I think it's probably The Stand for me too. I was going to say Lord of the Rings, when I remembered that I never finished it...I think I lost interest halfway through the second book. So yes, The Stand.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 for me too (but i finished both and enjoyed greatly. Also, LOTR i have read 3 times since childhood). Recently i read The Count of Monte Cristo which was slightly bigger than Don Quixote.Originally Posted by Fango
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The Count of Monte Cristo unabridged in English. You're looking at 1600ish there.
Though the book that really hit me the hardest with Drrrrrrrrrrrrrrrraaaaaaaaaaaaaggggggggggggiiiiiiii iiiiiinnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnggggggggg on was Lord of The Rings.
Right in the middle of reading the longest book I've ever read (if that counts). Infinite Jest is a tome of a book, it clocks in at 1079 pages with about 500 words per page, the name definitely does the novel justice.
War and Peace probably, because I don't remember how many pages The Count of Monte Cristo has.
At thunder and tempest, At the world's coldheartedness,
During times of heavy loss And when you're sad
The greatest art on earth Is to seem uncomplicatedly gay.
To get things clear, they have to firstly be very unclear. But if you get them too quickly, you probably got them wrong.
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Atlas Shrugged, but, due to smaller print and so forth, The Portrait of a Lady might be longer. Maybe.
Oh! I'd forgotten I'd read Atlas Shrugged!
A mighty pirate! Yes, I stole it from another forumer when I just started using forums. My favorite game series, naturally, too. Insult swordfighting ftw!*EDIT* Fango i loooove your avatar. It's Guybrush Threepwood, eh?
Of the books I've read, Crime and Punishment seemed longest, but I think had less pages than one of the Wheel of Times. It depends on the publisher and everything though. Has anyone here read Remembrance of Things Past (I haven't, but just wanted to know if anyone else had)? From what I know it is the longest book ever written (not sure on this, but it is about 3000 pages) and I doubt that Proust's efforts in making this colossus were rewarded with an exceptionally large audience.
That's right! I'd quite forgotten how enormous those are. The Shadow Rising is probably the longest I've read. (I never made it out of book six).
i'm not sure if it was the longest, but A Hundred Years of Solitude by Garcia Marquez surely felt like a hundred years for me.
A mighty pirate! Yes, I stole it from another forumer when I just started using forums. My favorite game series, naturally, too. Insult swordfighting ftw!
Definately one of my favourite games series (but the top of my list is the Gabriel Night series). This i remember and laugh heartily:
-Every enemy i've anihilated
-With your breath i'm sure they all suffocated
Don Quixote (don't have a copy on hand but read the Penguin Classics TPB translated by Rutherford)
Lord of the Rings (don't have a copy on hand)
King James Bible? (don't have a copy on hand)
and yes, once again, my two horror anthology bibles:
The Dark Descent (1011)
Great Tales of Terror and The Supernatural (1029)
I believe some Clive Barker's books broke a thousand and some of the fantasy epics I used to enjoy too.
At thunder and tempest, At the world's coldheartedness,
During times of heavy loss And when you're sad
The greatest art on earth Is to seem uncomplicatedly gay.
To get things clear, they have to firstly be very unclear. But if you get them too quickly, you probably got them wrong.
If you need me urgent, send me a PM
More additional titles,
Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa (small print)
The Stand by Stephen King
From Here To Eternity by James Jones
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