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What's the longest (fiction/literature) book you've ever read?

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Originally posted by: loki8481
mastered the art of reading and taking notes on books for class in the bathroom, though. hah.
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Please share. What's your system? Do you write in the book? I'm concerned about my upcoming effort with The Brothers Karamazov. So many Russian names to keep track of...

 
Used to read a lot of Stephen King. Never read the uncut version of The Stand, but I read the original abridged version. I did read It in its entirety, though. Amazon lists 1152 pages for It.
 
Don Quixote and Battlefield Earth are the largest I can think of. Though one day I will read the Bible from cover to cover.
 
Started in on that rambling jillion wasted pages of tennis and mary jane known as... Trying to recall the name... Infinite Jest. I quit after 200 or 300 pages. I enjoyed reading Atlas Shrugged although I didn't get into the whole idealism facet of it.

For IJ: Paperback: 1088 pages
 
A Storm of Swords: 924

If we're counting a collection of short stories as well,
George R.R. Martin: A Rretrospective: 1253 (for the Grammer Nazis, there are in fact 2 r's in Rretrospective in the title).
 
Originally posted by: shuttleboi
Originally posted by: loki8481
mastered the art of reading and taking notes on books for class in the bathroom, though. hah.
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Please share. What's your system? Do you write in the book? I'm concerned about my upcoming effort with The Brothers Karamazov. So many Russian names to keep track of...
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It really isn't that many.

12 or so characters who have any importance. You have 900 pages to get familiar with them 🙂
 
Originally posted by: Atheus
Probably The Stand if it really was 1200 pages as someone said, I swear Dr Zhivago seemed bigger though.

Or it could be one of the Wheel of Time books. Has anyone else read those?
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Dingding...winnar. The Stand-unabridged and uncut version. It never fails to stun me how FVCKING GOOD that book is.
 
I have 'the brothers..' on my shelf too.....been meaning to start it after I finish David Copperfield😱

I tried reading Lewis Sinclair's 'Babbit' but the main character is so bitchy that it is annoying at hell. I will give it a chance though.
 
Originally posted by: Brackis
Originally posted by: shuttleboi
Originally posted by: loki8481
mastered the art of reading and taking notes on books for class in the bathroom, though. hah.
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Please share. What's your system? Do you write in the book? I'm concerned about my upcoming effort with The Brothers Karamazov. So many Russian names to keep track of...
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It really isn't that many.

12 or so characters who have any importance. You have 900 pages to get familiar with them 🙂
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and then there's like 200 other names that are randomly referenced throughout the novel. Good book though, I just started rereading it yesterday
 
I read the Oxford Dictionary of English cover to cover this past summer. It's a bit over 2,100 pages. The longest work of fiction I've read is probably the King James Version of the Bible. Is that longer than the Stand? (It's a lot scarier, that's for sure.)
 
The Stand was painful for about 500 pages.... took me weeks to get that far. Then, suddenly, I read it every moment I could til I was finished.
 
Originally posted by: DrPizza
The Stand was painful for about 500 pages.... took me weeks to get that far. Then, suddenly, I read it every moment I could til I was finished.
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Talk about determination😀
 
Brothers K is the longest book I've ever read. I don't remember what happened, but I remember thinking it was not torture to read or anything.
 
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