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What books over 1000 pages have you read, my fellow BBEs?*
Fantasy series don't count as one big book.

(*Big Book Enthusiasts)

>> No.22160706

>>22160667
I've read 7...
Thousand

>> No.22160735

I read IJ on the train to and from my sixth form college (UK high school, basically).

It was a very lonely era of my life.

>> No.22160778

>>22160667
>Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy in America (Historical-Critical Edition)
10/10, pure /lit/. Would recommend

>Herodotus - Histories
Meh, better read Thucydides, Amian or Prokopios instead

>The Bible
Love it or hate, you should have already read it by now if you are in /lit/

>> No.22160787

>>22160735
>It was a very lonely era of my life.
You are not alone, anon. I also hated high school.

>> No.22160829

>>22160667
IJ
Against the day
Les mis
Others such as 2666 don't count because the original publications have less than a thousand pages.

>> No.22160888

>Insel Felsenburg by Schnabel
First quarter is great and so are the mystery parts that inspired Arthur Gordon Pym but the rest is kinda terrible.

>Geschichte des Agathon by Wieland
Pure comfy Greek fanfic kino. Can recommend. A translation probably exists.

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>>22160667

>> No.22161669

Count of Monte Cristo is by far the thickest book i've ever read.

>fantasy series don't count as one big book
>implying that an essay about revenge is fantasy

>> No.22161944

>>22160735
IJ?

>> No.22161949

>>22161944
Infinite Jest.

>> No.22161983

>>22160667
I read Les Misérables on winter vacation when I was in high school. I spend days by nothing but reading and finished it within a week. It's the longest book I have ever read.

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22162553

>>22160667
>tfw my KJV only has 998 pages

>> No.22162598

>>22160667
Idk if Ulysses or IJ counts, TBK or W&P could also be as well but I guess it mostly depends on font and other printing peculiarities. I.e. wordsworth classics had Ulysses paperback, that I could fit in my 'dark academia' parka's pocket on my way through stansted airport, but shrift was painfully small and I used the book only as a reference.

>> No.22162661

>>22162553
>>22162598
Stop talking in acronyms, please.

>> No.22162673

>>22162661
WYP?

>> No.22162688

Carlyle's Frederick the Great
>4500 pages of comfy Carlylean prose
>based Prussian subject matter
>cool historical fact that Goebbels read passages from it to Hitler in the Fuhrer bunker

>> No.22162700

>>22162661
Imagine being filtered so easy

>> No.22162705

>>22162553
KGV?

>> No.22162713

>>22162700
I'm a newfag. Please go easy on me.

>> No.22162717

>>22162673
C'mon man. Don't do this.

>> No.22162720

>>22162688
''the Great'' Lmao, he got his ass saved only due to the tragic untimely death of Catherine the Great.

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22163224

I read a bunch of 500-700 page books but since I do it in an e-reader, it's displayed as 1200 pages so then I tell all my coworkers that I just knocked out another 1200 page book and they look at me impressed and when I'm introduced to others, my coworkers as "this is anon. He's a big reader."

And I smile.

>> No.22163226

Don Quixote

>> No.22164178

Finishing up Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, about 1143 pages.

>> No.22164189

>>22162713
>KJV
King James Version (of the Bible)

>> No.22164546

>>22162705
King Games Version?

>> No.22164561

>>22162713
IJ = Infinite Jest
TBK = The Brothers Karamazov
W&P = War & Peace
:D

>> No.22164667

>>22162713
ZT / BD = Zettels Traum / Bottoms Dream

:)

>> No.22164711

When I was younger I used to just devour entire fantasy series of 800-1200 page books in a matter of weeks, reading during every spare moment I had, losing sleep long into the night, reading while I ate, while I walked, while on the loo, everywhere.

But then I found the internet...

>> No.22164716

titus livius

>> No.22164734

Stephen King's IT.

>> No.22165101

Musil’s Man Without Qualities

>> No.22165108

>Infinite Jest
>War and Peace
>Les Miserables

>> No.22165248

Infinite Jest
War and Peace
Institutes of the Christian Religion
The Brother Karamazov
Ulysses
The Magic Mountain (think this might be 800 pages)
Don Quixote

>> No.22165869

>>22160667
roger martin du gard - the thibaults
solid like 2000 pages that shit
other than that just war and peace
one day garagantua & pantagruel and the divine comedy insh'allah

>> No.22165891

>tfw your current book has only 996 pages

>> No.22166163

>>22160667
Infinite jest
Don Quixote
Ulysses
Les Miserables
War and peace
The count of monte cristo
Brothers Karamazov

>> No.22166491

>>22164178
It gets of the things wrong as Shirer wrote this stuff in the 50s when most of the archives were unavailable and we was strongly under the influence of the German generals who made Hitler the scapegoat for many of their failings. All in all, it's a really good book, but certainly laced with numerous inaccuracies.

>> No.22166495

>>22164189
>>22164546
>>22164561
>>22164667
Danke

>> No.22166544

IJ and The Power Broker

>> No.22166843

Does the omnibus of gormenghast count as one book?

>> No.22166907

>>22166843
Meh, but only for today. Which means you're gonna start one of the other longer books tomorrow. You can do it, anon! I believe in you.

>> No.22166914

Atlas Shrugged Don Quixote Moby Dick and Shadow Country are probably my longest

>> No.22167041

>>22166843
>960 pages
fail