Longest ebook you have read and enjoyed - Page 2

JSWolf · 03-15-2009, 02:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Sparrow

I read Stephen King's "The Stand" (the 'complete and uncut edition') - that was pretty hefty.

I too have to go with The Stand (complete and uncut). I did read that using my 505.

HarryT · 03-16-2009, 04:14 AM

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Originally Posted by JSWolf

I too have to go with The Stand (complete and uncut). I did read that using my 505.

Where did you buy it from, Jon? FW sell it for $50, which is crazy!

kacir · 03-16-2009, 04:41 AM

I have read Atlas Shruged by Ayn Rand. That was after I started to read in English but before I "went digital".

It is on the 12th place in the list of the longest novels

dragonbone · 03-16-2009, 05:34 AM

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Originally Posted by kacir

I have read Atlas Shruged by Ayn Rand. That was after I started to read in English but before I "went digital".

It is on the 12th place in the list of the longest novels

In that case, (also pre-device) I must add Les Miserables by Victor Hugo! No 15 on the list

. I didn't think it was the longest book I had ever read though, until I looked at your link. George Elliot's books are pretty huge....
Also Giuliano Sansevero by Andrea Giovene took me forever, and although the book came in two parts and wasn't SO thick, the font size was tiny.

Sparrow · 03-16-2009, 08:44 AM

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Originally Posted by HarryT

Where did you buy it from, Jon? FW sell it for $50, which is crazy!

I bought 'The Stand', 'Passage to India', and 'William Pitt the Younger' from Fictionwise in October for a combined total of £18.27.

AnemicOak · 03-16-2009, 11:25 AM

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Originally Posted by HarryT

Where did you buy it from, Jon? FW sell it for $50, which is crazy!

It's $8.99 on the Kindle. I wonder why so much at FW (it's huge money at BoB too).

BenG · 03-16-2009, 01:07 PM

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

tech_au · 03-17-2009, 03:03 AM

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Originally Posted by kacir

I have read Atlas Shruged by Ayn Rand. That was after I started to read in English but before I "went digital".

It is on the 12th place in the list of the longest novels

I can see I have read at least 1 of the longest novels. The Mission Earth decalogy many moons ago

I don't think I would have the stamina to re-read it now with so many(too many !) ebooks fighting for my attention.

JSWolf · 03-17-2009, 03:21 AM

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Originally Posted by kacir

I have read Atlas Shruged by Ayn Rand. That was after I started to read in English but before I "went digital".

It is on the 12th place in the list of the longest novels

# 1.3 L. Ron Hubbard, Mission Earth

Sorry, but the list is incorrect. Mission Earth is a series of books and not a single book. So that makes it ineligible to be on the list. I don't know most of the books listed, but if any others are a series, then they too are incorrectly listed.

JSWolf · 03-17-2009, 03:23 AM

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Originally Posted by tech_au

I can see I have read at least 1 of the longest novels. The Mission Earth decalogy many moons ago

I don't think I would have the stamina to re-read it now with so many(too many !) ebooks fighting for my attention.

The problem with the Mission Earth series is that it suffers from a classic L. Ron Hubbard problem... run on of the words. It's just too wordy for no good reason. He did the same thing with Battlefield Earth.

JSWolf · 03-17-2009, 03:25 AM

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Originally Posted by HarryT

Where did you buy it from, Jon? FW sell it for $50, which is crazy!

The Stand is available from CyberRead for $17.95 and when you can get 50% or 40% off, it comes down to a rather reasonable price.

montsnmags · 03-17-2009, 03:27 AM

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Originally Posted by JSWolf

# 1.3 L. Ron Hubbard, Mission Earth

Sorry, but the list is incorrect. Mission Earth is a series of books and not a single book. So that makes it ineligible to be on the list. I don't know most of the books listed, but if any others are a series, then they too are incorrectly listed.

It's not a list of the longest books; it's a list of the longest novels. Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu has always, as far as I'm aware, been published as multiple books, but is pretty much universally seen to be a single novel.

Cheers,
Marc

JSWolf · 03-17-2009, 03:37 AM

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Originally Posted by montsnmags

It's not a list of the longest books; it's a list of the longest novels. Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu has always, as far as I'm aware, been published as multiple books, but is pretty much universally seen to be a single novel.

Cheers,
Marc

But the Mission Earth series was never seen as one book. It's always seen as 10 very bad, very boring books.

montsnmags · 03-17-2009, 03:54 AM

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Originally Posted by JSWolf

But the Mission Earth series was never seen as one book.

Perhaps so, but, as specified, "novel", not "book".

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It's always seen as 10 very bad, very boring books.

You do not have my disagreement on your subjective opinion, though I must declare that any agreement is not based on reading all 10 of the self-named "dekalogy" (in fact, it was barely a dent into the first that turned me off).

However, it seems that some may consider it a ten-volume novel, and some a ten-novel series. Criteria for "novel" vary. The point is though, that "book" and "novel" are different, and it would seem that this series was written as one, long work, and delivered as one, long manuscript to the publisher, anticipated to be broken up into a number of books (eventually 10). More information can be found here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_Earth_(novel)

Particularly reference the third item ("the rest of the story") under the References section, which probably adds significant weight to its conception as a multi-volume novel.

Cheers,
Marc

JSWolf · 03-17-2009, 04:00 AM

I did read the first two books in the Mission Earth series and vowed never to read anything L. Ron Hubbard ever wrote. I also had the misfortune to read Battlefield Earth.

Whoever had the bad idea to make Battlefield Earth into a disaster of a movie should be fired along with whoever approved it.

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03-16-2009, 04:41 AM	#18
kacir Wizard Posts: 3,450 Karma: 10484861 Join Date: May 2006 Device: PocketBook 360, before it was Sony Reader, cassiopeia A-20	I have read Atlas Shruged by Ayn Rand. That was after I started to read in English but before I "went digital". It is on the 12th place in the list of the longest novels

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BenG Home Guard Posts: 4,729 Karma: 86721650 Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Alpha Ralpha Boulevard Device: Kindle Oasis 3G, iPhone 6	Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

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JSWolf Resident Curmudgeon Posts: 74,417 Karma: 129358310 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Roslindale, Massachusetts Device: Kobo Libra 2, Kobo Aura H2O, PRS-650, PRS-T1, nook STR, PW3	I did read the first two books in the Mission Earth series and vowed never to read anything L. Ron Hubbard ever wrote. I also had the misfortune to read Battlefield Earth. Whoever had the bad idea to make Battlefield Earth into a disaster of a movie should be fired along with whoever approved it.

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