The Lord of the Rings. I read a few pages every time I seat down on the toilet. After I'm done with the book I start over. The only other book I read while seating down is the binder for a Doppler weather radar. It's more boring than LotR though.
Atlas Shrugged. It may have been "only" 1000+ pages (or so... I forgot where my copy is, so I can't confirm the length), but the print was insanely tiny. Took me several months to grind through it.
I read through the first half of Don Quixote, that was pretty thick. I'm like 1/3 the way through a 1088 page book at the moment, hopefully I finish it, it just started getting real good.
As for actual books, some books for school years ago maybe, mostly just the back cover :P Other than that the longest I've read was from the fanbase of STALKER 'The Zone' damn awesome read. I really can't get into reading, only if it interests me ALOT.
Right now probably A song of Ice and Fire series ( though that is multiple books ). Currently reading War and Peace by Tolstoy though which is about 1110 pages.
The Count of Monte Cristo unabridged. Around 1500 pages. Great ass book. Fantastic reading.
SilentFireX
Actually, I'd forgotten the unabridged version was that long. That would have to be the longest book I've ever read.Actually, Atlas Shrugged (650,000 words, approx.) is longer than The Count of Monte Cristo (~464,000 words). Not by much, though.
Either Les Miserables which was around 1200 pages, or The Count of Monte Cristo, which was 1500 pages. Les Mis had much smaller print so I can't be sure exactly which one was longer.
Song of Ice and Fire series by G.R.R. Martin. (not a single book I know but each book is still long in and of itself). 4273 pages total. (book 5 is 1056 pages).
Can't remember the length. Either the original Rainbow Six or Brandon Sanderson's Stormlight series 1st book The Way of Kings, whos' sequel is coming this January. Finally!
I can't read for recreation - I need the feeling of reading for a purpose. I guess some random anatomy book. Fightingfan
It takes a while for the intrigue to set in prose fiction if its good, and plus being in an enviroment where you feel like you have the time. But when it hooks you, it hooks you.
I was going to say Les Miserables. But then I saw on Wikipedia that three other books were longer (by word count, not necessarily page count, including Atlas Shrugged).
In any case, Les Miserables certainly FELT the longest. It was a marathon read.
I dunno. Probably A feast for crows or whatever the longest one in the Song of Ice and Fire series is. Gardens of The Moon is probably the book that took the most effort and by far the longest time/page of any book I've read though - the dude can cram more stuff going on in five pages than GRRM can put in a whole chapter.
Stephen King's Under the Dome 1072 pages think it took me 7-10 days to finish it maybe 5 I'm not sure. Book is pretty good though.
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I loved Under the Dome. It's not as good as The Stand, but it came closer to it than I expected. My expectations weren't high after the boring-as-fvck Lisey's Story, but I thought it was the best thing that he wrote in a long time.
The longest physical books I've ever read were East of Eden by Ralph Waldo Emersion and Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (who, oddly enough, was named after Emerson). I think East of Eden was a few pages longer, but they were both roughly 580 pages. They were both really amazing reads, at least to me. I'd highly recommend Invisible Man out of the two, however. Deals with the issues of race and politics in the 1950s, and still carries some credence due to the discoveries of the central character after he moves north.
I also read all the Harry Potter books, but they were PDF files I got off of my English teacher in college, and they were not scans of the book. I think Deathly Hallows was only 400 pages.
Maybe the uncut version of The Stand or Atlas Shrugged, but that shouldn't count because I couldn't bring myself to continue reading after the first hundred pages.
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