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Longest Book you've ever read.

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>> No.737697
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>>737695
troll

>> No.737699

>>737697
Screw you!

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>>737697
higher quality book here

>> No.737702

Infinite Jest

>> No.737704

lol

>> No.737705

War and Peace.

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>> No.737710

I read one close to a thousand pages. Can't remember it's name but it had a wierd sex scene near the end, made me feel dirty, I was 13.

>> No.737716

>>737710

that wasnt a book...

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I'm not sure how long this book was, but the sequel was basically a direct continuation.

Dan Simmons Writes very long books

>> No.737719

A la recherche du temps perdu.

/thread.

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Atlas Shrugged

>> No.737724

If you view a bible commentary as a book in itself (just, a book in 25+ volumes) then it's easily the longest thing I've read.

>> No.737730

>>737710
I think we all had that experience. Weird sex scenes when you're too young for them often happen when you're overly literate.

>> No.737731

I think the version of The Stand I read in high school was somewhere around 1,200-1,300 pages.

>> No.737735

>>737719
>>semi-autobiographical novel in seven volumes

>>autobiographical
>>Seven volumes

wat

>> No.737746

>>737735

Surely it must be the closest anyone has ever come to writing a "pure" autobiography.

He must have pre-scripted his death so he could put it in that book.

>> No.737756

>>737735
You didn't know? I've read somewhere that if you just change some of the women's names to the masculine versions and read them as male, you get around the whole Proust being gay but writing himself as a straight man thing. I know Gilberte turns into Gilbert that way, I can't remember the other specific women though.

>> No.737759

Jonathan Strand and Mr Norrel was bit longer than I expected.

>> No.738048

yeah, war and peace for me too.

>> No.738084

Can you count books that are split up for the sake of convenience, but are really one book?Tad Williams practically ends each Otherland book mid sentence until the finale.

>> No.738096

>>737735
Seven volumes, because they haven't yet devised a book binding that will old 3500 pages.

And anyway, it's generally considered a single novel in seven parts.

But hey, if you're gonna be that way, I've also read three of the Four Chinese Classics. Each one clocks in at 2100~2500 pages (in English translation).

>> No.738119

>>737692
only a 1,000 pages OP, not much

>> No.738123

>>737702
this

>> No.738130

Penguin Complete Sherlock Holmes - 1,122
Book of the New Sun volumes 1+2 - 1,218
First & Second Book of Lankhmar - 1,456

>> No.740118

IT or "The Stand"

>> No.740130

les miserable

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1210 pages or thereabouts.

Paperback, too.