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whats the biggest book you've ever read

>> No.6538348

i was weeb enough to trod through the tale of genji.

>> No.6538360

Infinite Kek

>> No.6538362

>>6538344
Cryptonomicon

>> No.6538365
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6538365

lotr

or possibly this

>> No.6538370

A biography on Pol Pot.

>> No.6538371

Gonna start reading Don Quixote. It'll be my biggest book yet.

>> No.6538375

>>6538344

>there are people on /lit/ RIGHT NOW who haven't read In Search of Lost Time

>> No.6538402

>>6538344

Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften with all unpublished notes

>> No.6538405

>>6538402

around 2200 pages

>> No.6538407

>>6538405

That's a big book.

>> No.6538413

>>6538344
I think Les Miserables.
But maybe War and Peace? Or the Bible? I dunno. Old books have thin pages, and sometimes columns...

>> No.6538414

>>6538344
The Battle Cry of Freedom.

>> No.6538428

just started the bible

>> No.6538429

>>6538344
In Search of Lost Time if you count it as one book.

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>>6538407
from your perspective

>> No.6538471

>>6538344
It was either the Count of Monte Cristo (unabridged) or Shirer's The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.

>> No.6538486

>>6538344
Shogun I think, unless Tai Pan is longer

>> No.6538490

Remembrance of things past, by Proust.


Get on my le.vel, plebs

>> No.6538498

Capital by Karl Marx.
~1,000,000 words.
~3,000 pages.
Worth it.

>> No.6538555

All the way through, probably 1Q84. This was my intro to Murakami and I think it flowed so well. I believe it was over 1000 pages but I'm not for sure. I read it in about three days because I couldn't put it down. I know Murakami gets a lot of hate on here and even I don't like all his worked. I enjoyed Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and forced my way through Norwegian Wood which wasn't that great and completely different from my first two readings by him. Young love story... kek

>> No.6538577

>>6538555
woah holy shit I had no idea 1Q84 was so long

>> No.6538599

>>6538555
I tried to get into 1Q84 but only got through about 1/4 of it... was rather disappointed.

>> No.6538622

>>6538348
was it worth it?

>> No.6538634

Cat in the hat

>> No.6538792

>>6538375

yes.

>>6538402

YES. Tonight /lit/ is not /shit/

>> No.6538802
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>>6538344
Capital Vol. I and II. I plan to read Vol. III this summer.

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>>6538577
yup, i ve been using it as a chip clip.
on topic: les mis

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6538806

Biggest book I've read yet. Goes rather downhill after the master plan is revealed.

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6538830

Does this entire goddamn series count? I've read through all 14 books twice now, and the first ten-thirteen or so four times.


I think I have a problem.

>> No.6538838

Crime and Punishment, probably. That or the Complete Sherlock Holmes.

>> No.6538840

fight club

>> No.6538859

Red Book by C.G.Jung, I think.

NT doesn't count, right?

>> No.6538864

>>6538498
>Marx.
>Worth it.
shit bait

>> No.6538890

War and Peace I think, that was 1270-something

>> No.6538893

>>6538830
my nigga

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>>6538864
>implying this is isn't bait

>> No.6538934

>>6538864

Not even a fan of Marx, but did you know he was for gun rights?

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6538969

>>6538344

>> No.6540132

>>6538344
Homestuck

>> No.6540169

Crime and Punishment

>> No.6540173

>>6538830
My nigga as well!

>> No.6540179

>>6540132
Fuck yes! I'm 500 pages in, bro.
I told you about the stairs, bro!

>> No.6540184

Wheel of time series.

I also wrote a space opera that's 4400 pages. So that too

>> No.6540370

>>6538344
Just started Grays Anatomy. Once I finish it that will probably be the biggest

>> No.6540373

The Man Without Qualities ~1300 pages

>> No.6541290

>>6540373
>>6538402
this is the same book, no?
so, anon, why didn't /you/ read the unpublished notes?

>> No.6541328

>>6540184

What's the word count on this space opera?

>> No.6541387

>>6538344

I'm at the midpoint of Dance to the Music of Time, it's just under 3000 pages in total.

The longest one before this was Don Quixote

>> No.6541402

The fifth Harry Potter book. It was something like 1000 pages.

Today I generally read books <300 pages.

>> No.6541460

>>6541402
>HP and the order of phoenix
>1000 pages

Nope.
It is long but not that much, I'm sure.

Me: A Storm of Swords and A Clash of Kings, I think. (How shameful.) ~1000 pages. Don Quijote, including the endnotes, is pretty close, around 970 pages.

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>> No.6541508

>>6541460
The Swedish version is. US is like 800 pages.

I guess Swedish words are just longer?

>> No.6541519

>>6538375
but that's 7 books

>> No.6541528

The Millenium Trilogy.

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6541530

If you need more than 500 pages to make an entertaining book then you're a shit writer.

FACT.

>> No.6541534

>>6541508
Ah, different editions.

>>6541528
That's three books.

>>6541530
>books
>meant to be entertaining

>> No.6541549

>>6541530

Fyodor Dostoyevsky is a shit writer? Leo Tolstoy is a shit writer?

>> No.6541550

"The Torrent of Defiance"
You've probably never heard of it but it's 27000 pages long.

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>>6541530
I agree that some writers are unable to convey a "big idea" without cramming as much shit as they can in a novel, but there's nothing inherently wrong with writing a doorstopper if you don't use length to compensate for your shittiness

>> No.6541718
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6541718

A HISTORY OF THE JAPANESE PEOPLE, off gutenberg. it is between 1000-1300 pages long. outdated info, but still interesting. i read 5 hours every day for 7 days.

>> No.6541769

>>6541530
i dont know if i disrespect the amount of lo-fi baits in the last days more or the guys who fall for it
>>6541534
>>6541549
>>6541663

>> No.6541779

>>6541290
>>6540373
>>6538792
>>6538402
>implying you faggots understand Musil
Keep patting yourselves on the back.

>> No.6541792

>>6541663
>here's nothing inherently wrong with writing a doorstopper if you don't use length to compensate for your shittiness

valid point.

>> No.6541805

Fiction: War and Peace
Non-Fiction: A New History of Western Philosphy

>> No.6541822

>>6540184
Like 800,000 something

>> No.6541828

G..Ga..Game of Thrones?

AM I RITE!? LOL SO EDGY!

>> No.6541838

always been too turned off by big books that i now realize i haven't really read any over ~600 pages

tips on how to approac long books?

>> No.6541841
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6541841

The complete Summa Theologica

Yes
All of it

>> No.6541844

>>6538344
The Count of Monte Cristo

>> No.6541845

>>6541838
Find a way to have a steady progression on each day. If you can pull off ~50 pages a day, you should be good.

Train Rides, Airplanes, and other trips are great for this as well. What the fuck else are you gonna do anyways.

>> No.6541941

>>6538498
Das Kapital? My copy is like 400 pages. But it might be condensed

>> No.6541948

>>6541841
stay kebab

>> No.6541961

A hundred years of Solitude

>> No.6541976

>>6541779
>i do not understand musil
>so you dont either
>faggot

top qeq

>> No.6541986

>>6541976
Yes, because someone focusing on Musil for their phd doesn't understand him. Congratulations,
You're retarded. Keep self-fellating every time you mention his name.

>> No.6541988

>>6541941
is it a single volume or it just an abridged version?

>> No.6541989

>>6541779
Who pissed in your chips? Of course I don't understand him entirely. I just said that I've read the fucking book. What's your problem?

>> No.6541990

>>6541986
are you telling me that you focused on musil for your phd

and you browse /lit/ lying in wait for anyone, /anyone/, to talk about musil, so that you can masturbate over how much you understand musil?

congratulations on being the only person to ever understand musil, besides musil himself

>> No.6541996

>>6541986
>Keep self-fellating every time you mention his name.
>BTW GUYS I'M STUDYING MUSIL FOR MY PHD LOOK HOW MUCH MORE I KNOW THAN YOU

Jesus, you really have zero self-awareness.

>> No.6542000

>>6541990
It's
>focusing
not:
>focused

>> No.6542003

>>6541996
You sound angry. You should namedrop more writers to cheer yourself up.

>> No.6542005

The Man Without Qualities is actually a really straightforward novel, dense as it may be.

I don't understand you, lit

>> No.6542007

>>6542003
2/10 troll

>> No.6542012

Desperation by Steven King

>> No.6542020

>>6542007
Cheer up, buddy, I'm sure your enumerations impress unsuspecting 1st years

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>>6538490
>Thinking Remembrance of things past was written by Proust
Monolinguals

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>>6542339
Asspained frogs, your cure has arrived.

>> No.6542979

>>6538362
was it good?

>> No.6543065

>>6541779
>>6541986
>>6542003
someone this retarded can't understand Musil, it simply is impossible

>> No.6543078

Game of Thrones & Harry Potter

Yeah, I'm not proud of it either.

>> No.6543115

City of God which is around 1500 pages in my edition.

>> No.6543128

>>6541519
7 volumes.
I'm sure you can get it all bundled together in one singe book. But it would be massive and impractical.

>> No.6543148

Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

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>>6540184

Is it about hovercraft racing? Did you make a thread a few years ago?

longest book I've read would be either one of the longer Wheel of Time books or the extended version of The Stand, yes they made an extended version and I read it and enjoyed it. Proper literature? Europe Central, Ulysses, or 2666.

>> No.6543187

>>6538402
>>6538405
sorry pal, but the man w/o qualities with all unpublished notes is about 6k pages. 2200 pages is the parts put together bei frisé plus the published parts.
and also >>6542005 it is pretty straightforward to read.
I found ulysses more difficult to read, and then ultimately its neither a good read nor a good book... pretty disappointing

>> No.6543384

>>6543158
Yup.

>> No.6543410

>>6538803
Nice

>> No.6543412

My copy of Gravity's Rainbow is 902 pages or something
And I'm reading The Illuminatus! Trilogy which is a little over 800, I think. Not sure if that counts, because it is three novels comprised of like ten "books," but my copy is one bound thing. I feel it's probably more like LOTR, which is one big book broken into three parts

>> No.6543414

>>6538934
Not the guy you were responding to, but i love how one can immediately make the assumption, that the type of person to think Marx bullshit is the same type of person who pro gun.

>> No.6543435

>>6542005
>>6543187
>it´s straightforward to read so it´s easy to understand.

>> No.6543856

>>6538371
10/10 book don't give up on it