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What's the longest book you've read?
Mine's the King James Bible coming in at a whopping 783,137 words.

>> No.17317631

>>17317624
Word? That's surprising smaller that I would've thought, although it's not something I've paid attention to before.

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>>17317624
Here I am

>> No.17317746

>>17317624
Honestly, what is the technical purpose of books like the one in your pic? Are they only ever made by bookbinders as a gag? Even if it was some huge dictionary or technical encyclopedia, it could just as easily be bound in volumes. I don't get it.

>> No.17317750

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

It was good.

>> No.17317812

>>17317682
In retrospect it feels odd: the estimated word count of JAHB is like 375k words, but it feels longer. Word count is a poor representation anyway, I'm sure, unless the omit counting 2-4 letter "words", and as I recall the Bible is very rich in short speech. Not to mention the fact very few people would read Numbers, Levit, Deuteronomy, Chronicles.

In any event, whereas I have read the Bible, I still consider JAHB the longest book I've read depite it being a couple of hundred pages shorter.

>> No.17317819

Page wise?
Plato's collected dialogues but that's kinda cheating
Longest huh?
I think that would Livy's histories

>> No.17317832

>>17317624
same, i just recently finished the bible recently after putting it on and off for 2 years
i still don't know when i'm going to ever fell for the read ulysses and infinite jest memes, i'm a pretty shit reader desu and i don't know how long those will take me if i ever start them

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>>17317624
Women and Men by Joseph McElroy. 1300 pages, ~850,000 words.

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1,632 pages.

>> No.17318895

>>17317624
Apart from the bible, probably some stupid fantasy book where there was no editor involved.

>> No.17318912

>>17317624
Shogun by James Clavell
About 1,200 pages

>> No.17318925

single book? a dance with dragons (1.040 pages; around 415,000 words)

>> No.17318928

>>17317746
Yeah it was basically a joke, I believe that is the printed edition of Wikipedia.

>> No.17318931

read the war and peace (ww)

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>>17317624
Word count isn't everything; the Bible in particular frequently uses very short words.

Mine was definitely Herbet's Poor Fellow My Country.

>> No.17318941

If you count textbooks 2200, otherwise a biography of Napoleon at 900

>> No.17318970

>>17317624
Herodotus' histories. Currently more than halfway through the Bible after a year of reading

>> No.17318998

>>17318970
taut well, or i it me