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What’s the longest book you’ve read and was it worth it?

>> No.13454607

Maps of Meaning
No.

>> No.13454609

Oathbringer by Sanderson.

Probably not.

Hoping to finish The Power Broker by the end of the year, so that'll top it. That's been fantastic so far.

>> No.13454633

Think it was monte cristo, very worth desu

>> No.13454652

The Exgesis of Philip K. Dick.


I don’t even know if it was or not.

>> No.13454656

Europe: A history by Norman Davies
No, it was a complete waste of time and it was boring as fuck too so I could never stand to read for more than an hour in one go which made it take even longer to finish

>> No.13454661

Infinite Jest

No

>> No.13454674

War and Peace
Probably could have used a little cutting toward the end, but overall I enjoyed it

>> No.13454684

>>13454590
Probably "War and Peace." I think that's longer than "Les Miserables."

Actually, no, I think the longest book I've read is probably Vincent Bugliosi's book on the Kennedy assassination. That sucker is about 1,650 pages long. I really enjoyed it, but, then, I'm a Kennedy assassination autist.

>> No.13454693

2666

Yes

>> No.13454698

>>13454590
Journey to the west
Yes

>> No.13454721
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Summa theologica

>> No.13454734

>>13454656
Why? What else were you expecting?

>> No.13454735

>>13454590
I'm binging Moby Dick currently, besides the blatant racism its pretty damn good.

>> No.13454741

>>13454735
solid bait

>> No.13454748

>>13454590
Dune

It was worth it

>> No.13454754

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Absolutely not. Total waste of time.

>> No.13454762

It was It by Stephen King, and I really enjoyed it so I'd say it was worth it.

>> No.13454769

>>13454721
based

>> No.13454787

Against the Day
absolutely

>> No.13454802

>>13454734
That it'd be more engaging and enjoyable to read...
Of course, given the scope there was going to be a lot that was left out and that's fine, but I do wish there had been more time spent on some things and less on others so that at least what was covered was balanced

I mean the chapter on Napoleon was the longest in the book I'm pretty sure, and that covered a period about one lifetime long. The entire history of Rome from early republic until 476 AD got a significantly shorter chapter. One single chapter, and half of it was spent talking about fucking weapons and armour and archeological stuff.
Very little on the 100 years war, very little on the english civil war or the wars of the roses but another long chapter just for the 30 years war
Maybe I'm remembering wrong but there was almost nothing on the crusades, even the ones in europe like the albigensian or northern crusades

>> No.13454833
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It was excellent.

>> No.13454860

Longest novel was probably Ulysses. I avoided long novels when I was in school and I don't think we ever read anything more than 300 or so pages for required reading. I guess some Harry Potter books had more pages but Ulysses definitely has more words. Actually I just looked it up: Order of the Phoenix has 261,906 words and Ulysses has 265,222 (nice trips).

Yes it was worth it.

>> No.13454876
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Casanova's memoirs
only 3500 pages

>> No.13454889

>>13454590
Infinite Jest
yeah it was great

>> No.13454890

>>13454721
>tfw almost to part 2
I typically wake up at 3:00am to burn the morning reading the summa so that I can go at least go through it at a decent rate and still have time later in the day for reading other books

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>>13454590
If you count this as one then The Second World War by Winston Churchill would be it for me. It was completely worth it.

>> No.13454912

Proust and definitely

>> No.13454932

Musashi - Eiji Yoshikawa and yes it was worth it. Other than than, Gone with the Wind and....also yes.

>> No.13454944

>>13454802
Given the scope I see it more as an introduction to things you can investigate further. I understand how you feel about those parts though.

>> No.13454965

Infinite jest and yes

>> No.13454969

>>13454896
Isn't that around 5000 pages? Is it worth it?

>> No.13454971

THHGTTG

>> No.13454989

>>13454684
T. Kennedy assassin

>> No.13454996

>>13454896
jewish rat

>> No.13454998

>>13454607
I'm almost halfway through and don't think it's bad. Is it going to get worse.

>> No.13455021

>>13454684
who do you think did it ?

>> No.13455263

>>13454969
>Is it worth it?
Read his post and find out!

>> No.13455596

>>13454590
>Nonfiction
Das Kapital. No. Pretty sure the Marx-Engels Reader is plenty for all but the most autistic.
>Fiction
Gravity's Rainbow. Yes. I plan to read it a third time when I can scrounge up a hardcover copy with larger print.

>> No.13455625

It would probably be "Romance of the Three Kingdoms". And yes, it was worth it; got a bit tedious around the time of the Nanman-campaigns and afterwards though with most of the great heroes dead, but I assume this was by design to some extent at least

>> No.13455839

I'm not sure what is longer, Infinite Jest, 2666, or Gravity's Rainbow.

Either way Infinite Jest was worth it, 2666 has half worth it, and Gravity's Rainbow was trash.

>> No.13455855

The Gulag Archipelago.

Fantastic book if you are into that kind of stuff.

>> No.13455863

My grandfather's diary, around 4000 pages. Not memeing.

>> No.13455869

>>13455021
Lee Harvey Oswald, completely on his own

>> No.13455974

>>13454590
Don't recall
Probably not.

most long books I read get hard to pin down because the story starts to wonder around and there are usually 3-5 books crammed into one. especially if there are 3+ povs. I often conclude that non of the stories could stood on their own and don't really work as group anyways

>> No.13456042

Journey to the west
Yes, it made me infintely more calm and open minded while also making me less envious and resentful to my fellow man

>> No.13456051

>>13456042
>by west the book means India

>> No.13456055

>>13456051
Anon
Where is india located in relation to china?

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>>13454590
>What’s the longest book you’ve read
Suicide Note by Mitchell Heisman
>and was it worth it?
Yes

>> No.13456084

the bible
no

>> No.13456092

>>13455863
Was it worth it

>> No.13456094

>>13456084
The bible is a collection of many short books.

>> No.13456101

>>13454590
The Magic Mountain probably
Yes, although it was kind of dense at times.

>> No.13456110

I don't remember which one is longer, so:

The Brothers Karamazov (loved it)
Atlas Shrugged (meh)
Infinite Jest (not worth it)
Gravity's Rainbow (it was ok)
The Sotweed Factor (fantastic)

>> No.13456117

>>13455021
Oswald and no one else. Oswald is actually a pretty interesting character. Not the sort of figure that people normally write thick biographies about.

>> No.13456225

>>13454998
Did you buy his carpet too goy?

>> No.13456236

>>13455021
CIA niggers

>> No.13456359

>>13454590
Probably one of the Harry Potter books. It was ok when I was a kid

>> No.13456362

Clarissa, yes worth it but I wouldn't do it again.

>> No.13456364

The anatomy of melancholy. It's also my favorite book

>> No.13456403

>>13454661
Seconded

>> No.13456437

1Q84
No

>> No.13456446

cryptonomicon, hell yes!

>> No.13456522
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Edmund Morris's Theodore Roosevelt

>> No.13456528

>>13456522
Forgot to say I loved it. Teddy Roosevelt was such a badass that its very difficult to write an uninteresting book about him.

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>>13454721
>This should take you around 62 hours and 55 minutes to read.

>> No.13456561

200 years together
Yes

>> No.13456562

infinite jest
yes

>> No.13456563

>>13456528
>only sold out the West

>> No.13456565

>>13456561
>>13456562
>>13456563
Hey we made it rhyme!!! - just like every other time!!!! hAHA we're pretty cool anons.

>> No.13456583

In Search of Lost Time

It was a great time and I miss it. Almost every 1200+ page book I've read has been worth the investment

>> No.13456605

>War and Peace
Absolutely.

>2666
Absolutely.

>Underworld
Absolutely not.

>> No.13456675

>>13454652
How was it.

>> No.13456746

>>13456062
Based

>> No.13456749

>>13456563
What did he do to sellout the west?

>> No.13456753

>>13454590
the great war for civilization in the middle east.

1250 pages about various middle eastern wars. very interesting, highly recommend it. The 1st chapter about the journalists meetings with Osama bin laden are very interesting.

>> No.13456766

>>13454590
>Atla's Shrugged
It was dumb fun, bogged down by flat characters and preachiness (too much for even a preachy book). I would say it wasn't worth it as Im not planning on reading it again and even if I wanted more Rand I would read a shorter one.
>Longest that was worth it
Spring Snow by Mishima and to certain degree Bleeding Edge

>> No.13457217

>>13454754
>>13456437
Very shameful!

>>13454932
>>13455625
I'll try to pick these up again.

>> No.13457413

Eragon
My favorites.

>> No.13457428

A goosebumps novel
Yes, but I skipped to page 50 cause the beginning was boring

>> No.13457434

>>13454590
>Longest Fiction Book
Dune. Definitely worth it.

>Longest Fiction Series
I read all of the Tom Swift novels when I was like eight. (All the ones they had at the library, at least).

Not worth it. But I was 8, and even more of a plebeian than I am now.

>Longest Non-Fiction Book
Einstein's biography.

Not worth it. Don't know why I read so many biographies. I must have been a boring kid.

>> No.13457462

>>13454590
Homestuck
yes

>> No.13457483

The Stand by Stephen King. Definitely worth it.

>> No.13457495

>>13454590
>unabridged Count of Monte Cristo for school
Worth it, I wholeheartedly enjoyed it. Good practice in keeping focus and plot/character tracking.

>> No.13457499

>>13457462
seconded

>> No.13457627

>>13454787
seconded

>> No.13457695

>>13454590
The Recognitions and yes

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>>13454721
>reading the whole summa theologica

>> No.13457734

if fanfiction counts, I read all of Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality two years back. honestly, the first 700 pages were passable, and the last 300 were ironically good, but the intervening 1000 pages were such a slog that I barely got through it. there's only so much of Hermione being a social justice warrior you can take before you start to develop brain damage. not worth reading, especially if the narrator grates on your nerves. personally, he only started making me want to strangle him about 2/3's through, but then I usually have a high tolerance for characters being unworthy of being alive
if you insist on an answer that's not fanfiction, i't's Mason & Dixon, and god yes it was worth it

>> No.13457768

If >>13457462 counts I'm gonna say Umineko which is not far from Mahbharata's length. It was worth it for me because it complemented other readings well.

>> No.13457858

>>13454590
The Man Without Qualities

It felt like a reread of Magic Mountain until it turned into an incest story by tome III

>> No.13458019

>>13454896
mind sharing some insightsß

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>>13456225
>buying books
What's a library?

>> No.13458173

>>13454876
What copy is that. A cougar I used to fuck had an old penguin classic edition (yellow ones) and it didn't look that big

>> No.13458433

>>13458173
There are 12 volumes. Hers was probably abridged and a single volume.

>> No.13458440

The Stand by Stephen King the extra long version for whatever reason which was something like 1100 pages.

No it was not worth it. Soured me on King completely.

>> No.13458575

>>13458110
What is even happening in this picture. What kind of creature is manifesting here?

>> No.13458584

The Stand Stephen King

Fuck no

>> No.13458649

KJV Bible.
Yes, it was worth it. Every man, specially if he is interested in literature, should read it in its entirety at least once.
Some parts are a chore to get through but even then they had at least some interesting aspects.

>> No.13458846

agrippa's 3 books of occult philosophy
yes

>> No.13459093

>>13456051
funniest post i've read this week

>> No.13459253

>>13455839
I think Infinite Jest is longest by quite a bit

>> No.13459282

>>13458649
>KJV

bad choice there bruv, unless you have like 150iq and great understanding of the language, almost certain you misinterpreted some bits

>> No.13459292

>>13459282
>unless you have like 150iq
Or, you know, footnotes

>> No.13459341

>>13458649
1599 Geneva Bible here, I barely started reading Genesis but I love the language it uses already.

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>>13454590
>What’s the longest book you’ve read
Don Quixote.

>was it worth it?
Probably the best novel I've ever read, the plot seemed to go off on tangents a few times but it was still very satisfying with one of the best ending I've come across. Also the English translation for this edition was very fun to read.

>> No.13460361

>>13456117
>>13455869
>When you're such a contrarian you actually believe this

>> No.13460498

>>13460361
>accepting the general view is contrarianism
good fucking lord you have no idea what you're talking about

>> No.13460914

Infinite Jest.
Honestly, yes. I had a blast.

>> No.13460949

>>13460914
This desu

>> No.13461776

>>13454590
Foucault's Pendulum
I'd say it was worth it.

>> No.13461808

German version of Hyperion which put book 1 and 2 into one book like how it was meant to. 1450pages

yes

>> No.13461837

Ulysses or Moby Dick, both worth it. I always keep going back to my favorite parts of Moby Dick and horrified friends and family with a reading from the Quarter Deck scene, Ahab’s big locker room oration to the crew, while we were on a whale watching cruise.

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Contains more information than I can retain but its still great.

>> No.13462736

>>13454998
Its not going to get worse its just not going to go anywhere.

>> No.13462834

>>13454590
The OED.

It was pretty good, perhaps a little on the wordy side.

>> No.13462837

>>13462834
Eyyyy

>> No.13462974

Infinite jest, no.

>> No.13463036
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>>13458575
https://youtu.be/hU2-D36BZt4

>> No.13463052

Red Storm Rising.

I was young at the time and that book was how I learned how to pronounce "wounded" properly.

>> No.13463178

>>13457734
My favorite part was probably when he was in Azkaban.

>> No.13463206

>>13454590
I think it was Agains the Day by Pynchon.

Reading it for the second time now and it got even better.

>> No.13463219

>>13454721
Based.

>> No.13463239

>>13456117
Who killed Oswald and why?

>> No.13463257

>>13456749
He knifed the great Fighting Bob LaFollette in the back by announcing his own candidacy for president, thereby splitting the Republican Party and making it possible for the Zionist stooge Woodrow Wilson to ascend to the position

>> No.13463285

While it is highly likely I've read longer books since and simply did not take note of the page count as that sort of thing no longer concerns me, when I was thirteen years old The Three Kingdoms seemed like a very long book.

I considered it worth it at the time, and still do because I learned to read and retain drier information than I was used to by reading it, and I was also going through a Han Dynasty phase and it sated my thirst for information, but I probably won't read from beginning to end again.

>> No.13463546

War and Peace
yes. You cannot call yourself /lit/ if you haven't read it

>> No.13463553

>>13460347
I hated the second part of Don Quickoates

>> No.13463600

The Stand by Stephen King
The first half was great and comfy to read, but the quality dropped off from the middle onwards and so much boring filler. Usually King writes great filler but here it just gets boring really fast.
So not worth it

>> No.13463645

>>13457734
Holy shit, was hpmor that long?
>>13463178
He held idiot ball during that arc.
> Let's free Bellatrix from Azkaban
> Ok!

>> No.13464002

2666
brothers karamazow
sacred games
lód
It

yes

>> No.13464006

>>13463546
I've read Anna Karenina so I out/lit/ you.

>> No.13464122

The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What Is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion

>> No.13464143

>>13454590
>Les Miserables
>yes

>> No.13464358
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Mine was the Count of Monte Cristo with lit a couple years back. It was difficult to keep the reading group going but ultimately it was a lot of fun.

More reading groups please. Even if they die the fucking death after the first week, it's still fun for the 4 people who stick around and bump the threads.

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>>13454693
My nig.

Same.

>> No.13464405

>>13454590
The art of war by Sun Tzu, took me a solid 3 weeks to finish it, was it worth it? definitely. Gave me great insights on issues such as patriarchy and taught me why socialism is superior

>> No.13464427

>>13454590
The Master and Margarita
Yes it was an absolute rollercoaster.

>> No.13464438

Botns
Yes

>> No.13464441

Honestly, probably Roots, 700 pages. I read it on vacation as a kid (it was a boring vacation). I didn't find it to be bad, but even as a child I could tell that a lot of it was complete fiction or so horribly embellished for the sake of story that it might as well have been. I can't remember if he gets kidnapped into slavery by fellow Africans or not but I distinctly remember thinking about how White guys in pith helms scooping this little niglet up with a butterfly net was fucking stupid. I remember finishing it and then finding out how the author actually found out about his African """""""""""""""""heritage"""""""""""""""" and being very disappointed.

He talked to an African storyteller who made all of it up; the author had to include SOMETHING, so he just included that.

>> No.13464444

>>13454721
Oh my god are you ok anon

>> No.13465098

>>13463553
>I hated the best ending in all of fiction

>> No.13465604

All of the icelandic sagas. It's worth it although not entirely enjoyable since the quality varies a lot between them and much of the text is dedicated to legal preceedings.

>> No.13466145

>>13463178
mine was every single Ender's Game esque battle scene
>>13463645
if you get the PDF, the numbered page count is 1965. of them, only 1925 have the main text, with the other 40 being omake and miscellanea and the unnumbered pages being the table of contents, credits, et cetera. I tend to round it up to 2000 since you might as well read the omakes if you're already devoting this much into a fanfic and 1965 is quite close to 2000

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A Dance with Dragons. I'm about half way through and enjoying it.

>> No.13466697

>>13454693
hell ya

>> No.13466709

11/22/63 - Stephen King
I read it for an assignment back in high school, but it was a fun read.

>> No.13466808

jerusalem by alan moore
it was very, very good, but no. no book should be that long

>> No.13467147

>>13454890
when do you usually go to sleep though?

>> No.13467208

plato's complete works, that edition with all of them in one book
it was worth it

>> No.13467231

>>13454590
Maya by Richard Addams. I was a kid and liked one of his other books. I think it had a woman being covered in food and molested or something, it was terrible.

>> No.13467436

>>13454590
The Arabian Nights, full Burton translation with the footnotes
Very yes, extremely yes

>> No.13467441

>>13454721
B I G B R A I N

>> No.13467528

>>13454721
Incredible

>> No.13467796

>>13464405
The art of war is very short, though. No?

>> No.13467815

>>13467796
Some of book contains Annotation within that. Because of aphoric nature of its book it makes long enough to avoid reading if you see it in library. I've seen some book it's over 1000 pages.
I've seen this at china, though. So English maybe different.