/lit/ - Literature

>>5866104

Under the Dome, and no, it was a colossal waste of time and the last Stephen King novel I've read.

Anna Karenina

Yes

>>5866109
read war and peace

>>5866104
In Search of Lost Time, yes, but that's a rather empty question, isn't it? What system of valuation are you proposing we use here? Isn't the value of a good book located precisely in its transportive qualities, its ability to temporarily remove you from whatever valuational networks you may be enmeshed in?

>>5866108
That ending man, that ending.

>>5866118
kill yourself

>>5866118
u must be rly smart sir

Infinite Jest and no.

i think war and peace, unless IJ is longer

it was worth it, of course

>>5866109
Ditto

>>5866120
>>5866125
>niggas be mad someone called OP out on his bullshit

East of Eden. It's the best novel I've ever read. Pinnacle of literature.

>>5866138
>>5866118
samefag

>>5866146
>Pinnacle
lmao

>>5866104

War and Peace, I found it very highly rewarding actually.

The longest book I've got on my shelf is Varney the Vampire, not sure if I'll ever get to that one day, seems like it'd be a good challenge though.

The Stranger, duck dynasty is better

Les Misérables

Ohh yes it was more than worth it. Here's an excerpt:

If anything is horrible, if there is a reality that surpasses our worst dreams, it is this: to live, to see the sun, to be in full possession of manly vigor, to have health and joy, to laugh heartily, to rush toward a glory that lures you on, to feel lungs that breathe, a heart that beats, a mind that thinks, to speak, to hope, to love; to have mother, wife, children, to have sunlight, and suddenly, in less time than it takes to cry out, to plunge into an abyss, to fall, to roll, to crush, to be crushed, to see the heads of grain, the flowers, the leaves, the branches, unable to catch hold of anything, to feel your sword useless, men under you, horses over you, to struggle in vain, your bones broken by some kick in the darkness, to feel a heel gouging your eye out of their sockets, raging at the horseshoe between your teeth, to stifle, to howl, to twist, to be under all this, and to say, "Just then I was a living man!"(p. 355)

>Longest book you've read?
The Fountainhead
>Was it worth it?
Take a guess

harry potter and the order of the phoenix

call me pleb

>>5866108
If it sucked why did you keep reading it faggot

>>5866118
>What system of valuation are you proposing we use here?
Your own judgement on how much your time is worth.

>Isn't the value of a good book located precisely in its transportive qualities, its ability to temporarily remove you from whatever valuational networks you may be enmeshed in?

No. I think its value is located on the sticker in the bottom right corner of the back cover.

Get over yourself

>>5866104
war and peace

meh

Against The Day

Yep.

>>5866118
Quit being gay you know what he fucking meant

>>5866104
Crime and punishment, oh yeah

>>5866104
The Brothers Karamazov.
Totally worth it, even though I prefer Crime and Punishment

>>5866259
I'm so sorry anon, did... did you go all the way to the end?

>>5866298
faggot detected

I read about two thirds of Atlus Shrugged. It was so horrible. I was staying in the hospital without a television at the time, so I resolved to instead spend several days just laying down and staring out the window.

>>5866313
I am starting to read that. Is it really that bad?

>>5866104
The Millennium Trilogy.

I might have read things which were longer in word count but those things were awful, it was such an effort to get from page to page.

>>5866298
>crime and punishment
>~500 pages
>he can't have read The King James Bible, The Brothers Karamazov, Moby Dick, Les Miserables, The Count of Monte Cristo, War and Peace, Don Quixote, 2666, The Divine Comedy, Underworld, Gravity's Rainbow, Mason and Dixon or even Infinite Jest
>none of them

Please wait until you've read a thing or two before posting your opinions on a literature board.

The Count of Monte Cristo

Yes

>>5866305
You bet. I have great follow through. Never have a gift and a curse been such close bedfellows.

But I just started Gravity's Rainbow so hopefully if this thread ever comes up again I can hide my shame. I should have just said a Harry Potter book.

>>5866326
I stared out the window for multiple days instead of reading it. That's all that needs to be said about it.

>>5866104
harry potter and the order of the phoenix
I guess so

>>5866326
Not him, but I've read it all. It is for the most part a bad book, probably published because it was pushed as a magnum opus and was very long and political/philosophical sounding to most people. In reality it is a washed out, predictable story used as a launch pad for Rand's very reductionist and, in many cases, toxic ideology.

Having said that the actual speech given by Galt is quite impressive to read, I would love for there to be more books with huge, 10's of pages long speeches because they seem very interesting to me. However the content of the speech is used to lay out Rand's objectivism so don't expect much in the way of substance.

>>5866344
>"I stared out the window for multiple days instead of reading it. That's all that needs to be said about it." - Anon

They should put that on the book sleeve.

>>5866337
I took up reading about 2 years ago so excuse the fuck out of me for not having read every fucking book in existence

I'm currently reading Don Quixote

>>5866298
>Crime and punishment
you fucking serious?

>>5866364
See >>5866362

>>5866362
>>5866371
dear god you are serious
two years and you haven't read a book longer than 550 pages?

>>5866364
I read a large chunk of the Western Canon in my first year reading. Step it up, son

either you been reading to little or you've been wasting your time with pulp and george rr martin shit

>>5866378
You tell 'em, anon! Keep it up and soon everyone will be made aware of your superior taste.

>>5866391
Taste has nothing to do with it
Crime and Punishment is fantastic literature and better than most of books longer than it
Your only having read books under 550 pages is just surprising as that puts some pretty big limitations on your knowledge of literature

>>5866398
Why are you so mad? Why are you so intolerant?

You have learnt nothing

>>5866361
Well tbh for the first year I did it as a hobby when bored only until recently did I start to take it seriously
For the first year I mainly read short classic like Nabokov, Hemingways, Steinbeck, Hardy,
But I have been getting into philosophy and purchased bigger books, my to read list of some longer books include; les miserable, the Bible, the Inferno, and the brothers karamazov
I'm only 18 so don't fault me too much

Sorry this >>5866406 meant for >>5866378

What is this /lit/ dick measuring going on here, leave the newfag alone, he's reading, you're gonna spook him and he'll just go and watch duck dynasty where he feels safe

>>5866391
He is right. There is no excuse for Crime and Punishment being his longest book readed when he has been reading for 2 years

>>5866109
My favorite long book, so far

>>5866128
Liar, I'm only 317 pages in and it's one of the best novels I've ever read

>>5866339
I disagree, I think the Count of Monte Cristo is essentially just a really long very dark children's novel

>>5866283
Hope.

probably the longest hp book. order of phoenix?

>>5866118
>Isn't the value of a good book located precisely in its transportive qualities, its ability to temporarily remove you from whatever valuational networks you may be enmeshed in?
Is that not a valuation network?

>>5866108
I agree

>>5866447

>>5866398
I wasn't that guy, I just thought it was strange that you are so aggressive about someone not reading long books.
>puts some pretty big limitations on your knowledge of literature
You said yourself it is better than most longer books. I don't know how that puts a huge limitation on someones knowledge of literature when there are probably many more books short that C&P worth reading than there are longer. Sure he is missing out but he said he was working up to it. It really does just seem like a pissing contest for you.

Infinite Jest, and yeah. Really good. Just because it's long doesn't mean that it particularly is any different to other books. If something is long, it's not just like a 300 page narrative that's been stretched in to 1000 pages.

>>5866478
it's pretty long so i don't understand your dumb rxn image.

>>5866283

I think it was the ending that really killed the book. Everything till then was imokwiththis/10

>>5866534
Are you having a laugh?

>>5866589
do you know how to converse or is memespeak the only thing you're capable of writing in?

How to Get to the Super Bowl by Dan Marino

Too long, never finished it.

>>5866391
It's not a matter of taste, you whitefaced lobotomite.

>>5866608
I'm sorry. I seriously thought you were joking so I was trying to have some fun with it by replying with a joke. I didn't realize you were so touchy. I didn't mean to make fun of whatever inane point you were trying to make about Harry Potter.

Of Mice and Men. Took me 3 weeks, but I did it.

>>5866259
Same here. I did not dislike it either.

>>5866672
>whatever inane point you were trying to make about Harry Potter.
what are you even going on about?

>>5866711
You're the one that brought it up. If the order of the phoenix is the longest book you have ever read that is fine. But don't expect people on /lit/ to take you seriously or reply with anything but meme jokes to your post. It is the only kind of response your comment warranted

>>5866670
What is it a matter of then, you supine protoplasmic invertebrate jelly?

Don Quixote. Yeh it was pretty good

>>5866796
Actually it seems The Count of Monte Cristo is longer, so that.

>>5866259
>mfw my longest is Atlas Shrugged

feels bad man

War and Peace. No, I finished it, it was boring.

>>5866769
>You're the one that brought it up.
yes, because that is what the thread is asking for. is something wrong with you?
>only kind of response your comment warranted
or more likely the only kind of comment your feeble mind can produce.

>>5866825
"Feeble mind" says the guy that offered Harry Potter as a genuine response.

I don't understand why you are so upset. Did you really think people would take you seriously if you said that? Especially on /lit/

Were you expecting comments of admiration? I don't see how any other response is appropriate.

>>5866839
>"Feeble mind" says the guy that offered Harry Potter as a genuine response.

You forgot your fedora

>>5866839
I don't understand why you're incapable of understanding how stupid your responses have been. Have memes really addled your brain that much? Lay off the 4chan while you still have some semblance of reality left, kid.

The Wealth of Nations.

Yes, it's not only good for your overall mental acumen, but as a anthropological history of mankind it is good as well.

Getulio Vargas' biography.

yep

>>5866924
Did you really offer Harry Potter as a genuine response though? Because if so...

>>5866608
>do you know how to converse or is memespeak the only thing you're capable of writing in?
>>5866921
>You forgot your fedora
I guess you got me pretty good, hu?

>>5866937
I guess you're a paranoid child who thinks everyone else is as well and is into 'hurr durr trollan'. That was someone else.

>>5866924
You seem to be the one who can't get off the subject of memes. You gave a joke meme answer (which turned out to be sincere) so I responded with a joke meme reply. Once I realized you were serious I said there was no problem with it other than the fact people would think you weren't being serious and you should expect some insincere replies. Which has already been the case with several people other besides me. You need to calm down and stop starting flame wars on the internet.

>>5866963
Man, seriously calm down. I don't know if you are being serious but honestly right now it just seems like you are incredibly insecure that you said Harry Potter was the longest book you have read and everyone took it as a joke.

ITT someone sincerely lists Harry Potter as the longest book they've read

>>5866965
>You gave a joke meme answer
>You seem to be the one who can't get off the subject of memes
Do you see the irony here. You're the one who's so obsessed with memes you can't converse or interpret anything without filtering it via "is this a meme?" and the affect you produce is stupid. I pointed out that stupidity and then the meme crowd got angry that I wasn't having a laugh.

>>5866979
okay, sure. That's it exactly.

>>5867013
Harry Potter is pretty dense stuff though man, I just think we're all a little doubtful you were able to tackle that work, is all

Infinite Jest
I liked it, got a lot of laughs.

Probably Atlas Shrugged or Infinite Jest. Both worth it in unexpected ways

it just became a flame topic

>>5867019
It's a pretty good book. I liked Azkaban better.

But why exactly are you so ired that it's the longest work I read? And why are you so stupid to think I implied it was the most difficult one?

>>5867013
>Everything I say is being interpreted as a joke
>I can't make sincere comments without getting joke replies
>Nobody takes me seriously anymore
>I have become what I always feared
>My life is a meme

>>5867030
I guess you're a paranoid child who thinks everyone else is as well and is into 'hurr durr trollan'. That was someone else. It seriously was.

>>5867038
And now you're just getting pathetic.

>>5867057
How so? I am just quoting you to point out the fact that you are guilty of the same crime you accused me of earlier. I guess you are just upset that a supreme gentleman such as myself has managed to outwit you at every turn. You can proceed putting forward your quaint notions, but I must warn you, I have paid good money for my 4chan account so as my commenting would not be impeded by those arduous captchas. I could go all day sport.

But seriously you are way too uptight and insecure. So far the only one that has done the pathetic damage control is you. After all your desperate attempts to explain yourself, people still think you are a joke. At least I don't read Harry potter and take myself so seriously.

>>5867084
This reads like it was written by the trollface grin man.

>>5866698
lel

>>5867094
>that'sthejoke.jpeg
The young squire was obsessed with memes so I gave him memes, anon.

>>5866326
One of my favorites.

>>5866109
either this or TBK I am unsure which one is longer, both obviously yes

I assume this is a popular response in the thread

Musashi

>>5866295
Same, although I kind of cheated with the last 300 pages and spedread because I started to give less than two shits about Reef and Yashmeen running in the Balkans and Frank playing Pancho Villa in the Revolution.

Gödel's Theorem and the Continuum Hypothesis
not only the lengthiest but also the densest

Probably the Bible. I can't think of anything off hand with a higher word count.

Can't say it was worth it though, I read it too young (I think I was 12 or maybe 13) and couldn't appreciate as much of the context as I would be able to now. Half the reason I was reading it was to have context for the Left Behind series, which I randomly picked out unsupervised along my many trips through airports. I really wish I'd had some kind of role models or guidance through my independent reading as a kid. Boarding school was shitty.

Honestly it was only at that point in my life that I would ever have had the motivation to read it though, so I can't say I regret it too much.

>>5866118
Are you like retarded.

Its a yes or no question.

You probably only read Swann's Way.

>>5866104
I dunno if its the longest by words or pagecount, but Gravitys Rainbow probably took me the longest to finish.

It wasn't worth it because I could have flipped around the first 15 pages and just told people I read it. Thats the only reason anyone does.

>>5867374
>Literally being a projecting retard

Hahahahahahaha

>>5866672
>>5866589
>>5866478
OOtP is like, 250k words or so? Thats not terribly long, but I can see it being the "longest" to some people who read for fun or read more casually, though he could have bothered to actually respond to the question.

OP never said how long it took to read, or how hard it was.

>>5867384
Are you upset at le joke

Did it hurt your feelings. You should downvote me, show me that you mean business.

>>5866104
The Count of Monte Cristo.
Well worth it and one of my favourites, but painful at times.

>>5867396
>actually being this fumingly angry

It's just a book, fag. Calm down.

>>5867465
8/10 b8 though I actually thought you were serious

>>5867374
>>5867396
Could you be more of a retarded shitposter?

>>5867470
I don't know why you're so upset. Has anyone ever made a joke around you before?

>>5867470
>>5867384
ayy lmao

>>5866104

1q84. books one and two yes. i liked the books values but in the end i wish i hadnt read it. so not worth it. i read all these people saying what ive just said and i was so determined to believe it wasnt so.
really a shame. just should have been a lot shorter. fuck it hurts to say that.

>>5867023
i like this

>>5867497
mah nigga

IJ is longer than brothers k or anna karenina right

>>5867656
yes, look it up next time man

>>5867666
what difference does it make

>>5867647
>didn't read 3rd

>>5867676
i will fuck you

>>5867682
>i did
i did

>>5867685
oh yeah???

On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.

(Yes, I use the full title because I read the original 1859 version)

Yes, it was great read. It was fun to imagine 19th century christian theists periodically shitting their pants at each chapter.

>>5867647
I read about 4/5 of this book and put it down, never to pick it up again. I severely regret the time I wasted reading it.

I generally agree with you though, it could have been good, it was sort of close to being good but at the end of the day it was a terrible excuse for a book.

Lonesome Dove

of course it was worth it

>>5867692
indeed its fucking shit

The Stand

yes

The Lord of the Rings. (complete trilogy in one book)

Was worth it, but I wouldn't want to do it again.

>>5866104
jesus christ

>>5866194

You just made me go buy that book. Thank you, sir. Good day.

>>5866194
that is brilliant

ITT: People who got trolled hard by authors

>>5866104
those are some gorgeous breasts.

>>5867834
this

the brothers karamazov

>>5866104
The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea. It was a very entertaining, very informative and very insightful book that I would recommend to anybody. I did find the ending to be somewhat disappointing, but that might have been because I was racing towards the end and expecting some mind blowing final twist which never really came.

Gravity's Rainbow
or
Ulysses
or
The Brothers K.
or
...one of 'em.

None of them were worth it.

Only books I've ever read. Don't see why you all circle jerk. Battlefield 4 is way better than reading.

I read "War What is it Good for?" and it wasn't really worth it, it's a pretty boring book.

War and Peace and Infinite Jest
The former I struggled through and go to the end literally just to say I read it. Liked IJ though.

>>5867900
Was this funny in your mind or do you just have a thing that compells you to be retarded

Under the Dome

>>5866586
I agree with this.

>>5868027
I'm just Paradise without the tripfag

>>5868040
You wish, m8.

>>5866194
That was... beautiful.

>>5866194
Why does everyone seem to think this is so beautiful?

>>5868175

/lit/ has awful taste

>>5868175
>>5868208
enough of this memery

Collected Essays by Orwell, about 1300 pages, absolutely worth it

David Copperfield.
Nope.

The Kindly Ones by Littel or Lód(Ice) by Dukaj. Both worth it but the ending of second one was a bit disappointing.

Probably TLotR, or Brothers K. I had to think a lot about it thought, usually I never notice how many pages my books have (I do belive that I made a mistake in my wording there, but I don´t know how to fix it)

The last Dark Tower book.
Yes it was.

>>5868363
I dropped it at the fourth I think. It was boring, Stephen Hacking can´t write for shit. The first one was really interesting thought.

>>5868372
The first is the worst, and the fourth was one of the best.

>>5868175
Why do you not seem to think this is so beautiful? Answer us that, you stupid fuck, ad we'll answer your dumb-ass question back.

>>5868389
It doesn't seem to have any qualities that set it apart from other texts. I don't see why it should be any more beautiful than the average piece of writing. A book should be judged as a whole, not based upon one paragraph. Anyone could write that shit. Not anyone could write 500 pages of that shit, which is what makes something 'beautiful'. Unless of course, the paragraph relates to something bigger, beyond the text. This doesn't.

Atlas Shrugged, yes
Soon, though: Poor Fellow My Country

I am amazed at the shortness of everyone's longest books, tbh.

(But I'm also up to date with Homestuck, which at 710,000 words, is the longest general thing I've read).

>>5868208
>>5868175
You must be one of those anti-natalists that Ligotti talks about and is which hates anything that has too much life-affirmation.

All of the modern Literature writers in France from Baudelaire to Gide agreed that Victor Hugo is the greatest poet in France, except that he was also the stupidest and most morally naive poet in France. Your cynical entrenchment must be profoundly disgusted by such a rolling thunder of affirmation and optimism that you immediately, with a knee-jerk, ascribe to it a 'tumblr' sensibility of cheap feel-goodness, when you have not even the tongue to curl like Hugo. Hugo himself said that he 'was the French Language'.

>>5866430
>it's one of the best novels I've ever read

Why do people say this? It says far more about you than it does the book. In fact, it says almost nothing at all about the book.

>>5866430
>dark children

>>5868425
Well, then let's read the extract in French.

>>5867733
This ^

Totally worth it, but I'd rather invest my time in something else

>>5868306
How was The Kindly Ones?

>>5866104

War and Peace
yes

Uncanny X-Men #350, penciled by Joe Madureira. It was an anniersary issue, so double-sized.

Totally worth it. Would read again.

>>5866819
Same here.
It was a real struggle past page 800. Everything went to shit there.

>>5866276
pleb

yes

>>5866104
Is that a real evening dress?

>>5866484
I read IJ when I was pretty young (14 or 15 maybe) with the express purpose of being able to say I read this crazy long "intellectual book" so I could act smarter than people. At the time it was the opposite of rewarding because I might as well read the phone book. I've since read it again in my 20s and appreciated it more.

As for the longest book I've read it might be IJ or some physics textbook because I used to actually read my textbooks in college

>>5866104
Infinite Jest. Definitely. It made me realize that I can slog through lengthy novels, even though IJ is pretty prose-wise.

>>5866326
its a book born from a butthurt Russian's disdain for communism advocating for complete selfishness as an economic policy and/or life style
there is a 30 page sermon from "John Galt' about 2/3 of the way through about this objectivist philosophy, in which Rand destroys the pretty powerful and integral metaphor of [spoiler/]John Galt being all people[spoiler/] which was the best part of the book imho
on top of this the characters she has wrought upon us are at parts, annoying, self-important and over-romanticized.

on the plus side, the imagery is nice...


Worst book I've ever read and to date, the only book I've Burned

Mother fucker cost me $30 as well

>>5868991
As opposed to what?

Also what the fuck is this 'choose the soup' captcha... I've never complained before but this is bullshit.

>>5869160
>Also what the fuck is this 'choose the soup' captcha... I've never complained before but this is bullshit.

I don't have that - all i have is the button with "I'm not a robot". If Adblock/antispy extensions are activated, I have to enter a normal reCAPTCHA, without the extensions the cookie just confirms I'm not a bot and I don't have to enter. What soup do you see?

>>5869178
I've been getting that this whole time since the update. The soup I got for the first time on that post, it was very surprising.

But basically it was:

"Choose the Soups. Here's an example: [picture of soup]

[3x3 pictures of a couple soups, some rice dishes, and some pasta]"

Very weird.

>>5869190
Fun, maybe your IP is in the range of known spammers and you get something slightly harder than the rest of us?

>>5869194
Huh, so I tried doing incorrect captcha attempts to replicate it and got it back in one try! moot just might get my money for one of those passes after all...

>>5869160
I understand its from a movie. The dress and the noose rope necklace makes me think of BDSM types of stuff. I don't want to sound like a prude but the dress is really revealing, but not even in a sexual way. Very weird dress.

>>5869202
This is what I see right now, very strange

Then again, looking around for a bit, Google is definitely experimenting with choosing pictures instead of typing the annoying text... but it's way too much work for shitposting on 4chan

>>5869219
Also her breasts are very hairy.

>>5869222
katakana captcha is coming to /jp/

>>5869222
I mostly have the words but sometimes the food comes up too. It remembers the cookie sometimes but I have to enter the letters 90% of the time.
I don't mind doing a captcha I just wish it wasn't googles.

>>5869219
Oh okay, I guess I was more asking what you meant by 'real,' but yeah I agree on all counts. I wonder what someone like, say, Zizek would say about it

>>5869222
Yeah, I've gotten that the entire time so far, and now I've got it back again, it's just crazy they introduced this new kind and how fast I can get sent back to the soup line for making a mistake.

>>5869232
I've always liked the ideas of 'themed' captchas. Not actually doing them, of course, but the concept, like having a small platforming segment for posting on /v/ or perhaps analyze/fill-in-the-blanks for a poem on here.

>>5868429
when you say it to friends I kinda see it as "if you're anything like me you'll love this" or something

>>5868753
>Joe Madureira

I have seen fucking zines with better art than him, and yet, whenever Marvel comes to get some local talent to work for almost nothing they pick disgustin stuff like him or Reis

>dat Evan Green
dayum

>>5866104

Don Quixote. Extremely worth it. It immediately became one of my very favourite books. I plan to go through a bunch of long books soon like Anna Karenina, Middlemarch, and 2666

Didn't want to start a new thread and this is somewhat relevant...

Anyone read Witz? It won't be the longest I'll have read, but its long enough to ask if it's worth the time.

the novel shakespeare undead by lori handeland, currently rereading

The stand
No

>>5868040
>>5868045
samefag

ASOIAF ;_;

>>5866104
Fiction: Game of Thrones
Non-fiction: Hitler's War

I don't know, probably The Tale of Genji or Don Quijote de la Mancha, I'm not sure which is longer.
The former was beautiful, even though it tested my patience sometimes.
The latter was easier and more fun to read, but I don't remember a lot of it.

>>5866104
Tits, tits tits tits tits tits; tits tits.

>tits

Infinite Jest was probably the longest book I've ever read. I've read several "Complete Works" of several artists that have all been longer, but I don't think that counts. Either way, reading both Infinite Jest and "Complete Works" (Wilde, Shakespeare, Kafka) were very much worth. It's much more powerful of a feeling to put down a book you've spent alot of time with than with a short paperback.

Wind-up bird chronicle. I had literally nothing to do with my life after my 3ds and 300 dollars worth of games were stolen from me, so I pretty much read it every day. I actually kind of enjoyed it, though now I have multiple avenues of entertainment again I probably wouldn't be able to deal with the long portions where nothing is being described but his daily routine.

>>5866153
People like a books other than GR, IJ or In Search of lost time, you know!?

>>5866104
The Bible, Old and New Testament.

Yes, without a doubt.

Atlas shrugged.

ehh more or less. the beginning is interesting and the middle too, but towards the end i got bored with it until John Galt comes and starts being a character but even it got boring and i dunno i liked it. the fountainhead is a lot better

>>5872006
>VIRTUE_OF_SELFISHNESS
>staircase leads to nowhere
God, that's good.

I've read many 1000+ books, but the one I read lately was Adolf Hitler by John Toland.
I enjoyed that immensely.

Other long books I enjoyed:
Crime and Punishment
War and Peace
Lord of the Rings
A history of bestiality (bjorneboe, considering reading it again, great book, but depressing).
The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear (I was like 10-12, didn't get all there was to get. I've been told it is just as enjoyable as an adult)
Dune (I liked it when I read it, but I was 10 and read all of them with the Linkin park(first album) on repeat) Whenever I see/think of Dune books/universe I get the songs in my head.


Long books I didn't really like:
Revelation Space (I like sci-fi, but this one didn't get to me)

Otherland series book 1-3(a 700p each. I liked it, but not enough to finish the series. Either that, or because it was right before a big break in my reading habits of 3-4 years).

Atlas Shrugged. Maybe I would've liked it if I read it when I was younger, like 14-16. I read it earlier this year and considered dropping it in the trash several times. Horrible writing, unbelievable characters. I only continued because of my problem with dropping books before I finish and I also wanted to see how it ended. I liked the idea of the engine of the world going on strike, but jesus she ruined that idea forever.

Adolf was also my first biography. Anyone care to recommend me some more? I love the format and I am considering the 3 part book about Churchill next.

>Longest book you've read?
The Second Sex
Was it worth it?
Yeah

>>5872740
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
Ludwig Wittgenstein: the Duty of Genius

Stephen King's The Stand, the extra long version (although I had no idea different versions existed at the time), which was something like 1300 pages.

Was is worth it? Absolutely fucking not. It put me off King entirely and I haven't read any of his stuff since.

>>5872750
Awesome.
Thank you.
Do you mind adding some text about why you would recommend me those two?(other than that I asked). Either as pure pitching, or listing pors/cons.

Both look interesting.

>>5866118
>pseudo intellectual babble

Will Self detected.

War and Peace.

Of course.

>>5866104
The Order of the Phoenix

>>5866118

Maybe he phrased it like that because he didn't want to exclude the 'did you read a book that was long even though you didn't like it, out of a sense of duty' and it's not really a tautology.

>>5866104
Def Count of Monte Cristo unabridged.

It was worth every single one of its 1,462 pages. As satisfying as a shit so clean you don't even have to wipe. It's the literally equivalent of cumming inside a woman at maximum depth and fulfilling your biological prerogative.

>>5873052
>why boner

>>5873052
>Count of Monte Cristo unabridged
Ditto. Epic.

>>5869382
Do you know Yiddish?

Is In Search of Lost Time any good? I'm interested in reading it so I'll probably get around to it so sooner or later but I want some input on it beforehand.

>>5873113

No, I'm an ignorant gentile.

>>5872753
You fucking piece of shit stop hating on The Stand before I kill you in real life

Infinite Jest

Hands down the greatest book I've ever read.

>>5866104
The Stand

Artamène ou le Grand Cyrus
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artam%C3%A8ne).).

I have the biggest dick for now.

>>5866104
>>5866259
>>5866819

Mine is Atlas Shrugged too. It obviously wasn't worth it from a literary perspective, or even as entertainment, but it was probably worth it just to be able to systematically undermine the arguments of Randfags irl. Most of them probably never finished the book, and don't know how to react when they meet someone who has.

>>5868227
expound

>>5867891
was it worth it sir

>>5866104
I read a 600k word count mlp fanfic called background pony. It was really not too bad.

The DaVinci Code
Redpilled me so much!

Probably War and Peace. Read it 3 times

In the Name of the Wind

I found it a bit boring, and couldn't really finish it. I got up to the point where he makes it to the university. I was around 14 or so when I read it though, so maybe I'll pick it up again.

>>5869489
That's not one book though..

In Search of Lost Time, and yes, definitely. It's one of the few books that the old cliché of "dream-like prose" really applies to.

>>5872762
Will Self is sort of a tragic figure in my mind, because he's obviously a very smart guy, and he writes good fiction, but he's just mired himself in his own pretension to the point where I can't fucking stand him.

The Man Without Qualities , I guess. Around 2200 pages.

The Che Guevara biography that is like 1000+ pages.

It was shit and totally biased.

Che Guevara is one of the world's biggest losers.

The end.

Should have read Twilight instead.

>>5873299
BRING IT

Marx's Capital: Vol 1 and yes, it was worth it.

I've since read the other two volumes and the Grundrisse.

Let me categorically state this: she's not a good looking woman, good enough looking to get the parts and be taken somewhat seriously, but not good enough looking to be enjoyed as a spectacle as anything other than pseudo-ironically*. She's got that same sort of imbecile britisher innsmouthian smeared facial structure as Helena Bonham Carter. I mean, sure, it's attractive to some extent, it's like a flawed picture. But it's not the sort of flaw that itself is an aesthetic flaw, it's an irredeemable flaw, an authentic flaw rather than an ironic flaw, and so not even as a flawed beauty can she really be appreciated in any truly sincere way, and it's really time that more people should simply admit this.

*irony: where one's enjoyment of or belief in a thing or way of living is predicated on a consciousness on some level of the inappropriateness, for whatever reason, of that enjoyment.

**pseudo-irony: as above, only that it is predicated precisely on the 'unconsciousness', via psychical operations of repression etc, of that inappropriateness.

>>5873954
probably this, although my version has "only" like 1500 pages.

A Storm of Swords.

>>5866362
>>5866378
The fifth Harry Potter book is longer than that.

Read that shit in grade 5, yo.

>>5874101
>The only writer in any language as exciting as Proust

So, not very exciting at all? Sounds like a snooze fest

>>5869155
You hated a book that much you burnt it?

Damn.

>>5866104
I'd read in braille from her nipples.

The Bible. Kinda
Dante's inferno was cool.
Im reading Lolita right now
"Light of my life, fire of my loins my sin my soul"

Not sure which was longer, but Atlas Shrugged and Bleak House.

Atlas started off well enough, but the ending was meh.

Bleak House isn't my favorite book, but it does contain some of my favorite scenes of books I've read.

>>5874172
Nice blog.

I don't read them I listen to audiobooks while at work stocking overnight at a grocery store.

The Stand was about 48 hours and I loved every minute.

The 13-1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear

Yes.

>>5866104
Girl in OP's post has a chin that looks like the head of a penor

>>5874557

I would suck her dick.

The Torah, it was at least 15 feet long.

>>5866378
if it makes him feel better, i've been reading for about 10 years and the longest i've read was kafka on the shore. not even lying. im doing 2666 now.

>>5874172

Dante's Inferno is like a hundred pages, though.

The Stand, the uncut and unabridged version from Stephen King

Pretty good. Clearly King's best work, and a solid 5/10 aesthetically. Still pissed about that literal deus ex machina in Las Vegas, though

>>5874593
>rating systems for subjective value

LEL
KEK
TIPPITY TOPPITY KEKKELS 4 SHEKKELS

Nah, srsly tho
step it up

>>5874598

>Rating systems for movies
>Rating systems for music
>Rating systems for cuisine
>Implying we don't force arbitrary systems onto abstract concepts every fucking day

Stop being pedantic

>>5874612
>implying that i support those systems
>implying that just because people do this shit, it's somehow valid

get on my level, scrub

>>5874617

>kek that is like, childish, and I'm, like, not childish, get on my level scrub and be mature like i am lel srsly tho step it up

You are one confused little dullard.

>>5874628
>dullard

muh english lit tier insults

get rekt

>>5874652

>ouch I am getting prolapsed by this hypocrisy please l-leave me alone

lol

>>5874664
>still replying cuz ur pained in the glute

i got your number pleb

>>5874672

>p-p-lease just let me s-save face here

>>5866104
Atlas Shrugged. Wasn't worth it but I was forced into reading like 60 pages a day minimum so I was seriously burned out by the end.

I was also forced to write marginalia which was uncomfortable as other people's have always pissed me off.

Brothers K or IJ

>>5866586
>I think it was the ending that really killed the book. Everything till then was imokwiththis/10

The Man in Black fled across the desert and that feel followed.

Mein Kampf.

>>5873052
You described it perfectly. That feeling of sweet, sweet satisfaction is so fulfilling. The only other work that's made me feel similarly was Oceans 11 (the recent one), and in interviews, the director stated that his intention was to create a movie where it was just pure fulfillment from the beginning to the end. And that's how the Count of Monte Cristo is for me.

>>5875100
This
The first 4 books were great, 5-7 were progressively worse till the end of 7 that made it all worth it

So when does 'Jerusalem' come out?

>>5866104
Harry Potter, all of them.

Belle du Seigneur - Cohen.
Yes yes yes yes.

Tolkien's Lord of the rings trilogy, hobbit, silmarillion.

full "A Song of Ice and Fire"
"Harry Potter" x3

>Longest book you've read?
Harry Potter and the Order of Phoenix.
>Was it worth it?
For that time.

ASOIAF if i get all the books togheter
It did by that time, today i regret it immensely since i have no will at all to read the next new book.
Infinite Jest is the longest book that doesnt make part of a series, and yeah, its tremendously fun.

>>5866104
Shogun, James Clavell. It was nice

Women and men.

Hahaha. Read it and find out.

>>5866194
Ah, my favorite book.
>even loved the digressions on argot and pet baby names

>>5874121
it was something like this but with a book
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PywI0BOxJpI

Worm serial novel. I sincerely regret it.

>>5866104
either something by Dickens or Dostoevsky
fuck 18th century serialized novels god damn
Not really worth it. Just read an abridged version and save yourself 400 pages of worthless exposition.

>>5866108
>>5866119

i liked it, but the ending was absolute shit, jesus christ

>>5879056
>Just read an abridged version
Will it be you who pays to have my laptop cleaned of vomit anon? Will it?

man you guys are all fucking pretentious assholes

>>5874572
HAH

>war and peace is definitely the longest I've ever read

That being said, the longest book on my shelf is Executive Orders by Tom Clancy. My father's book, he is a military guy and liked that sort of topic. I've read a few Clancy novels in high school and such.

>my copy is 1358 pages
>pic related

>>5868425
Optimism? I haven't read anything of Victor Hugo other than this excerpt, but I did not find that excerpt "optimistic". I liked it, and I related to it in a way I only do to poetry that I find great, but I would never describe it with the adjective positive. Please explain and elaborate. Tchüss

>>5866104
Infinite Jest

yea

The Stand unabridged was pretty long too. I liked it when I read it, but that was when I was a kid.

LOTR counts sorta? It's been a while, but those are good, don't know how much I'd like it now, but I think it's supposed to be good as an adult too so probably.

You know you're a borderline illiterate when you're comparing books by their length.

>>5866104
The fucking fountainhead because my debate teacher was trying to teach me a lesson about procrastination. and in a way yes, it was worth it.

>>5874116
can u be a bigger pleb

I guess it isn't that long
Mann's a cool dude but the parts in dialect always seem a bit sketchy
Also I was at a lecture a few weeks back about how Buddenbrooks could be read as a horror novelle, showing many similarities with Poe's Fall of the House of Usher in that you can trace a kind of sickness coming from outside and slowly creeping inside the Buddenbrooks family.
I've tried reading late romantic German horror, like the consule's wife Clara kind of reminiscing the automaton in E.T.A. Hoffmann's Der Sandmann, I hope I can get to write a short thesis on it one day

>>5880263
late romantic German horror into it*
Shit
Also I'm reading through Mann's Der Zauberberg, continuing on to Goethe's Wilhem Meister, I've read some of it in combination with lectures and I'm looking forward to it

Still reading it.
Will tell you the day I finish it, if it ever does.

>>5873952
I think he's great, dont' know why you can't stand him

If it's anything other than Proust then you've either been missing out or you've been wasting your time

>>5866104
The Quixote, prolly.

Yes, it was.

>>5866337
Even Borges admitted that getting through long novels was a chore for him and he preferred the short story and the lyric as form.

Seriously, the notion that thick books somehow have more merit that short ones is plebian as fuck. It's laughed at in academia and the art world.

The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear

Fuck yeah

>>5880646
Yeah but the point is there's tons of doorstopers you would simply be missing.
All of those books >>5866337 said are fantastic.

>>5866344
I hated the book and even then what you said sounds autistic.

>>5866104
Do I have to finish it?
If no then The Bible.
If yes then whatever the longest Harry Potter book is.
As for they're worth I'm going to have to answer with a big eh.

The Brothers Karamazov.

Yes. It changed my view on life.

>>5866104
Excluding textbooks, Atlas Shrugged.

It was worth it in the sense that now I can complain about the book and actually know what I'm talking about.

>>5866344
My fucking sides.
Also
>war and peace
>loved it