Longkino

[Anonymous No.21752027]

What’s your favorite LONG book? Only 700+ beauties.

[Anonymous No.21752029]

>>21752027
nigga you expect me to read all that shit?

[Anonymous No.21752034]

>>21752029
No, Jamal, I don’t even expect you to be literate.

[Anonymous No.21752036]

>>21752027
250~400 pages is the where it's at. More than that it gets uncomfortable

[Anonymous No.21752044]

Most of Peter F Hamilton's space operas, of course, including both the Saints of Salvation series and every book set in the Commonwealth universe. Pandora's Star was the first book I read with a 4 digit page count.

I'm very salty that he's doing some childrens audiobook bullshit.

[Anonymous No.21752104]

>>21752027
Pillars of the Earth, Shogun, Blackwater, Centennial, Lonesome Dove, Lord of the Rings (in single volume). I have some hope for Imajica and Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell but I haven’t finished them yet.

[Anonymous No.21752108]

>>21752104
Redpill me on Lonesome Dove. What kind of book is it? I’ve heard so many goos things about it.

[Anonymous No.21752123]

the summa
not a tradcath, but its comfy as fuck, him just talking about the "pagans" with such deep admiration fills me with joi

[Anonymous No.21752140]

>>21752108
In a word; comfy. It’s a western but it’s a romantic western, not the hard boiled kind. A lot of time is spent watching halfwitted hands bantering with each other, and if you constantly expect big things to happen you’ll be disappointed. You need to lay back in the saddle and let the story take you.

[Anonymous No.21752320]

>>21752027

Almanac of the Dead is not my favorite, but is sure is an interesting oddity as basically no one in any political group today would find it palatable.

[Anonymous No.21752344]

>>21752027
There is a difference between long novels (historical romance, fantasy series, space operas) and encyclopedic literature (Against the Day, Infinite Jest, The Recognitions, etc).

[Anonymous No.21752413]

>>21752027

Wildbow's Worm and Ward are web serials but each are over 1,000,000 words and are kino.

[Anonymous No.21752445]

Don Quixote

[Anonymous No.21752458]

>>21752445
Comfy photo

[Anonymous No.21752475]

>>21752027

[Anonymous No.21752485]

>>21752475
>reverse wewuzzing

[Anonymous No.21752510]

>>21752027
Plato's laws.

[Anonymous No.21752533]

>>21752510
That's 500 pages at most.

[Anonymous No.21752646]

>>21752027

[Anonymous No.21752665]

>>21752475
Should check out Macfarlane's "The Origins of English Individualism" as well

[Anonymous No.21752677]

>>21752445
nice bookstands! just finished it the other day. Took me over a year to finish the last couple hundred pages. Part two largely felt like any modern day revival to me despite wanting more from part 1

[Anonymous No.21752808]

>>21752413
They are ok but their fanbase is genuinely insufferable. How can they be more horrible than HP's melting pot of fandom?

[Anonymous No.21752810]

>>21752027
Tales of the Malazan Book of the Fallen. Toll the Hounds is a beast.

[Anonymous No.21753112]

I just finished infinite jest. I don't wanna see a long book in front of me for at least two ears. thanks for all the recs of books to avoid!

[Anonymous No.21753145]

>>21752027
Lol I'm still reading Don Quixote since like Oct or November last year. I'm only at page 710 out of 940ish

I'm a friggen NEET too. Kind of finding this second half to be boring. And the first half didn't pick up for me until all those odd stories and side characters joined the party along with their background stories.

[Anonymous No.21753593]

>>21752445

As a Spanish and fellow Cervantes enjoyer, it pleases me to see Don Quixote as someone's favorite even in English.

[Anonymous No.21754351]

>>21752027
Northwest passage
Tom jones

[Anonymous No.21754355]

>>21752027
>700+ is long
Lmao

[Anonymous No.21754365]

>>21753145
>he fell for it

[Anonymous No.21754399]

>>21752027
Swan Song was good and long

[Anonymous No.21754441]

Story of Civilisation

[Anonymous No.21754459]

Cryptonomicon

[Anonymous No.21754469]

Les Thibault

[Anonymous No.21754481]

>>21754355
t. size queen

[Anonymous No.21754493]

>>21752027
I have never read a book of more than 700 pages. Someone make me a suggestion. A short list of my favorite books is:
>East of Eden by John Steinbeck
>The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
>The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
>Lost Horizon by James Hilton
>Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov

[Anonymous No.21755087]

>>21752413
>Defending the dumpster fire that was Ward
Worm was extremely engaging until the timeskip ruined the pacing, but Ward was insufferable.

[Anonymous No.21755093]

The Fountainhead felt like 2000 pages. It was probably half that but it felt like forever.

[Anonymous No.21755169]

>>21754493
you can't go wrong with The Count of Monte Cristo

[Anonymous No.21755355]

>>21754493
Seconding Count. War and Peace is comfy and easy read as well. lotr also. Don't let length of the books deceive you, there are short novels that are packed with detail and deserve, even force, a slow read, while most of the longer work simply flow along effortlessly. There are exceptions, though. Ulysses to name one.

[Anonymous No.21755373]

>>21755093
Because it was boring or?

[Anonymous No.21755385]

>>21752027
Mitchell Heisman's suicide note

https://legacy.gscdn.nl/archives/images/suicide_note.pdf

[Anonymous No.21755476]

>1264 pages of kino fantasy

[Anonymous No.21755521]

>>21755476
Redpill me on it. I’ve heard the quality nosedives after the first one. Is it true?

[Anonymous No.21755656]

>>21752027
Lord of the Rings (as a whole with the Silmarillion) and War and Peace are the ones that come to mind most readily for me

[Anonymous No.21755693]

>>21755656
It should be without Silmarillion. It's polar opposite of lotr. It's short, but densely packed with content, name drops, and historical happenings on single pages.

[Anonymous No.21755752]

>>21755093
Oh, please. "Atlas Shrugged" was SO much longer than "The Fountainhead".
But to answer OP's question...
"Mission Earth" by L. Ron Hubbard.
10 volumes of sick burns on our crappy world.
I've actually read it twice.

[Anonymous No.21756217]

>>21755373
If you've read the first 100 pages, you've read it all. It's the same shit from cover to cover.

[Anonymous No.21756334]

>>21754493
Isn't east of Eden sniffing 700 pages? Tolstoy's two big books would be enjoyable looking at your other favorites.

[Anonymous No.21756352]

>>21756217
Confirmed. I've tried to force myself through Rand books because I love Ron Paul and listen to Rush. She's ham fisted in the approach to presenting the ideology through a fictional story and I can figure out why her works are notable. Just listen to 2112 instead. Somehow a 20 minute rock song does Rand's job better than she does in 1000 pages.

[Anonymous No.21756365]

>>21756352
The Rush guys are objectivists?

[Anonymous No.21756394]

>>21755693
I consider the Legendarium as a whole typically because it enriches other texts in the series, but you are correct

[Anonymous No.21756444]

>>21756394
Not that faggot but didn’t Tolkien originally intended to publish Lotr and The Sil as one book?

[Anonymous No.21756478]

>>21756444
He explicitly thought of LotR as closure for the Silmarillion that I know; he also wanted some short stories attached to the back of the Silmarillion showing the characters "close up" rather than in a distant fairy tale style but he didn't finish most of them and for some reason the finished ones were published seperately

[Anonymous No.21756486]

>>21756478
Why did he only finish two fiction books in his life (hobbit & lotr)? What took him so long with the other projects? Was it money? Was it life?

[Anonymous No.21756575]

I have Gravity's Rainbow lying around. Should I dive in next month (reading 3 books already) or leave it for another year?

[Anonymous No.21756621]

>>21756486
2 world wars and an academic career took up most of his time.

[Anonymous No.21756631]

>>21756486
He had an academic career translating old poetry into English and was also a soldier, a father of four and a hobbyist painter, so he had a busy life.
He did finish a few other fiction books not as well known that I liked as a kid
I believe he was working on the first chapter of a final novel when he died, but he struggled with depression and the belief that no one would be willing to read it
It's sad because he ended up being one of the most beloved authors and that surviving chapter is very beautiful

[Anonymous No.21756648]

>>21756631
> I believe he was working on the first chapter of a final novel when he died, but he struggled with depression and the belief that no one would be willing to read it
That’s pretty sad, isn’t it? The last work of an artist. Their swan song. Unlike Tolkien, CS Lewis did publish his swan song, Till We Have Faces, and it did not sell well and it was not critically well received. He died disappointed. Today, I can say those critics and readers were filtered because it’s a pretty good novel. Some of his best stuff is in there, particularly the last section.

[Anonymous No.21756679]

>>21756648
I guess Tolkien's real Swan song was Smith of Wooton Major, its also a lovely piece of work reminiscent of Hans Christian Anderson but I prefer not to shill it too much because Tolkien's fame seems to have led to a lot of soulless copycats and adaptations, best to keep it a secret
But still depressing that Tolkien and C.S Lewis never got to know how they ended up being loved.
I love Roman mythology and Christian themes, so Till We Have Faces is on my reading list for a long while. I also tihnk many Tolkienfags and /lit/fags in general would have read Tolkien's last book with pleasure

[Anonymous No.21757547]

>>21755169
>>21755355
Holy shit, I completely forgot I read The Count of Monte Cristo. It was okay. I thought the first third of it was bad-ass, but then the middle fell into a big lull in terms of action. But those first 200ish pages were some of the most engaging I've ever read.

I agree that masterful shorter works can be more difficult than longer ones. I didn't find The Count to be particularly difficult. Then compared to Jean Toomer's Cane and A Hero of Our Time by Lermontov, which are both under 200 pages, yet are very difficult.
Ulysses is obviously a fairly difficult novel, but I actually found A Portrait to be more difficult and slow-going. I took a class on Joyce as an undergrad in which we read his major works aside from Finnegans Wake, and by the end of it, nearly the whole class was in agreement that Portrait was the harder read.

>>21756334
>Isn't east of Eden sniffing 700 pages? Tolstoy's two big books would be enjoyable looking at your other favorites.
At least my edition was only a little more than 600 pages. Tolstoy is probably my favorite writer aside from Steinbeck, and I've read nearly everything he's written besides the two biggies, which I've been saving for a vacation.

[Anonymous No.21757565]

Man Without Qualities
Recognitions
Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll the Gaviero

[Anonymous No.21757569]

>>21752027
Les Miserables was probably the longest I read.

[Anonymous No.21757577]

[Anonymous No.21757704]

One of these but with spring snow I guess, boom 700 pages, should have been more clear with your rules basedbean faggot kike nigger retard whore.

[Anonymous No.21757734]

>>21757704
Πληβείο και υποβαλκανιο τραγι . Ρε μαλακά πότε θα σοβαρευτεί να διαβάσεις κάτι αξιόλογο;

[Anonymous No.21758613]

>>21752808
Can you tell me why its the fanbase so bad? Without spoilers

[Anonymous No.21758741]

>>21752027
Democracy in America
Followed by Don Quijote

[Anonymous No.21758744]

>>21752445
Soi cat

[Anonymous No.21759236]

>>21752140
Now I will buy it

[Anonymous No.21759241]

The Border Trilogy for any Mccarthy fans in the house?

[Anonymous No.21759251]

>>21752140
>>21759236
Same. I literally ordered it because of that post.

[Mr Literature No.21759834]

>>21759241
Yea

[Anonymous No.21759976]

>>21757547
Both those books take a solid 200 pages to get in the groove as far as getting to know the characters. It's very comfy after that.

[Anonymous No.21760064]

>>21754399
oh im reading this right now. it is pretty long, looks like it clocks in at 919 pages, but i'm absolutely loving it so far.

[Anonymous No.21761003]

>>21760064
Whats it about?

[Anonymous No.21761010]

>>21752027
For me, it's Alastalon Salissa by Volter Kilpi.

[Anonymous No.21761052]

>>21755521
The quality nosedives after the fifth book when the POV shifts from based Corwin to his homosexual son Merlin.

[Anonymous No.21761074]

I love War and Peace. I've read it two times and it never feels like it's too long.
Even Tolstoy's non-fiction rants about war are good

[Anonymous No.21761075]

>>21752027
Anyone got any fantasy longkino recommendations?

Also obligatory infinite jest reference

[Anonymous No.21762370]

>>21760064
The author is criminally underrated.

[Anonymous No.21762382]

>>21761003
Basically a much less faggoty The Stand

[Anonymous No.21762801]

>>21752029
Yes.

[Anonymous No.21762818]

>>21752646
>Wicks Cherrycoke

[Anonymous No.21762889]

>>21752445

“Avaunt, malignant enchanters! avaunt, ye witchcraft-working rabble! I am Don Quixote of La Mancha, against whom your evil machinations avail not nor have any power.” And turning upon the cats that were running about the room, he made several cuts at them.

[Anonymous No.21763304]

>>21752027
The Anatomy of Melancholy and >>21752445

[Anonymous No.21763334]

I'm currently reading Jules Romains' Men of Good will and enjoying myself. That's not to say it is all Rainbows, but the attempt to depict French politics in 1908 in large part or its entirety is certainly fascinating. He really tries to get at collective consciousness and tries to define the personality of society at that moment.


It's some really neat experimentation.

[Anonymous No.21763410]

yes i'm counting both as one book
my other favourites have already been mentioned

[Anonymous No.21764231]

>>21752413
>Worm
Has well written characters, but its worldbuilding is a bit all over the place.

>W*rd
Borderline unreadable. Anyone who actually read that shit cover to cover deserves a medal.

[Anonymous No.21765430]

The Man Without Qualities
The Sleepwalkers
In Search of Lost Time

[Anonymous No.21765432]

>>21765430
Forgot to add And Quietly Flows The Don and Gulag Archipelago

[Anonymous No.21765881]

>>21752413
Ward is legitimately one of the worst books I’ve ever read. There is not a single redeeming quality in the whole thing. Worm is ok though. If Wildbow had stayed on the path of Worm instead of listening to his retarded fanbase (and a certain p*dcast) then Ward probably would have turned out fine.