What was the longest book you read?

[superberkut]

What with current events, it seems in poor taste, but I am genuinely curious: What was the longest book you have ever read, either in terms of page count or "the reading experience." (i.e.: did the book get boring.)

Mine was Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand (this edition was 1265 pages). However, at half the pages, it took me longer to read Lindbergh, by A. Scott Berg. It got dull...

 

[Matt R]

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

 

[sn00pie]

The Discovery of Heaven by Harry Mulisch

 

[ROAD_DOGG33J]

The Lord of The Rings

 

[PLmatt91]

Alone... Like 25 pages. I've never finished any book that I've started within my lifetime. I hate reading.

 

[Danny]

Plodding my way through Tender Is The Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

 

[Smallhorses]

I've read all of James Clavell's Asian Epics: Shogun, Gai Jin, Tai Pan, Noble House and Whirlwind, all of which are well over 1000 pages. 👍
Extremely good stories, superbly set up and detailled (Noble House is around 1500 pages long and covers a timespan of just 7 days!!!), although he seems to struggle with how to end a story well.

King Rat is much shorter but based on his experiences as a POW at the infamous Chiang Mai prison.

 

[Philly]

Alone... Like 25 pages. I've never finished any book that I've started within my lifetime. I hate reading.

Sounds about right.

But seriously, I can't remember reading anything over 300. I'm sure I have never opened anything over 500. Big books scare me. I just can't get myself to throw all that time away, and actually concentrate on the thing. Any why read those big things when you can just go into your little sister's room and steal a few picture books?

 

[ceiling_fan]

The Yongle Dadian.

 

[Danoff]

Mine was Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand (this edition was 1265 pages).

The Lord of The Rings

Yup, those two.

 

[Dougboy]

One of the very few books that ive actually finished. It was pretty good (for a book). I dont think i've read more than 10 entire books since i started school.

 

[Sting]

For me it would be:

Stephan King
The Stand (Complete and Uncut Edition)
1440 pages

 

[Loon]

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

Same here. And I'm currently reading through a book that has all 6(I believe) of the "Hitch Hiker Guides to The Galaxy", I think its about 814 pages, thats not including all the side stuff Douglas wrote. I've read Stephen King's "The Cell"-449, "The Dead Zone"-402, and "Desperation"-560.

but I've read the GOF^ and the next book in the series and I think both of them are 1000+ books. I find it hard to read books though, they have to be really interesting or I find now point in reading them.

 

[Matt R]

Same here.

I made it half way through book five before I lost all interest in the series.

 

[Philly]

I got through five paragraphs of book 4 before I got distracted. And now I can't stand the series.

 

[Keichi Tsuchiya]

Le Comte de Monte Cristo - 1332 pages
I read Shogun and Gai-Jin in the 9th grade. Really good. I want to read the others soon.

 

[TopHat]

For me it would be:

Stephan King
The Stand (Complete and Uncut Edition)
1440 pages

I was going to post the very same thing. What a freaky book. After a while I thought it was actually happening!

 

[YSSMAN]

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix will be the longest (that I can recall) when its done... I'm about a 1/4 of the way done, in total the book is 870 pages long.

Although, I read about 80% of the New American Bible last semester for school, which ends up being about a little more than 1000 pages.

 

[nk4e]

Romance of the Three Kingdoms

 

[SolidSnake15]

The Lord of the Rings 3 in 1 combination book. 8000+ pages with this size print and 12'' by 8'' pages. All three books in one. Took a year in a half!

 

[Danoff]

Yup, those two.

Also, I should probably mention, those are the two best books I've read.

 

[G.T]

His Dark Materials trilogy within one book. 1016 pages.

 

[Omnis]

Mosby's Medical Dictionary is a pretty big tome. Reference doesn't really count, though.

Biggest therefore is probably whichever of the Harry Potter books is the longest. Book 4 or 5, I think.

 

[Slicks]

I can't think offhand of the longest book I have finished... Certainly in the 800-900 page range.

The longest book I haven't finished is Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephenson - I started on it a couple years ago and lost interest a few hundred pages in. It's well over 1000 pages, if I recall correctly.

I'll have to check out that Stephen King book (The Stand). Sounds like a monster of a book, but I'm sure it'll be a good read (as has every one of his that I've read).

 

[Boundary Layer]

As far as fiction goes:

LOTR

Also, I'm currently 2/3rds through George R.R. Martins A Storm of Swords (2nd of 5 books in the Song of Ice and Fire saga). Each book in the series appears to be 800-1000 pages.



Textbooks are another issue altogether.

 

[Seanman]

The Complete Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. 👍

 

[GT Pro]

'Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix' so far.

 

[Sage]

Atlas Shrugged. Which I’ve read a couple times.

I have to be careful when I read it though, because I get so immersed that I kind of forget to do anything else – which means I always end up finishing it in 5 days.

 

[Small_Fryz]

Probably Harry Potter book 7 followed by Raymond E Faist? the Riftwar saga, Magacian, Silverthorn and Death at Sethalon? which i read about 5yrs ago now, awesome series.

 

[livemusic]

I'm not into reading books really, I think the longest I've finished was Stephen King's "Thinner", which was a bit over 300 pages I guess.