/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.11261214]

Post your biggest and smallest book
biggest: Ulysses
smallest: On truth and lies in a nonmoral sense

[Anonymous No.11261228]

>>11261214
that's a big ulysses
is there a lot of extra material, or is the framing just making it look massive

[Anonymous No.11261243]

>>11261228
It has blank pages to seal together with your ejaculate. Great edition

[Anonymous No.11261260]

>>11261228
The bookmark also 'looks big', so it's just the contrast of the two maybe.

[Anonymous No.11261279]

>>11261228
for you

[Anonymous No.11261294]

>>11261228
That Ulysses is not that big its the small book making it look like that. Everyman's are only like 8" tall, and that version is like 900-1k pages.

[Anonymous No.11261317]

[Anonymous No.11261320]

>Biggest
War and Peace (1380 pages though it’s in 2 volumes) in only one volume it wiuld be TBK (1200 pages with a long ass introduction)
>Smallest
Penguin version of The Invention of Morel

[Anonymous No.11261321]

>>11261317
>textbooks

[Anonymous No.11261330]

>>11261321
second in line would be infinite jest

second from the other end is a mini version of the kama sutra

[Anonymous No.11261337]

>>11261321
Nice fucking bait retard

[Anonymous No.11261339]

>Biggest
Plato: Complete Works
>Smallest
Josef Stalin - Marxism and the National Question

[Anonymous No.11261387]

>biggest book
The Count of Monte Cristo — Alexandre Dumas

>biggest actually good book
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman — Laurence Sterne

>smallest book
The Disappearance of Majorana — Leonardo Sciascia

[Anonymous No.11261418]

I also got this one, but I am ashamed of it because it got wet and it's now all deformed :(

[Anonymous No.11261441]

>Biggest
Francesco Colonna's Hypnerotomachia Poliphili

>Smallest
Gottfried Benn's Brains (I guess? Original title was Gehirne)

Gas mask filter for scale

[Anonymous No.11261449]

>>11261214
biggest is a dictionary, smallest is my pocket aquinas or maybe this little book about mysticism

[Anonymous No.11261466]

>>11261441
>adelphi
Mah nigga

[Anonymous No.11261469]

>>11261441
one, two, three

[Anonymous No.11261470]

>>11261317
>QED
All quantum field theory is shit. Do you at least regret getting it?

[Anonymous No.11261491]

>>11261214
my books are all on pdf and epub, but the largest i physically own is 2666 which i will be reading this august when i finish some of my other backlogged reads and my phil studies

[Anonymous No.11261516]

Sorry lads, there's a lot of Schmidt. His books are either really big or really small.

>Left
Least/Most Pages
>Right
Physical Size

[Anonymous No.11261523]

>>11261466
I think I already posted this photo a few weeks ago but man, I'm so fucking proud of this section of my library

[Anonymous No.11261556]

>>11261523
Yes, the thread in which you posted it was mine lol

[Anonymous No.11261586]

The biggest is the Monogatari
Smallest is a strange Art of War edition.

[Anonymous No.11261665]

>>11261516
That Mishima is Aesthetic af, makes me wish I didn't have Patriotism in another short story collection

[Anonymous No.11262063]

[Anonymous No.11262269]

>>11261214

[Anonymous No.11262281]

Biggest is kind of small and smallest book is a copy of sophocles' plays printed in the 1950s i found in a charity shop, today i just finished king oedipus

[Anonymous No.11262339]

Biggest: Malazan Book of the Fallen (3 million words)
Smallest: Improving the State: The Natural Order (43 pages)

[Anonymous No.11263347]

my copy of Gray's Anatomy is a close second for biggest book

[Anonymous No.11263412]

>>11261214
Not sure but these are the three most autismal ones I own.

[Anonymous No.11263493]

>>11261214
BIGGEST: WILL DURANT'S THE AGE OF FAITH
smallest: pocket new testament

[Anonymous No.11263504]

>>11263412
What did you think of Behead All Satans? I was thinking of picking it up but can't find many reviews on it

[Anonymous No.11263595]

>>11263504
It's about what you'd expect from someone who uses a pseudonym like Master Necro Mega-Damage Rapeface. Most of it is various obsessive and/or psychotic journal entries by a fictional edgelord.

It's the kind of thing that'd never be published under normal circumstances and comes in an oversized printing format, which makes it something of a novelty buy.

[Anonymous No.11263712]

>>11263595
Ah ok. I think I'll save my money then

[Anonymous No.11263911]

>>11263712
It's definitely not meant for anyone who's looking for a serious or thought-provoking read. If you even take things like reviews into consideration with books like that then yeah, it's definitely not for you.

[Anonymous No.11264021]

Biggest: Hardcover version of The Corrections
Smallest: The Art of Asking Your Boss For a Raise (Really strange and underrated book)

[Anonymous No.11264286]

Biggest: The Histories
Smallest: The Little Prince

[Anonymous No.11264816]

Step aside, children.

[Anonymous No.11265889]

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[Anonymous No.11266191]

>>11261228
Everyman usually has some interesting extra stuff. Bio, timeline, critical excerpts.

[Anonymous No.11266216]

>>11261516
>there is an even bigger paperweight than Bottom's Meme

[Anonymous No.11266272]

>inb4 Yale
It was a thrift store find cheap as hell and I had no physical Shakespeare at the time. No bully. Dollar is for scale

[Anonymous No.11266331]

>>11266216
It's arguably the better book too

[Anonymous No.11266383]

Smallest is Sophocles' Antigone and largest is The Complete Plays of Bernard Shaw.

[Anonymous No.11266468]

Biggest in page count around 1400pgs is Antagonía by Luis Goytisolo, smallest is Morphine by Bulgakov.

[Anonymous No.11266848]

Mine: Taschen's giant Little Nemo, and a 1920-ish Little Leather Library of EBB's Sonnets From the Portuguese.

[Anonymous No.11266894]

>>11266272
i like that formatting of the yale editions
uncluttered, speakers are clearly differentiated, shared lines are indicated with spacing, plenty of margin for notes
great edition for actors