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Stephen Hunt's The Court of the Air was a recent one. Kallichore Send a noteboard - 03/08/2010 10:37:26 AM

1) what's the longest time you've spent reading a book?
2) do you ever get put off by length?
3) what about complexity?
4) how long is too long?
5) Is there any hope of me making it through Tom Bombadil in this thing?


1) A week. As mentioned above Stephenson's Baroque Cycle took a long time - a month all in - but the Court of the Air was the worst I can remember. Took me a week, and it's not long at all.

2) Hell no. Just read and loved Justin Cronin's The Passage. It's approximately the size of the QEII.

3) I'm quite ADHD so I like some complex things but I'm easy to dazzle and confuse. I'll have a dash of complexity with my fiction, yeah. I don't really consider complexity when thinking about what I want to read, I judge based on what the plot is and whether it's had good reviews.

4) If it takes a rainforest, bad times.

5) I love everything else about those books (bar a few minor quibbles). Bombadil, though - Bombadil is so tiresome.
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Books that take a long time to read. Ghavrel - 03/08/2010 08:21:42 AM 1290 Views
I'm gonna hope that was an exaggeration for comic effect... Legolas - 03/08/2010 08:37:21 AM 970 Views
It's all looking up vocabulary. It should pick up. *NM* Ghavrel - 03/08/2010 06:06:03 PM 384 Views
What's your strategy for that? Legolas - 03/08/2010 06:23:55 PM 895 Views
The latter, but curiosity keeps winning out. *NM* Ghavrel - 03/08/2010 10:55:50 PM 389 Views
Re: I'm gonna hope that was an exaggeration for comic effect... DomA - 04/08/2010 11:52:01 AM 989 Views
Since I chose the same book to learn Spanish, some reasons. Camilla - 04/08/2010 12:20:22 PM 853 Views
Re: Since I chose the same book to learn Spanish, some reasons. DomA - 04/08/2010 03:04:12 PM 1148 Views
Exactly this. Though I don't know it nearly by heart. *NM* Ghavrel - 06/08/2010 06:56:34 AM 377 Views
Re: Exactly this. Though I don't know it nearly by heart. Camilla - 06/08/2010 08:23:17 AM 767 Views
Precisely. *NM* Ghavrel - 07/08/2010 05:42:34 AM 375 Views
Re: Books that take a long time to read. Camilla - 03/08/2010 08:58:55 AM 1019 Views
monobiblic? unilibric? lyringlas - 03/08/2010 05:18:35 PM 852 Views
Re: monobiblic? unilibric? Camilla - 03/08/2010 05:20:04 PM 892 Views
the baroque series by neal stephenson ad war and peace Foxhead - 03/08/2010 09:56:43 AM 838 Views
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon snoopcester - 03/08/2010 10:27:58 AM 846 Views
Yeah, I read the abridged version for one of my classes. Ghavrel - 03/08/2010 06:07:43 PM 845 Views
*shudders* Tom - 03/08/2010 07:11:34 PM 833 Views
Stephen Hunt's The Court of the Air was a recent one. Kallichore - 03/08/2010 10:37:26 AM 901 Views
Re: Books that take a long time to read. Stephen - 03/08/2010 03:45:20 PM 814 Views
I'm having the hardest time trudging through The Idiot LadyLorraine - 03/08/2010 04:22:29 PM 876 Views
Me love you long time. Rebekah - 03/08/2010 05:24:43 PM 846 Views
The unabridged Zohar in 23 volumes probably ranks up there. Tom - 03/08/2010 07:15:43 PM 1139 Views
I'm reading The Lord of the Rings in French. Slowly. *NM* Ghavrel - 03/08/2010 10:57:04 PM 350 Views
Why? Tom - 04/08/2010 02:14:44 PM 842 Views
Camilla's post above pretty much encapsulates it; I want to practice my French with something I know *NM* Ghavrel - 06/08/2010 06:55:02 AM 388 Views
The Bible, hands down. Vodalus - 03/08/2010 07:22:37 PM 1019 Views
Re: Books that take a long time to read. Tashmere - 03/08/2010 11:31:10 PM 898 Views
for fiction... damookster - 04/08/2010 01:50:38 AM 1109 Views
Not counting stuff like the Bible, Gardens of the Moon DREWRULESWOT! - 04/08/2010 06:39:12 AM 952 Views
The Sound and the Fury random thoughts - 04/08/2010 02:51:40 PM 769 Views
That is not at all surprising. Rebekah - 04/08/2010 02:52:37 PM 826 Views
I love the prose but I can't follow the story random thoughts - 06/08/2010 02:41:10 PM 794 Views
that just means i don't have time to read.... temeraire - 05/08/2010 04:30:42 PM 804 Views
The Book of the New Sun took me 3 months to read. Zach - 05/08/2010 06:35:08 PM 1056 Views
Re: Books that take a long time to read. j-whitt987 - 06/08/2010 02:07:59 AM 853 Views
Re: Books that take a long time to read. RugbyPlayingAshaman - 12/08/2010 02:29:12 PM 967 Views
Never understood being put off by length Sandwich - 12/08/2010 07:33:26 PM 977 Views
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