What's the longest book you've ever read? You aren't one of those people who get panic attacks when looking at a 350+ page books right?
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What's the longest book you've ever read? You aren't one of those people who get panic attacks when looking at a 350+ page books right?
I read the 1,000 page Diagnosis in Chinese Medicine by Maciocia
The longest total would probably be the 7 HP books
Longest single book is the bros Karamazov
I am reading don quixote at the moment ( was too late to read it with the threads).
~1000 pages, Fr. Seraphim Rose's original biography, Not of this World. Churning through a number of other long books at the moment as well.
Transcription here for any interested: http://orthodoxaustralia.org/2022/05/17/not-of-this-world-the-uncensored-life-of-fr-seraphim-rose/
Homestuck
How long is it anyways?
Do series count?
Read Italian Journey. That’s well over a thousand. Herzen’s My Past and Thoughts i think is longer
Goethe's? If yes, what did you think?
pic rel complete trilogy 1318 pages
It was kind of ok
Wouldn't recommend
The Man Without Qualities (Part I)
Comfy book that is a bit overlong
The Man Without Qualities. It was about ~1600 pages of very dense prose. Fantastic book. Go read it.
I've exclusively read ebooks for the last decade of reading so it's hard to tell exactly what the page numbers are.
But I believe Les Miserables and Outlaws of the Marsh are both in the 1400-1500 page range.
I think the Bible is longer than that, so if I ever get around to finishing it, it'll be the Bible.
As far as EVEN LONGER books that are on my reading list, eventually I want to read
>The Count of Monte Cristo
>War and Peace
>In Search of Lost Time
>The Unabridged Mahabharata
>Unabridged Mahabharata
good fricking luck
Not him but yeah I know. I want to read it though cause the Bhagavad Gita was so comfy n unsettling at the same time
Water Margin (Thats what my 2 volume set was translated into) was like 1260 combined pages. I suppose it depends on the size of the pages though... It was comfy af though, what did you think of it... i should reread it...
There are 71 chapter versions, 100 chapter versions, and 120 chapter versions. I read the 100 chapter version because it was the only one I could get my hands on at the time.
It could be a little repetitive at times but I still loved it. Sagacious Lu, Li Kui the Black Whirlwind, and Song Jiang were the most based characters.
What translations ?
I read the Sidney Shapiro version, which was 100 chapters.
Apparently there's a 120 chapter translation by Alex and John Dent-Young under the title "The Marshes of Mount Liang," which seems to be the only 120 chapter translation.
My physical copies are apparently the 70 chapter version translated by J H Jackson
and yeah repetitive is an understatement.. i can only imagine how the 120 chapter version is... comfy nonetheless
Fantomas is written in episodes, so the whole series practically counts as one book. 32 books in original run, 300 pages on average in each... 9600 pages in total. Plus two books from the continuation that i managed to nab, so close to 10000 pages.
... okay, I just managed to surprise my own self. Didn't realize it would add up to that much.
I finally read Don Quixote, which had been sitting on my shelf untouched for over a decade, because of the IQfy read-along.
Stephen King's It, apparently.
It's significantly better than the adaptations.
Me, too. But Don Quixote's not as long as you'd think. Two of the SoIaF books have a longer wordcount:
https://brokebybooks.com/the-word-count-of-175-favorite-novels/
The Hackett Complete Works of Plato at 1800 pages
>complete works
>a book
you read like 50 different 50 page books plus The Republic
>counting the endnotes and commentary
A Glastonbury Romance (my favorite book) is about 1100
Larkin's Letters were, from memory, in the 800 range
CT Hsia's History of Chinese Modern Fiction was slightly under that
I'm currently reading Lockhart's Life of Scott which is. I guess, somewhere between 2500 and 3000
but that's split into volumes, and I'm not reading 'em all in a row
Unabridged Count of Monte Cristo
>longest book you've ever read
"Worm", by John McCrae (Wildbow). Amazing book, btw.
It was published on his website one chapter at a time like Dickens used to do. All together it's like 5k pages long. Read it twice, loved it both times.
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/45860/diaries-of-a-madman
war & peace
Continuously probably one of the complete works of an author, I’ve read Delphi’s complete dunsany a couple times and that’s 6489 pages for example, complete Blake is 3021 pages, complete prose and verse works usually run this length and sometimes I get the urge to just really stick to an author and reread them in entirety.
Longest work I’ve read in pieces is probably the Delphi collected Sanskrit works which includes the Mahabharata as well as various other Hindu epic poetry, highly recommend it for the Kiratarjuniya. All in all it runs 13690 pages.
Magic Mountain or Underworld. Not sure which is longer.
War & Peace. No, I'm not. I actually prefer long stories as long as they are well-crafted. Its nice to escape to a different world for a few weeks, with short books it feels like they end before I even really get to know the characters.
twice the length of war & peace
why did i waste so much time reading vn trash
Money dick
Grapes of wrath
Dalgren (not worth it)
Brothers karsmonov
On my shelf:
Underworld
War and piece
Dante’s inferno
I think a good long book can be very comfy but I lie to do a few short reads in between the tombs.
> Show you're a cuck without saying you're a cuck
Has to be The Recognitions. It certainly felt like it. The sheer size of the book is mammoth as well, regardless of page count
>The Civil War: A History
worth it
>The Complete Works of Aristotle
it had a lot of slow parts but also a lot of interesting ideas
>The City of God
not worth it
War and Peace, Les Miserables, and IJ, were all worth it
One day I want to fully take the Balzac pill, I mean the entirety of it.
Probably like 350 pages
I read Parallel Lives in college.
Forgot the pic
What do you consider 5 stars?
Here is everything I have on my 5 star shelf. It's mostly based on my subjective enjoyment of each book. My opinions are not sovereign among mortals.
A powerful man.
SOVL
ISOLT x 3
The Holy Bible, probably
Moby-Dick or maybe House of Leaves but half of that is just single word pages or black squares
Atlas Shrugged. It didn't feel very long while reading, so it wasn't until I read about it afterward that I realized it is apparently the eleventh longest novel in the english language.
Do serials count? If so, Worm is 1.7M words long. Otherwise probably Rhythm of War at roughly half a million words.
Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Volume 3
Knausgaard's My Struggle: 3600 pages.
to be considered a "book" there has to exist a self contained volume
No there doesn't
look up what the word "book" means, idiot
4v, ~2000 pages
Some history books or biographies of around 700 pages.
257 pages
Single volume - War and Peace
Series - Aubrey Maturin 20 novels -7000 pages according to Google.
I would have guessed closer to 6000 but will defer to Google
>Clarissa; or, The History of a Young Lady: Comprehending the Most Important Concerns of Private Life. And Particularly Shewing, the Distresses that May Attend the Misconduct Both of Parents and Children, In Relation to Marriage
1,543 pages
I read a really long book a few times a year.. I think the longest might be Jean-Christophe it was around 1600 or so pages in the Modern Library Giants edition I have
some shitty cpp guide, it was good 1800 pages.
The Mysterious Island - Jules Verne
In this edition, so 506 pages from which you should remove blank ones, etc
Ive read the unabridged Summa Theologica, no cap.
Not true, why do you lie in an internet forum?
The Magic Mountain
The Talmud
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