Longest Book you've ever read?

NenniferO77 · Post by **NenniferO77** » 04 Oct 2013, 19:13

The wheel of time series..... I think the shortest is over 900 pages

Kscanny · Post by **Kscanny** » 04 Oct 2013, 20:23

I think the longest I have read recently was a Memory of Light by Robert Jordan and Brian Sanderson 910 pages.

V-miller · Post by **V-miller** » 04 Oct 2013, 23:05

This Much I Know is True by Wally Lamb (probably my all time favorite book) and I've also read Gone with the Wind. Oh, I read Roots...I don't know how many pages it was, but I remember it being a fairly thick book.

hira0000 · Post by **hira0000** » 05 Oct 2013, 19:20

Les Miserables, Lord of the Rings, and Brothers Karamazov are some of the books I have read that were really long. I am not sure about the number of pages but it felt like a huge achievement when I finished them each time.

SarahPapesh · Post by **SarahPapesh** » 07 Oct 2013, 07:20

Bighuey wrote:I started to read one called Varney the Vampire a while back, but never got very far into it. It was something like 12,000 pages long.

Yikes! That seems like a big undertaking to read a book that long! I am guessing it wasn't worth it to keep reading if you didn't get that far into it.

Bighuey · Post by **Bighuey** » 07 Oct 2013, 09:31

SarahPapesh wrote:
Bighuey wrote:I started to read one called Varney the Vampire a while back, but never got very far into it. It was something like 12,000 pages long.
Yikes! That seems like a big undertaking to read a book that long! I am guessing it wasn't worth it to keep reading if you didn't get that far into it.

It is kind of a dumb book. Apparently it was originally a normal sized book, but different writers added to it over the years and it was just confusing jumble of words.

MagicofBooks86 · Post by **MagicofBooks86** » 07 Oct 2013, 12:26

I want to say "Les Miserables" by Victor Hugo, but I'm not quite sure. I think it's that one.

As for a bind up, my edition of "The Complete Sherlock Holmes" is HUGE!

Sine_Ni_Ceallach · Post by **Sine_Ni_Ceallach** » 07 Oct 2013, 13:07

I read through the entire Bible at one point in time... 2,076 pages. Earlier this year I finished The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe at 1,026.

mjmat007 · Post by **mjmat007** » 07 Oct 2013, 16:04

Lord of the Rings.

jsinard42 · Post by **jsinard42** » 07 Oct 2013, 21:17

Gone with the Wind. Read it a few years ago and to date it is the longest book I have read.

FMChandler · Post by **FMChandler** » 07 Oct 2013, 21:29

Lonesome Dove it comes in just shy of 1000 pages.

carag4 · Post by **carag4** » 11 Nov 2013, 18:40

At first I thought it would be Roots by Alex Haley, but after doing a page comparison, turns out Gone with the Wind was a couple hundred pages longer.

Craigable · Post by **Craigable** » 13 Nov 2013, 06:39

Some of the longest ones for me include Gone with the Wind, Don Quixote, and Moby-Dick.

From a psychological standpoint, two long novels I read that felt much, much, much longer than their page count (cf. "Will this never end!?!") were Ulysses and Samuel R. Delany's Dhalgren.

shortyblue · Post by **shortyblue** » 13 Nov 2013, 15:28

I would probably have to say one of the books in the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon. I know that some of them are more than a thousand pages. Pillars of the Earth was also a long book, but I don't remember how many pages it had.