Whats the longest book you've ever read, was it worth it?

A webcomic called Homestuck.

Yes.

I didn't like it when Wallace was purposefully wasting my time. Which was most of the book.

The prose isn't that good either.

war and peach

Stephen King’s It

Not really, it was fucking weird and slightly pedophilic.

Bros K. Yes.

IT was too long and meandering, its the literal equivalent of watching some fat depressed pseudo-intellectual masturbating for hours and hours.

I think if I remember correctly Bros. Karamazov.

Yah.

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I've read the bible and the Complete Works of Plato but I wouldn't really count them as single books. Between War and Peace and a Thousand and One Nights I don't know which is longer. They're all worth it.

Why are you still here.

You've completed the Yea Forums journey. You've won. Go home man

>the absolute state

The Communist Manifesto
No

>longest book you've read
its like a hundred-fifty pages. This must be a joke

I think you should get special recognition if you finish a whole series. Probably between 5000 and 6000 pages right there.

If just single volume, then War and Peace.

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dear god that sounds absolutely brutal

Does Gulag Archipelago count as 1 or 3 books?
If not IJ
Liked both and would rec

Mine was Democracy in America. 992 pages.

Yes.

Good job, mate.

Probably The Kindly Ones. It was 975 pages and dense as fuck. It took me 17 days reading basically non stop in my free time. Incredible book.

Probably harry pooter

The Bible, yes

Infinite Jest

sure

Les Miserables.

Read it over a highschool summer break after watching the Seinfeld episode where George has Master of the House stuck in his head

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Anatomy of Melancholy
Plan on re-reading it next year. It's like having an extremely long talk with my dead grandpa

Gravity’s Rainbow, and yes it was 100% worth all the dick and poop jokes

I read Atlas Shrugged for the meme, and I unironically enjoyed it.

An anthology: 'Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural' (about 1050 pages).

Atlas Shrugged is probably a bit longer but I skipped some of the 200 page speech.

its incredible if you are in your early twenties and havent read any good book ever

If we were doing that then just about anyone could point to Harry Potter (4k) or Redwall (7-8k) or whatever YA.

MaC is good so far, just started though.

Even Leviticus and Deuteronomy?

I read the first 5 pages and it was shit

>The Ramayana
Yes
>Outlaws of the Marsh
Yes
>Summa Theologica
No
>Wealth of Nations
No

unironically gravity's rainbow and yeah

If it was Fallout Equestria, then you're a fucking madman because I read it as well

Jean-Christophe, absolutely.

ASOIAF (no homo)

Yes

not falling for this trick

Underworld by Don DeLillo.

What a fucking waste.

Also this but no

Science of Logic and yes

excerpts I've read read pretentious as hell. I hate bullshit filler, and that's exactly what that book seems to be made of. I won't touch it.

I think he means Das Kapital. He saw it on a shelf at the library, but apparently forgot what it was called.

Definitely worth it. Really fucking dense with info, that's why I loved it. Reading history books like this is one of the few things in life that never gets old. Every detail is interesting if you will it

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This except for the "worth it" part.

You stupid retard he just lives in late 1800s Germany and caught the book as it was being disseminated

I'm thinking about reading Casanova's memoirs, something like 4000 pages. Has anybody else read them?

Lód- Dukaj
2666- Bolano
Sacred Games - Chandra

each has about 1k page.

>was it worth it?

yeah, all three of them are great. Read Lód three times and Sacred Games two times. I read Bolano recently for the first time but i know i will repeat it in the future

Can't remember which was longer, War and Peace, or The Rise and Fall of The Third Reich but both were great.

If we count Knuth's TAOCP as one book then that one and I'm still not finished.

>too long and meandering
>equivalent of watching some fat depressed pseudo-intellectual masturbating for hours and hours.
Well was it good or wasn't it?

A Dance With Dragons - enjoyable, but didn't improve my reading or gain any intellect from the book.

2666 - Yes

Brothers K - Yes

I don't know, don't care, and in any case I certainly don't remember

Nice pun. I enjoyed the book too :)

>, was it worth it?
no

Against the day- yes
Les mis- yes
Infinite jest -no
War and Peace -yes
Gone with the wind -eh
Atlas shrugged -maybe
The stand -sorta
Life and fate - yes

War and Peace - Absolutely

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infinite jest. no.

The Illuminatus! Trilogy.

Very yes. No book has had close to the sort of effect on shaping me as a human being. Plus it's a hoot to read, especially if you're into absurd comedy and the events of the 1960s.

It's a comedy disguised as a conspiracy book disguised as a comedy that is a holy document of a joke disguised as a religion disguised as a joke disguised as a religion.

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Peter Longerich: Hitler - Yes
Infinite Jest - No
Brothers Karamazov - Hell yes
Anna Karenina - ehhh
The Stand - Yes

Count of monte cristo - yes

HPMOR, and no, hell no, waste of time, Eliezer is literally an aspy and I can't figure out how he tricked so many people into reading and enjoying all 1100 pages of it

Fuck I remember reading the start of it in middle school, and actually enjoyed it.
Is it worth reading?

>Srimad Bhagavatam
>~10,000 pages

Yeah it was well worth it

lol you're a dumb fuck user

Knuth is almost certainly a genius

Atlas shrugged as a rec to me. The first 400 pages were a waste of time, the whole thing felt like a capitalist manifesto and the 50 page Galt monologue felt like a summary of the events of the book prior to it rather than the passionate crescendo she clearly intended. I would not find it hard to believe she wrote the radio monologue first then the rest of the book around it. It was prettily written but it was a fucking struggle.

>Peter Longerich: Hitler - Yes
Can you explain why it's good? I have it laying around but haven't started it yet

Fun as hell, deeply redpilled

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Sounds interesting, let me know a bit more?

Here's my Levenda ebooks folder.
Just read the first volume "The Nine", it's not difficult reading, and is relatively short and complete by itself.

drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B2w_rjadg1tWQTlqOFQ3VFpDbTQ

recognitions, changed my life

>The Stand
>Yes
>Infinite Jest
>No
based

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Technically not what you asked for but the first comment stole my answer

>In Search of Lost Time
Absolutely
>War & Peace
Yes, although it drags at times
>Les Mis
Yes, but probably won't read it again
>Anna Karenina
Absolutely, have read it three times and will again
>The Count of Monte Cristo
Doesn't even feel long, very fun to read
>Quiet Flows The Don
Yes, but the translation I was a little awkward
>1Q84
No idea, I think I didn't hate it but I'm not entirely sure
>Don Quixote
Yes

Same.

A Memory of Light.
Not really, no, but I don't regret picking up The Eye of the World.

I think it was this and it was fuckin incredible.

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Because of Sanderson or just didn't lie resolution?

This or Stalin by Robert Service I can't be bothered to check which ones has the most words.
Probably not worth it in either case desu

Oh, also Basic Econ by Thomas Sowell lmao

Maybe that was a bit more useful, but I've forgotten most of it

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Well I'm a German history teacher so that's the main reason I read it - I think it splendedly connects Hitler as a person to everything that surrounds him in the 1920s-1940s. In addition to a mere biography it's a monography on national socialism.

what are you implying?

No I mean the communist manifesto

>Absolutely, have read it three times and will again
What exactly is engaging about this book? Granted, I'm "only" 25 % in but there's not a lot of conflict so far. ;_;

either the Memoires d'Outre Tombe, Casanova's memoirs or Montaigne's complete Essays I'm not sure
All were worth it

>but there's not a lot of conflict so far. ;_;
Literally the second sentence introduces conflict

The Stand, and yea, I guess

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It was; fun ride. The prose was kind of fucking ridiculous, but it was a behemoth of a tale. I even went up and asked the author how they had managed to write that much in so little time; the answer was 12 hour long writing sessions while listening to music that sort of fitted the mood of the scene they were working on.

Against the Day
Yeah, it was pretty good.

Well... The prose is enjoyable enough; it's fairly direct and doesn't wax poetics too often, and the plot is pretty interesting if anything just for how ahead the author was thinking (even if there are some fuck ups along the way). You could do worse; that's all I can safely say. I did enjoy it a lot, but I was 16 or 17 when I first read it, so take that as you will.

i said you based nigga

>In addition to a mere biography it's a monography on national socialism.
Will it be able to give me an advanced understanding of the ideology and particularly life for the people in it then? Or can you recommend a better book for that?

Also can you recommend other books on German history? I recently read Christopher Clark's "Preußen" and really liked how he described the different monarchs and their doings as well as other influences and the situation of the populance.
Unfortunately I never had a teacher particularly interested in this country's history.

Count of monte cristo. I haven't read many books. And yeah, it was worth it.

Aubrey-Maturin is peak comfy though. I wish there were another 21 books of it.

A sound novel called "Umineko When They Cry".
It could've been more concise but it was worth it.

Not that user, but I for one highly reccomend infinite jest. There were very few moments I would accuse it of wasting my time. The thing to know is that the book never changes modes, so if you dont like the first couple hundred pages, it isnt for you. The joy of the book doesnt come in the form reaching a destination after a long journey, but of this whole rich universe being rendered before you with love and detail, and learning what makes all the characters tick. So in that sense, he didnt waste my time. If you're like me, you'll enjoy even the mediocre passages, and if anything, wish the book was even longer. You'll also find he has a sharp sense of humor and delivery (even if DFW himself would disagree)

Don Quijote de la mancha
Yes

the name of the rose

Senior year in highschool I borrowed Mein Kampf from my school's library. It was one of the worst written things I've ever read. Just it's prose alone is why it's not worth the read.

I'm pretty sure The Thousand and One Nights is longer by a mile.

hol up

Not sure why people just jump right into this. It requires a lot of background knowledge and is certainly a product of its time.

Outlaws of the Marsh a.k.a. The water margin, worth it, not difficult at all but amusing and comfy

I mean, if you can't read French then maybe it's not worth it.

What could possibly be in those books that it's worth spending your precious timing reading? You could read better books instead

The Source, not worth the shekels.

Subtle insights into the human condition expressed more eloquently than by anyone else.
I dunno, shit like that.

Cool picture, where is this?

I always thought it was the largest work of autism I've seen yet. Dropped it a chapter or so in, what the fuck kinda weirdo would read the whole thing?

In translation?

Dueteronomy is good, it's a retreading of material from previous books, but it's still one of the best books in the Bible IMO

Leviticus, however, is painful. I skimmed Leviticus, as well much of Exodus and the parts of Kings(?) that describe every single detail of the house of David and the Temple of Solomon

yeah, you need to read Illiad, Odyssey, every play by Aeschylus and Sophocles, everything by Plato and Aristotle, the entire Christian bible with apocrypha, Aeneid, Metamorphoses, Dante, Sir Gawain, Le Morte d'Arthur, every play by Shakespeare and Marlowe, Paradise Lost, everything by Karl Marx, all of In Search of Lost Time, AND Peterson's 12 Rules for Life before you can even THINK of reading such high literature as Mein Kampf

I know it's pretty widely considered to be one novel, but I always found that a bit strange. It's seven separate volumes, each with their own names and ideas, spread out over years of writing. It's definitely one series but I don't see how that is a single novel whereas something like LotR is considered separate works.

That being said, it is easily one of the most rewarding reading experiences I've ever had. I genuinely pity readers who will never experience Time Regained after reading through the entire series.

The Karamazov Brothers and that's nota even a question

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So you think it's worth it to read through the entire thing? I'm really interested in it, but there's so many abridged versions of it out there. The only unabridged one I can find is NYRB, which is unreadable because of the size, and that beautiful hardcover one published by Tudor in the 50s, but that's like $60

not him, but
>reading an abridged version of literally any book

This is quite unrelated, but the book spine artwork in the image you posted may be some of the greatest and most content-relevant I've ever seen. My god...

Thank you for posting this, OP!

Oh I have no interest at all in an abridged version. But there's just so few unabridged versions of it that I wondered what people who have read the full thing think.

oh, sorry, I misread, carry on

Okay, this is epic.

how so?

There are grander works of autism out there, friend. Ever heard of "Project Horizons"? It's Fallout Equestria, only longer and edgier.

>War and Peace
Hell yeah nigga, I am currently re-reading it for the first time in ten years and it is better than I remember.
Even Tolstoy's interruptions to ramble about the failure of historians is alright this time around

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The General History of Drugs by Antonio Escohotado and it's probably the best work written on that subject so yes.

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.

Yes, enjoyed it.

>which is unreadable because of the size,
Work out nigga. If you can't handle a 1000 page book you must have some puny wrists. Anatomy of Melancholy is great, funny, wise, beautiful. Read the whole thing

The Second World War by Churchill and The Civil War by Shelby Foote. Both absofuckinglutley

The Bear and The Dragon

Yes, I thoroughly enjoyed it as a 14 year old.

It by Stephen King. Yes, most amazing book yet written. Highly recommended. Lots of swear words and gore.

Atlus Shrugged and no, it was garbage.

This. Maybe ulysseys also but only barely.

Same and agreed.

The NYRB version is over 1400 pages and it's fucking massive. I just hate huge paperbacks. I can hold the thing fine, but actually bending it enough to be able to see every word on the page is a huge pain in the ass unless you're on a table based on what I've seen of it. I'm completely fine with that 1000ish page hardcover Tudor version.

Thanks for the info though, it seems like a pretty unique experience. I'm excited to check it out.

You're a nonbinary agender folk of culture, I see.

> I own several hardback copies of Fallout:Equestria
Not kidding

i read all three volumes of this (it was one book), wasn't worth it should have just tackled capital and read all three volumes of that instead

Old Man and the Sea (in one day)
It was worth it, yes.

Just stay in bed and have a servant read it to you

>1Q84
No

>Book of the New Sun
Yes

>The Magic Mountain
Yes

>Infinite Jest
lol

>Zaregoto
Yes

>Muramasa
Yes

>Rance 10
Yes

i wanna read a book by dostoevsky
shoul i start with fuckbois karamazov?

Magic Mountain, 1k pages
Absolutely

Complete Bourbaki, 8k pages of mathematics, all worth it.

les thibaults
yes
i wish it would be republished in english again.

holy shit for real? this is completely forgotten to the point that even its author is massively unheard of.
you only see his name in Zweig's books because he wrote a few prefaces iirc

also pic related - smart enough and funny, didn't feel like 1200 pages

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The entirety of The Second World War by Winston S Churchill.

I consider it somewhat worth it

I’m :3

>Summa
Why would you read an entire reference book?

Probably Ulysses or Swann's Way.
Yes

That’s 7 books asshole

I have no idea how I've never heard of this, sounds absolutely fascinating to me. I'm a huge Proust/In Search of Lost Time fan, would you suggest reading this?

What was your approach to reading it? Personally, I obviously had it somewhere on my list and was lucky enough that an elective course on Ulysses was offered and that I had the opportunity to participate. We read the Oxford edition annotated by Jeri Johnson, it's a good edition and I obviously benefited from a published scholar on the subject, but most of all I enjoyed being forced to sit down and actually study the book if I wanted any real credits. I think it was worth it, but I also think it's a very laborious book, not completely sure if I feel like reading Finnegans Wake.

Jerusalem by Alan Moore, one of my favorite books actually

lot of brainlets here desu

no it's one novel.

Is there really a 100 page monologue?

My biggest book is probably not impressive, it's either The Lord of the Rings or The Life of Samuel Johnson; I forget which of those, exactly, is the longest of the two. I read them both, and both were worth it.

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I Am Providence: The Life and Times of H. P. Lovecraft. Yes, it was 100% worth it.

Why wasn't it worth it?

I've only read Deuteronomy Genesis and Revelations as a child.

I read revelations multiple times when I was 10.

because economics is worthless and it seems to be never ending.

Fallout equestria was a good fanfic

i'm guessing war and peace and it was great

autism

Don Quijote

I like it

Is probably the best "Highbrow" literature because the characters have some fucking sense of humor.

So much old and classic literature feels like the book equivalent of Oscarbait, this one feels like an all ages/family movie.

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Economists claim to know how economies will turn out in months or years ahead of time by making highly educated guesses and forecasts, construct models that reflect current trends, but really they have no idea what's going on, and hope those models continue to be accurate so they can make it big in the field. Microeconimics is fine, but macro is all kinds of fucked.

I remember when the "big three" fanfics of the fandom were Fallout: Equestria, Dangerous Business, and Past Sins. That was so long ago.

Probably the Idiot. Yes it was very good

based
trips
>what the fuck kinda weirdo would read the whole thing?
is this your first day on Yea Forums

According to Goodreads Jonathon strange and Mr Norrel.

Yes

I'd say Crime and Punishment is better to start with.
Or maybe a short novel like White Nights to get used to his pace.

Go Crime and Punishment first.

An Essay concerning Human Understanding, by Locke.

Yes, but I was glad when it was over.

I can't remember the exact number of pages, and I'm sure it varies between editions, but yes, there is.
It's basically just a recap of the moral that the entire book has been trying to teach you up until that point, so unless you're a brainlet you can safely skip the speech entirely, which I recommend doing since it is the least enjoyable portion of the novel.

What if I skip everything except the speech section?

Fall of Giants by Ken Follett. It was alright, but I didn't care enough to continue reading the rest of the series.

IJ; wasnt actually that taxing so yes

There is literally a 100 page monologue.

>reading the cancer that is Atlas Shrugged

You’ve been warned.

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Righteous Victims: A history of the Zionist-Arab Conflict 1881-2001
Now I'm an unapologetic zionist

>I'm only 25% in

The book gains momentum as it goes, you've only really seen the building blocks.

>Zaregoto

Is this consisent or does it drop in quality at some point?

atlas shrugged, google will tell you 1395 pages, though my edition was like 1050 size 10 font or smth

kinda but mostly for the memes