What are the best long books (600+ pages)?

1Q84

In Search of Lost Time.

Any of Borges, of course

PDEs are the shit. Fourier was a boss

>Borges
Sadly anything of his over 600 pages is translated by Hurley

Don Quixote, of course

witz
quiet flows the Don
miss macintosh my darling
life and fate
giles goat boy
letters
the naked and the dead
the tunnel
J R
son & xon

Heres some that are 1000+

The Dying Grass - William T. Vollman (any vollman desu)
Gargantua and Pantagruel - Francois Rabelais
War and Peace - Tolstoy
The Wandering Jew - Eugene Sue
Three Kingdoms - Luo Guanzhong
Parallel Stories - Peter Nadas
A Glastonbury Romance - John Cowper Powys
Kristin Lavransdatter - Sigrid Undset
Harlot's Ghost - Norman Mailer
From Here to Eternity - James Jones
Against the Day - Thomas Pynchon
The Count of Monte Crisco - Alexandre Dumas
Belle de Signeur - Albert Cohen
Julie - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

>long books (600+ pages)
600 isn't long. 400–500 pages is normal-sized book; 600 is just hundred pages more. 800+ is long.

Beelzebubs Tales to his Grandson - gurdjieff

why have none of you fucks read this book?
it doesnt seem any of you are even aware of it
maybe thats a good thing tho

Is it just you meming Mrs Macintosh or are there more of you

I'm thinking of taking PDEs as an elective. Is it better than Complex Variables?

Check out Terra Nostra by Carlos Fuentes if you have any familiarity with Spanish history and art. It's a doorstopper but it's an amazing book.

>600 isn't long. 400–500 pages is normal-sized book

more like 300

but I do agree 600 isn't that long

Anna Karenina desu

>Gargantua and Pantagruel - François Rabelais
I own several editions and they're all below 600 (even those with the Doré illustrations). Am I missing something ?

the swarm - frank schätzing

@8453705
kill yourself

#hellonewfriend

the chilcot report

The Magic Mountain

Moby Dick

i have this on my shelf, bought it when for a buck at a second hand shop this year, why should i read it?

The Luminaires. 800+ pages and it never gets redundant.

@8453729
>2016
>not knowing memes

Some editions (in french at least) have one page on the left explaining some of the words, puns and weird grammar (as it was written in ancient french) and one on the right with the actual text. Besides, Gargantua and Pantagruel is composed of 5 books (Pantagruel / Gargantua / Tiers Livre / Quart Livre / Cinquième Livre), so if your edition only has the first two, that's the reason it is half the size.

what by Borges was over 600 pages?

An inspiration to us all.
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Evans or Taylor?

Life & Fate

I guess I'll be that guy and say Gravity's Rainbow because nobody has yet.
No, unless you're an engineer.
Complex Analysis is GOAT.

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I mentioned the Hurley translations and was referring to the Collected Fictions and Selected Non-Fictions since they're sizeable collections. I don't know whether they're literally 600+ pages. [Actually I do now, having checked the titles; not quite.] My main point was to take the opportunity to criticize the whole translation situation with Hurley (and di Giovanni).
was obviously joking, as Borges only wrote short stories and essays. (He did collaborate with Bioy Casares on some longer works, but they're by no means doorstops and are arguably integrated story collections anyway.)

not him but whats wrong with 1q84? i liked that book

yes sadly it's just me. I just finished it actually.

>Title - Author
disgusting
nice trips tho

The edition I'm currently reading is only 500 pages long, it has the five books and half the pages are illustrations. It has some annotations too. Not sure it falls in the "long books" category.

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Les miserables

That's strange, the Pantagruel I just checked was over 440 pages (half the pages being annotations). 500 pages would make sense without illustrations. Maybe the english translation makes it much shorter? That would be a bit extreme.

a good 700 pages of that are utter shite

I'm reading it in French. Weird.

I don't think anyone mentioned Moby Dick.

Lonesome Dove

The Count of Monte Cristo.

worth the read?

i wish people would stop pushing the king james bible because of the language. it's a protestant bible that is missing several books.