/lit/ - Literature

>>16215249
And yes, it's a great read.

>>16215249
Brothers Karamazov.

>>16215249
Liveblog, 777 pages + appendices and addenda. Loved it.

>>16215249
War and Peace for a single volume
Master and Commander series (20 volumes) for a series

>>16215249
Les Mis- 1200 but felt like 400 or so

>>16215249
The entire collection of Plato's dialogues

>>16215297
Including the letters?

>>16215310
Yes.

>>16215311
those aren't Plato's though

>>16215297
This, but now I’m most of the way through Aristotle’s complete works too (not kidding). On page ~3400 in my ereader.

The Bible

>>16215249
Probably Poor Fellow, My Country (longest single-volume novel written in English). And while its length served a purpose, I'm not sure it needed to be /that/ long. Nonetheless I enjoyed most of it, some sections a lot, some less so - for example, I didn't enjoy some of the sections focussing on the aborigines as much.

>>16215297
>>16215332
In my opinion, collections don't count as books, but a bunch of separate books.

>>16215332
What's it like?

Les Miserables, ~1200 pages approx. Truly amazing overall, though I can't deny sometimes it gets a bit tedious

>>16215356
Then probably Brothers K or Atlas Shrugged.

>>16215356
>collections don't count as books
anon...

>>16215439
>That's _not_ a collection
OK

>>16215389
Honestly reading is pleasurable but you really do have to force yourself to get through texts. It's so easy to abandon half way through.

>>16215249
Infinite Jest and it's one of my favorite books. 1079 pages but it's easy. About to start Don Quixote, shorter than IJ but still long.

In Search of Lost Time 3,600 pages
The Arabian Nights 2,800 pages
Bible 1,600 pages
War and Peace 1,400 pages
Les Miserables 1,400 pages
The Count of Monte Cristo 1,300 pages
Don Quixote 1,000 pages
Ulysses 1,000 pages
Infinite Jest 1,000 pages
Divine Comedy 800 pages

Am I missing any important book over 800 pages?

The Doll by Boleslaw Prus
Comfy story about a merchant who has oneitis for a noble girl. The twist is that her family is broke and he tries to win them with money
he fails because no matter what they see him as nothing more than a commoner
comfy/10

>>16215471
2666 and The Recognitions off the top of my head. There are a ton of books over 800 pages, I think "long" should mean 1000+.

>>16215443
>he is serious

>>16215493
>important

>>16215421
That's pretty fair
>>16215439
That's just a bunch of books compiled together. Or are you arguing that The Republic, or Laws, or Socrates' Trial and Death aren't books?

>>16215364
Insightful. When I read the Metaphysics, it felt surprisingly natural, since all that background naturalized me into the Greek way of thought, and so I could “see the threads”. It made it actually seem kind of, manageable compared with my expectations for it. Its the difference between seeing a math problem where you cannot understand the terminology or even begin to imagine a solution, and seeing a tricky derivative problem. Before, something like the Metaphysics would have been incomprehensible, now it feels like the Greats are in reach, a most beautiful delusion.

>>16215249
various fanfiction

>>16215471
the brothers karamazov
i would add the man without qualities and the magic mountain

>>16215493
>infinite jest

GR, W&P, idiot
idk which is longest

>>16215471
brothers K, the recognitions, against the day, 2666

>>16215273
I thought it was this for a while, with it's 1014 and all, not including notes. But it turns out my copy of Storm of Swords clocks in at 1128. Thought I beat that pleb shit out years ago

>>16215471
>The Count of Monte Cristo 1,300 pages
wew la was it really that long? it only felt like 400 or so
forget this post >>16215553

>>16215249
"Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy," 1,632 pages.

probably under the dome by stephen king, but it didn't feel like a overly long book at all, very enjoyable read.

>>16215249
See Spot Run. About 12 pages I think.

>>16215266
youve read liveblog but not IJ, come on man

Atlas Shrugged ~1200 pages
It had a monologue that spanned like 60 pages lmao i almost blew my brains out.

>>16215471
>Am I missing any important book over 800 pages?
Bottom's Dream

probably this, roughly 1000 pgs iirc

How long is it taking you cunts to read a 1,000 page book?

>>16215700
between 2 weeks and... Critique of Pure Reason took me 6 months and I think it was about 800pages

>>16215645
>Bottom's Dream
Is that actually worth a read translated into English, or is it just a big fat meme like Finnegan's Wake shilled by dead-end lit PhDs?
>inb4 the 2deep4u fags show up

>>16215547
it's good.
>>16215503
they are.

>>16215850
dimwit

>>16215249
If you like Einstein’s biography, you should read my diary desu.

Shogun, 1100-something pages if I recall correctly

Brothers Karamazov, around 1000 roughly

>>16215566
Might've been an abridged version, lots of people make that mistake

>>16215993
based

>>16216076
he types like a retard so i'm sure he read an abridged version without knowing it

>>16215249
A Clash of Kings

>>16215471
Essays, Montaigne 1400 pages

The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt
Don't know if it's the longest but didn't see it posted and it's worth every page

>>16215249
Either Stephen King's Apocalypse, the Count of Monte Cristo or Fallout Equestria.

>>16215250
Damn, what an insightful post! Frogposters really make this a better place.

>>16215531
That's great to hear about Metaphysics. Looks like I'll definitely be reading that next because I felt exactly as you say when reading the Greeks: like I'm missing a lexicon.

>>16216076
didnt feel that way when reading, though it definitely looked thicker than 400
story ends on pg1243, notes end on 1276

>>16215471

Not really but when I looked it up I was surprised Atlas Shrugged was so high up.

Mine is either War and Peace or Atlas Shrugged

>>16215249
Maybe Weber's Economy and Society, which is ~1500 pages.

>>16215249
Do online books count?

If yes, "Worm" by J.C McCrae. 1.68 million words long.

If no, the Bible. 1200 pages, and I've read at least part of every book.

>>16215439
is this book any good? I need a physical copy of Plato and am thinking of ordering this

>>16216929
yes

My copy of Les Miserables was 1200 pages, so that

>>16216929
no

>>16217501
fuck off. girls aren't allowed in my library

>>16217501
Hold up, what's wrong with Hackett's published Plato? As a matter of fact, I don't understand the issue with most of these, except 6. Personally I'm a Fagles man.

>>16215249
Probably Livy. Shit was so cash.

>>16217981
It's just a meme, that tweet was edited. But if you want some arguments I imagine /lit/ would make:
>There are better translations but you have to look for them individually for each dialogue, they aren't compiled in a single volume.
>not reading them in Greek
>since it's the translation recommended in the meme Start with the Greeks chart, it gets automatically disqualified
hope that helps

>>16217981
>I don't understand the issue with most of these, except 6
>Personally I'm a Fagles man
ngmi

The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss.
It was 994 pages.
Idk i read it in high school and liked it so it was probably shit

>>16218007
I've seen those arguments before, I just asked because I'm a personal fan of Hackett Publishing.

>>16218013
Hang yourself, I've studied ancient Greek and Latin, and I like Fagles.

>>16215249
The Structure of Evolutionary Theory by Stephen Jay Gould. Wikipedia says it’s 1433 pages (I don’t have my copy with me). I’m a very slow reader and when I started a lot of the concepts were new to me so it took me around 2 years I think.

>>16218111
Forgot to answer if I liked it. I thought it was great. Aside from the actual point of the book Gould has an encyclopedic knowledge so I learned about a lot of random stuff (probably why the book is so big). It’s hard to say how much I’d agree with him nowadays though.

In search of lost time, loved it

Anniversaries- Uwe Johnson. Parts were amazing and other parts really dragged

>>16215471
The Tale of Genji is around 1200

>>16215471
Gibbon's History, matches Proust
Macaulay's England, 2500
James's Principles of Psychology (lv), 1100
Duc de Saint-Simon's Memoirs, 2200
Zibaldone, 2000
--first 5 that come to mind

>>16215471
Summa

>>16218119
I've got a copy (read about half)
His prose is far more heavy handed in this one than in his shorter works, but I've heard he was racing to complete it before he died.

>>16218192
That's got to be at the very least 5k

>>16218168
Riding here, riding there, all those little poems- perhaps the most quickly paced tome I've ever read. Enjoyed it far more than I thought I would.

>>16218206
Apparently, the summa- 1.8m words
In search of lost time- 1.26m
so yeah, 50% more words, more than 5k

>>16216702
>Count of Monte Cristo
same here. unabridged version.

I've read a few of the longer ones like The Brothers Karamazov and War and Peace, but I think The Life of Johnson might have been longer than either.

>>16218231
I've got a buddy who inherited an unabridged set-- 24 volumes

>>16218252
The one I read was a "pocket" version which was composed of a little over 1400 pages, divided into two volumes.

Longest I've read is the Memoirs of Casanova. In total, it's to my edition 4,323 pages long, across 6 volumes. It was quite good, and a fascinating look into mid-18th century Europe. Albeit at times rather rambling in tone.

TCP/IP Guide.

Futu.re by Dimitri Glukhovsky. It was a great science fiction book imo. It had 925 pages
pic related is the cover

>>16215249
The whole of /lit so far, have probably read over 10 books worth of words yet i still cant finish the last 100 pages of my book ive been reading for months

bump

>>16215249
A 1 million words fanfic.

>>16215569
How readable is this? I have it on my reading list but I'm worried it'll just be a clinical analysis of evidence.

>>16215249
Probably Foucault's Pendulum. It had a lot of paper.

>>16215249
I've read a couple fanfiction 500K+ word count.
Do series count as a single book, or not?

Water Margin? It seemed quite long, should be about 1500 pages

>>16215249
The Witching Hour by Anne Rice 1,011 pages. I loved it until the last 200 pages.....she spent all that time building the world and drawing me into the story just to wrap it up clumsily in less than 200 pages. I was pissed.

>>16215249
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, 1536 sites

>>16220739
which one? The pokemon one?

Aztec

The Doll by Bolesław Prus. 1200 pages, pure epicness, everyone should read it

>>16215657
how was it?

>>16215249
Just finished "Les deux étendards" 1312 pages