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What is the longest book you have ever read?
one of my students from last year LOVES reading cook books. he almost always has a pile of kids cook books in his desk, lol.
Les Misérables is still my record, I think. I know The Count of Monte Cristo and the Stormlight Archives are not far behind in length.
Most recently the longest books I’ve read are the Mistborn series by Brandon Sanderson. Currently reading the last book in the series. SO good.
Harry Potter and the order of Phoenix.
Under The Dome by Stephan King
Ellen wrote: "The Norwegian hardback of The Wise Man's Fear which was about 1000 pages."Me too! My copy of The Wise Man's Fear was 1000 pages even!
Although, I believe my French copy of Harry Potter et l'Ordre du Phénix had over 1000 pages.
^Edit: 1030 pages!
I too am in the middle of It by stephen king.I've also read The Time Ships by stephen baxter which is about 5-600 pages if i recall correctly.
addendum: illuminae is exactly 600 pages (i think) but i hardly think it counts? might need a second opinion on that
A Game of Thrones, 837 pages. I haven't read any of the sequels yet but I really want to... to be honest I've read GoT twice, the first time it took me a couple of months, the second one I did like an annotated version comparinf it to the show, and seeing forshadowing, clues for popular fan theories, and I was reading it for months and months.
Kingdom of Ash, the final installment of the Throne Of Glass series is the longest book I have read as of yet (984 pages!) but it was amazing - it didn't feel long at all which is to be expected of Sarah J Maas' works!
Pillars of the earth , 806 pages. Took me two weeks to read but I like it
Let's see:I read all those damn Game of Thrones books (up to 1100 pages apiece), and now I'm sorry because I'm completely convinced that he's never writing the last one, and it's been so long since I read the rest that I would have to reread them to remember what happened, and THAT'S not happening...
One of the longest was Connie Willis's duology that was supposed to be a single novel—Blackout and All Clear. Although the publisher made her release them as two volumes because they were SO long, she herself states that she intended them to be one book and in fact book #1 simply STOPS (no cliffhanger, just stops) and book #2 picks up later that same day with no review. The two of them together were a whopping 1266 pages.
But probably the longest novel most people have read, if they've read it...The Count of Monte Cristo, 1276 pages to 1462 pages, depending on edition.
Melliott wrote: "Let's see:I read all those damn Game of Thrones books (up to 1100 pages apiece), and now I'm sorry because I'm completely convinced that he's never writing the last one, and it's been so long sin..."
Yeah. I think Martin has given up. :*[ Really strange.
The longest book I can recall having read is Stephen King's Under the Dome, which is nearly 1,100 pages - but that was several years ago, so I barely remember it.
I have read many books which were more than 1000 pages at least 10+ but the biggest so far is of course from Stephen King The Stand But in few days it's going to be eclipsed by another Stephen King behemoth It while the Stand was only 1325 pages IT is going to be 1376 pages long my longest read so far.
I think the Fiery Cross by Diana Gabaldon it's 1,443 pages
People are reminding me of others. I read the first five Diana Gabaldons, and also most of the Stephen Kings mentioned here (those back in my 20s, so I hardly remembered until someone mentioned them!).
Sleeping Beauties- Stephen King 702 pagesit was ok. too many characters to follow and in some parts were a little boring.
The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. My edition was around 1044 pages.
Mine is a 'Sacred Games' by Vikram Chandra. An epic with 916 pages.
Mine was the Host by Stephanie Meyer and it was well worth it!
I've read a few monsters over 1000 pages, but taking into consideration the size of the book as well as the thickness, probably Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson. That's around 1200 pages and it's the size of a large hardcover, but the print of a paperback, if that makes sense.
Keeper of the Lost Cities: Flashback, at 846 pages.
My copy of War and Peace that was 1273 pages.
Probably Les Miserables for me too.
11/22/63 by Stephen King. it was a lot of pages, that's all I know.
The longest book I've read is The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Four which has 784 pages, but currently I'm reading The Complete Fairy Tales which is even longer, 803 pages.The longest book I want to read some time soon, is Les Misérables, 1,330 pages.
me too So far Winter is the longest book I've read
The Passage by Justin Cronin 766 pages
I've probably read longer ones but this is the first one that came to mind.
The Miserables by Victor Hugo
I read "The Holy Bible" which took a little less than a year. [964 pages]
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2,400 pages. Took me FOREVER to finish, but my cooking skills improved greatly.