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And you needed every single one of those end notes to fill in the blanks. I thought I could maybe get by without reading or at least just skimming the especially long ones, the ones that were pages long by themselves but I quickly realized they all needed to be read. :blush:Quote:
Originally Posted by Babbalanja
It was a great book, so many great characters and so much humor amidst the depravity and despair.Quote:
Originally Posted by Aunty-lion
Don't bother, it's awful. But it isn't actually very hard to read, so I don't imagine it'll be as much of an effort as you are imagining.Quote:
Originally Posted by kenikki
The man seriously annoys me though. He claims in all his essays that writers should be completely separate from their characters, and then writes about a bunch of soulless, heartless, transparent versions of himself.
And he has terrible grammar!
Long reads (1000+):
I've read The Count of Monte Cristo, (1200-1400 pages depending on the edition), War and Peace (1000-1400 pages depending on edition..) and Gone with the Wind (1021 pages standard)..
I am half way through Don Quixote (1000 pages standard)
Mid-length reads (600-800)
Then I've read quite a number of middle lengthed classics including Anna Karenina (700-800 pages I think), The Brother's Karamazov (around 700 pages?), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (600 pages or so), East of Eden (600+ pages?), Great Expectations (I know its more than 500 pages), Jane Eyre (also more than 500 pages), Crime and Punishment (600+ pages?), Les Miserables (I think its about 750 pages..) and The Three Musketeers (this might be under 500 pages.. I haven't read it since the sixth grade)
Shorter reads (anything from 60-500 pages) I've read too many in this category to mention :P... but these mainly consist of classics for younger children..: Jules Vernes, Mark Twain, Louise Mae Alcott (sp?) Frances Hodgson Burnett, Robert Louis Stevenson and Baroness Emmuska Orczy including several others...
Well, the longest book I've ever read is the sixth book of HP. I can't remember, but it's so long, I thought I wasn't goping to finish it. Am I a super-ficial kind of person? :p haha.
The Old Wives Tale by Arnold Bennet (A level)
Ulysses by you know who (S level)
Pilgrimage by Dorothy Richardson (ditto)
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
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.
Hello!
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)
Probably Atlas Shrugged - 1168 pages.
I don't know how many pages the longest book I've ever read had. Critique of Pure Reason and Mein Kampf are up there though. And the bible. All very long and tiresome.
Ramayana, and I didn't finish :D
Suitable Boy -- Vikram Seth
Probably Hugo's Les Miserables, in German translation. I have an edition in two books: the first one has 856 pages, the second one 683, thus in total 1539 pages.