The decline and fall of the Roman empire(its a six volume set, close to 2,700 pages total)
Atlas Shrugged
Count of Monte Cricso
Lord Of the Rings
thickest book u have ever read (completely)
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Also Sherlock Holmes and The extended version of The Stand
Sep 11, 2012
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#84
abrd45 wrote:
Atlas Shrugged
I forget the thickness of that book, and left it off my list. The characters were wooden; the story too contrived. Idelogical tracts, no matter how thick, make poor novels.
Ziryab wrote:
abrd45 wrote:
Atlas Shrugged
I forget the thickness of that book, and left it off my list. The characters were wooden; the story too contrived. Idelogical tracts, no matter how thick, make poor novels.
yeah, Ayn Rand was a brilliant philosopher, not a novelist, but probably couldn't make a living, so she wrote huge novels to make ends meet
I'm not sure... Either Pride and Prejudice, Da Vinci Code, Gone With the Wind, or another similar.
Do scrolls count? I'm translating TACITUS'S "The life of cnaeus julius agricola.(posse etiam sub malis principibus viros esse).
single book
Sep 11, 2012
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#89
The Count of Monte Cristo (unabridged), Don Quixote, Les Miserables, Bleak House, David Copperfield, Moby Dick, Complete Sherlock Holmes, Hobbit + Lord of the RIngs Trilogy, George Washington & Alexander Hamilton both by Ron Chernow, multi-volume biography of Lyndon Johnson by Robert Caro (in all honesty reads like a thriller), Simple Justice by Kluger (about U.S. Civil Rights, esp Brown v Board of Education case), Brothers Karamazov (the only one of these I didn't enjoy). Stalled after 20% of War and Peace several years ago but plan to try again.
What about books split up into different books? I know I didn't word that well. I'm not saying series like Harry Potter 1-7. For instance one of the books I stated, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. It is split up into 6 parts but it is all one book. I'm sure they split up up because it is about 2700 pages total and peole are more likely to pick up a 400 page book then a 2700 page book. Also many people thing the LOTR book is 4 separate books but really it is one book. JRR Tolken didnt mean it to be a series but a book with three parts such as SK The Green Mile.
dbeuscher wrote:
I cannnot remember specifically, but a few come to mind:
Treasure Island Catechism of the Catholic Church Bible (I guess that is actually 73 books...) Foundation, by Issac Asimov (I could also claim the Foundation Series, which is about 18 books...) Moby DickThere are 66 books in the protestant Bible, 39 OT and 27 NT, there are seven additional books in the Catholic Bible. I have a Catholic Bible, although I have only read the King James and the New English, The only book I have read out of the Apocrypha, or the deuterocanonicals to you, is Wisdom. Catholics and their oneupmanship, 
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I974 "Helter Skelter" by Vincent Bugliosi
dbeuscher wrote:
rupert2112 wrote:
dbeuscher wrote:
I cannnot remember specifically, but a few come to mind:
Treasure Island Catechism of the Catholic Church Bible (I guess that is actually 73 books...) Foundation, by Issac Asimov (I could also claim the Foundation Series, which is about 18 books...) Moby DickThere are 66 books in the protestant Bible, 39 OT and 27 NT, there are seven additional books in the Catholic Bible. I have a Catholic Bible, although I have only read the King James and the New English, The only book I have read out of the Apocrypha, or the deuterocanonicals to you, is Wisdom. Catholics and their oneupmanship, .
It has nothing to do with "oneupmanship". As a Catholic, I happen to hold to the belief that all 73 books are inspired. You are welcome to believe otherwise if you wish. Why do you attack me for believing as i do?...
It was just a little joke about the Catholic bible having more books, it wasn't sectarian violence.
Sep 11, 2012
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If we limit it to chess books "A Book of Chess" by CHOD Alexander.
Other books? LOTR by Tolkien.
Sep 11, 2012
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#97
Don't feel bad. I haven't either. I bought one, got four pages into it, and that was it.
I read "Better Chess for Average Players" by Tim Harding. In fact I saw someone on the bus reading it yesterday. I felt like it helped which is an indicator of my skill level (even to this day).
I read a much thicker book about chess, chess variants, chess jokes, everything but how to actually play well at chess.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez - one hundred years of solitude
ivandh wrote:
I read a much thicker book about chess, chess variants, chess jokes, everything but how to actually play well at chess.
That seems to be a common problem with chess books... no matter how many I read, I still suck. They need something for chess like when they teach Neo jiu-jitsu in The Matrix.... those little discs they load into the computer and then it's in your brain.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_uzEj71AU4
I checked to be sure. Book 6 of wheel of time "Lord of Chaos" is the longest of that series at 1006 pages but I have read 1 book larger than that. "The Rise of American Democracy Jefferson to Lincoln" by Sean Wilentz. 1042 pages.