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    Brothers Karamozov - a little under 1000 pages.
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    War and Peace, about 1300 pages.

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    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".

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    Mine would have to be All The Pretty Horses By: Cormack McCarthy.
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    Romance of the three kingdoms, which was 2000 pages.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Wilde woman View Post
    Hmm, we're on a roll here.

    Les Miserables. My edition had about 1400 pages.
    mine was in 5 books X 350 pgs

    Quote Originally Posted by Redzeppelin View Post
    Brothers Karamozov - a little under 1000 pages.
    :S mine was 1050 :S
    there is something wrong with my language
    everything is longer!
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    I remember feeling so discouraged when I began Les Miserables. I also remember feeling really accomplished after I finished

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    So far: LOTR.

    All you Les Miserables people - I take it it's worth the long read?!?

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    Quote Originally Posted by simon View Post
    Michner may not be as long as some of these authors above, but it sure seems like it.
    Yes, some of his are as long as War and Peace, I'm sure. They are good for long vacation reading.

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    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~

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    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.
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    If I can count all the volumes of A la recherche du temps perdu, then that's the one.

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    Suitable Boy -- Vikram Seth

    It was 1000 or more pages
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    Quote Originally Posted by Madhuri View Post
    Suitable Boy -- Vikram Seth

    It was 1000 or more pages
    I love that book! I love the characters.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Madhuri View Post
    Suitable Boy -- Vikram Seth

    It was 1000 or more pages
    My edition was 1480 pages, I think, and I really enjoyed reading it too.
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