Mine:
The Sum Of All Fears (Tom Clancy)
984 pages
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Mine:
The Sum Of All Fears (Tom Clancy)
984 pages
The Holy Bible. This at times seemed longer than it actually was, partly because I'm not a religious fellow and heretic, unbelieveing thoughts like "Yeah right!" and "But...but...Ohhh!" and *snort* and "Okay man, this is really weird..." were running through the back of my head. The bible is really old, to put it lightly, and often times not at all modern. Some of the things done in the name of faith seem plain senseless to me. Ohh, and I also drew it out, so it took me about a year to read. :sick:
On the other hand, I did enjoy reading it for the most part, and I learned a ton! :nod:
For me it has to be one of Robert Jordan's horribly slow Wheel of Time books.
Most recent one would be James Thakara's Book of Kings and it was excellent, wished it didn't have to end :)
A honkin' big book, 770 plus pages, 6" X 9" sized.
The Golden Bough, recently a 700 plus behemoth. I take notes on everything that I read, and this one was full of those facts that you would want to remember so the emphasis on me writing made it seem sooooo long. It was good though.
The Renaissance in Italy in 7 Volumes by John Addington Symonds 500 to 600 pages per volume
War and Peace.
War and Peace (short edition!)
Roots, Mill on the Floss, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix are the longest books I have read. Actually I have forgotten their actual lengths but as I remember I found them VERY lengthy so I can't decide between them that which one was the longest.....
Lord Of The Rings
Probably Memories of Ice by Steven Erikson.
Michner may not be as long as some of these authors above, but it sure seems like it.
Jane austen: The complete novels does that count??
If not then The lord of the rings
haha dont think Jane Austen, the complete novels counts, sorry.
The last 2 harry potter books were pretty long, so im gonna have to say those ones too. (HP and the Order of the Phoenix and HP and the Half Blood Prince.)
Lord of the Rings comes right to mind, but I know that I have some thick books in my past, page numbers are just not sticking with me.
Does it count if I made it only halfway through? :D that was the Lord of the Rings.
(It seems to me The Complete Works of Shakespeare wouldn't count; at least that's what I gather from previous answers).
Probably the Bible. Yes, even some non-believers like me have read the Bible -- slowly, over the years, from cover to cover. How do you think we became non-believers?
The Old Testament was somewhat more interesting mythology than the New Testament, but the whole book pushed the boundaries of common sense. Too bad it wasn't written by the actual people involved rather than by "followers" who had an ax to grind. Paul remained Saul after all.
Well, I made it a sixth of the way through "The Border Trilogy" by Cormac McCarthy, before I lost interest. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by LightShade
Longest I read was "Sophie's Choice" by William Styron (684 pages), followed by John Fowles' "The Magus" (656 pages).
The longest I have read was also my favorite, Stephen King's The Stand. It was the uncut edition, which is around 1100 pages.
That was mine too.Quote:
Originally Posted by bugmasta
I read a book about Sobibor (a concentration camp) that I thought ended up being about 600 or so pages long, but when I looked the book up at Amazon it said it's only about 391. I don't remember it that way, but it's been a long time since I read it.
I too would say Sophie's Choice (since clarity mentioned it) and, I don't know if this counts as "long" (it felt long) but I read The Canterbury Tales for a class in school.
I like long novels but my mind starts to wander and I never seem to get through them. I put them down and don't pick them up again until years later.
Anna Karenina would probably be my longest.
http://www.online-literature.com/tolstoy/anna_karenina/
I've read a few really long books, War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy and Les Miserables by Victor Hugo probably being my favourites. I don't know how many pages each has, but I'm sure the number is pretty high....the books are really thick and (the unabridged edition I chose) with very tiny letters! :D
I also read Les Miserables (loved it! It's the book that makes me want to learn French) I remember my first copy had about 1500 pages but it was ruined in a car wreck. So my new copy has only 987 pages. I also read The Count of Monte Cristo 1077, Gone With the Wind 733, Little Women 686, Lord of the Rings, and unfortunately I've misplaced my copy of Don Quixote but that was rather long as well.
War and Peace is on my shelf for the future.
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, Les Miserables by Victor Hugo, and Texas by James A. Michener, are about the longest books I can recall ever reading.
I started to read "Remembrance of Things Past" by Proust, but then I discovered he had written the endless volumes while in bed. He wasn't sick or anything, he just lost interest in the outside world. Stayed in bed for years, writing his memoirs.
Must be an occupational hazard. Larry McMurtry stayed in bed for two years, watching videotaped movies and eating until his weight ballooned out of sight. Ah, the rewards of being a successful author!
Anna Karenina
I am currently reading one that is over 1,000 pages. We'll see how far I make it. I dk why, but I tend to always pick long novels and long series. I am a bit disappointed with a story without even having read it when it is short, which is probably not fair to the author.
When I read a book with a story that I don't really like, but cause of some reasons (e.g. highly recommended by a friend and he insisted me to read it) I have to finish it.
I think the longest I've ever read was Douglas Adam's incredibly interesting, incredibly funny "The Hitchhikler's Guide to the Galaxy" (the whole collection in one book) I think it was about 800-odd pages...
I'm not sure, maybe the Arabian Nights, or the Lord of the Rings, counting all the books (the LotR trilogy, plus the Hobbit and the Silmarillion). Don Quixote could be a contender also.
I do not think the length of the book depends on its complexity or impressiveness, as short books (Critique Of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant, The Old Man And The Sea by Ernest Hemingway) can seem equally, if not more, complex than longer books.
A few books I have read at great length, anyway: War And Peace by Leo Tolstoy (1136 pages), The Complete Short Stories Of O. Henry (1692 pages), The Poetry Of Geoffrey Chaucer (1552 pages), and The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare (1246 pages).
My record right now is Patriot Games, Clear and Present Danger, and Sum of All Fears by Tom Clancy in a hardcover book which is 1420 pages. After I read Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann I am going to read his epic Joseph and Brothers which is 1536 pages. However both of these are novels put into a larger collection. My largest single novel page wise is probably be The Dark Tower by Stephen King
Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" was about 1100 pages, from memory.
The longest book I've read is Atlas Shrugged too. It wasn't really worth it though.
Don Quixote, unabridged. Now I ask myself why....http://www.smileyville.net/invision/question.gif
Tom Jones - by Henry Fielding. Truthfully speaking I skipped many pages to reach the end. The story is great & the authors ideas & language, expressions are good.The book is worth ones time. Anyone there who has read this one ?
I think it's the silent don
Proust's In Search of Lost Time
Other very long novels were tolstoy's anna karenina and war and peace,
the brothers karamazov and some more, but I don't remember 'em all.
Just remembered those, because someone at the russian literature topic discussion said that Russians somehow always seem to write veeery long books (but every page is worth it!)
If you count the Lord of the Rings trilogy as one book, that's the longest for me. Crime and Punishment and The Bros. K are up there, too.
The one that seemed the longest, though, in that every moment of my life that went into reading it was utterly wasted, is Moby Dick. I'm sorry, that's just bad writing. Who held the contest for Most Consecutive Sentences Over a Half-Page Long?? There were so many ridiculously off-topic tangents that I felt like I was reading straight-through one of those "choose your own adventure" children's books, where you're supposed to skip ahead depending on what you want to happen, except that Melville forgot to mark the pages. And then the entire chapter dedicated to Why Whales are Fish. . . *ugh* It was like an entire book of "Birdseye View of Paris."