What 1,000+ page novels have you read?

[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.

 

[Noetherian]

Gone with the Wind. I'm not sure if it's over 1000 but it sure felt like it

My copy was well over 1000. (Are you from the South or just really patient?

My Michael Crichton set of The Andromeda Strain, The Terminal Man, and The Great Train Robbery are all in a single book on my shelf, so that's one book.

...by that logic my Hitchhiker "Trilogy" compilation definitely qualifies, too. Also, given that I love the former and lattermost, I think you've just recommended me a new novel.

All of the points about word and page counts make me a little morbidly curious as to just how many hours and pages I've sunken in to various long-running series over the years. I know I made it into the high 20's before I got bored of Animorphs volumes, and I can't even estimate how many Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys novels I put away as an elementary-schooler.

Better yet, how many millions or billions or pages total do you suppose we've all read over our lives? And what if you count websites? Impressive indeed.

 

[DugMachine]

My copy was well over 1000. (Are you from the South or just really patient?

Little mix of both haha. Texan born and raised. It was a good book from what I remember, I must have been 13 at the time though.

 

[White_Lama]

Lord of the Rings

I don't read much novels, and if I do it's mostly a series of books where none goes past 1000 pages.

1000 pages books about WWII and other wars on the other hand.

 

[Pinkamena]

Hmmm...

Lord of the Rings
Under the Dome

Also, if fanfics count, then Fallout: Equestria. I don't know how many pages it's at, but it's at approximately 625 000 words, compared to Lord of the Rings 455 000 words.

 

[Noetherian]

My copy was well over 1000. (Are you from the South or just really patient?

Little mix of both haha. Texan born and raised. It was a good book from what I remember, I must have been 13 at the time though.

Nice. I'm from Tennessee and read it at about the same age-- my folks took me to see a screening of the (four-hour!) movie, after which I just had to read the book. It turned out to be worth a little more than half of our required reading points for the school year, too.

 

[Dfskelleton]

I think that the only 1,000+ book I've read is Dante's Divine Comedy.
A lot of books may have trouble keeping me interested for 1,000+ pages (I love Stephen King's ideas, but it just takes so long for his books to get going).

 

[Zirat]

Lesseee....

It, par for the course.
Pillars of the Earth, that was a fun one

And uh.... I think that may be it!

I usually can't find many big ass books like that. Preferring my novels to be a more manageable 300-600 pages. Not saying size is daunting, it's just both rare to find it and also usually difficult to engage with

 

[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.

Not the version ive got which seems to be complete this one only has 607 pages of story but to be fair the text is really tiny and there is bugger all space between lines but this version was published in 1902 so thats to be expected, in my experience lots of old books tend to scrunch up the text. Great book so far though.

Dunno about mine page amount is a pretty terrible way to measure a books length in terms of story anyway ill just say Lord of the rings, The Tamuli series (mine was in one massive book and its one continuous story), The redemption of Althalus. Probably many more I cant be bothered to go through all my books.

Im sure many of these are over and under 1000 pages depends on the edition I suppose.

My copy of Don Quixote has really small text too, but after 1902, he expanded on the tale. A bunch of writers took his character for their own stories due to really no IP laws in Spain or any place around that time. Cervantes then wrote about Don Quixote going around and beating up all the copycats created by other authors trying to cash in on his character.

 

[Heaven's Guardian]

Lord of the Rings, Les Misérables, Atlas Shrugged. I have a copy of Infinite Jest that I started, but Atlas Shrugged took me 11 months because it was boring, and Infinite Jest is kind of aggravating so I have no idea when that'll be finished. Same thing with Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, except for the aggravating part, and I suspect that'll be done in the next couple of months, free time pending.

I have to ask: No teacher would give you 11 months to finish a book that you're reading for school, so why did you read any more than the first two hundred pages if you were reading for fun?

A. I wanted to see if I could do it.
B. Even though it's a terrible work of fiction, Rand has been a huge contributor for political thought, and it seemed unfair to either criticize or support her work (I do some of both) without at least having read something she wrote.

 

[Woodsey]

I thought Lord of the Rings was a trilogy?

Technically, I think it's the same book divided into parts 1, 2 and 3. I think.

And along those lines, I got some way through the Silmarillion, which felt like a thousand fucking pages. There's an invisible line between being complex and just being obtuse - and that book can't even comprehend the concept of the line.

Not sure I've ever read a thousand-pager.

 

[Lieju]

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

According to library database:
Musashi: 970 pages
Count of Monte Cristo: 875 pages

And my copy of the LOtR is under 1000 pages (it's written in really small text) so this is kind of arbitrary.

I read those two in Swedish, and in that language Musashi barely reaches 1,000 while The Count of Monte Cristo is well over 1,200.

And? My point is that while I've also read the Lord of The Rings, for example, for me the same content was less that 1000 pages. What is the point of counting pages like that? It's not a sign of quality. Maybe that you like books with bigger font, or something...

I think that the only 1,000+ book I've read is Dante's Divine Comedy.

My copy is only 720 pages, and even that is big font and spread out on the page, it being a poem.

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.

Why? And what if you don't know how it was originally supposed to be published? How does it affect your reading experience in any way?
Also, here's a question. Sometimes long books like that are published in two or more parts, which I personally prefer, it makes them easier to read. So, if I read Atlas Shrugged that published as two books, can I count it? Why would it matter?

 

[Launcelot111]

War and Peace and Atlas Shrugged were both 12-1300 pages for my editions. War and Peace was meandering but pretty good (apparently it was released as volumes over the better part of a decade), but Atlas Shrugged was such a wordy and redundant mess (I'm looking at you, 60 page monologues). Not a bad book, but a poorly written one. If Lord of the Rings is really supposed to be one book, then that too.

 

[Ed130 The Vanguard]

In terms of series, over a dozen.

In terms of a singular book, the only one that comes to my head is a LOTR + Appendices omnibus.

 

[Queen Michael]

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

According to library database:
Musashi: 970 pages
Count of Monte Cristo: 875 pages

And my copy of the LOtR is under 1000 pages (it's written in really small text) so this is kind of arbitrary.

I read those two in Swedish, and in that language Musashi barely reaches 1,000 while The Count of Monte Cristo is well over 1,200.

And? My point is that while I've also read the Lord of The Rings, for example, for me the same content was less that 1000 pages. What is the point of counting pages like that? It's not a sign of quality. Maybe that you like books with bigger font, or something...

I never said it was a sign of quality. And it's not the font that increases the page count; it's the wordiness of the language.

I think that the only 1,000+ book I've read is Dante's Divine Comedy.

My copy is only 720 pages, and even that is big font and spread out on the page, it being a poem.

Mine's even shorter.

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.

Why? And what if you don't know how it was originally supposed to be published? How does it affect your reading experience in any way?
Also, here's a question. Sometimes long books like that are published in two or more parts, which I personally prefer, it makes them easier to read. So, if I read Atlas Shrugged that published as two books, can I count it? Why would it matter?

It doesn't really matter; this is just for fun.

 

[chadachada123]

I've read through about 2/3 of It, but that's the biggest achievement in reading that I've ever accomplished.

Fantastic book, what I read of it. I should go back to it someday...hm.

 

[octafish]

Neal Stephenson - Cryptonomicon
Tolkein - LoTR

that's it. once something reaches that many pages i lose interest. i just want to scream at the author, "FINISH UP ALREADY!!".

Cryptonomicon is over 1000 pages? It seems shorter. I say the Baroque Cycle counts if The Lord of the Rings does. I have no idea how many pages Gravitiy's Rainbow is but it was a difficult read the first time through.

 

[dimensional]

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.

Not the version ive got which seems to be complete this one only has 607 pages of story but to be fair the text is really tiny and there is bugger all space between lines but this version was published in 1902 so thats to be expected, in my experience lots of old books tend to scrunch up the text. Great book so far though.

Dunno about mine page amount is a pretty terrible way to measure a books length in terms of story anyway ill just say Lord of the rings, The Tamuli series (mine was in one massive book and its one continuous story), The redemption of Althalus. Probably many more I cant be bothered to go through all my books.

Im sure many of these are over and under 1000 pages depends on the edition I suppose.

My copy of Don Quixote has really small text too, but after 1902, he expanded on the tale. A bunch of writers took his character for their own stories due to really no IP laws in Spain or any place around that time. Cervantes then wrote about Don Quixote going around and beating up all the copycats created by other authors trying to cash in on his character.

Not sure if your joking or just confused you know he died in 1616 sometime right? its true others tried to cash in on him well at least one anyway a work regarded as inferior as far as I know Cervantes (confirmed in my copy on life of the author and wikipedia) wrote two novels of Don Quixote which are both together in my copy. It doesnt include the tales written by this other writer. Your copy could well be over 1000 pages though its certainly a long tale.

 

[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.

Not the version ive got which seems to be complete this one only has 607 pages of story but to be fair the text is really tiny and there is bugger all space between lines but this version was published in 1902 so thats to be expected, in my experience lots of old books tend to scrunch up the text. Great book so far though.

Dunno about mine page amount is a pretty terrible way to measure a books length in terms of story anyway ill just say Lord of the rings, The Tamuli series (mine was in one massive book and its one continuous story), The redemption of Althalus. Probably many more I cant be bothered to go through all my books.

Im sure many of these are over and under 1000 pages depends on the edition I suppose.

My copy of Don Quixote has really small text too, but after 1902, he expanded on the tale. A bunch of writers took his character for their own stories due to really no IP laws in Spain or any place around that time. Cervantes then wrote about Don Quixote going around and beating up all the copycats created by other authors trying to cash in on his character.

Not sure if your joking or just confused you know he died in 1616 sometime right? its true others tried to cash in on him well at least one anyway a work regarded as inferior as far as I know Cervantes (confirmed in my copy on life of the author and wikipedia) wrote two novels of Don Quixote which are both together in my copy. It doesnt include the tales written by this other writer. Your copy could well be over 1000 pages though its certainly a long tale.

Sorry, I made a typo concerning the year. After he released the first, there were copycats which made him return to writing more to the original story.

 

[Queen Michael]

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.

Not the version ive got which seems to be complete this one only has 607 pages of story but to be fair the text is really tiny and there is bugger all space between lines but this version was published in 1902 so thats to be expected, in my experience lots of old books tend to scrunch up the text. Great book so far though.

Dunno about mine page amount is a pretty terrible way to measure a books length in terms of story anyway ill just say Lord of the rings, The Tamuli series (mine was in one massive book and its one continuous story), The redemption of Althalus. Probably many more I cant be bothered to go through all my books.

Im sure many of these are over and under 1000 pages depends on the edition I suppose.

My copy of Don Quixote has really small text too, but after 1902, he expanded on the tale. A bunch of writers took his character for their own stories due to really no IP laws in Spain or any place around that time. Cervantes then wrote about Don Quixote going around and beating up all the copycats created by other authors trying to cash in on his character.

Not sure if your joking or just confused you know he died in 1616 sometime right? its true others tried to cash in on him well at least one anyway a work regarded as inferior as far as I know Cervantes (confirmed in my copy on life of the author and wikipedia) wrote two novels of Don Quixote which are both together in my copy. It doesnt include the tales written by this other writer. Your copy could well be over 1000 pages though its certainly a long tale.

Sorry, I made a typo concerning the year. After he released the first, there were copycats which made him return to writing more to the original story.

You're a bit wrong about the details. What happened was this: Cervantes released Don Quixote. It became a big seller, and Cervantes started working on a sequel. Before he was done, a fraudster wrote and published a new, unauthorized Don Quixote sequel. This upset Cervantes so much that he finished his sequel, and had a lot of it depicting both Don Quixote and other characters criticizing the unauthorized sequel.