according to wikipedia page you linked to, that would be A Suitable Boy. Huh. I read it my senior year of high school and it didn't seem THAT long at all...
Well, War and Peace and Atlas Shrugged, according to Wikipedia's list. But I've also read Gone with the Wind, A Dance with Dragons, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix,The Mists of Avalon, The Sunne in Splendour (Sharon Kay Penman, ~900 pages), The Bible (Old Testament) 6 times, if it counts as one book, and quite a few more door stoppers. Those are off what other people have mentioned, of course.
I've never heard of Reading the OED, but I've read The Know-It-All by A.J. Jacobs several times over, which is about Jacobs' quest to read the Encyclopedia Brittanica and is damn hilarious. That book is only about 300-ish pages long, though.
I haven't read many uber-gigantic doorstoppers, but in paperback, The Other Boleyn Girl is about 665 pages and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is 590 pages. The former was much easier to read than the latter. Dear Jesus, Stieg, why did you have to die before you could work with a freaking editor?
The books got better, though, didn't they? I'm really glad I didn't read them until I knew he was dead and I would have to be satisfied with what was already out there. No Dead-Robert-Ludlum syndrome for me - you cannot fool me, Estate! You will get no more of my money by churning out terrible, awful sequels that have nothing to do with the author whose work I love. Sorry, bit of a rant there.
I haven't read The Girl Who Played with Fire or The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest. I'm not sure I want to because I know they'll be filled with pages upon pages of exposition. He could have integrated that information into an actual scene somehow, but noooo.
They do get better. I only read them because my MIL lent them to me on the basis that I 'like to read'. Therefore I was forced to give up my opposition to jumping on the bandwagon. You get a lot more Lisbet and she is even more awesome than you could imagine. But I leave it to your own discretion, of course. Family can be complicated - this is my only excuse...
Right. Of course Monte Cristo is up there. We recently saw a stage adaptation and it was, by default, lacking because you need more time to flesh it out.
ditto on Susanna Clarke - do you think we'll actually get another volume?
Gone With the Wind - yes, HP - shamefully - I admit, Mists - but more than one book here so perhaps it doesn't qualify?
Lord of the Rings was written as one volume so certainly applies. We should try to get an approximate count on this, it really should feature on Wikipedia.
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I haven't read many uber-gigantic doorstoppers, but in paperback, The Other Boleyn Girl is about 665 pages and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is 590 pages. The former was much easier to read than the latter. Dear Jesus, Stieg, why did you have to die before you could work with a freaking editor?
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ditto on Susanna Clarke - do you think we'll actually get another volume?
Gone With the Wind - yes, HP - shamefully - I admit, Mists - but more than one book here so perhaps it doesn't qualify?
Lord of the Rings was written as one volume so certainly applies. We should try to get an approximate count on this, it really should feature on Wikipedia.
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