/lit/ - Literature

>>21717632
Decline and fall if the roman empire.

>>21717632
The Making of the Atomic Bomb. Well worth it, especially if you're studying any science.

>>21717632
Fallout Equestria

>>21717632
>What are the longest books you've read?
Grapes of Wrath

>>21717632
Dream of the Red Chamber 1850 pages

Infinite Jest (1079)
Against the Day (1085)
2666 (943)
Atlas Shrugged (1168)
Underworld (827)
The Road to Reality (1094)
The Book of the New Sun (1008)
The Brothers Karamazov (1075)
War & Peace (906)

>>21717632
They aren't books but, Homestuck which is 1,200,000 words long (The holy bible is 783,137 words long), and Umineko which is 950,000 words long

>>21717632
I haven't gotten around to it yet but the longest book I have is 1001 Arabian Nights at around 20,000 pages. I keep putting it off.

>>21717632
The Man without Qualities (1700)
Tu Rostro Mañana (1300)

The Reality Dysfunction (1200+ pages)

My copy of The Count of Monte Cristo is 1462 pages.

Benito Cereno (112 pages)

>>21717940
Can you tell me what edition, I tried figuring out the largest edition but delphi doesn't give a page number and the Arabic wikipedia doesn't tell me anything other than a expurgated eygptian edition.

Infinite Jest
War & Peace
The Brothers Karamazov
The Decameron
Les Miserables

I have 2666, Monte Cristo, Man Without Qualities ready to go.

>>21717632
War and peace is the longest I've ever read.

>>21717639
This has been on my shelf staring at me for the last 5 years and I'm too intimidated to start it.

>>21717632
Many, but I no longer read long books.
It's a mistake to read books that are over 700 pages long.
You'll be wasting too much of your time. How many great short books can you read in the time it would take you to read the Recherche? At least fifteen.

>>21718427
I think the Delphi edition is the largest one.
You'll probably have better luck looking at volume count rather than page since page numbers start over at 1 each volume.

>>21718452
Why should i read 7 novellas when i could read one novel instead?

ISOLT (x3)
MwQ
Divine Days
IJ
Against the Day
2666
The Apotheosis of Nullity

4 books of russian LitRPG Stellar. It was about 1600 pages.
G. Martin Game of Thrones 1 book 1000 pages.

>>21718701
Who's talking about novellas?
You could read the collected poems of Rimbaud, Mallarmé, T.S. Eliot, and John Donne in the time it takes you to read Infinite Jest.

Anyway, it's up to you whether you wish to make the best use of your time or not.

Infinite Jest, Count of Monte Cristo, 1Q84 and A Dance with Dragons all seem to be about 1000 pages.

>>21718759
You’re a genuine retard.

>>21717639
I got a hundred pages in and got distracted by other more interesting books
to me, that shows that you're a boring person

>>21717632
Collected short stories by DH Lawrence (Everymans Library)
The Dying Grass by Vollman

Atlas Shrugged

>>21718759
>why watch an opera when you can listen to Stairway to Heaven 27 times in a row?

>>21718759
>You could read the collected poems of Rimbaud, Mallarmé, T.S. Eliot, and John Donne
But why would I do that?

The Naked and the Dead certainly felt like the longest.

>>21717632
This kinobook right here.
Worth every page.

>>21717632
In search of lost time if that counts

Titus Livius's rome history, it is 1/4 longer than War and Peace

>>21717927
War and peace is almost 2 times bigger Brothers Karamazov

>>21717632
Parallel Lives is 1/3 bigger than war and peace

stop measuring books in pages retards

The two-volume history of the U.S. Army in the Iraq War. It was like 1500 pages. Pretty good. Dry.

>>21717632
Dream of the Red Chamber (2526 pages)
Romance of the Three Kingdoms (2339 pages)
The Water Margin (2304 pages)
Journey to the West (1896 pages)
The Tale of Genji (1216 pages)

I'm currently reading The Plum in the Golden Vase which is a whopping 4218 pages, after which I intend to start reading either The Mahabharata or The Ramayana.

>>21718448
Why did you buy it then? Don’t buy books you won’t read nor appreciate.

>>21720679
Dry?

>>21721660
NTA but sometimes you swing and miss, or lose interest before you even start. Forcing yourself to read a book just because you bought it is retarded. Since you own it, you can always try it again at another time anyway

>>21719041
lol, lmao

>>21717632
Does ISOLT count as one book?

>>21717632
probably the unabridged golden bough

No one had read Marcel Proust? seriously?

Honestly? Probably Dune. I have some very long books but haven't read any of them yet.

Livy's works which is some 1800 pages

>>21717632
idk maybe musashi or monte cristo

>>21719248
Why is he fat?

>>21722882
Came here to post this

>>21718448
You can read it in sections. It's sense, but you can read one period and come back months/ years later to read more and it's not a big deal.

>>21721660
I will read it, eventually.