What's the longest book you've ever read?
>>25565967The Bible i think
>>25565967The Stand, by King. 1100 pages and I remember like, 3-4 scenes. Must have been exceedingly boring because I remember more scenes from supposedly "lesser" books. I read Shike by Shea around the same time and I remember a dozen scenes at least.
Reverend Insanity.
>>25565967Either the Bible, My Struggle (Knausgaard), or In Search Of Lost Time.
Probably Les Misérables. Read a bunch of other 1000+ pages books but this was the longest of the ones I can think of.
>>25566076same. The premise and overall plot of the Stand still sound like something I'd really enjoy but I remember 2/3rds of the book was just people talking on the road and the weird visions/dreams they were having.The complete version has maybe 200 pages of actual events
ISOLT x3
>>25565967I'm very close to finishing Against the day. It's the first time I've ever read a 1000-page book. weirdly enough, I wasn't that surprised when Cyprian becomes a crossdressing nun. He was already a fag I guess
>>25565967sight... my diary desu
>>25565967Warmb the peas
>>25566077Biggest waste of time award.
>>25565967summa theologia. the first part doesnt matter and the last part isnt by aquinas
>>25565967In Search of Lost Time.
Some law books, hansards, WTO shit, decline and fall.been meaning to read a really schizo novel that is in the 3k pages but I need to know when i can next get time off work to power though it.
>>25566285Is it worth it? Do you get anything out of just reading Swann's Way (often released standalone)?
>>25566169Could you please tell me how this was? This is one of those things I'd like to read when I'm retired because it's so long
>>25566407NTA but yes to both questions. Swann's works either as keystone of the broader story or stand-alone experience, although the ultimate effect of the full book is absolutely worth it.
I find it funny that the length of a book is one of its most talked about characteristics but basically no-one gives a fuck about the length of a film
>>25565967reading is fucking dead in this society retard you really think anyone here actually tells the truth about what they read?
>>25566390Shalom
>>25566486Books vary much more wildly in length, nearly all films are like 80-120 minutes
>>25565967I read the 11 volume story of civilisation by the Durants if you count that as one book, if you don’t it’s probably still one of those since some of them are like 1300 pages long and are way bigger than standard paperbacks
Journey to the West sure ain't a rainy day read.
1.5 million words, ~5000 pages. Read it twice. Very entertaining.
>>25565967I looked up some longer ones I've read:The Glory and the Dream: A Narrative History of America, 1932–1972 - 472,000War and Peace - 587,000 words (I think my copy was like 1,300 pages)The Holy Bible (Catholic) about 1,000,000, but it's multiple worksThe Second Apocalypse - 1.2 million (but it's 7 volumes)A Song of Ice and Fire - 1.7 million (5 volumes)Sun Eater - 2.2 million (7 volumes plus five shorter novels and short stories, but I didn't read all of those)The Story of Civilization - 4.4 million, 11 volumes, but I didn't read the first volume or finish up the section running through Napoleon.That's probably still the longest though. Just the one on medieval history is quite a doorstopper and then it basically has two more volumes for the late Middle Ages.
>>25566801I forgot Gibbon. That would actually count as one book and is 1.5 million, but I'll admit to skimming quite a bit and I also simply listened to parts (and fell asleep lol).Gibbon has many great lines in there, but it goes on forever.
>>25566407Yes, it's a great read, you could read just Swann's Way but as >>25566450 said you won't get the full experience of the whole story with just Swann's Way. My personal favorite is The Guermantes Way.
The Deipnosophistai
>>25565967The Sot Weed Factor 806 pages
>>25565967Jerusalem by Alan Moore, 1,180 pages wherein he admits that his hometown will someday probably be suicide bombed by Muslims but that's just part and parcel innit.
>>25568884>Jerusalem by Alan MooreWhy are British intellectuals so willing to let themselves be systematically destroyed by outsiders? China has lots of protectionists for its people and their majority atheist so it cant be the secularism.
>>25568890it's a cuck island founded by cucks
>>25566407I found Swann's Way infuriating. He spends so long pining over a woman he didn't even want. What gives?
>>25565967Isolt
>>25565983Same. But I am reading a Veda (damn curiosity and hubris) so if I complete that, it will be my new record. Fucking Rig is over 8000 pages.
>>25568890It's something in the soul. To realize the mess your people have made and either interpret it as ignorance with consequences leading to entropy, or pioneering with consequences leading to greater strength. The Brits were never genuinely popular as successors to Rome so it's clear what pricked their ears over the centuries, it wasn't praise.
I reread the Wheel of Time series 8 times
>>25565967>dolorous reads you wish were overDosto, Idiot.
>>25565967Battlefield EarthSeries: mission earth
Chandler's Campaigns of Napoleon or maybe Against the Day
>>25565967The Bible. Though it's a little unfair since the Bible is over a couple dozen books combined into one book.
Les miserables
The Stranger
>>25565983More like The Boring
>>25565967In Search of Lost TimeI do want to get back the time I spent on Guermantes Way since compared to Swanns Way it was just a shitpost.
>>25565967Atlas Shrugged. Read it aloud to my wife. We call it "Bookshelf Shrugged".
>>25571206Guermantes Way was, as I recall it, more earnest yet ironical in depicting the motivations of the characters. At the same time, it had those romanticist ideas induced by French terms for eg. places in the mind of a young mind that I could very much relate to, as it was similar to thoughts I had when looking at a map of my country. Is English not like this?
>>25566390what novel
I don't count pages, I'm not autistic.
>>25571206>since compared to Swanns Way it was just a shitpostWhat's not to like about GW if you like Swann's? Volumes 3 and 4 are arguably the peak of the whole affair, with the sheer richness of their social worlds.
spreadsheet says a brando sando bookthanks for that op, gave me a good kek. i'm glad i stopped reading fantasy and scifi.
>>25569178Its 10000 verses, stupid
>>25565967I'm pretty sure To Green Angel Tower was the longest book I've ever read.
>>25571202Shalom
>>25565967Currently forcing myself to finish Schattenfroh out of sheer spite. Absolutely hate this dumb brick, this is why you should never allow professors to write fiction. Like I get what he's trying to do, but somewhere along the line he forgot you're supposed to actually be entertained/engrossed by the book you bought. I already hate my father so I could have just saved myself 10 eur out of the 30 eur book price by buying myself 20 eur of acid instead
>>25566407Yes. My God, yes. Proust is probably the best writer we've ever had (at least for what concerns the hyper-introspective style of writing).
>>25565967Cambridge's History of Latin America. Several volumes, 8k pages, I think.Conclusion: latinx people are retarded.
>>25575713...said Jesus and the Apostles
>>25565967Romance of the Three Kingdoms unabridged, it's ~2300 pages last I checked
Reading Proust in a language other than French seems pointless though. What's remarkable of it is just the pure literary value tied to the language. Or what do you think is the value of Du côté de chez Swann or Le coté de Guermantes if not the pure language? A premonition of the later parts? The fictive duchess is just made up of memories and reflections starting from the language (and from the aroma of biscuit). There is no greater metaphysical insight or morale, just a man caught up reminiscing about the past, forgetting and finding time and age in language.
>>25577879You’re genuinely retarded and unread.
>>25577883You sound like the type of person having read a translation and patting yourself on the shoulder as Proust-reader in a public place while ordering pound cake with a cup of tea.I can tell from your frustrated ad hominem and lack of argument.
>>25577879>There is no greater metaphysical insight or morale, just a man caught up reminiscing about the past, forgetting and finding time and age in language.Sounds like there's a whole lot of metaphysical insight
I don’t know. I read a lot. Recently the longest thing I can remember reading was the full three volume version of the Gulag Archipelago which is a little over 2,000 pages. It took over a month but it was a fantastic book that everyone should read.
This is a data mining thread.
>>25565967Longest in terms of page count, or in terms of how long it took to read? The latter would be Being and Time; I don't know what the former would be off the top of my head.
>>25565967It by Stephen King
The Life of Johnson
The complete works of Edgar Allen Poe, including all his poetry.
>>25565967If you count multi-volume works, the Funk and Wagnalls 1989 Encyclopedia, first to last cover.
>>25566285Second for me. Gibbon's Decline and Fall exceeds it by about 500 pp or so
>>25580290Impressive. My parents had one but I was always topical in my relationship to it. I did read a Webster's 10th Collegiate Dictionary, however, and note down all the words I liked. Though I don't miss childhood I sometimes think.. oh, never mind
>>25565967The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
>>25565967One Piece
I used to be anxious about long books, but recently finished Giles Goat Boy which pushes 800p. This feat (for me) unlocked the ability to read so many fatties, and ive already acquired a few more.
>What's the longest book you've ever read?Probably one of the I Spy or Where's Waldo? books. Also the widest.
>>25580290What's makes that enciclopedia special?
>>25565967The Hebrew Bible. Read it cover to cover with commentary from Robert Alter. It took a while to finish.
>>25566779Hate Scientology but love this series. If only LRH stuck with fiction instead of finding a cult.
>>25568890It's weird. /pol/ blames Chinese or Jewish influence but they have always had low trust society and weird worship of Islam
>>25566486Especially considering a book can be read in short sessions but a movie is consumed in a single sitting. Personally I can read for hours at a time, but the idea of sitting watching a movie for 3+ hours is hell to me.
>>25582238My son is working his way through this, prefers the books. Anything I should know?
>>25584390all demographic replacement is spiritual punishment for colonialism, which China hasn't done. Isn't it curious that countries are largely overtaken by people groups they previously wronged (Rome: goths, England: The whole middle east, most of Asia, west Africans, America: Mexicans with Native American heritageChina didn't colonize anyone (except poking the japs a bit but they already paid blood for that) so they aren't getting colonized in the same way.
>>25585446Ireland never colonized anyone, they got colonized. You just hate white people
>>25582300here come dat goatboi!do LETTERS next
>>25565983>>25566080>>25566801You really read the *whole* Bible? Don't lie, God is watching.
>>25565967THICC
Some series of 5 or 6 or 7 volumes that the author chose to call a single book.
>>25565967My diary desu
>>25585446>colonialism, which China hasn't done.Japan, Taiwan, Korea and Vietnam would like a word with you.
>>25568890Britbong here, our values of tolerance are literally pathological. We have so much collective historical guilt over the legacy of empire that we cannot help but let outsiders walk all over us as recompense.
