The 10 Longest Books I've Ever Read!

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@juliarabbitts1595 2 ай бұрын

A Suitable Boy - brilliant and one of the longest in English.

@paperback_cat 2 ай бұрын

Oh, I never heard of it. Although admittedly, that's probably because I'm in a bit of a SFF bubble. Google says it's 593,000 words, so just slightly longer than War and Peace! Thanks for sharing :)

@JashanaC Ай бұрын

ASOIAF is a conundrum for me because I'm truly obsessed with the Game of Thrones tv show and the world Martin created... but goddang the man loves to detail every single damn little thing... !

@paperback_cat Ай бұрын

Did you watch the show before you read the books? I sometimes wonder what my experience would have been like if I'd gone that way round. But even though I did struggle through it, I must have liked something about the series to do that! (I'm a completionist but surely Dance of Dragons would have needed more motivation than that lol) I do look forward to re-reading the series when/if we get Winds of Winter!

@portzblitz 2 ай бұрын

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@reading_faerie 2 ай бұрын

i read GOT like 5 years ago the first 3 and i was so bored i actually DNFed haha

@paperback_cat 2 ай бұрын

Haha fair. If I wasn’t such a completionist, I think I would have dnf’d it too. Did you watch the show at all? I got bored of the show quick because I already knew what was gonna happen 😅

@reading_faerie 2 ай бұрын

@ lol I watched the show first but only up until season 4 cause I got bored 😆

@paperback_cat 2 ай бұрын

@@reading_faerie I think I only made it to season 3, or maybe not even that far 😅

@amy_harboredinpages 2 ай бұрын

War & Peace... yep... that was longggg

@paperback_cat 2 ай бұрын

lol was it worth it!? According to the internet, War & Peace is around 590,000 words. Wind and Truth is going to be 491,000 so it's getting close!

@amy_harboredinpages 2 ай бұрын

@paperback_cat well, I kinda skipped over most of the Napoleon parts... I also found an audio reading for "educational purposes" on you tube to read along with. Yes, I think it was worth it. I even watched the miniseries that was done... I think I found that on the you tube too... I enjoy history stuff and period films. I also learned things that are not taught here in high school world history... 🙃 maybe in college but not in school... my experience with learning about times of "great depression" is my own country. It was interesting to read about another country experiencing times of depression and war, and how that may have affected families and those having more $$ influence only to have lost it all. I won't be reading it again, but at least I can say, "I got through War & Peace, I can read anything 1000 pages!... but maybe I'll stick to the genre I love..." 🤔 😏 😃fantasy! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@paperback_cat 2 ай бұрын

@@amy_harboredinpages I like to learn about history in small doses - definitely smaller doses than 100k words 😅 but definitely an achievement you can be proud of.

@amy_harboredinpages 2 ай бұрын

@paperback_cat yes. I suppose I get my appreciation of history related books and film from my mom. I remember her reading War and Peace when I was a child. She told me it was a reread for her and that it it had been required reading when she was in high school. She's read it 3 times. Another book she read was Gone With The Wind... I plan to read that as well someday. 🥰thankful for my reading mum! 📚

@WilliamsLibrary Ай бұрын

Need to check the word count for the longest book I've read... the page count is 2097 pages. 2087 if you deduct blank and title pages.

@paperback_cat Ай бұрын

2000 pages is a lot! I'd love to know what book it is if you'd like to share :) google will tell you the approx word count of most books if you ask it.

@WilliamsLibrary Ай бұрын

@@paperback_cat The Urantia Book

@shemiahwalker 2 ай бұрын

Im obsessed with time travel. I have read the time travel series all 8 by alex scarrow., it was hard to put down I read it up to 5am.

@paperback_cat 2 ай бұрын

Ooh I love time travel books too :) I've never actually read of the TimeRiders series by Alex Scarrow, but I looked it up and it looks like it's about 900,000 words. That's a lot and not too much at the same time depending how you look at things :P I don't read much YA these days, but how twisty is the time-travel?

@shemiahwalker 2 ай бұрын

@paperback_cat it's not bad. But no love stories though in this one. It's a great read.

@paperback_cat 2 ай бұрын

No love stories is a plus for me 😅

@shemiahwalker 2 ай бұрын

I don't like the fonts these days. Because it's too hard for me eyes to read. They need to make the fonts or the words bigger. 😢😢🎉

@paperback_cat 2 ай бұрын

@@shemiahwalker have you tried ebooks? You can zoom in as much as you want then :)

@joly6598 2 ай бұрын

Yes, I *DO* tend to enjoy longer books, especially the neoclassics like Wicked, and of course, Harry Potter and the Order fo the Phoenix.... :)

@paperback_cat 2 ай бұрын

Oh I'm glad I never read any books that led me to romanticise chronic illness when I was young, or I would have been very disappointed! If only we all had rich benefactors! Whenever I read historical fiction that doesn't have any fantasy, I can't help but think, wouldn't it be a better story with a little magic or something? So for that reason I don't read much historical fiction, hence the lack of Les Misérables. I wish I had read it because I think it would be a bit of a bragging right to have gotten through it :P Google says about 550k words in English, but 650k in French, so that makes me wonder what the English lost in that 100k words!?