Longest book you have ever read?

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Mine was "The Stand", by Stephen King. I do not remember the exact number of pages, but it was over 1100.

Longest so far is A Hope In The Unseen. 379 pages. Finished in four days

"War and Peace" about the Russian Revolution.

Think that's case for me, too.
Just read "Duma Key" (his newest), finished in 2 days (600 pgs.). It was a "page-turner", as most of his stuff is for me (his writing style meshes well with my brain's way of thinking).
Material that's dense & highly specialized (texts on biochemistry, for instance) are much slower & more difficult to get through, I have to force myself to continue reading (until I get to point in book where I can understand what the heck is being discussed).

1232 - Victor Hugo: Les Miserables (Penguin Classics - English)

Close runners-up include:
1071 - Alexandre Dumas: The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguins Classics - English)
1069 - Ayn Rand: Atlas Shrugged

I read both War and Peace, which is actually set during the Napoleonic Wars, and Les Miserables, which took me the whole Summer to read because I found the digressions boring. I spent another summer reading the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich at 1245 pages. This Summer I will tackle Main Currents of Marxism at 1280.

The Far Pavilions
Gone with the Wind

After days of sitting reading it in the city library in Stockholm Sweden, I read Madame H.P. Blavatski's "The Secret Doctrine". It's a "must read" for those interested in metaphysical/ cosmic knowledge and it's huge. The book had a special vibe to it too just touching it. Look it up in Wikipedia if your interested. Mdm. Blavatski in Wiki too. Pretty deep stuff.

Me? It's HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX or THE HOBBIT.

Battlefield Earth.

Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong, 2340 pages.

Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien, which is one book, as Tolkien intended it to be, is 1184 pages.

Otherwise some books in the Harry Potter series and in the A Song of Ice and Fire series almost have 800 pages, or over.

Green Eggs and Ham

Lord of the Rings, probably. I can't remember because I don't really pay attention to page numbers and it's difficult to judge between hardback and softback. Plus, different books have different type sizes, so while there may be more pages, there might be less words.

I think a few of you will change your minds at this...

My longest was the Dark Tower by Stephen King.

It really is ONE big story.

The Dark Tower wasn't first intended to be a single volume before it was separated into three or more volumes for publication, like Lord of the Rings was.

If however we are to include series which are really ONE big story e.g., A Song of Ice and Fire(4480 pages including the yet to be released 5th book), Harry Potter(4279), Dune Chronicles(400+), etc. are immense, I'd have to do some adding when I got home tonight to figure out the page counts.

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Lord of the Rings and The Count of Monte Cristo, both unabridged.

I've started to read The Three Musketeers and, if you count the sequels Twenty Years Later and The Man in the Iron Mask, which I intend to read, it's a very long book (my estimation is more or less 2800 + pages...I'll check when I have them all).