Shogun by James Clavell. 1152 pages in paperback.
Shogun by James Clavell. 1152 pages in paperback.
Les Misérables (1493 pages pb)
To be fair, I'm only 900 pages into it but plan on finishing it by the end of the week. I suppose the longest I've finished is War & Peace. I'm not counting the bible, though.
It by Stephen King. Although it has a lot of pages, it was a quick read.
It has to be the Bible! Aside from that, "The Dream of the Red Mansons" by Tsao Xuejin and Gao E.
War and Peace at 992 pages.
Les Miserable ~ Victor Hugo; 4 or 5 books at about 500 pages each...well worth reading the complete text!
and Josef K, good for you reading the full-length version. It is a tremendos book!
"It's so mysterious, the land of tears."
Chapter 7, The Little Prince ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The Stand by Stephen King. 1141 pages. A great book overall with an infuriating conclusion.
lord of the rings 1, 2 & 3. it took me almost a whole year.
then gravity's rainbow. HUGE. and chaotic. anna karenina, yeah.
I would say "In Search of Lost Time" by Proust, if you combine all six volumes it is close to 3000 pages.. and then "Les Miserables" and "War and Peace" and "Gargantua and Pantagruel"
Atlas Shrugged
1168
And again, if you combined all three LOTR books into one massive book (as was J.R.R's original intent, if I'm not mistaken?)
Naked except for a cigarette, you let your mind drift and forget your disbelief. Feel the chill down your back and the flutter of wings through dandelion fields, and forget the pull of gravity in a night without stars.
I lack eloquence and commitment to my arguments. They are half baked, and I will begin passionately, and then abandon them.
I think I posted here before and I believe I wrote either The Bible (which I suppose isn't one but many books) or Tolstoi's War and Peace.
But I recently finished Milton's Paradise Lost, which at least felt like the longest thing I'd ever read. Honestly I think I'll wait a decade or two before I start on Paradise Found. Wondefully crafted but long neverthless.
My lifelong love affair with books and reading continues unaffected by automation, computers, and all other forms of the twentieth-century gadgetry.
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
Logan Pearsall Smith, 1931
Seven volumes for the Search of Lost Time (but maybe you're leaving out the most boring one - La prisonnièreOriginally Posted by islandclimber
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And you can add Le Tiers Livre, Le Quart Livre and Le Cinquième Livre to Pantagruel's adventures (I haven't read them, personally - stopped a the first two).
I think my longest must have been the three volumes of the Lord of the Rings or maybe War and peace. But I'm very intrigued now about the works of Adolf Wolfli, so I'll have to go to Berne to read all his pages(thank you wikipedia).
Yes of course, seven volumes haha... I forgot about that.. I read it a few years and I always think it is 6 volumes for some reason
I have read the first 3 volumes of G&P. the last two I never found a copy of (well to be honest I may have not put that much effort in
I cannot recall what the longest book I have completed was. But right now I am reading Stone of Tears by Terry Goodkind and The Fires of Heaven by Robert Jordan, and I cannot decide between the two of them which one is fatter but they are both tremendously thick. And both these books are the longest within each of their series, so of course I would end up reading them at the same time.
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
Bible : 1500 pages
Shogun (Clavell) : 1200 pages
Noble House (Clavell) : 1390 pages
Les Miserables (Hugo) : 1490 pages
When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent
~ Isaac Asimov
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