Atlas Shrugged is the longest for me, followed closely by James Clavell's Shogun. I've read Shogun thrice cover to cover, but AS was taxing to read once.
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Atlas Shrugged is the longest for me, followed closely by James Clavell's Shogun. I've read Shogun thrice cover to cover, but AS was taxing to read once.
Jonathon strange and Mr Norell - Susanna Clarke
I am currently on page 688 of 1006. She uses many pointless footnotes which pad it out a bit
It should have been cut by a ruthless editor to half it's size. :flare:
Captain Billy's Whizbang or Chitty, Chitty Bang Bang.
School:
Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789, Vol. 3 by Robert Middlekauff
- 736pp
Leisure/Pleasure:
Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- 1360pp
Which I am just starting to read...(after I finish the 900 page Marcel Proust a Life Biography...)Quote:
Originally Posted by Mag Master 21
Any one care to join me reading Á La Recherche Du Temps Perdu ???
My Modern Library 6 volume Moncrief/Kilmartin/ Enright translated edition totals 4300 pages of pure Proustian bliss.
Currently I am reading 'Les Miserables', its more than 1450 pages. I am at 600.
Les Miserables 1800pgs, but I loved it i read it 3 times
Hmm, we're on a roll here.
Les Miserables. My edition had about 1400 pages.
Brothers Karamozov - a little under 1000 pages.
War and Peace, about 1300 pages.
The most recent long book I've read is "The Gulag Archipelago" by A. Solzhenitsyn (really interesting).
Some others are "The Brothers Karamazov" (one of my all-time favourites), "War and Peace", "Les miserables" (didn't like it), "Don Quixote".
Mine would have to be All The Pretty Horses By: Cormack McCarthy.
Romance of the three kingdoms, which was 2000 pages.
mine was in 5 books X 350 pgsQuote:
Originally Posted by Wilde woman
:S mine was 1050 :SQuote:
Originally Posted by Redzeppelin
there is something wrong with my language
everything is longer!
hahaha
I remember feeling so discouraged when I began Les Miserables. I also remember feeling really accomplished after I finished :D
So far: LOTR.
All you Les Miserables people - I take it it's worth the long read?!?
EP :)
Yes, some of his are as long as War and Peace, I'm sure. They are good for long vacation reading.Quote:
Originally Posted by simon
Wow! So many lengthy books out there. I am quite a light weight reader, and getting through Great Expectations seemed to take me quite a while (referring to the glossary regularly and re-reading many parts to try and understand what I was reading). Actually after the first 200 pages, the reading went a lot faster for me as I became somewhat more comfortable with the style of Dickens' writing.
What a great thread for me; a good list of books I don't need to jump into anytime soon ;P~
cheers,
nap
I don't remember how many pages my copy of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell has, but it's a lot. ;) They flew by though as I got into the story.
If I can count all the volumes of A la recherche du temps perdu, then that's the one.
Suitable Boy -- Vikram Seth
It was 1000 or more pages
I love that book! I love the characters.Quote:
Originally Posted by Madhuri
My edition was 1480 pages, I think, and I really enjoyed reading it too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Madhuri
I think mine was about that, too, and I couldn't believe it could be interesting for that many pages, but it was. I thoroughly enjoyed immersing myself in the world of that book.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
Lots. Anna Karenina, Brothers Karamazov, Lord of the Rings, Don Quixote, The Divine Comedy. I'm reading The Idiot at the moment.
I have that on my bookshelf in hardback edition. The size is putting me off a bit as I like to carry the book I'm reading with me :blush:Quote:
Originally Posted by higley
The longest book I have ever read would have to be the most boring book i have ever read, and that was only about 200 pages long.
Unfortunately, Atlas Shrugged.
However, I'm about 800 pages into the Count of Monte Cristo, so that will be my new longest.
Even then, I hope to follow that with Les Miserables.
:lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Uberzensch
Probably The Alexandria Quartet. Or maybe that's just the same length as most of the other long books I've read.
Les Miserables ~ Victor Hugo....I read the 4 or 5 book set and it was amazing....best book I have ever read. It was quite long, but worth reading the unabridged version, which was lent to me by a friend. I would highly recommend it.
The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
The Brothers Karamazov, Les Miserables, Gone with the Wind, War and Peace, The Count of Monte Cristo, Bleak House, Our Mutual Friend, Of Human Bondage, The Peloponesion War ... these are books everyone who loves literature should read.
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo, surely a classic novel.
Probably Les Miserables. I'm planning to read Proust's In Search of Lost Time, and have already been through Swann's Way.
Btw, just as a little fun fact, the longest novel ever written is Henry Darger's The Story of the Two Vivian Girls, it's over 14,000 pages.
Tolstoy - "War and Peace"
Proust - "In search.."
Hugo - "Les miserables"
Petru Dumitriu - "Family Chronicle" ~2000 pages; a Romanian novel spanning 100 years, from the last half of 19th century, narrating the history of a Boyard family; an ambitious book, with the author clearly influenced by Tolstoi, Balzac and Proust.
just as a little fun fact, the longest novel ever written is Henry Darger's The Story of the Two Vivian Girls, it's over 14,000 pages.
Not even close... and already discussed earlier:
More on this subject from earlier posts:Quote:
Originally Posted by stlukesguild
Unfortunately it will be a good many years before anything approaching a complete facsimile edition of Wolfli's book exists. I wish it were otherwise, but 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... they haven't even gotten through the entire trunk-cache of Fernado Pessoa's work yet... or even the whole of what exists of Thomas Traherne's writings. And then there's William Blake! 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:Quote:
Originally Posted by stlukesguild
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/16/ar...=1&oref=slogin
And then there's this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marienbad_My_Love
The page length varies so much from edition to edition. Anyway, I think it would be the standard bricks for me too. War and Peace, Anna Karenina, David Copperfield (my edition is an obscene 1262 pages), and The Brothers Karamazov have to be amongst the longest books I've read.
Recently - Montaigne's Essays (1283 pages)
The RSC Complete Shakespeare might be the longest (2481 Pages), when I've finished it :)
The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton may be longer than Montaigne's Essays. War & Peace almost certainly was, Plato's Complete Dialogues may also be, but I can't be bothered to dig them out to check the number of pages...
Probably War and Peace. The Brothers Karamozov, which I'm currently reading, is over 900 pages, and I think War and Peace is about the same length, but it's been a long time since I read it.
I once read Sarum by Edward Rutherfurd. At 1344 pages it was rather large but I remember being completely hooked. I've not yet read any more by this author but maybe one day!:nod:
The brothers karamazov
The Stand
The talisman
Atlas Shrugged
War and Peace
All long Can't Remember which is the longest