What Was The Longest Book You Ever Read?
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that link is a good counterpoint; i'm just saying neither of us is really speaking FACT. also, i don't know why we're saying the Stand isn't a proper horror novel. at the very least, i don't know what other genre you'd categorize it in.A.J. Trillzynski wrote: »well, the point I was trying to make was that it was not my opinion but rather the general popular consensus among Stephen King readers and of course I did base that on anecdotal evidence.
also, i can dismiss the Amazon list based on Wizard & Glass being #4. ? THAT -
Steven King's The Dark Tower series is criminally slept on. It ties in and connects all his books together. Desperation and The Regulators are amazing as is Hearts in Atlantis and Misery.
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1,000 pages + .... got damn .... longest book i read was huey p's revolutionary suicide .... like 400
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that link is a good counterpoint; i'm just saying neither of us is really speaking FACT. also, i don't know why we're saying the Stand isn't a proper horror novel. at the very least, i don't know what other genre you'd categorize it in.A.J. Trillzynski wrote: »well, the point I was trying to make was that it was not my opinion but rather the general popular consensus among Stephen King readers and of course I did base that on anecdotal evidence.
also, i can dismiss the Amazon list based on Wizard & Glass being #4. ? THAT
Wizard and Glass is actually an amazing novel, it humanizes Roland Of Gilead and explains the whole purpose in his quest for the Dark Tower.
My top 5 Stephen King novels in no order are The Stand, The Shining, Wizard and Glass, Desperation, and It. -
one, it's got legions of fans and has sold millions of books. it's the exact opposite of being "criminally slept on." two, the Regulators is the HOTTEST of garbage (although Desperation i think might actually be underrated). third, if you're someone who hates the attempt to tie everything to the damn DT business --this would be me-- then you probably don't think too much of the damn DT series.dallas' 4 eva wrote: »Steven King's The Dark Tower series is criminally slept on. It ties in and connects all his books together. Desperation and The Regulators are amazing as is Hearts in Atlantis and Misery.
yeah, except that i have read it, hated it, and decided to not go any further into that nonsense as a result of it.dallas' 4 eva wrote: »Wizard and Glass is actually an amazing novel, it humanizes Roland Of Gilead and explains the whole purpose in his quest for the Dark Tower.
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dallas' 4 eva wrote: »Steven King's The Dark Tower series is criminally slept on. It ties in and connects all his books together. Desperation and The Regulators are amazing as is Hearts in Atlantis and Misery.
I'm about to start reading Hearts of Atlantis, heard it was great. I'm reading Danse Macabre right now, it's a favorite of mine I like to read on occasion around Halloween. Usually it gives me some great recommendations of classic stuff to check out for the season - it's a very quick, fun read for horror fans, highly recommended.
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The Stand I could call a lot of things - fantasy, suspense, epic, sci-fi maybe, but I just don't find it very scary. the first 3rd is the best part of it all and the closet to horror when the plague is spreading and wiping out everybody but then on out the book drags and gets real boring to me. by the end I resent the Deus ex machina ending and other Christian allegories I find annoying. I used to like it as a teenager but when I re-read it as an adult it felt kinda juvenile and didn't hold up as a pure horror novel.
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epic isn't really a genre. fantasy MAYBE, but this is also based on you not finding it incredibly scary. if that was the eliminator, then i can dismiss many of his books from the horror genre.A.J. Trillzynski wrote: »The Stand I could call a lot of things - fantasy, suspense, epic, sci-fi maybe, but I just don't find it very scary.
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I have to include Gone with the Wind in the long ass book list.
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The bible possibly
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Maybe Gone With the Wind. Or the Bible.
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The Bible back and forth (I went to Catholic School for a long time) and a huge encyclopedia I read a long time ago, had to be 400 pages
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The second sex
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Complete works of Aristotle. The other is the bible.
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Either the Stand or It by Stephen King. I don't know which is longer but they're both over a thousand pages.
I think Under the Dome was over a thousand pages as well. Worst ending ever. -
epic isn't really a genre. fantasy MAYBE, but this is also based on you not finding it incredibly scary. if that was the eliminator, then i can dismiss many of his books from the horror genre.A.J. Trillzynski wrote: »The Stand I could call a lot of things - fantasy, suspense, epic, sci-fi maybe, but I just don't find it very scary.
It's a subgenre
There are qualities specific to it, so discounting it completely seems a big excessive -
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lord of the rings
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what i'm saying is that you'll end up saying a book is "epic fantasy" or some such thing, so you might as well not sweat epic as a genre.It's a subgenre
There are qualities specific to it, so discounting it completely seems a big excessive
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IT should be longer.saracenwire wrote: »Either the Stand or It by Stephen King. I don't know which is longer but they're both over a thousand pages.
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Probably the Odyssey, but the Once and Future King felt the longest
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lord of the rings
The Lord of the Rings isn't a book it's a series of three books that are part of a trilogy.
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Actually it was split into 3 books when published
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The Iliad and a tom clancy book that name escapes me at the moment. Dude lost his family, ? a ? , ? got killed or ? (most likely both) got in his feelings over said ? , was an instructor for a special forces unit and moonlighted as a ? undercover to find the hookers killers. Both back in middle school.
And apparently the Lord of the Rings if huey is correct.
Been meaning to read Herodotus which would defiantly be up there but have been busy with other books/recently acquired short attention span -
honestly, i would be willing to bet Once & Future King IS the longer bookobnoxiouslyfresh wrote: »Probably the Odyssey, but the Once and Future King felt the longest
