/lit/ - Literature

>>5338869
Novel: ISoLT
Volume: Bible I think
yes

Daniel Deronda by George Eliot.

>Yes.

>>5338869
I have the urge to make a paper carving out of that book. That, or separate it into large cubes. And eat them, perhaps.

A technical drawing manual on engine types.
>Was it worth it?
I guess if you like looking at engines or would like to learn how to draw them and their constituent parts?

>>5338869
lol'd at filename

Which also happens to be the longest book I've ever read

Yes it was worth it

>>5338869
House of leaves.
>Maybe.

The Count of Monte Cristo takes it pretty easily for me. Definitely worth it.

>Atlas Shrugged
>No

les miserables for some shit class I had to take my sophomore year in college and I hated every bit of it

>>5338869
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

It was pretty sick

don quixote is 1200 pages
so that

>War and peace
Yeah, totally worth it. Napoopan was the man yet in the end he couldn't do it all on his own.

IJ for me. Was worth it.

I'm currently reading The Brothers Karamazov though. IJ is longer, right?

>>5338880
What's ISoLT?

>>5338869
A Brazilian edition of the works of Camões, The Library of America edition of Pound's poetry

+1000 pages

>Yes

War and Peace or Don Quixote can't rememeber

Long novels are a drag...

>>5338869
Remembrance of things past, not sure if it was worth it, i mean, i desperately loved it, but i'm not sure if it was worth the time and endurance

War and Peace. I found it very enjoyable and engaging.

>>5338963
>i desperately loved it,
>but i'm not sure if it was worth the time and endurance

...

>>5338963
How long did it take you to read the entire work? How devoted were you? A daily sort of thing? How many hours if you'd have to guess? Thank you.

>>5338958
>What's ISoLT?
Proust's Remembrance of Things Past is also translated as
In Search of Lost Time

>Cryptonomicon
>No, but it was fun at the time.

>>5338970
Imagine eating one of the best pizzas of your life. But it costs over 100 bucks; it's not so easy to establish wether or not it was worth it

Dunno which is longer: Les Miserables or War and Peace...
Read both, loved both.
Worth it?
Absofuckinglutely.
Have now read Les Miserables 3 times, and starting War and Peace again after 10 years.

>>5338975
its shorter than the complete game of thrones series
just read it

>>5338979
thats nowhere near comparable

>>5338869

>The Lord of the rings

nah honestly it's really drawn out, I'd much rather see the movies, they're the superior version of the story in my humble opinion (without being perfect of course)

>>5338975
I read irregularly. I've read very slowly about the first half (aprox. 10 months) and devoured the second half, in about a month. It's not like the second half is better than the first, it's just a combination of me getting into it and deciding that i've already wasted too much time reading it
p.s. sorry for shit english

musashi. it was more than worth it, I owe a lot to that book.

>>5338994
but Bombadil man

Atlas Shrugged
I think it is worth to read any book, so I say so.
I am going to read War and Peace when school starts, so I have that to look forward too.

>>5338958
>What's ISoLT?
It's Swann's old Long Thing
also known as RoTP: Remembrance of Tasty Pastries

Harry Potter.

>The Stand

>>5339083
I've tried many times to get past the quarter mark, but it's so hard to push myself.

Bleak House by Dickens. It's not my favorite novel in the world, but the story stayed mostly interesting throughout.

>>5339042
Bombadil was an excellent choice to be cut out of the movie, he didn't moved the plot forward in any way, and he disappeared altogether from the story.

Lord of the Rings as a novel divided in volumes and Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe and a single bound novel.

Worth it?
Yes.

Infinite Jest
It was mostly worth it I guess

>>5338952
much longer yeah

>>5338869
Atlas Shrugged...
Yes. Some interesting insights on individuality... I gained knowledge to critique the objectivist philosophy and its flaws. I have very problematic feelings about the book.

>>5338965
>>5338946

i just finished the first volume

>tfw rostov is a fag and you wanted him to die instead of prince andrei

but the writing during his death was pretty good

>>5339423
Fuck you and your spoiler.

>>5339390
you forgot your butterfly

>>5338869
Does the OED Count?

If not it will be something Kampf.

>>5339444

nigga you've had like 150 years to read the book, shit

>>5339457
No
Fuck you asshole

Bros K

I liked it but it was very overlong and I quickly grew tired of the single sentences stretched into three page monologues. I would say it was worth the read but it's not a perfect book.

>>5339474
It takes its time, but it's not terribly long

>>5339455
Go to bed Hal

>>5339540
Boo, I kicked a kid's ass is all. End of story. I don't think its good to rehash it when I've kicked somebody's ass. It's like a dignity thing. I think we should just let it sort of lie in state, quietly.

Probably the Bible which I give a big yes.

But runner up: 1Q84
Fuck no. I am making a time machine right now to go back and warn my past self not to read it.

>Atlas Shrugged
As someone who'd only been exposed to left-wing politics at the time, the philosophy was novel and worth understanding. As a novel though, it's fucking awful.

>>5339450
What the fuck does that mean?

>>5339614
I gave up on the middle of a monologue when I realized the whole plot was a mere excuse for them. Then I went to read one of her theoretical books

Don Quijote in the original spanish. It took a while.

>>5339569
>But runner up: 1Q84
Technically three books, dude. Or do you count all 3 LOTRs as one book?

Just finished War and Peace today. Loved it.

>>5338869
Infinite Jest.

Though I'm not counting 1Q84 or LOTR, simply because they're technically multiple books making up a whole novel.

>Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
Absolutely, though all those German names start to blend together after 800 pages.
>IJ
Yes
>Recognitions
No, but only because I was a high school student who despite barely understanding anything past page 100 slogged through the rest of the book. Parts of it seemed good, so someday I will reread it, but I cannot say the experience I had was worth it.

H.R. 3962

>>5339639
>3
7. The 3 books are editions of volumes.

>Against The Day
Enjoyed it, I don't see myself re-reading it soon tho'.

Bible.

>>5338869

War and Peace (1600 pages)
The Kindly Ones (1400 pages)

Artamène ou le Grand Cyrus

1Q84 was split into three books, but I'd still count it as one continuous novel. Nearly 2000 pages and every single one was enjoyable.

I dunno, probably one of Umberto Eco's novels.

>>5340091
My War and Peace is 1000 pages long.. The fuck?

>>5340184
Mine's 1432. He's probably not reading it in English, just like I.

>>5340184
German edition

Infinite Jest. I dropped it about 40% through and picked it back up about two weeks later before finishing it. After I picked IJ back up I found it to be really clever. So I'd say it was worth it.

>>5338869
>2666
Sweden
Yes

Technically not a single book, but the ASOIAF series.
Hell no, the TV show is better.

>>5340184
>>5340231
>German edition is 600 pages longer
>Schmetterlingskampfpanzeroffizier
Fucking Germans and their words I swear

I'm reading The Idiot right now, I will need to read it again in the future because there's so much that I just haven't taken in. The second half in particular feels like a collection of moral stories and parables twined together quite expertly under the umbrella experiences of this Prince chap which isn't at all what I was expecting.

Order of the Phoenix

>Yes

>>5340483
>Fucking Germans and their words I swear
It's the most accurate and beautiful language there is.

>>5340523
Btw. my version "Der Einzige und sein Eigentum" has 429 pages and the 4 books of "Krieg und Frieden" together ~2000

>>5340537
>German Herrenrasse doesn't want to ruin its eyes, prints all books in a normal fontsize, just trying to be nice here
>disparaged on the Internet

>>5340523
>the most accurate
What is English
>and beautiful
What is French

>>5340549
>What is English
You don't know much about the German vocabulary, do you?
>What is French
It sounds better but grammatical constructions German allows and the mass of modal words make German more beautiful in an intellectual way.

>>5340549
>French
>not Italian

>>5340565
Rimarranno sempre plebei

>>5340578
I love the language, that soft bastard latin

2666
Genji
Finnegans Wake

A Storm of Swords

war and peace
it was rad

>>5339457
andrei isn't really dead, tolstoy's pulling the old gandalf fakeout
there you go, spoiled for you now

>>5341023

i was wondering if that was the case since napoleon just said for the locals to take care of him despite implying that he probably wasn't going to make it

The First Law trilogy, if you count is as one book. Which you should.

It was not worth it.

>>5338931
The same here. But it was an easy lecture, i read the almost 2k pages in the time it took me to finish TBK.

>>5338869
The Count of Monte Cristo unabridged

Absolutely the most satisfying and based novel I have ever read

I guess second longest would be A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth

9/10 bretty gr8

My Struggle - 3600 pages.
Great read.

>>5338869

Either Atlas Shrugged, The Count Of Monte Cristo, Brothers Karamazov or War & Peace. One of those.

>>5338907
>House of Leaves
>long

Nigga, I read that shit in under three days. I don't think it counts because most of the pages are nearly blank, sometimes with only a single sentence on them.

>>5341738

I also have Varney, the Vampire on my shelf and I heard that's longer than the ones i've listed I have read but I haven't got round to it yet.

>>5341749
it's like 700 pages

One of Eddings' novels, Belgarath, or was Althalus longer? Both were over 900 pages, I think. I loved Belgarath so much I read it three times. I was 13.

>>5339474
Same.

It dragged on at some parts but it was definitely worth it.

>>5341754
it's like you didn't even read the post you're responding to

>>5341754
Like I said, most of which are almost blank.

>>5341769
it's like you're exaggerating for no reason. it's still long

>>5341772
Only by page number. It's a quick read.

>>5341772
>guy makes the point that most of the pages have next to no text on them
>it's 700 pages!

you see how you didn't address his point at all and just restated something that was already addressed in his comment?

>>5340549
There is no language more accurate than German. There is no language that sounds gayer when used by men than French.

>>5341852
faggot

>>5339066
These are very good titles.

The Tale of Genji.
It was worth it, even though the first chapters and some others near the ending were tedious.

>>5341852
>gayer

>>>/b/

>>5341753
>Varney
Read like the first two volumes of that shit, then dropped it. It was becoming so fucking repetitive, and all the fun characters were disappearing from the story. Volume 1 was fun as hell to read, though. Perhaps I will read Volume 3 one day.

>>5340523
German is ugly as fuck m8.

The longest book I've ever read is, if you can count it as one book the "one-volume collector's edition" of The Lord of the Rings.

And to be honest it is even more boring than the movies. The mayor flaw for me was that it was soo long and wordy.
So I guess not worth reading.

>>5338869
sauce? that floorboard looks famil-liar

Turns out I don't read long books.
Crime and Punishment was my longest one.
>absolutely worth

The Lord of the Rings ( all 3 books ).

>Worth it
Yes

>>5342016
It's parquet. At least two places in the world have it.

>>5342016

Third and fourth of GoT are like 1200p i think

Proust. Took about 3 months to read it all but yes totally worth it.

>>5342222
the irony, its all blank

>>5342320
how is that ironic?

It.

>Oh god yes.

>>5340549
>>the most accurate
>What is English
Please... English is a very simple, rational, clear language. Which is precisely its huge limit. It sometimes feels like I'm trying to communicate meaning through math symbols. It implies a very strict, rigid, and also poor or bland perception. Very low expressiveness, 3/10 for English.
Too bad since English has most translations (e.g. Kant's CPR was translated to English 5 times already while there are no translations yet to many of the other languages.)

>>5338869
The OED

how could it not be worth it

>>5341852
>There is no language that sounds gayer when used by English natives men than French.

FTFY

>>5342680
>Too bad since English has most translations

It also has a high ratio of shit translations.

>>5342724
>used by English natives men
try again albert

It's a tie between Les Misérables, a volume of the Human Comedy and the complete works of Dante.

All were absolutely worth reading.

>>5342736
Are you implying English natives can never speak French ? Because from my own experience, they sometimes do, and when they do, they sound like the absolute gay literate gentleman.

>>5338942
>reading that inaccurate anti-Christian propaganda written by Ye Olde Peter Griffin

>>5339625
if you dont know you should leave

>>5342761
>frank horrigan

>>5342681
>The OED
Which definition of 'set' did you find the most compelling?

>>5342773
Still here.
Still don't know your patrician jargon
:/
geez anon, you must have so many friends.

>>5338869
The Bible - Yes. So many references to it, especially the more subtle ones.

The Vicomte of Bragelonne, by Dumas
1800 pages

>>5343184
He's referring to the tripfag, Butterfly.

The reality dysfunction 1100 pages - sucked
Cryptonomicon ~900 pages mb - was ok
Reading Infinite Jest now - I like it

>>5343184
>:/

Get the fuck out already

>>5345136
>>>/reddit/

>>5342761
here we go with the retardidity.

>>5344974
thank you for not being a pisslord.
>>5345136
pic related

>>5338880
>>5338977
is the read worth it?

>>5341852
>>5342724
>>5342736
>>5342754

Baguette here.
What he says is partially true. Why do Americans (more so than Brits) always insist on having a retarded gay accent when using French ?

This is the reason why murikans are immediately spotted as tourists in Paris. When Germans, Iralians or others try to speak French, they don't get their voices two octaves higher.

>>5341725
What kind of Jewish translation makes Mein Kampf 3600 pages long ?

The entire trilogy of Svend Pindehugger merged into one book -- 1200 pages or so. Good read.

>>5338941
Huh. My answer is also Les Miserables, but I read it voluntarily and very much enjoyed.

It's almost as if different people have different tastes and opinions or something.

>>5338869
Adam Levin - The Instructions

No.

War and Peace
Water Margin
Romance of The Three Kingdoms
Story of The Stone/Dream of Red Mansions
Don Quijote (original)
Tale of Genji
The Bible

Step it up /lit/

>>5338994
but the scouring of the shire man

>>5339042
bombadil can get fucked by a bag of rakes, he didn't do anything of note except give them the barrow blades and sing in the woods

>>5338869
Shogun.

It was a bad ass book about Japan.

>>5346898
Not Mein Kampf, Min Kampf by Knausgaard.

>>5347328
How long is Shogun compared to other books? I read ebooks so one of the things I miss out on is wanking to how fat my books are. Is Shogun the longest book in the series?

Atlas Shrugged
no it wasn't

>>5348446
worst part is I talk about it with my dad and he seems totally into the concept of the book like it's some new gospel and he hasn't read it in years, but he's libertarian and listens to conservative talk radio so he has to I guess

>>5338992
>what is opportunity cost

This book is amazing.

1Q84

1153 pages of weird ass sex and food preparation, only to never get any explanations on the weird little rape midgets. Eh, still pretty enjoyable though

Don Quixote

I guess so. Part I was, overall, very boring but part II picked up significantly in readability. I think it could be must more readable if it was in a format of loosely connected short stories (the Sherlock Holmes collection of stories comes to mind, as an example). Also, I am not a native Spanish speaker, so I read an English translation and I guess a lot of people would say that most of the wit was either lost in the translation or over my head so it's entirely possible that I completely wasted my time. So there's that then.

>>5340084
This one I think deserves special mention because its 1100 pages are especially dense, even for Pynchon.

All I can remember from it is when the dog bites the guy's dick.

>>5338869
Dont know if the longest, but felt like it,

Red mars,

Fucking abomination, i kept reading only to see how much worse it can get, fucking how it gets onto 100top list of s-f books is beyond me,.
Its basically "First world problems:In space" from a perspective of someone who didnt work hard a day in his life.Fucking love triangles, motherfucking love triangles.

>>5340578
>>5340587
patricius detected

Stephen King's It
10/10 would read again

RN: Richard Nixon
No, I was a stupid 8th grader and wasted a couple months on what was essentially half rhetoric and half arcane policy. Starting IJ now, and it's not bad though.

>>5339457
i had no idea i was 150 years old

>>5353414
at that age, you tend to get forgetful

Min kamp
>yes

>>5348497
Seems to be the current victor at well over 1400 pages. Any others that compete?

>>5353471
Min Kamp is about twice as long. That's probably the longest thing in the thread, considering that it's perhaps the longest piece of actual writing in existence (excluding weird performance art shit).

>>5354758
>The longest piece of writing ever
No it's not.

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4112682/1/The-Subspace-Emissary-s-Worlds-Conquest

>>5354767
>actual writing
And I even characterized the constraint in case it wasn't clear to you.

>>5354772
Have you read it to say it's shit? I haven't. Ulysses is fanfiction. The bible is fanfiction.

Infinite Jest. it was very good.

>>5354758
>>5354767

If we're being pedantic, Raymond Queneau's "Cent mille milliards de poemes" is the longest written work in history. By Queneau's own estimation, it would take the average reader over 200 million years to read the work in its entirety.

>>5354801
>Fire up google
>4.6 on goodreads

Fucking plebs

>>5354801
Is this a computer generated work, or something?

Infinite Jest.

No.
A bloated monstrosity, passably written.
The author may be dead (in both respects), but there was a palpable sense that he was consciously trying to convey his erudition throughout the text.

The ebonics section was a notably dreadful section, plantation novels from the 1800s appear more faithful to AAVE and less racist sounding.

>>5354801
This is what I was thinking of when I said "weird performance art shit." So, if we're being "pedantic," I already excluded this.

>>5354830

No, it's a constrained writing exercise. Queneau and a mathematician friend wrote 10 sonnets that all contained the same rhyme scheme, then cut each line into a separate strip of paper. In this way, you could match the first line of the first sonnet with any other line of any other sonnet. In total there are 100,000,000,000,000 (100 quadrillion) individual sonnets that can be created. Really clever bit of work. It was written back in the early 60s and actually spawned a literary movement in France called OuLiPo.

In case you ever need a conversation piece at a literary function.

A Storm of Swords
Longest by pages. I liked it a lot better than the first 2 ASOIAF books.

Infinite Jest felt the longest, however. It was worth reading.

>>5354854
Where is this in the book? I really want to see how bad it is as I've heard about this several times. How many hundred pages in?

>>5354856

Your definition of performance art is silly and ill-defined.

>>5338869
The Trials, by Hans Kanfka

Although, I suppose I didn't read it completely, because it became quite unbearingly long winded in the middle part. Or rather, I became aware of how dull it is, and how nothing ever actually happens.

If the trial never really takes place, why is that assfaggot then afraid? Cuz Kanfka was a Bohemian manlet, thank god he killed himself.

>>5354869
>Your definition is ill-defined
Listen to yourself.

But anyway I was just hoping to incite sphincter strife over the meaning of "literature" etc.

>>5354864
I haven't got a copy nearby, so I can't say how long it is into the book, but the section I believe is called YEAR OF THE TRIAL SIZED DOVE BAR.

Google "Wardene be" and it's the third result (the google books one). This is a "patrician author" folks

>>5354906
*Wardine be
An excerpt:
Reginald gone lift Wardine out the closet and me with him crying and I be rub on the wet all over Wardine face and Reginald be so careful when he take off all her shirts she got on, tell Wardine to let me see. Wardine back all beat up and cut up. Big stripes of cut all up and down Wardine back, pink stripes and around the stripes the skin like the skin on folks lips be like. Sick down in my insides to look at it. Wardine be cry. Reginald say Wardine say her momma aint treat her right. Say her momma beat Wardine with a hanger. Say Wardine momma man Roy Tony be want to lie down with Wardine. Be give Wardine candy and 5s. Be stand in her way in Wardine face and he aint let her pass without he all the time touching her. Reginald say Wardine say Roy Tony at night when Wardine momma at work he come in to the mattresses where Wardine and William and Shantell and Roy the baby sleep at, and he stand there in the dark, high, and say quiet things at her, and breathe. Wardine momma say Wardine tempt Roy Tony into Sin. Wardine say she say Wardine try to take away Roy Tony into Evil and Sin with her young tight self. She beat Wardine back with hangers out the closet. My momma say Wardine momma not right in her head. My momma scared of Roy Tony. Wardine be cry. Reginald he down and beg for War-dine tell Reginald momma how Wardine momma treat Wardine. Reginald say he Love his Wardine. Say he Love but aint never before this time could understand why Wardine wont lie down with him like girls do their man. Say Wardine aint never let Reginald take off her shirts until tonight she come to Reginald crib in his building and be cry, she let Reginald take off her shirts to see how Wardine momma beat Wardine because Roy Tony. Reginald Love his Wardine. Wardine be like to die of scared. She say no to Reginald beg. She say, if she go to Reginald momma, then Reginald momma go to Wardine momma, then Wardine momma think Wardine be lie down with Reginald. Wardine say her momma say Wardine let a man lie down before she sixteen and she beat Wardine to death. Reginald say he aint no way going to let that happen to Wardine.

>>5354906
Mein gott

>>5354888

Thank God you pointed out it was a troll, I was about to go on a tangent about performance art vs. ergodic literature and it would have been awful.

>>5354854
that's just like seven pages you faggot

>>5354938
Pay attention doofus, I said it was a notably dreadful section. That is, the book is not shit solely because of those seven pages, merely it was an especially terrible part of the book.

>>5354964
you're using dramatic flourishes to say "it's shit because it's shit". Just shut your faggot shit eating face up.

>>5354980
You're being a huge faggot because you can't accept that people don't like a thing you like.

>>5354994
>>5354980
shut up you faggots

>>5339066
Might as well as told him darude-sandstorm. go back to /pol/ with the shit posting