Longest book you have ever read?

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I've read those three SilverProteus. And while its a story that contains all the 3-4 characters it isn't one that could be considered one complete story. Still a VERY decent read. Wasn't as big a fan of Man In The Iron Mask, but it is entertaining.

And if we're counting Sci-Fi or Fantasy series... I've read every Wheel of Time book... so about 10thousand pages is my biggest book
And I have Lord Of The Rings in one whole book, and its 1069 in my edition.

I couldn't name the longest book or its exact number of pages, but I have been able to read long books without trouble, while some short books, especially books of literary criticism, put me to sleep. I can't read a five page article in some of those books without my eyelids snapping shut.

Do you mean 'long' as in page count or 'long as in a hard-to-read book?

Longest (page count): 'War and Peace,' and right behind that, 'The Stand'
Longest (Hard to read/wade through): 'Billy Budd' (never finished it)

The logest books I have read are:
les Miserables
Don Quixote
The Lord Of the Rings trilogy(including The Hobbit)
The Stand (uncut&unabridged)
The dark tower Series
catch-22(it may not have been long page wise but it took a while to read.)
more than this but most are Stephen King Novels

I like Dumas' writing style. Despite being big books, they're rarely slow.

I forgot to add Harry Potter in its entirety. Easy read but many pages.

The Holy Bible + Apocrypha

1 400 pages

I once gave the 1946 edition of the Merriam-Webster Unabridged Dictionary a shot. Only got to page 30 of 4 500 pages. Uh... yeah. I was a lonely child.

fantastic series, the last one was apparently gonna be about 1800 pages .... THEN HE DIED ... now im sad

still im looking forward to whatever they sort out from his notes

I'd say it's close to a tie between the The Stand by Stephen King and Lord of the Rings.

War and Peace... The Stand... Battlefield Earth... read em all... Hubbards Invasion Earth Series... 10 books.. one story... all over 400 pages hardback...

But I'm sorry you really can't call the Lord of the Rings, Gunslinger, etc... any series one book... unless it comes published in a single volume (which LotR has)...

btw: when published as a single volume.. LotR is shorter than War and Peace and the Stand.

unabridged, uncut Stranger in a Strange Land is quite long also.

Cryptonomicon is the longest book I've read... not in number of words/pages but in how long it took to read... War and Peace... 2 days.. the Stand 1... Cryptonomicon... more than 6 months... it was horrid but I had to finish it.

What are you talking about! That book was awesome. It even had the best ever fictional aspie character - Lawrence Waterhouse!

No... not fair.

If you combined the Dark Tower into a single volume....

1. Could you lift it?
2. Wouldn't the spine (of the book - not the reader) snap under the weight.

Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany, not really a long book at only 879 pages, compared to Atlas Shrugged, Stranger in a Strange Land or The Stand uncut versions, Dhalgren has been called one of the most difficult books written, but I have re- read it 4 or 5 times, Atlas Shrugged I found way to wordy, just the detail put into a chapter I found to distracting, I have never been able to get 100 pages into this book, which is ashame, since I really would like to finish it one of these days

The "Harry Potter" books.

The Holy Bible, I've read it, I've heard that the New Testament is also awesome, by the same author


Once it got into my head to read a whole Encyclopedia, 10 books total, small small type. I'd read a little everyday, and mark as I read it. I don't remember how far I got, not too much

BTW, a friend calls me "human dictionary"