.
I suppose that if I had the patience, I would try and read Richardson's Clarissa, which is considered the longest book ever written in the English language, but I just get this feeling I would get bored and give it up. I also don't have the book itself anyway. lol.
I've read snippets of the Bible here and there, but not the whole thing, since it's a collection of books anyway, and not intended to be read as an entire volume.
And I've heard that the novels of Fanny Burney are quite long as well, although I have never tried reading one myself.