Longest book I have read to date

On October 11 2009 17:41 madnessman wrote:
I think that technically all 3 volumes of The Lord of the Rings counts as one book so that would probably be the longest book I've ever read.

On October 11 2009 18:52 dismiss wrote:
War and Peace is the longest book I've read so far, got it done in about two days though.

On October 11 2009 19:14 benjammin wrote:


i really doubt that

On October 11 2009 19:25 dismiss wrote:


You have no idea how much I can read when I'm bedridden. :p

On October 11 2009 21:03 Flicky wrote:


I'm also doubting this. Seems like an un-necessary brag. Would be reading 292 words a minute for 32 hours to finish in it 2 days of being awake, without a break.

Anyway, it's strange that this topic popped up as I was just looking at longest novels the other day and came accross Marienbad My Love which has 17 million words. To quote wikipedia on some info about the book: "He began writing "Marienbad My Love" in the 1980s. Leach promotes it as the world's longest novel. He also claims to have set records for the world's longest word (4.4 million letters), longest English sentence (3 million words) and longest book title, including the subtitle (6,931 words)."

There's a website about it. It doesn't seem like it would be a good read at all.

The longest book I've read is probably... erm... something about 600 pages. I got bored reading Lord of The Rings.

To note, apparantly Wheel of Time series is the 4th longest story at the moment and looks to stay that way when complete.