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The unabridged Zohar in 23 volumes probably ranks up there. Tom Send a noteboard - 03/08/2010 07:15:43 PM
1) what's the longest time you've spent reading a book?

The Zohar, hands down. I've been reading it since 2000 but of course I stop reading for months at a time and I'm reading the original Aramaic before reading the translation, so that makes for slower going.

2) do you ever get put off by length?
I'm still reading it. Also, I read the complete, unabridged Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire earlier this year so I guess not.

3) what about complexity?

I'm reading the Zohar. If that isn't complex, I don't know what is (perhaps some highly theoretical works of quantum physics written for specialists are more complex, but I don't read those typically).

4) how long is too long?

I don't know.

5) Is there any hope of me making it through Tom Bombadil in this thing?

"in this thing"? What do you mean?
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.

ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius

Ummaka qinnassa nīk!

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Books that take a long time to read. Ghavrel - 03/08/2010 08:21:42 AM 1201 Views
I'm gonna hope that was an exaggeration for comic effect... Legolas - 03/08/2010 08:37:21 AM 907 Views
It's all looking up vocabulary. It should pick up. *NM* Ghavrel - 03/08/2010 06:06:03 PM 353 Views
What's your strategy for that? Legolas - 03/08/2010 06:23:55 PM 819 Views
The latter, but curiosity keeps winning out. *NM* Ghavrel - 03/08/2010 10:55:50 PM 360 Views
Re: I'm gonna hope that was an exaggeration for comic effect... DomA - 04/08/2010 11:52:01 AM 906 Views
Since I chose the same book to learn Spanish, some reasons. Camilla - 04/08/2010 12:20:22 PM 776 Views
Re: Since I chose the same book to learn Spanish, some reasons. DomA - 04/08/2010 03:04:12 PM 1069 Views
Exactly this. Though I don't know it nearly by heart. *NM* Ghavrel - 06/08/2010 06:56:34 AM 344 Views
Re: Exactly this. Though I don't know it nearly by heart. Camilla - 06/08/2010 08:23:17 AM 692 Views
Precisely. *NM* Ghavrel - 07/08/2010 05:42:34 AM 340 Views
Re: Books that take a long time to read. Camilla - 03/08/2010 08:58:55 AM 946 Views
monobiblic? unilibric? lyringlas - 03/08/2010 05:18:35 PM 768 Views
Re: monobiblic? unilibric? Camilla - 03/08/2010 05:20:04 PM 816 Views
the baroque series by neal stephenson ad war and peace Foxhead - 03/08/2010 09:56:43 AM 750 Views
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon snoopcester - 03/08/2010 10:27:58 AM 767 Views
Yeah, I read the abridged version for one of my classes. Ghavrel - 03/08/2010 06:07:43 PM 768 Views
*shudders* Tom - 03/08/2010 07:11:34 PM 762 Views
Stephen Hunt's The Court of the Air was a recent one. Kallichore - 03/08/2010 10:37:26 AM 826 Views
Re: Books that take a long time to read. Stephen - 03/08/2010 03:45:20 PM 723 Views
I'm having the hardest time trudging through The Idiot LadyLorraine - 03/08/2010 04:22:29 PM 811 Views
Me love you long time. Rebekah - 03/08/2010 05:24:43 PM 776 Views
The unabridged Zohar in 23 volumes probably ranks up there. Tom - 03/08/2010 07:15:43 PM 1058 Views
I'm reading The Lord of the Rings in French. Slowly. *NM* Ghavrel - 03/08/2010 10:57:04 PM 316 Views
Why? Tom - 04/08/2010 02:14:44 PM 757 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 353 Views
The Bible, hands down. Vodalus - 03/08/2010 07:22:37 PM 940 Views
Re: Books that take a long time to read. Tashmere - 03/08/2010 11:31:10 PM 825 Views
for fiction... damookster - 04/08/2010 01:50:38 AM 1033 Views
Not counting stuff like the Bible, Gardens of the Moon DREWRULESWOT! - 04/08/2010 06:39:12 AM 875 Views
The Sound and the Fury random thoughts - 04/08/2010 02:51:40 PM 689 Views
That is not at all surprising. Rebekah - 04/08/2010 02:52:37 PM 734 Views
I love the prose but I can't follow the story random thoughts - 06/08/2010 02:41:10 PM 708 Views
that just means i don't have time to read.... temeraire - 05/08/2010 04:30:42 PM 733 Views
The Book of the New Sun took me 3 months to read. Zach - 05/08/2010 06:35:08 PM 978 Views
Re: Books that take a long time to read. j-whitt987 - 06/08/2010 02:07:59 AM 770 Views
Re: Books that take a long time to read. RugbyPlayingAshaman - 12/08/2010 02:29:12 PM 886 Views
Never understood being put off by length Sandwich - 12/08/2010 07:33:26 PM 902 Views
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