skinsfan999 Posted July 30, 2008 Share Posted July 30, 2008 The Stand by Stephen King. The edition I had was at least 1100 pages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forehead Posted July 30, 2008 Share Posted July 30, 2008 Great Expectations, which I read in 7th grade and didn't understand a word of. I re-read it in 12th. The Canterbury Tales, which is over 600 pages written in an olde English style. I've read a lot of classics, not all of them long, things like The Odyssey and The Illiad, combined works of Kafka, Siddartha, Candide, Moby Dick, etc...but nothing recently, I stopped reading for the most part a few years ago, not sure why. If we're going by series, I read the entire 58 original Hardy Boys books when I was in 3rd/4th grade, and since they're all exactly 190 pages or so, that's at least 11,000 pages worth of Franklin W. Dixon's finest literature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkinsTerps26 Posted July 30, 2008 Share Posted July 30, 2008 Organic Chemistry Text Book. Talk about a hard read. I know this much is true 900+ Pillars of the Earth 800+ both took about 2 weeks, since i don't have time to read for hours My gf finished both in 2 days, every HP book within that day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duckus Posted July 30, 2008 Share Posted July 30, 2008 A year ago I read Shantaram - is about 1,000 pages, maybe a little more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dchogs Posted July 30, 2008 Share Posted July 30, 2008 Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. 1168 pages. My favorite book is Shogun by James Clavelle - I've read it about 5 times now I think. Its 1100+ pages. I also read another one of his that I didn't like as much - King Rat maybe? I can't remember...it was a similar length. those are probably my two longest. all of clavelle's books (except king rat) were pretty damned long. great reads though. i've read atlas shrugged three times so far (once as a teenager, once in my 20's, and once in my 30's). the last time was the first time i read the entire book (i skipped galt's radio address the first two times). i also read steven king's dark tower series straight through... even though each book isn't totally a killer in terms of length, the sum number of pages is considerable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stophovr6 Posted July 30, 2008 Share Posted July 30, 2008 (i skipped galt's radio address the first two times). That was seriously the hardest part of the book for me. If anyone want's to read atlas shrugged just for the message/philosophy, read this part. It's all you need. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DGreenistheBest Posted July 30, 2008 Share Posted July 30, 2008 The extended Stand, followed closely by It. However, when I finish Infinite Jest, it will be the longest. Page numbers are about the same as the Stand but the font size is like 10 pt and printed practically to the edge of the page, not to mention the dude who wrote it uses little punctuation or paragraph breaks, resulting in sentences spanning several pages in some cases. And the last 300 or so pages are foot notes and references that play into the story in important ways and require reading as well, but they are in an even smaller font. All in all, it feels like it might as well be a 3000 page book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PCS Posted July 30, 2008 Share Posted July 30, 2008 Burr by Gore Vidal. Okay. So it was a relatively short book. But it read like something around the 1000 page area. And that was just the first 100 pages or so. Like others, have read several in the 800+ page area. Last one was Clancy's Executive orders. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
techboy Posted July 30, 2008 Share Posted July 30, 2008 Martin's Game of Thrones (the first book in the fantastic Song of Ice and Fire series) is indeed top notch. Just make sure you force your way through the first couple chapters. Martin uses an immense number of characters, and it takes a little while to get going. I actually gave up on it the first time I read it (and I never do that), and only went back when others strongly recommended it. I'm glad I did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skinfan133 Posted July 30, 2008 Share Posted July 30, 2008 the longest book I've read page number-wise is whichever of the harry potter books is the longest the longest read I've ever had was "Father of the Navy, John Paul Jones' Legacy" that book took me about 4 months to read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f_trizzy Posted July 30, 2008 Share Posted July 30, 2008 The Tommyknockers 750-ish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LuvtheSkins428 Posted July 30, 2008 Share Posted July 30, 2008 The Stand, the entire Harry Potter Series, just finished The Pillars of the Earth - excellent book, btw.It's World Without End, I just ordered it since I enjoyed the first so much. Hat's off to you Rand readers out there, I've started Atlas Shrugged about 3 times now, haven't made it past 60 or 70 pages, always find something more "fun" to read..... :notworthy Yes - thanks - World Without End, which is also very good. I'm kind of hoping he writes another one... The Harry Potter series is excellent as well. I'm on the last one as we speak. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skinsandgibbsfan Posted July 30, 2008 Share Posted July 30, 2008 I've read all of the Harry Potter books. Although they are very long, they go really quickly. Currently, I'm reading The Thousand Nights and One Night, also known as the Arabian Nights (translated by Mather). I think the total number of pages comes to around 2,300 and the text is kind of small, too. This one's going to take me awhile. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renaissance Posted July 30, 2008 Author Share Posted July 30, 2008 Man you guys make me feel lazy as hell!! Oh well, I read like 5 more pages on the metro this morning:cool: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kuraitengai Posted July 30, 2008 Share Posted July 30, 2008 Either Executive Orders by Tom Clancy or Moby Dick by Hermann Melville.EO had more pages, but Moby Dick was written in 18th century New England hackney, so it was a much tougher read. same here, but switch out moby dick for the count of monte cristo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kuraitengai Posted July 30, 2008 Share Posted July 30, 2008 Man you guys make me feel lazy as hell!!Oh well, I read like 5 more pages on the metro this morning:cool: haha. two years ago i think i read about 105 books for the year, taking the weekends off. last year it dropped to about 80 books. so hows that lazy feeling now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedskinPryde Posted July 30, 2008 Share Posted July 30, 2008 Oh the places you'll go By: Dr.Seuss Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prosperity Posted July 30, 2008 Share Posted July 30, 2008 Atlas Shrugged.... I probably could have skipped the last 100 pages and gotten exactly the same amount of knowledge out of it Crime and Punishment was pretty long too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ECU-ALUM Posted July 30, 2008 Share Posted July 30, 2008 The Bible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Predicto Posted July 30, 2008 Share Posted July 30, 2008 "Metermaids in Bondage" by Natasha McSmut. It's isn't that long, but I only seem to be able to read a few pages at a time before I suddenly get the urge for a cigarette. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnLockesGhost Posted July 30, 2008 Share Posted July 30, 2008 "Metermaids in Bondage" by Natasha McSmut. Personal photo-albums don't count. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Brown Posted July 30, 2008 Share Posted July 30, 2008 I've just finished reading these, my uncle had them in his apartment and i picked one up one night and couldn't stop. churchill is the man. Also read War and Peace for a class at school. Winston Churchill's Six Volume History of the Second World War.http://www.amazon.com/Second-World-War-Six-Boxed/dp/039541685X/ref=pd_sbs_b_4 Churchill was to the English language what Keyra Agustina is to buttocks - the greatest ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renaissance Posted August 7, 2008 Author Share Posted August 7, 2008 Update: In the 11+ hour round trip to Canton I read about 50 pages :doh: I'm now less than 200 pages from the finish line though!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brandymac27 Posted August 7, 2008 Share Posted August 7, 2008 Anna Karenina By Leo Tolstoy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PokerPacker Posted August 7, 2008 Share Posted August 7, 2008 I don't remember what it was, but back in elementary school I read a book that was over 1200 pages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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