Subject: Longest book you read all through
Posted by: SethMegadefan
Date: Mar 25 04
I actually read "A Christmas Carol" all the way through. What's the longest book you have read all the way through?
Posted by: SethMegadefan
Date: Mar 25 04
I actually read "A Christmas Carol" all the way through. What's the longest book you have read all the way through?
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Caseena
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Depending on whether word count or page count means a book is the longest, then The Count of Monte Cristo is the longest in terms of pages--almost 1500 in the edition I read. For word count, it's probably War and Peace--I read every word of that book, including the 100-page historical essay epilogue. Reply #321. Feb 12 13, 7:38 PM |
hermet 
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The Stand. 823 pages. Reply #322. Feb 12 13, 10:56 PM |
slytherinwitch
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Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand~ 1,088 pages (only read it to see if I agreed with Officer Barbrady's assessment of it on South Park). I did. Reply #323. Feb 12 13, 11:05 PM |
Ceistenna
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Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell Reply #324. Mar 05 13, 5:09 PM |
Play3Away
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It's taking me three years to read Moby Dick and I still haven't finished it. I know it's not long but I have trouble maintaining interest. Reply #325. Mar 27 13, 8:02 PM |
remote9
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Encyclopaedia :) Actually, it's "The Adventures of Feluda: Volume 1 and 2" by Satyajit Ray. Reply #326. Apr 04 13, 11:19 AM |
brm50diboll
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Stephen King's It. Reply #327. Oct 15 13, 7:48 PM |
tiye
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"The Name of the Rose" by Umberto Eco. Reply #328. Oct 21 13, 1:53 PM |
genoveva
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"The Stand" by Stephen King Reply #329. Oct 21 13, 2:16 PM |
dellastreet
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I read War and Peace during the school holidays when I was 16. It took me about a month. A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth was also pretty long. Reply #330. Oct 21 13, 3:48 PM |
enjoltaire
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Les Miserables by Victor Hugo - the translation I read was 1462 pages (however, I still have to go back and read one or two passages where Hugo went off into a rant about history for like 50 pages). Reply #331. Nov 17 13, 6:24 PM |
Dreamcoat
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Not sure if it's the longest I've ever read, but I ploughed my way through "Robinson Crusoe' as a young kid. Took me weeks, back and forth to the library to renew, but it was a real sense of achievement when I finished it! Great story to stimulate a young imagination, too. Reply #332. Nov 22 13, 7:36 AM |
Jennifer5
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Stephen King's 'The Stand' (the longer edition) Reply #333. Nov 23 13, 7:27 AM |
TemptressToo
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The Bible. :) Reply #334. Dec 02 13, 9:26 AM |
skydude13579
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Out of all the ones I've read, Infinite Jest probably took me the longest. Not only is it over a thousand pages long, but it's difficult to read and there are at least 200 pages of footnotes in the back. It took me even longer than Les Miserables, which is over 1400 pages. Other lengthy ones were The Stand, It, The Count of Monte Cristo, Pillars of the Earth, Swan Song, Otherland 4, Lonesome Dove, and Gravity's Rainbow (another head scratcher ~ I even read it twice). Reply #335. Apr 28 14, 8:53 PM |
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Hey Dreamcoat, I read that same book every time I went back and forth to detention, which happened to be in the school library. Heh. Reply #336. Apr 28 14, 9:00 PM |
blindcat78
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The King James Version of the Bible. Reply #337. May 04 14, 5:10 AM |
katydooey
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A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth Reply #338. Sep 04 14, 5:52 PM |
paulmallon
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"Forever" by Pete Hamill, or "Lonesome Dove", by Larry McMurtry Reply #339. Sep 08 14, 6:49 PM |
JONESNIDER
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The Stand - Stephan King, un-abridged Reply #340. Sep 19 14, 4:10 PM |
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