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Vanity fair, 920 pages.
*sympathizes*Quote:
Originally Posted by sofia82
A long, long time ago: Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. More recently, Bleak House by Charles Dickens.
my goodness i think that was mine too---and by far my least favorite of all the clancy books ive read...Quote:
Originally Posted by Epiphany
i think say a prayer for owen meany was up there also...
and it seems like the stand by stephen king might have been even longer...
Do tracts count?
Thanks for the warning.:thumbs_upQuote:
Originally Posted by Dickens59
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Originally Posted by sofia82
Flaws?Quote:
Originally Posted by Jamesian
Anna Karenia I didn't think I was ever going to get throught it at times I thought my head was going to :flare: . But it didn't and I did, and it was well worth it to.
Gone With the Wind- over 1000 pages, and one of my favourites. So far.
Well, I've completed three volumes, or about 1600 pages, of The Story of the Stone, but I still have 700 pages to go -- does that count?
The Brothers Karamasov 988 pages in norwegian.
oh, to me, a tale of 2 cites - Charles Dickens , and still reading it. I am not a person can easily stick to fiction :( i tend to read short story :D but now i am trying to love fiction . Its a good way to have good vocabulary ^ ^
I don't understand what the word fiction means to you. A short story is fiction. :confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by icandoit
Either The Brothers Karamazov - which is the best novel I've read to date - or Anna Karenina, which was actually quite disappointing. I don't know which one is longer? xx
Gone with the wind (1024 pages)
Did I win? lol
Haven't heard of it. Do you like it so far? Is it a good read?
In Search of Lost Time is considerably longer.
Haven't heard of it. Do you like it so far? Is it a good read?
Certainly far longer than Gone with the Wind (which can't even surpass War and Peace, Les Miserables, or Clarissa in terms of length... to say nothing of quality). Also far better. Arguably the best novel of the 20th century. It may be the longest I've read. Although I'm "browsing" through Gibbon's Decline and Fall of Roman Empire... which may be comparatively verbose.
I should try and find it. Thanks! :)
Are you counting A la Recherche du Temps Perdu as one book? I always think of it as a series of individual books that belong together to make a whole. Or is that because of the translations I've read?
The winner would be the one who has read Henry Darger's The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinnian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion, which is 15,143 pages.Quote:
Originally Posted by antonia1990
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Originally Posted by NickAdams
I wonder if anyone registered here has the patience to read that? I would admire them forever!
Nick... I don't know... that's a bit too long for a sexual fantasy... especially of the underaged variety.:eek2: It also has lot's of pictures. Even at that its not as long as Adolf Wolfli's epic autobiographical fantasy... the one in which he started out as good ol' Adolf Wolfli... became King Wolfli... then became Emperor Wolfli... and finally Saint Wolfli. That stretched some 45 volumes and covered some 25,000 pages:eek: ... including a couple thousand pages illuminated with images as ornately detailed and fantastic as the finest illuminated manuscripts.
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Pages that are all pictures don't count!
Pages that are all pictures don't count!
So that eliminates William Blake?
Amazing! Can a facsimile be obtained?Quote:
Originally Posted by stlukesguild
By all means read Blake - or any other books that are illustrated - but don't count the pages of illustrations as 'reading'! Only the text counts as reading.
What if it's not a visualization of the story, but the continuation of one and by not reading the image you lose continuity on the following page of text?Quote:
Originally Posted by kasie
What if it's not a visualization of the story, but the continuation of one and by not reading the image you lose continuity on the following page of text?
Yes... doesn't Lawrence Sterne play with the very notion that the narrative can include more than text? Certainly Blake would have insisted that the image was just as essential to the "reading" experience as the text in his various "illuminated" books. What of a graphic novel like MAUS? What of Mallarme's Un coup de dés jamais n’abolira le hasard...
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...or Apollinaire's Calligrams...
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...in which the graphic lay-out... the selection of fonts and scale are all essential elements of the "reading" experience? What of Finnegan's Wake or Lewis Caroll? Are we to imagine that the layout, the use of footnotes or side notations, the inclusion of musical notation, graphics, charts, chess board lay-outs are not an integral part of the experience of the book? What of Japanese poems by poet/artist/calligraphers such as these...
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... in which the calligraphy and the visual appearance... the choice of materials, etc... all add to the experience of reading the poem?
Amazing! Can a facsimile be obtained?
I wish such existed. It will certainly be decades, if not longer, before the whole is properly documented and recorded and given anything approaching facsimile form. There are certainly any number of books on Wolfli's work as a whole, but I doubt that either Darger's or Wolfli's works will be really given the appropriate study for what they were as a whole for quite some time. Hell... I don't think they've even gotten through the entire trunk-cache of Pessoa's work yet. Unfortunately... just as with most of Blake's works... Wolfli's tome is no longer a whole self-contained work. It's worth far more to the greedy jacka** dealers if they split up such works and sell them off piece-meal to the highest bidders with little or no concern for the impact upon culture or the artist's intentions. Look at the recent incident involving Blake:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/16/ar...=1&oref=slogin
I stand corrected - it was a feeble attempt at a joke.
I had presumed as much... but still, who knows? We already had a long and heated discussion about song lyrics and opera librettos as literature and I was very much against the notion of dissecting those works or suggesting that we look at the lyrics or librettos solely as texts (for better or worse) and offer an opinion upon their success (or failure) as poetry or theater when the artist's intention was always that the work be experienced as a unified whole.
The Complete Sherlock Holmes.I speculate it has over 1000 pages and it makes my head churned.
Don Quixote. Although, it's technically two novels, since the second part came ten years after. I also prefer the second part.
The Count of Monte Cristo
Les Misérables
and coming soon
The Vicomte de Bragelonne, sometimes split into 3 parts, apparently...
All around 2000 pages, depending in the edition.
They were all in French. Can I now double the amount of pages because of the effort?:p
The count of Monte Cristo 1243 pages narrowly beats Les Miserables with 1232 pages
I think Les Miserables. It certainly seemed the longest, LOL. War and Peace ran into three volumes in the edition which I read, and Don Quixote was also pretty long, and I'm not sure exactly how many pages any of these books are. Another 'Big Book' was The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu. All very good books (though I was slightly disappointed by Les Mis) but I've only ever read them once.
Definately It and An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser. Finnegan's Wake probably took me the longest to read.
I'm still waiting for those Henry Darger books to be published. I could probably spend years reading In The Realms of the Unreal. Of course it's got a bunch of pictures too, so there's probably like 14,000 pages of text. I can't wait!
Lord of the rings!! Not to offend any tolkeinites, this was the only time when i found the movies to be more interesting than the books. My folly was reading all the three parts at one go !!