What 1,000+ page novels have you read?

[WhiteFangofWhoa]

Thanks, I'll try to find The Journey to the West at my local bookstores.

 

[PsychedelicDiamond]

It
Lord of the rings
All Song of Ice and Fire books
The Wind-up Bird Chronicles
House of Leaves
The Stand
The Infinite Jest
Harry Potter: Order of the Phoenix
Illuminatus

 

[synobal]

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

Ya that is pretty much it for me at least lately, as well. I really did enjoy it. I've never really looked at book length though when selecting something to read.

 

[The Diabolical Biz]

Whatever Song of Ice and Fire books are over 1000
Lord of the Rings
Most recently, I read 'The Count of Monte Cristo'

And it was fucking spectacular. Read it now.

 

[Bara_no_Hime]

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.

Ha, that's easy. Half of the books in Kushiel's Legacy hit 1000+ pages in the paperback edition. I can't even imagine a combined edition - it would probably break any table it was sat upon.

Kushiel's Dart, by Jacqueline Carey.
Kushiel's Scion, by Jacqueline Carey.
books 3 and 4 of the series didn't hit 1000 pages in any edition I own
and I'm pretty sure Kushiel's Justice and Kushiel's Mercy did it in paper back too, but I only own the hardbacks, which get more words per page, and thus use fewer pages. They're about the same length as Dart and Scion, though, so their paper back versions should be around 1000 pages.

Aside from the works of Jacqueline Carey?

Hm. I can't remember if my "Collected works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle" breaks 1000 pages.

And I haven't read every single poem and play in my massive "Collective Works of William Shakespeare" book, just specific plays (mostly Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, Much Adu About Nothing, and a couple of the other comedies the titles of which escape me at the moment).

So... yeah, the only thing for sure I can say are the books of Jacqueline Carey.

[sub]Everyone here should read Kushiel's Dart or Santa Olivia by Jacqueline Carey if you haven't already.[/sub]

 

[Berserker119]

I've read The Bear and The Dragon by Tom Clancy, but that's it. Most of my books are between 300 and 500 pages.

 

[Angie7F]

Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, It (and whatever other steven king books that are 1000+.
But now that I thin about it, I rarely come across 1000+ books these days.
I need to plan a trip to the book store and start reading...

Also, when I read in Japanese, it seems there are less pages because the words get compressed into kanji characters.

 

[WindKnight]

the Nights Dawn trilogy. (interestly though, I understand these books were chopped in half and released as a seris of six in the US

Pretty much anything by Peter F Hamilton then.

Lord of the rings trilogy

 

[Ken Sapp]

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.

Actually, Lord of the Rings was written as a single text. IIRC, it was split into a trilogy because the publishers thought it was too large. Most people are more likely to read a trilogy than one very long book.

In my opinion, The Belgariad, The Mallorean, The Elenium and The Tamuli book series by David Eddings read as if they intended to be single books.

There a several books I have read that weigh in at 1000+ pages.

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights by Anonymous
It by Stephen King
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
The Stand by Stephen King
Lord of Chaos (Wheel of Time, #6) by Robert Jordan
The Great Book of Amber (Chronicles of Amber, #1-10) by Roger Zelazny


The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu - Been working on this one for some time. The prose takes a distinct change of mental gears to understand.

Those are the ones that I can recall off the top of my head. I'll have to go home and check my bookshelves to see what others I have read.

The Holy Bible by God? His Prophets?
Four Lords of the Diamond by Jack L. Chalker

 

[Shoggoth2588]

The only one off the top of my head that I know I read was the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Not at all worth it but I know I'm in the minority with that sentiment. It isn't that I'm against longer books but I haven't come across any that really appeal to me...oh wait a moment, I still have that Hitchhiker's Guide collection to finish! That should be more than a 1,000 pages!

 

[Azuaron]

Or something like Sandman, that's serialized. If you have Absolute Sandman Volume 2 (of 5), do you have a fifth of a book (the full story), a book (what you have), 4 books (Seasons of Mists, Distant Mirrors, A Game of You, and Convergence; the distinct story lines), or 19 books (as originally serialized)?

Whoa now, what's this "Convergence"? Is that a plot in The Sandman? What's it about? I thought I'd read the entire series, but I haven't read that one.

Two parts: The Hunt and Soft Places.

"Long, long ago, before the family left the Old Country--and what a palaver that was, my child--there was a young man of our people."

"Grandpa. I don't want to hear a story. I want to watch TV."

"TV...it's always TV. I don't want to hear about TV. You talk about TV one more time I won't be responsible for my actions--"

And then he told a story about werewolves.

Edit: Actually, now that I'm thinking about it, Soft Places has nothing (directly) to do with The Hunt, so it's probable that they shoved the two stories under a section because they were both singles and where else could they go?

So, do we have a fifth of a book (the full story), a book (what you have), 4 books (Seasons of Mists, Distant Mirrors, A Game of You, and Convergence; the distinct sections), 5 books (Seasons of Mist, Distant Mirrors, A Game of You, The Hunt, and Soft Places; the distinct story lines), or 19 books (as originally serialized)? ;-D

 

[Stasisesque]

I... I have no idea. I don't generally look at how many pages a book has; considering type size isn't standardised I don't really see the point.

I've looked through the thread and noticed some titles I've read, so I guess those ones. If series' count, then those too. In short: lots, apparently.

 

[Queen Michael]

Or something like Sandman, that's serialized. If you have Absolute Sandman Volume 2 (of 5), do you have a fifth of a book (the full story), a book (what you have), 4 books (Seasons of Mists, Distant Mirrors, A Game of You, and Convergence; the distinct story lines), or 19 books (as originally serialized)?

Whoa now, what's this "Convergence"? Is that a plot in The Sandman? What's it about? I thought I'd read the entire series, but I haven't read that one.

Two parts: The Hunt and Soft Places.

"Long, long ago, before the family left the Old Country--and what a palaver that was, my child--there was a young man of our people."

"Grandpa. I don't want to hear a story. I want to watch TV."

"TV...it's always TV. I don't want to hear about TV. You talk about TV one more time I won't be responsible for my actions--"

And then he told a story about werewolves.

Edit: Actually, now that I'm thinking about it, Soft Places has nothing (directly) to do with The Hunt, so it's probable that they shoved the two stories under a section because they were both singles and where else could they go?

So, do we have a fifth of a book (the full story), a book (what you have), 4 books (Seasons of Mists, Distant Mirrors, A Game of You, and Convergence; the distinct sections), 5 books (Seasons of Mist, Distant Mirrors, A Game of You, The Hunt, and Soft Places; the distinct story lines), or 19 books (as originally serialized)? ;-D

That's a darn-tootin' tricky question yer askin' me, lad. On a different note, I recognize that story you described. I guess I just forgot about the title.

 

[Shock and Awe]

Gone with the Wind

Thats it. I read a lot, but most don't make it up to 1000 pages.

 

[BehattedWanderer]

Do anthologies count? Or one tale in four books? Because I've read plenty of those. Not like page count is really a good metric for such things. That's kind of the uneducated approach, isn't it? "Oh, whoa, that book's got a thousand pages, it must take forever/be really boring/be amazing!" Shit, there are bibles with more than 1000 pages, due to how they're printed.

Les Miserables
Journey to the West
A Dream of Red Mansions
Three Kingdoms
The Mists of Avalon
Lord of the Rings
Game of Thrones
Demons
The Brothers Karamazov
Chronicles of Amber
1001 Arabian Tales
War and Peace
Germinal
Nicholas Nickelby
The Sword of Shenara

Was the complete Hitchhiker's Guide that large? I don't remember.

The Icewind Dale, Legacy of the Drow, Paths of Darkness, and Cleric Quintet collections are all 1000+ pages each.
I read some of the older Dragonlance books as they were in an anthology, and those were probably above that mark as well.

It's not like there's anything hard about it, you just keep reading.

 

[Darknacht]

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.

Depending on what I set for the font size, typeface, line spacing, and words per line most book I have read could be 1000+ pages.

As far as physical print goes I have several books that I have read that are over 1000 pages but no novels. I have read plenty of long series but because its more comfortable to hold a 400-800 page book than a 1000-5000+ page book they are always cut into pieces, like The Lord of the Rings.

 

[Mr Mystery Guest]

Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy compilation and complete works of Shakespeare.

 

[lacktheknack]

I read a copy of "Pride and Prejudice" that was over a thousand pages, although I think that had more to do with the larger font. A standard copy has about 800.

Otherwise, outside of textbooks and series, no.

 

[Dangit2019]

I read all the Harry Potter books obsessively as a kid, and I read the first 2 Ender's Game books; that's the closest that I got.

 

[BeeGeenie]

Looking around the room:
Various Stephen King books.
LOTR
"The Count of Monte Cristo"
Hugo's "Les Miserables" and "Hunchback of Notre Dame" (I STRONGLY recommend the abridged versions, ugh.)
Edward Rutherfurd's "London"
James Clavell's "Shogun"
maybe some of the Harry Potter books?

That'll do for now.