• ✍️ WORDS ✍️

    Welcome Guest!

  • Words Moderators: Shambles

Thickest (longest) book you ever read.

LOTR, The Stand, It, The Bible, Atlas Shrugged... when a book is good you WANT it to never end, but when it is misery on paper like Atlas Shrugged you just want to get through it
 
"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. "The Illuminatus Trilogy" is about 800 pages, I've read that.

Apparently the longest book ever written was "Yongle Dadian", an encyclopedia of the Chinese Ming dynasty, which had 22,937 chapters in 10,000 volumes.

Haha, Yongle.
 
"A Storm of Swords" by george rr martin (about 1200 pages) hopefully that record will SOON BE BROKEN by his long awaited "A Feast for Crows"

probably longer ones when i was a kid
 
^ Storm of Swords was awesome! Finished it a day ago and raring for the next one.

I read L. Ron Hubbard's 'decalogy' (10 books!) in a row once upon a time. The story wasn't very good but I thought I owed it to myself to see it through. Can't remember how many pages but it was 10 decent-sized books.

Tad William's 'Otherland' series is another of those 'one book split into many''s and one I really enjoyed, so that is the one that I will put on record as the longest 'book' I ever read and loved.
 
Kim Stanley Robinsons Mars Trilogy could be considered one book(one story over three books.)

Those were some damn good books too.
 
^ Fucking A. I've read them twice now. Good shit..

On average each of the books is 700 pages so that's around 2100...
 
I've read all 7 books of the Dark Tower series over the last 8 years, if that's considered one book it would be like 10000 pages long or so, other than that probably Rainbow Six a long time ago, I think it's 1200.
 
Kul69 said:
I've read all 7 books of the Dark Tower series over the last 8 years, if that's considered one book it would be like 10000 pages long or so, other than that probably Rainbow Six a long time ago, I think it's 1200.
Click to expand...

Forgot about that :)
 
Steven King
"The Stand"
Hardcover: 1200 pages

Read it a couple of times.

Robert Jordan
Wheel of time series (all books 750-1100)
 
thickest? no idea

longest?

the bible.

longest because it was hard as shit to read and i had to re-read so many pages so many times just to fully understand the ideas being expressed (besides the Bible)? Aldous Huxley's "Island." Its just the 4 page long paragraphs that would push me over the edge and make me not want to read it.
 
Hell I read so much I never really thought of that...maybe the thickest novel i read when i was younger, in like a couple of days , was IT by stephen king...
I can usually read a novel in one or two days...i read LEs Miserables in two days for highschool and just went back to highlight my notes when needed 8(
Lol...But i guess the THICKEST book i read lately and in ONE SITTING was that goddamn DaVinci Code. Yeah, eight hours non stop and a splitting headache after.
I'm a voracious and EXTREMELY fast reader :D
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top