What 1,000+ page novels have you read?

[Queen Michael]

Well, it's a pretty straightforward question, isn't it? What novels have you read that were over 1,000 pages long? It's okay to mention a novel that's 1,000 pages in another edition than you read, as long as it's the same text. And I'm not gonna nitpick, so it's okay if you can't remember but think it was 1000+ pages. Oh, and no series. The reason I count The Lord Of The Rings as one book is because the copy in my bookshelf is one book, and it was written as one novel that was only chopped up in order to satisfy the publisher. It's a different matter if, like the Foundation series, it was originally written as several different novels. It's the same kind of thinking that makes me count Joe Abercrombie's The Blade Itself as one novel even though the Swedish translation is cut in two.

But since I don't want to argue, I'll let you decide whether a work is one book or a series this way:
What have you considered it to be up until now? One novel or a series? Go by that. I won't argue with you if I disagree. Just be honest. Don't count a work as one novel unless you actually see it as one.

Here are mine:
Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa
The Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'en
Water Margin (author unknown)
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
It by Stephen King
The Stand by Stephen King
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

 

[The Artificially Prolonged]

That I can remember definitely reading all the way through;

Lord of the Rings
War and Peace
The Brothers Karamazov (I think this was about 1000 pages)

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[Euryalus]

I don't really count pages. Is atlas shrugged or harry potter 1,000+ pages?

 

[Zhukov]

Uh... I'm not sure if I ever have. I don't count pages and 1000 is a lot.

I do remember reading a book with about 970 pages. It was called plains of Passage. It wasn't much good. It did have detailed descriptions of caveman cunnilingus though, so there's that.

 

[Queen Michael]

I don't really count pages. Is atlas shrugged or harry potter 1,000+ pages?

You don't really need to count, it's writtn on the top or bottom of the pages And Atlas shurgged is over 1,000, but the longest harry Potter book, Order of the Phoenix, is 956 in its longest editions as far as I can gather from the net.

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[cerealnmuffin]

I think Don Quixote was a thousand pages. Most people know of the scene where he fights windmills due to thinking they are giants. That is only half a page.

As a history major, I read a chronology of Japanese history (nihon shiki) written by scholars during the Heian (early court period). It was written to make Japan not seem so backwater compared to China and to basically say 'hey we are a country with a rich history'. Anyways, it has chapters devoted to giving birds to the Emperor and those people remember the time someone else gave birds. It was basically name dropping of who's in with the royalty, but it was the single most boring chapter I have ever read.


The translation of complete Dante poem (inferno/purgatorio/paradiso) was over 1k. The story behind it is that perfect bittersweet romance. He is willing to go through hell to get to the girl (angel) he likes. Yet, that same girl in his real life didn't feel same for him and they couldn't be together anyway since he was banished from the city.

List
Nihon Shiki
Heiki no monogatari
Lord of the Rings
Don Quixote
It
The Stand -complete
Complete Dante poem
Lord of the Rings

 

[DugMachine]

The Lord of the Rings
And uh maybe Gone with the Wind. I'm not sure if it's over 1000 but it sure felt like it

 

[Queen Michael]

I
The translation of complete Dante poem (inferno/purgatorio/paradiso) was over 1k. The story behind it is that perfect bittersweet romance. He is willing to go through hell to get to the girl (angel) he likes. Yet, that same girl in his real life didn't feel same for him and they couldn't be together anyway since he was banished from the city.
Complete Dante poem

The Divine Comedy, I think its English title is.

 

[Smertnik]

Do visual novels count?
If I remember correctly Tsukihime in translated form amounts to around 2000 standard pages.

 

[Queen Michael]

Do visual novels count?
If I remember correctly Tsukihime in translated form amounts to around 2000 standard pages.

Are we talking 2,000 pages of text top to bottom? Because if so, I'd say heck yes.

 

[n00dle37]

A Storm of Swords and A Dance with Dragons are both 1000+ and so is The Lord of the Rings as a whole. I don't read that many books.

 

[Esotera]

I thought Lord of the Rings was a trilogy?

If we're counting trilogies, I've read The Foundation Series, Destiny's Children, and probably a few others. But otherwise I haven't read anything that long that is a single novel, I feel tempted to say it's a sign of bad writing but don't want to get ripped to shreds by literary people.

 

[hermes]

Too many to count. The third Song of Fire and Ice being the last I remember...

 

[MasterOfHisOwnDomain]

Only the Commonwealth saga / Void trilogy by Peter F. Hamilton. I remember each of those being around 1,000 pages.

Otherwise, probably none. I tend to read large books, but anything above, say, Moby-Dick and Villette size are just so time-consuming that I tend to lapse into reading other books in the meantime. I attempted The Arabian Nights' Entertainments, but I haven't finished it.

 

[Swyftstar]

I don't really remember though I know I've read some long books in the past. More recently I bought the four book digital set of the Song of Fire and Ice and read that straight through and then immediately bought the fifth.

 

[tkioz]

I honestly don't know, I don't look at the page numbers, and it got even harder to tell once I moved to eBooks.

I've read some door stoppers, and dialup chokers (1MB+ text files) though. I love me a good long epic saga.

 

[smokingplane]

Only the Commonwealth saga / Void trilogy by Peter F. Hamilton. I remember each of those being around 1,000 pages.

Those 3 as well, I thought some things I read where a lot bigger, but those seem to be the only that qualify.

 

[Queen Michael]

Do trilogies or an entire series of books (revolving around the same story) count?

If so, loads.

If not, I don't think I've read any to be perfectly honest.

I thought Lord of the Rings was a trilogy?

If we're counting trilogies, I've read The Foundation Series, Destiny's Children, and probably a few others. But otherwise I haven't read anything that long that is a single novel, I feel tempted to say it's a sign of bad writing but don't want to get ripped to shreds by literary people.

Sorry, friends; trilogies don't count. The reason I count The Lord Of The Rings as one book is because the copy in my bookshelf is one book, and it was written as one book that was only chopped up in order to satisfy the publisher. It's a different matter if, like the foundation series, it was originally written as several different books. It's the same kind of thinking that makes me count Joe Abercrombie's The Blade Itself as one book even though the Swedish translation is cut into two.