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Longest Book You've Read?

posted 2 months ago by BillHicksFan (10559)
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I'm reading a partial memoir, and it's 4,000 pages as it is. Willem Oltmans memoirs (spanning about 70 years). I don't know if I can finish it, since I pause to look up certain names, or watch a documentary mentioned on YouTube, etc..

[–] JoWilli (19957) 2 months ago

The Bible. took me about a year to read.

[–] GolfnGuitars (2886) 2 months ago

Same here.

[–] jk90us (7138) 2 months ago

I’ve tried a few times.

Just can’t make it through it.

Tough read.

Not the content, but the way it’s written.

[–] JoWilli (19957) 2 months ago

I totally agree. the King James version is hard to understand and read. the NIV or Good News version is easier to read.

there is a Bible app now and you can select a narrator to read it to you. which is kind of cool.

how far did you get?

[–] jk90us (7138) 2 months ago

Genesis. 😄

[–] nyctc7 (43591) 2 months ago

Not sure, the first thing that comes to mind is Shōgun by James Clavell, 1152 pp

[–] parkerbot (8993) 2 months ago

No one's mentioned reading a long physical book.

This board needs to raise it's game.

[–] AndyKing1967 (38068) 2 months ago

I thought about it.

[–] AndyKing1967 (38068) 2 months ago

Dick and Jane Catch The Ball.

[–] jk90us (7138) 2 months ago

😄

[–] AndyKing1967 (38068) 2 months ago

It was a real page turner.

[–] overseas7 (4236) 2 months ago

The Lord of the rings.

[–] Carrot (1702) 2 months ago

Tai-Pan I think. [EDIT] Turns out it was Shōgun. I couldn't remember which was longer.

[–] Bateman (600) 2 months ago

Alan Moore's Jerusalem; it's 1266 pages long.

[–] Thaistickers (1500) 2 months ago

Proust's book, all 3 volumes (1000, 1100, 1100 pages), twice (and Swann's Way (the first half of the first volume) several times. I will admit, that on my first try (of Swann's Way), I didn't "get" it!