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ThunderGod
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
New Zealand897 Posts
October 11 2009 13:13 GMT
#21
On October 11 2009 21:49 LordWeird wrote:
Man I really wanted to play that Wheel of Time MUD....

Are the books any good? Does anybody know?

Start by reading the first book, and, depending how much you like it, continue with the rest with the foreknowledge they start to get worse (plot slows down a lot), especially after ~ book 6.
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Yaqoob
Profile Blog Joined March 2005
Canada3349 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-10-11 13:25:23
October 11 2009 13:24 GMT
#22
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1153 Pages. It's an amazing book. I think I have read it at least 2 times already.

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I'm about to read IT by Stephen King and that is 1138 Pages but the font is very very very small.
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madnessman
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
United States1581 Posts
October 11 2009 13:34 GMT
#23
On October 11 2009 18:10 xDark.Carnivalx wrote:
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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.

in that case, how about the wheel of time series? 11 books so far, with three more to go.


nah thats 11 books.

from wikipedia:

For publication, due largely to post-war paper shortages, but also to keep the price down, the book was divided into three volumes: The Fellowship of the Ring (Books I, The Ring Sets Out, and II, The Ring Goes South,) The Two Towers (Books III, The Treason of Isengard, and IV, The Ring Goes East,), and The Return of the King (Books V, The War of the Ring, and VI, The End of the Third Age, plus six appendices).


it's one book that was cut into 3 for paper/cost reasons.
dismiss
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United Kingdom3341 Posts
October 11 2009 14:26 GMT
#24
On October 11 2009 21:03 Flicky wrote:
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On October 11 2009 19:25 dismiss wrote:
On October 11 2009 19:14 benjammin wrote:
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.


i really doubt that


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


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.


292 wpm is only slightly above the average reading speed of an adult(~250wpm) and isn't even close to what's possible. Well trained readers can get up to 800-1000 wpm, people who excell at speed reading are are able to read several thousand words a minute.

BTT: There are tons of LONG books from old, Russian authors such as Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky( "Crime and Punishment" and "The Brothers Karamazov" come to mind here).
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micronesia
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States24753 Posts
October 11 2009 15:46 GMT
#25
I recently read

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and I finally was able to get to the end.
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Frits
Profile Joined March 2003
11782 Posts
October 11 2009 16:03 GMT
#26
im reading war and peace right now and its like 1500 pages lol
Holgerius
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Sweden16951 Posts
October 11 2009 16:10 GMT
#27
LOTR is probably the longest book I've read (somewhere around 10 times :D).
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ninjafetus
Profile Joined December 2008
United States231 Posts
October 11 2009 17:47 GMT
#28
Atlas Shrugged for me. That beats out War and Peace and LOTR in terms of number of words.
Chef
Profile Blog Joined August 2005
10810 Posts
October 11 2009 17:51 GMT
#29
I'm taking American Literature in university. Some of the most boring crap I've ever read. I love America's canon, but keep me away from the historical/theological side. I wanna cry the writing is so bad.
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cosiant
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Canada616 Posts
October 11 2009 17:51 GMT
#30
I remember reading Pillars of the Earth, but it is only around 980 pages or something, I think. And of course, who hasn't read the LOTR trilogy, and those additional books (forgot the name) that explain the ancien wars and the begining of the middle earth,etc.

About Wheel of Time, I bought the game, didn't even know there was a book series.
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Nevuk
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United States16280 Posts
October 11 2009 18:06 GMT
#31
I can read around 80-100 pages an hour of most books, with around 60 for extremely complex or textbook style stuff. It's a bit faster than usual, but it's really not that strange. It took me about 2 weeks to finish war and peace reading it mostly in between classes in high school, that was a terrible book. If I speedread it's a bit faster than this, but I don't retain as much information as to make it usable, and i dislike speedreading.
Carnivorous Sheep
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Baa?21244 Posts
October 11 2009 19:21 GMT
#32
Oh I've also read all of Jinyong books many, many, many times, and the longest one is about 2200 pages. It's in Chinese, and I'm not sure how many characters that is/how long it is translated to English.
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