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Thickest (longest) book you ever read.

SardonicNihilist said:
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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Yes! That was my favorite game as well...it was in the book about plants titled The Green Kingdom. Wow! Lol! The game you mentioned is in the middle of the book, where this young boy has to go through several mazes with dangerous plants, poisonous mushrooms (my first encounter with mushies ;)) , poison ivy and the like to get to the end of the forest. =D That whole game was beautifully illustrated , i loved it!

As a matter of fact I dont even recall a FAVORITE single book in my childhood (think, 5-10 years old) because all I read was the 12 Childcraft volumes and never got tired of it. (We had another encyclopedia set called the Bookshelf for Boys and Girls and it was 12 thick books of stories from all around the world, I would alternate reading from both ).
We still have our childcraft set believe it or not, in the library, well worn but in good shape. I intend to pass it down to my kids in the future =D

My favorite volumes were: Children Everywhere (exposed me to all cultures at a young age!) ; The Green Kingdom ; Mathemagic ; Things to Make and Do ; How Things Work ; and the 2nd the the last book which was all about our bodies (i forgot the name!) Remember now? =D

I never read any other encyclopedias when I got older, they were all so damn boring . I dont even remember what I referenced during my school years (way before Brittanica on CD ROM and the internet).Childcraft influenced me a lot ...in terms of being a voracious reader, and eventually being a writer and an artist because the books were just so wonderfully written and beautifully illustrated and photographed.
 
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thanks hans!
 
War and Peace. I read it while backpacking through europe - I think I got through three countries worth of train trips before I finished it.
 
I dunno... hard to remember, I've read so many fucking books. maybe Stranger in a Strange Land... or Dune... I've read some books that actually had three novels together in them, do those count? ;)

as for the Hemmingway novel... it may not be that long, but it could be a VERY hard read for someone who "just doesn't get it"... a hard read>long read
 
It was 3 books but in one compilation. The Chronicles of the Dragonlance Saga. 1003 pages.
 
Soon to be the Kaplan MCAT Comprehensive Review, yeah this is going to be a fun summer. =D
 
The Bible.

Many times, cover to cover. NJE, NIV, NCV, probably one other version. Cant think of the name of it but friend has a version thats an exact literal translation of hebrew-> english and greek-> english, that was pretty cool was like 2x longer. Big fan of NIV.

After that im gonna go with Dune. I think the one Dune book is 700+ pages.

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nm - Issaic Assimov's "Robot Dreams" is in excess of 1300+ pages. Classic, the godfather of all that is science fiction.
 
paradoxcycle said:
"War & Peace" (Tolstoy) probably. It's about 1400 pages I believe.
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Y'know, after struggling through that book, I realized it wouldn't have been half as bad if someone just scrapped the twenty-letter long names.
 
A 1000+ page book about the polio vaccine and AIDS in Africa. Can't remember the title but I was on my back with a terrible case of the flu for three daze and I read the book straight through. The book's theory was: AIDS was spread in Africa through tainted Polio vaccines.

The most stunning chapters were about the free-sex in bathouses in New York City before the epidemic hit. Said some guys had like 500 sex partners!
 
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