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Anonymous Wed Jun 1 08:32:26 2016 No.8108918 [Reply] [Original]

What is the longest book you've ever read?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 1 09:40:59 2016 No.8109045 File: 25 KB, 339x422, Ddddddddddd_8302c3_5860222.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] War and Peace. I usually just go for 300 pagers.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 1 09:57:47 2016 No.8109089 >>8108918 IJ

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 1 10:04:20 2016 No.8109102 The Mahabharata.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 1 10:44:04 2016 No.8109266 >>8108918 My diary tbqh

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 1 12:09:50 2016 No.8109569 >>8108918 Do anthologies count? Your pic is definitely in the top 40 though.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 1 12:12:11 2016 No.8109578 >>8109089 This.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 1 12:43:13 2016 No.8109725 File: 15 KB, 225x225, tmp_11557-images(5)174571066.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8109266 POOPY-POSTER POOPY-POSTER GO AWAY HOME / NO ONE WANTS YOU NO ONE WANTS YOU NO! NO! NO!

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 1 12:43:39 2016 No.8109727 The stranger

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 1 12:54:38 2016 No.8109764 >>8108918 The Stand when I was a senior in high school. 1,100+ pages. Aced the AR test and it bumped my F to a C- It's the only reason I graduated high school.lol

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 1 13:05:58 2016 No.8109793 Angels & Demons

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 1 16:46:33 2016 No.8110649 Honestly? The Illuminatus! Trilogy. Its about 800-900 pages if I remember correctly. Usually read books between 300-500. I don't go out of my to not read longer books, just what I can get my hands on sooner.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 1 16:59:42 2016 No.8110703 >>8108918 theories of surplus value. very rough very boring, just notes really. on the plus side i am an expert in classical political economy.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 1 17:00:57 2016 No.8110707 >>8109089 yes

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 1 17:02:29 2016 No.8110712 Anna Karenina

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 1 17:03:03 2016 No.8110714 File: 87 KB, 841x1238, bram-stoker-dracula-1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Dracula (unabridged) it was almost 1000 pages

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 1 17:03:44 2016 No.8110719 ASOIAF is at 1.8 million words so far, 4000-5000 pages depending on which editions.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 1 17:06:56 2016 No.8110733 File: 282 KB, 1084x1180, Guin.full.41064.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Over 20,000 pages and 8 million words.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 1 17:10:28 2016 No.8110753 File: 47 KB, 307x475, 17332218.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Book 2 of 10

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 1 17:10:49 2016 No.8110755 File: 44 KB, 320x514, 1044162_3018979.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8108918 This. I read the original version which was 800+ pages.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 1 17:12:03 2016 No.8110760 >>8109764 Loser but yes same book

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 1 17:12:57 2016 No.8110764 >>8108918 The Count of Monte Cristo, unabridged Don Quixote Infinite Jest My Struggle, book six Can't tell which, but I reckon they're all around 1100-1300 pages.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 1 17:36:29 2016 No.8110862 >>8108918 the complete sherlock holmes i think it was 1.6k pages and like, TINY fucking words. on a really big boog.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 1 18:27:56 2016 No.8111091 War and peace.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 1 18:35:34 2016 No.8111122 >>8108918 The Stand. Around 1,200 pages. But its a really easy book. It takes about a month.

>>	Noodle Bro Wed Jun 1 18:41:06 2016 No.8111144 My twisted world by Elliot roger is the longest book for a big boy like me.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 1 20:22:36 2016 No.8111514 Harry Potter

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 1 20:27:11 2016 No.8111527 >>8108918 Proust

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 1 20:28:42 2016 No.8111533 the editions of Ulysses and GR I read were about 900 pages each, so those.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 1 20:30:46 2016 No.8111541 Cryptonomicon. What a slog.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 1 20:30:51 2016 No.8111543 The miserables or LotR if you consider it as a whole book

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 1 20:44:41 2016 No.8111599 File: 47 KB, 259x415, Battlefield_earth_book_cover.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 1050 pages my parents forced me to read it

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 1 20:52:57 2016 No.8111641 I spend a stupid amount of time reading long fanfictions, which are roughly 100 000-300 000 words apiece.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 1 20:54:29 2016 No.8111648 >>8111641 ...why would you even admit to that?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 1 20:56:05 2016 No.8111658 >>8111641 I once read a teen titans fanfic that clocked in at 280,000, when I realized that was longer than Ulysses I had a bit of an existential crisis.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 1 21:13:41 2016 No.8111731 >>8111648 I mean, sure, there's a lot of garbage out there. But once you get into the larger tombs, there can be insightful stories, delving deep into a character's personality and even obscure literature references.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 1 21:19:56 2016 No.8111747 Infinite Jest, which according to my calibre library is my 9th largest book, locking in at a whopping 560,000 words.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 1 21:20:58 2016 No.8111752 File: 40 KB, 1136x556, Screenshot_1.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8111747 meant to attach this

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 1 21:28:13 2016 No.8111783 karamazov brothers

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 1 21:30:08 2016 No.8111791 Meme Quixote or Meme Kampf >>8108918 I'm going to start this one tomorrow

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 1 21:33:24 2016 No.8111804 >>8108918 You posted it, and it took me around a month to finish it. and it really isn't worth reading

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 1 21:50:23 2016 No.8111880 >>8111752 Do you still have to dick around with extensions to get page counts in Calibre?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 1 22:27:04 2016 No.8112006 >>8111783 This for me I believe.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 1 23:20:13 2016 No.8112202 Do you count the complete works of Plato as one book or many? That's like 1745. Aristotle is like 3000 but half of it is animal shit

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 1 23:28:15 2016 No.8112244 >>8110714 Was it worth it?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 1 23:30:06 2016 No.8112252 >>8112244 What?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 1 23:43:32 2016 No.8112316 >>8111804 I think it's going to take me longer, I'm probably 2 weeks in at 300 pages

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 2 00:08:51 2016 No.8112431 File: 70 KB, 320x483, lotf3-320x483.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] What'd you think of it?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 2 01:29:02 2016 No.8112747 File: 59 KB, 357x534, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Moby

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 2 01:31:08 2016 No.8112756 >>8112431 I've read brochures longer than that

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 2 01:54:26 2016 No.8112829 File: 24 KB, 224x346, man without qualities case.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 2 02:28:37 2016 No.8112940 >>8109764 AR tests in 12th grade? Was this the 90s or something, you old fuck?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 2 02:36:15 2016 No.8112954 File: 24 KB, 211x346, 51fn1QvTD5L._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8108918 still reading it...

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 2 02:57:11 2016 No.8113004 A single work? Don Quijote (inb4 two parts) A series? Either the Dark Tower or this preteen saga I read a while back called Pendragon.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 2 02:58:07 2016 No.8113005 >>8108918 my dick if my dick was a book lmao

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 2 03:07:35 2016 No.8113022 Either the complete New Oxford Annotated Bible or The Rosy Crucifixion by Henry Miller (about 1600 pages).

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 2 03:10:42 2016 No.8113033 >>8108918 KJV if you count it as a single book otherwise atlas shrugged or Capital vol1 (with a long editor's intro and the appendix chapters)

Anonymous Thu Jun 2 06:47:05 2016 No.8113384

>>8108918
I tried reading Atlas Shrugged, even if I didn't disagree with most of the author says, i's still extremely boring with unlikeable Gary Stu characters, pathetic mustache twirling strawman villains, boring prose, tedious monologues and nonsensical plots, motivations and worldbuilding.
Literally the only reason anyone would like it is that it says things conservatives and libertarians agree with and they don't have any other books to brag about.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 2 07:04:36 2016 No.8113407 Not a single book but I read prousts in search of lost time holy fuck that was long.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 2 07:42:47 2016 No.8113470 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 2 07:46:38 2016 No.8113476 File: 17 KB, 207x300, 923399.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8108918

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 2 07:59:22 2016 No.8113505 File: 34 KB, 318x219, 1464868762919.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8113476 plebean please

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