For me it’s Metro 2033 by Dmitriy Glukhovskiy, which is 500 pages long
Really? No one else read “House of Leaves”? Y’all are missing out on the best psychogical essay novel ever written
House of Leaves is around 700 pages long, am I wrong? Most books mentioned in this post’s comments are longer, so maybe that is why.
Every book from the ASOIAF series. They’re all massive, but A Dance with Dragons has over a thousand pages
In that case, ADWD could be my longest individual book.
As for longest work, either this one or Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time, which may be a bit longer overall. Although I only got to the end of the ones he wrote. I never got round to the Sanderson books. I’d like to try again but unfortunately Sanderson is up there with Stephen King with authors who bore the pants off me.
Depend what you read, Sanderson is very uneven writer in terms of technique, but what draws people to him is rather his originality than his workshop. For example, i think his highest acclaimed series, the “Mistborn” is boring (still original but boring), first book have incredibly tedious action scenes and later ones while fixing it to large extent, don’t manage to fit in something good instead so it’s the same words but spreaded. On the other hand, Stormlight Archives, while much more wordy, are for me one of the best series i read lately. I also love his early single books, Elantris and Warbreaker. Also The Rithmatist, his version of scholomance genre, but better than anyhing i read in it. Lately in Poland they been publishing Skyward and its continuations but i think it absolute crap, his worst book.
I also hate Wheel of Time, Jordan was third rate scribbler who can’t make interesting characters and instead is flooding readers with his sexual frustrations.
My longest and by far best read was the Three-Body trilogy by Liu Cixin, weighing in at a combined 1400 pages. It is hard science-fiction and may require a bit of physical-mathematical background to appreciate how it makes esoteric scientific concepts into driving plot points, but if you have that, it is an absolutely stellar experience from the tons of creative worldbuilding to the inventive storytelling to even the minutest technical details.
One thing of note is that the Dark Forest hypothesis, today one of the most well-known solutions to the Fermi paradox, was invented by the author and had its first-ever appearance in the second book of the series.Correction: Upon further looking into it, the Dark Forest hypothesis apparently predates the book, which then axiomatised and coined the term for it
Read the first two. Some guy once pointed out that the Dark Forest hypothesis rests on the assumption that communication is slower and more expensive than instantaneous destruction, which is false.
I wish i only read the first two, they were great, but third is absolute garbage, guy ran out of ideas for plot and instead presented one of two nead ideas he had left along some really weird shit mixed with wide plethora of apocalyptic scenarios broken by some really tedious nothing parts. There’s also 4th book written by other author and accepted by original one which straightens out the ending dud, but i would still rather not read it at all.
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, around 1200 pages
Classic, definitely best Dumas novel for me.
David Weber Honorverse, something like 30 books averaging around 600 pages each. Main plot is 17 books (i think, at the end main plot and spinoffs converge).
A single tome book would be James Clavell’s Shogun, 1125 pages, small font.
I am halfway through Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain, 1047 pages long.
How is it? I’ve heard good things.
And you’ve heard well if you ask me.
