carrottea (06-04-2021)
carrottea (06-04-2021)
It may well be the longest book I've ever read, Molecular Biology of the Cell, Alberts et all., I have the fourth edition but while preparing for my molecular biology exam in the uni, I've also read "Molecular Cell Biology" (Lodish et all.) that was, at the time, available for free in NCBI, if I'm not mistaken. They took it down a few years ago.
I have no idea how many words those are
Maybe the longest fiction book I've read is The Lord of the Rings (it got published as one book in my country, comprising the three parts).
And because GEB was mentioned, fun fact, I met my husband because of this book I still have it, still haven't read it through. He has
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I liked it a lot!
During my first read the only subject the book covers that I was also knowledgeable in was the biology stuff, but it was still super interesting.
Now as an almost graduate CS major I feel like reading it will be even more fun. I hope to get around to do it soon~
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TsUNaMy WaVe (06-05-2021)
Nicholas Nickleby, Charles Dickens. It took me a full summer, but I enjoyed it.
I've struggled to find an accurate word count.
"The average reader will spend 22 hours and 7 minutes reading Nicholas Nickleby (Penguin Classics) at 250 WPM (words per minute)" leads to 331,750 words. I don't know of many people who can read Dickens that fast!
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uhhh probably Under the Dome by Stephen King @ 1,074 pages
Idk if I've ever read anything longer honestly. Maybe I have, I love to read but thats the biggest book I can remember reading so I googled the page count *shrug*
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Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell: A Novel at over 1k pages and about 350k words. Soo many footnotes but a really interesting and well crafted world
Single book, academic history slogs aside, I think might be Shantaram, sitting at 944 pages. I feel like there's some trashy fiction (looking at you the copious amounts of horrific David Eddings I read as a teenager) that's up there as well, but off the top of my head I think it's that's the longest single book I've read.
For me, it’s definitely Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. The copyI had was 700+ pages.
My next biggest reading flex will be Stephen King’s IT. It’s almost 1200 pages! I’ve been putting off reading it because it’s so huge LOL. It’s been sitting on my bookshelf, staring at me, mocking me to read it.
Last year I was part of a reading group trying to read Boccaccio's Decameron. Unfortunately the reading group fell apart, but... it took me 5 and a half months, but I finished it! The Penguin Classics edition comes out to about 909 pages. This year I'm trying to finish The Count of Monte Cristo, the unabridged edition of course, and in my edition that's about 1276 pages... I started that near the end of October last year and hopefully I'll finish it this year.
Edit: Ended up finishing The Count in October 2021! 1200 pages... Now (May 2023) I am currently working on The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett, which is another doorstopper.
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