Longest book you've ever read.

[Erichtho]

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 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.

[Loike]

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

[antonia1990]

Gone with the wind (1024 pages)


Did I win? lol

[antonia1990]

Haven't heard of it. Do you like it so far? Is it a good read?

[stlukesguild]

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.

[antonia1990]

I should try and find it. Thanks!

[kasie]

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?

[NickAdams]

Gone with the wind (1024 pages)


Did I win? lol

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.

[antonia1990]

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.

I wonder if anyone registered here has the patience to read that? I would admire them forever!

[stlukesguild]

Nick... I don't know... that's a bit too long for a sexual fantasy... especially of the underaged variety. 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 ... including a couple thousand pages illuminated with images as ornately detailed and fantastic as the finest illuminated manuscripts.

[stlukesguild]

A few more Wolflis:

[kasie]

Pages that are all pictures don't count!

[stlukesguild]

Pages that are all pictures don't count!

So that eliminates William Blake?

[NickAdams]

Nick... I don't know... that's a bit too long for a sexual fantasy... especially of the underaged variety. 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 ... including a couple thousand pages illuminated with images as ornately detailed and fantastic as the finest illuminated manuscripts.

Amazing! Can a facsimile be obtained?

[kasie]

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.