Longest book you've ever read.

I guess it would be vanity fair by thackeray, lotr or les miserables... I dont know which is the longest.

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I don't know..which is longer, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix or Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell?

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Definitely Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell.

One of teh longest books i ever read is the one i am reading right now: War and peace. I am in 1345 page and i still have! But i really enjoy it.

Evi

Just finished James Joyce's Ulysses (931 pages) but it felt a lot longer!!!! :eek:

the count of monte cristo by alexandre dumas.

it was a 1000+-page book, but it didn't feel like it though. :D

The length of Ulysses never bothered me, but it didn't become the longest book I had ever read until 2004 when I completed it. I never finished it because I got so lost years ago. Then on the 100th birthday of its publication I decided to finish it and am planning to read it again next year. I fell in love with it. Each year I do walk around a town where I happen to be for most of the day in a tribute to Leonard Bloom.

lord of the rings

Suitable Boy -- Vikram Seth...It was over 1000 pages.

Probably Lord of the Rings or Les Miserables.

Clarissa by Samuel Richardson. The unabridged version. An eighteenth-century epistolary novel. It was originally published in serial form, and Richardson deliberately padded each installment because the longer he could drag it out, the more money he'd make out of his endless saga!

As I recall, the saintly heroine had NO LUCK. She trusted the wrong guy, so was kidnapped and taken into a brothel where he raped her! Later, returned to her family, she pined away and more or less died of a broken heart. What I remember most is how neurotic Clarissa became towards the end, having a coffin constructed in her bedroom. The book was great fun, all melodrama and purple prose, but so-o-o-o-o long!

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Clarissa by Samuel Richardson. The unabridged version. An eighteenth-century epistolary novel. It was originally published in serial form, and Richardson deliberately padded each installment because the longer he could drag it out, the more money he'd make out of his endless saga!

As I recall, the saintly heroine had NO LUCK. She trusted the wrong guy, so was kidnapped and taken into a brothel where he raped her! Later, returned to her family, she pined away and more or less died of a broken heart. What I remember most is how neurotic Clarissa became towards the end, having a coffin constructed in her bedroom. The book was great fun, all melodrama and purple prose, but so-o-o-o-o long!

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The Lord of the Rings(:thumbs_up )

but have just started Clarissa this week so that would be the longest. I think I read somewhere that Clarissa is the longest book written.

I have to say the longest book I've read is Harry Potter and The Order Of The Phoenix, sorry I know that it doesn't belong on the forum. 870 Pages

The longest book Ive ever read was Animal Farm. :lol: No, W&P probably is the longest.

I'm not sure, but I guess it would have to be Stephen King's The Stand, which was over 1,000 pages long.

Lord of the Rings, and Don Quixote which I never got to finish admittedly...