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Thickest (longest) book you ever read.

long reads

Joyce caused me some headaches. My Ulysses edition had 1300+ pgs. Read the Wake too, but understood a fraction. Stephen King's It had simillar amount of pages but was more digestible - I was in 6th form and it was a good way to pass time in tedious lessons.
 
Charles Duchaussois
"Flash"
The Tragic Drug Experience
373 pages not too much but the longest i read and its awesome
 
As far as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Complete Sherlock Holmes, I'm only like 160 into it. After The Sign of Four, I started reading One flew over the Cuckoo's Nest. Good shit by the way, the movie doesn't tocuh it so far.

I just wish I was quicker, 2 minutes a page...UGGG. 3 minutes for those bastardly large Holmes' pages.
 
Randall's 2004 World Almanac. I'm not sure how many pages, but there were at least 800. There were tons of pictures in it too, so that might be cheating.

Interesting as pluto, thou!
 
aunty establishment said:
"A Man in Full" by Tom Wolfe was pretty damn long, but I seem to recall it being in big print. Amazon tells me it was only 700 pages.
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I remember it being really long as well.

The Robert Jordan and George R.R. Martin books are all pretty long. Though I can't recall titles I know I've some books around 1500-2000 pages.
 
Of course not. Does everyone on this site only read Harry Potter? 8(

:p
 
You're an asshole on BL.

I was making an observation. I've never seen such a concentration of people that have read the same books.

FuF.
 
I'm not trying to be an asshole. A lot of people read those two fantasy authors because they are frontrunners of the genre, at least in the last ten years. As far as other novels, perhaps it's the same reason we all use this site--most of us have similar mindsets and are drawn to similar things, whether it is music, novels, or a community based around harm reduction and drug use.
 
also not to be an asshole, and i'm not pointing any fingers here, but I really doubt War and Peace is as widely read on bluelight as it is claimed to be.

Now, hollowing it out for a gun or a brick of coke, i can see, but reading... not so much.
 
atlas said:
also not to be an asshole, and i'm not pointing any fingers here, but I really doubt War and Peace is as widely read on bluelight as it is claimed to be.

Now, hollowing it out for a gun or a brick of coke, i can see, but reading... not so much.
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:D ha ha ha
 
hmm, guess i'm with simon and atlas also:

infinite jest by david foster wallace. so, yeah, it's over 100 pages, with about 120 pages worth of endnotes. i've read it twice and still don't completely understand it. i still like it though. and i want to read it again.
 
you're in good company ;) Simon and I are the caramelized sugar top on the bluelight creme brulee. =D

If you don't grasp something, you might want to check out this reader. It clears up the chronology, for those who can't be bothered to count the standardized time years, as well as highlights some themes in the book you'd have to be a historian to pick up on.

PM me if you've got any burning questions.
 
Probably the complete works of HP Lovecraft but seeing as how it is multiple stories I'm not sure it counts. I have read War and Peace but I can't really say that I enjoyed it or really read anything but the context. A book that boring you tend to skip large sections.

Single technical manual that weighs in at over 20,000 pages is the Federal Aviation Regulations and yes, I have read the whole thing, just not at once.
 
I have fond memories of my the Childcraft Encyclopedia set me and my younger sister shared when I was little. I read all 12 books over and over and over again for a good decade.
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Wow CC, I also used to have Childcraft!!!:), but my parents gave them away when I turned 13 or something to a couple with younger kids. It was soon replaced by MacMillan family encyclopedia, 1978 edition (I know this due to all the times I refernced it during my schooling), which was much LESS fun- as you could imagine.

Please remind me, one book, somewhere in the second half has a 'follow the map with your finger' game, and if you choose the wrong path you end up falling into quick sand, or eaten by a giant venus fly trap. That was my favourite, and I swear could probably finish that game even today first time, I just need to see the pictures to jog my memory.

That is my sole memory of Childcraft, I'm trying really hard to remember anything else, alas, to no avail:(

Maybe there is an article on the CN tower in Toronto, at the time the tallest building in the world?? maybe...
 
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