A Challenge of Length

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A Challenge of Length
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Wed, 03-23-2005 - 6:04am
What's the longest book title you remember reading?

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Thu, 03-24-2005 - 2:45pm
I think the longest book I've ever read was 'The Stand' by Stephen King. It's about 1000 pages. I also read 'The Mists of Avalon', which is about 900 pages. I have that book, 'And Ladies of the Club' somewhere in my basement. It took the author 10 years or more to write it and she was in her 80's and in a nursing home when she finished it.

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Thu, 03-24-2005 - 5:05pm

Longest book title...I'm reading it right now and it's called "How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe" by Thomas Cahill. Another one is "The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of The Oxford English Dictionary"
by Simon Winchester. Funny...they're both non-fiction! lol

The longest book I've ever read is London by Edward Rutherfurd at 1200+ pages.

Jenn

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Fri, 03-25-2005 - 2:32pm

I'd have to say the longest one I've ever read was "the Stand" as well. I think it's got about 1150 pages. Some of his other books are pretty long too, if I remember right "Insomnia" was quite long.

Linda

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Fri, 03-25-2005 - 2:49pm
At first I wasn't sure if you wanted the longest book title I've ever heard of or the longest book I've ever read. It seems the second is the case.
Anyhoo, I just finished reading In Search of Lost Time which clocks in at about 2500 pages (this is the newly released complete edition from Gallimard, I believe. This is the original French as well - the english translation might be different) Now technically, it was intended to be one book - but it was released as several volumes as Proust wrote it and you can buy the volumes separately as books. Each volume is about 400-500 pages - so I don't know if it counts.

But anyway - congrats to everyone who read such long books!!!!
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Fri, 03-25-2005 - 6:53pm

Hi Sherwoode1112,


Yes, it counts!

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Fri, 03-25-2005 - 6:58pm

I read that book The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of The Oxford English Dictionary last summer. It was pretty good. What do you think of it?

ninipanini

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Fri, 03-25-2005 - 7:25pm

I've seen Cats five times. Once in New York, twice in London, and twice on tour. I am obviously quite fond of it. All my cats have names from it. I can't recommend it to everyone though. If you want a solid well constructed plot, forget about it. The poems are strung on just a thin thread of a story. If you like dancing though, this is for you. Of course, it's not the longest running in Broadway history for nothing so I imagine most people like it.

Julie

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Fri, 03-25-2005 - 8:09pm

Hi Nini,


I'm also a big Simon Winchester fan.

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Mon, 03-28-2005 - 9:34am

I think the unabridged version of The Stand by Stephen King. It is around 1100 pages. After that it would be the last Harry Potter or Anna Karenina.

Sheri

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Mon, 03-28-2005 - 11:34am

Julie,


I've only seen Cats once here in Seattle at the Paramount. Loved it. Taped the PBS showing