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1184333 No.1184333 [Reply] [Original]

500+ page books that are actually worth reading

INFINITE JEST DOES NOT COUNT

>> No.1184347

Count of Monte Cristo
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Ulysses
Finnegans Wake
The Brothers Karamazov
Crime and Punishment
Anna Karennina

>> No.1184351

>>1184347

What the hell version of For Whom the Bell Tolls are you readin?

>> No.1184354

>>1184347
>Finnegans Wake
No offense but the average person isnt going to get much from reading that.

>> No.1184356

>>1184351
Eh well it was ~500. Maybe twenty or thirty pages less.

>> No.1184357

Finnegans Wank

>> No.1184392

The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

>> No.1184403

The Chronicles of Amber.

Fucking love that book/omnibus.

>> No.1184405

Shogun

>> No.1184409

The Brothers Karamazov.

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>> No.1184416

>>1184333
Of course Infinite Jest doesn't count as it is not worth reading. Anyway, Moby Dick.

>> No.1184419

>>1184347
My Crime and Punishment is 430 pages.

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>>1184392
i assume this is the best answer itt

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>>1184392

Shit is so cash.

>> No.1184430

Les Mis of course.

>> No.1184490

LotR counts as one book HURRRRRRRR

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obligatory

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>> No.1184615

>>1184517
the fuck is this shit

>> No.1184628

THE WINDS OF WAR/WAR AND REMEMBRANCE BY WOUK WERE NICE READS

>> No.1184637

>>1184628
woah, never even heard of this guy before

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1184641

my copy of crime and punishment was like 503

>> No.1184645

Don Quixote
Decameron
The Divine Comedy
Montaigne's Essays

>> No.1184649

>>1184637
HE'S NEVER REALLY DISCUSSED HERE

>> No.1184653

The Magic Mountain

>> No.1184657

>>1184649
LET'S HAVE A LEON URIS HERMAN WOUK JAMES MICHENER BOOK CLUB

DON'T TELL KEN FOLLETT I HATE THAT GUY HE ALWAYS WANTS TO COME

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1184785

Yep.

>> No.1184788

>>1184785
back to /b/ with you

>> No.1184791

>>1184788

Was a good book, finished it in a week. Not that I'd ever read it again, too many emotions tied to the time during reading.

>> No.1184795

>>1184791
Who said it's not a good book? Just go back to /b/

>> No.1184806

>>1184795

Sick of everything I post in getting 404'd.

>> No.1184811

>>1184795
It's not a good book back to /b/ with you.

also, gonna have to say Don Quixote forsure.