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!
*MySmiley*
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!
*MySmiley*
Books that take a long time to read.
- 03/08/2010 08:21:42 AM
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I'm gonna hope that was an exaggeration for comic effect... 
- 03/08/2010 08:37:21 AM
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It's all looking up vocabulary. It should pick up. *NM*
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Re: I'm gonna hope that was an exaggeration for comic effect...
- 04/08/2010 11:52:01 AM
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Since I chose the same book to learn Spanish, some reasons.
- 04/08/2010 12:20:22 PM
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Exactly this. Though I don't know it nearly by heart. *NM*
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Re: Books that take a long time to read.
- 03/08/2010 08:58:55 AM
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
- 03/08/2010 10:27:58 AM
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The unabridged Zohar in 23 volumes probably ranks up there.
- 03/08/2010 07:15:43 PM
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I'm reading The Lord of the Rings in French. Slowly. *NM*
- 03/08/2010 10:57:04 PM
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Why?
- 04/08/2010 02:14:44 PM
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Camilla's post above pretty much encapsulates it; I want to practice my French with something I know *NM*
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The Sound and the Fury
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