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What's the longest book you've ever read?
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Dec 25, 2023 07:29AM
Mine is A Treasury Of Irish Fairy Folktales (793 pages)
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Print - The Stand by Stephen King (1152 pages)Audio - A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. Martin (48:55 hours)
Fabelhaven complete series by Brandon Hull (2512 pages) although as a boxset I'm not sure if it counts as 'a book'! Also The Terror by Dan Simmons (794 pages) and The Stand by Stephen King (1152 pages)
Mein Kamph. It’s, like, 630 pages. :)
I forgot to add The Ink Black Heart by Robert Galbraith (1391 pages)
There would have been many but recent I remember was Anna Karenina
Gone With the Wind, 1037 pages. Yes, I read it and I loved it...though yes, it can be problematic in today's age.
The longest book I've ever read was Stephen King's IT! Definitely a trip, especially when I read it in the 6th grade... I'm coming up on reading Sarah J Maas' Kingdom of Ash, which is pretty close to a thousand pages!
The longest book I have read is Oathbringer (Stormlight Archive #3) by Brandon Sanderson, 1310 pages, 122 chapters, and in smaller texts than its previous instalments. It took me two months to finish it.
War and Peace
Haunting Adeline and then hunting Adeline
Keep in mind:page count doesn’t tell the exact story: The Ink Black Heart has the most pages but the lowest amount of words. Just one point in corps-size can make a lot of difference…
These are 5 of the longest books I read:
Oathbringer: 453,231 words (1310pages)
IT : 451,042 words (1168 pages)
Furious Heaven : 310,926 words (1081 pages)
The Running Grave: 301,491 words (960 pages)
Ink Black Heart: 298,158 words (1391 pages)
The Bible. Approximately 780,000 words and depending on the print format- roughly 1200 pages.
Nam wrote: "Gone With the Wind, 1037 pages. Yes, I read it and I loved it...though yes, it can be problematic in today's age."Probably for me it is also Gone with the Wind!
I read Gone With the Wind, 1037 pages back when I was 16, and reread it in my 30's. I've seen the movie twice, it's my all-time favorite. I
Hamilton, but couldn’t finish it
I guessing it's a J.R. Ward book I know last lover was 591. but I really don't look at the page numbers. just happened to be sitting here looking at that book goig that's pretty big.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (1022)
Does an epic poem count? If so, Beowulf - the longest, most tedious read I can remember and it was 30 yrs ago in high school!
Magi wrote: "Does an epic poem count? If so, Beowulf - the longest, most tedious read I can remember and it was 30 yrs ago in high school!"I also read that in high school in class and good thing as we had no idea what was going on. It was a shortened version.
1258 pages The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson1152 pages Shogun by James Clavell
1088 pages Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson
1243 pages Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson
1152 pages Shogun by James Clavell~~~~~~~~
I also read Shogun but didn't recall it being that long.
The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson (803 pages)
~☆~Autumn•.¸¸.•*´¨`* •.¸¸.•*´¨`*•.¸ wrote: "1152 pages Shogun by James Clavell~~~~~~~~
I also read Shogun but didn't recall it being that long."
I just checked and Shogun is 442,603 words, almost as long as IT.
The top 4 longest that I've read are:War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (1392), World Without End by Ken Follett (1237), The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R Tolkien (1216), and The Witching Hour by Anne Rice (1207)
In Search of Lost Time by Proust (the english version of A la recherche du temps perdu) as a challenge during the Covid lockdown. 4215 pages.
breaking dawn, around 726 pages. i wish i could remove this book from my memory
Harry Potter and the order of the pheonix (912)
Nora (Grayson's version) wrote: "Harry Potter and the order of the pheonix (912)"is it that long?
Oh thats right I forgot about Stephen Kings It that would be my longest 1396
World Without End by Ken Follett - 1237
This year it was Heat of the Everflame by Penn Cole which is 1026 pages, last years was House of Sky and Breath by Sarah J. Maas which is 805!
Dirk wrote: "~☆~Autumn•.¸¸.•*´¨`* •.¸¸.•*´¨`*•.¸ wrote: "1152 pages Shogun by James Clavell~~~~~~~~
I also read Shogun but didn't recall it being that long."
I just checked and Shogun is 442,603 words, alm..."
I had no idea that the words were counted. I guess a machine does that?
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