Guest radjack Posted February 13, 2009 Share Posted February 13, 2009 I thought it was six? "Although generally known to readers as a trilogy, Tolkien initially intended it as one volume of a two volume set, with the other volume to be The Silmarillion" in Wikipedia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seiichi Posted February 13, 2009 Share Posted February 13, 2009 I would have thought the longest novel was Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raven Posted February 13, 2009 Share Posted February 13, 2009 "Although generally known to readers as a trilogy, Tolkien initially intended it as one volume of a two volume set, with the other volume to be The Silmarillion" in Wikipedia Thanks for that! I'm not saying don't believe it, but I'm sure how accurate that article is. I'm sure I heard a slightly different account of how it came to be published around the time the films came out, and I'm pretty certain The Silmarillion was never seriously in the frame for publication at any point. Either way, the full volume of LotR only runs to 1193 pages in the copy I have, that's a bit shorter than some of the other books mentioned here! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lexiepiper Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 Mine would be Breaking Dawn at 754 pages I was actually mistaken, mine would be Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix at 766 pages Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephanie2008 Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 I was actually mistaken, mine would be Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix at 766 pages That would be mine too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lexiepiper Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 I didn't realise it was so long before! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heather Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 I was actually mistaken, mine would be Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix at 766 pages Me too I forgot about our Harry he's sitting there right in front of me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freewheeling Andy Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 I've read A Suitable Boy and War and Peace, both of which are actually really good books - although A Suitable Boy is a bit family-romance for my tastes and felt mostly like soap opera to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucybird Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 Mines probably Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix too, I started A Suitable Boy too but never really got into it and gave up, I still have a bookmark where I stopped though! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chimera Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 Probably The Count of Monte Cristo. Around 1500 pages, depending on the editions. I wonder why I cant find the time or energy to read such massive books anymore? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owen Posted February 19, 2009 Share Posted February 19, 2009 Probably the Stand by Stephen King. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ravenwood Posted February 25, 2009 Share Posted February 25, 2009 Possibly The Quincunx by Charles Palliser - 1248 pages Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilde Lily Posted March 3, 2009 Share Posted March 3, 2009 War and Peace at 1296 pages, and Les Mis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seiichi Posted March 3, 2009 Share Posted March 3, 2009 The longest book I have is The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu. The story itself occupies 1184 pages. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shnnntam Posted July 11, 2009 Share Posted July 11, 2009 The longest book currently on my shelf would be Les Miserables by Victor Hugo at 1463 pages Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mazer Posted July 11, 2009 Share Posted July 11, 2009 A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin...I think. 1216 pages. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Mines Posted July 11, 2009 Share Posted July 11, 2009 The Man without Qualities, the brilliant but unfinished novel by Robert Musil, can attain a rather weighty page-count of 1700, depending on the edition. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kell Posted July 11, 2009 Share Posted July 11, 2009 List of longest novels over at Wiki. Gives almost all the lengths in no. of words rather than pages, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beccles Posted July 11, 2009 Share Posted July 11, 2009 The Stand by Stephen King unputdownable Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kell Posted July 11, 2009 Share Posted July 11, 2009 The Stand by Stephen King unputdownable I absolutely agree - one of my all-time favourite novels of ANY genre! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sadya Posted July 11, 2009 Share Posted July 11, 2009 Thanks for the Wikepedia page. Well, I think the longest book I own right now is perhaps 'Verander de Tijd' which is a Dutch translation of 'Redeem the Time' by Sue Frost with about 560 pages, that's very meagre compared to the more than thousand pages of some of your books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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