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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 1104 Views
I'm gonna hope that was an exaggeration for comic effect... Legolas - 03/08/2010 08:37:21 AM 808 Views
It's all looking up vocabulary. It should pick up. *NM* Ghavrel - 03/08/2010 06:06:03 PM 315 Views
What's your strategy for that? Legolas - 03/08/2010 06:23:55 PM 702 Views
The latter, but curiosity keeps winning out. *NM* Ghavrel - 03/08/2010 10:55:50 PM 316 Views
Re: I'm gonna hope that was an exaggeration for comic effect... DomA - 04/08/2010 11:52:01 AM 792 Views
Since I chose the same book to learn Spanish, some reasons. Camilla - 04/08/2010 12:20:22 PM 687 Views
Re: Since I chose the same book to learn Spanish, some reasons. DomA - 04/08/2010 03:04:12 PM 947 Views
Exactly this. Though I don't know it nearly by heart. *NM* Ghavrel - 06/08/2010 06:56:34 AM 295 Views
Re: Exactly this. Though I don't know it nearly by heart. Camilla - 06/08/2010 08:23:17 AM 587 Views
Precisely. *NM* Ghavrel - 07/08/2010 05:42:34 AM 290 Views
Re: Books that take a long time to read. Camilla - 03/08/2010 08:58:55 AM 819 Views
monobiblic? unilibric? lyringlas - 03/08/2010 05:18:35 PM 658 Views
Re: monobiblic? unilibric? Camilla - 03/08/2010 05:20:04 PM 704 Views
the baroque series by neal stephenson ad war and peace Foxhead - 03/08/2010 09:56:43 AM 639 Views
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon snoopcester - 03/08/2010 10:27:58 AM 645 Views
Yeah, I read the abridged version for one of my classes. Ghavrel - 03/08/2010 06:07:43 PM 661 Views
*shudders* Tom - 03/08/2010 07:11:34 PM 655 Views
Stephen Hunt's The Court of the Air was a recent one. Kallichore - 03/08/2010 10:37:26 AM 707 Views
Re: Books that take a long time to read. Stephen - 03/08/2010 03:45:20 PM 600 Views
I'm having the hardest time trudging through The Idiot LadyLorraine - 03/08/2010 04:22:29 PM 709 Views
Me love you long time. Rebekah - 03/08/2010 05:24:43 PM 694 Views
The unabridged Zohar in 23 volumes probably ranks up there. Tom - 03/08/2010 07:15:43 PM 906 Views
I'm reading The Lord of the Rings in French. Slowly. *NM* Ghavrel - 03/08/2010 10:57:04 PM 270 Views
Why? Tom - 04/08/2010 02:14:44 PM 657 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 309 Views
The Bible, hands down. Vodalus - 03/08/2010 07:22:37 PM 822 Views
Re: Books that take a long time to read. Tashmere - 03/08/2010 11:31:10 PM 702 Views
for fiction... damookster - 04/08/2010 01:50:38 AM 842 Views
Not counting stuff like the Bible, Gardens of the Moon DREWRULESWOT! - 04/08/2010 06:39:12 AM 755 Views
The Sound and the Fury random thoughts - 04/08/2010 02:51:40 PM 592 Views
That is not at all surprising. Rebekah - 04/08/2010 02:52:37 PM 640 Views
I love the prose but I can't follow the story random thoughts - 06/08/2010 02:41:10 PM 609 Views
that just means i don't have time to read.... temeraire - 05/08/2010 04:30:42 PM 640 Views
The Book of the New Sun took me 3 months to read. Zach - 05/08/2010 06:35:08 PM 838 Views
Re: Books that take a long time to read. j-whitt987 - 06/08/2010 02:07:59 AM 660 Views
Re: Books that take a long time to read. RugbyPlayingAshaman - 12/08/2010 02:29:12 PM 702 Views
Never understood being put off by length Sandwich - 12/08/2010 07:33:26 PM 777 Views
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