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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 1094 Views
I'm gonna hope that was an exaggeration for comic effect... Legolas - 03/08/2010 08:37:21 AM 796 Views
It's all looking up vocabulary. It should pick up. *NM* Ghavrel - 03/08/2010 06:06:03 PM 311 Views
What's your strategy for that? Legolas - 03/08/2010 06:23:55 PM 690 Views
The latter, but curiosity keeps winning out. *NM* Ghavrel - 03/08/2010 10:55:50 PM 312 Views
Re: I'm gonna hope that was an exaggeration for comic effect... DomA - 04/08/2010 11:52:01 AM 779 Views
Since I chose the same book to learn Spanish, some reasons. Camilla - 04/08/2010 12:20:22 PM 674 Views
Re: Since I chose the same book to learn Spanish, some reasons. DomA - 04/08/2010 03:04:12 PM 933 Views
Exactly this. Though I don't know it nearly by heart. *NM* Ghavrel - 06/08/2010 06:56:34 AM 290 Views
Re: Exactly this. Though I don't know it nearly by heart. Camilla - 06/08/2010 08:23:17 AM 575 Views
Precisely. *NM* Ghavrel - 07/08/2010 05:42:34 AM 284 Views
Re: Books that take a long time to read. Camilla - 03/08/2010 08:58:55 AM 807 Views
monobiblic? unilibric? lyringlas - 03/08/2010 05:18:35 PM 643 Views
Re: monobiblic? unilibric? Camilla - 03/08/2010 05:20:04 PM 687 Views
the baroque series by neal stephenson ad war and peace Foxhead - 03/08/2010 09:56:43 AM 628 Views
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon snoopcester - 03/08/2010 10:27:58 AM 631 Views
Yeah, I read the abridged version for one of my classes. Ghavrel - 03/08/2010 06:07:43 PM 650 Views
*shudders* Tom - 03/08/2010 07:11:34 PM 641 Views
Stephen Hunt's The Court of the Air was a recent one. Kallichore - 03/08/2010 10:37:26 AM 695 Views
Re: Books that take a long time to read. Stephen - 03/08/2010 03:45:20 PM 585 Views
I'm having the hardest time trudging through The Idiot LadyLorraine - 03/08/2010 04:22:29 PM 696 Views
Me love you long time. Rebekah - 03/08/2010 05:24:43 PM 680 Views
The unabridged Zohar in 23 volumes probably ranks up there. Tom - 03/08/2010 07:15:43 PM 891 Views
I'm reading The Lord of the Rings in French. Slowly. *NM* Ghavrel - 03/08/2010 10:57:04 PM 263 Views
Why? Tom - 04/08/2010 02:14:44 PM 645 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 304 Views
The Bible, hands down. Vodalus - 03/08/2010 07:22:37 PM 811 Views
Re: Books that take a long time to read. Tashmere - 03/08/2010 11:31:10 PM 692 Views
for fiction... damookster - 04/08/2010 01:50:38 AM 832 Views
Not counting stuff like the Bible, Gardens of the Moon DREWRULESWOT! - 04/08/2010 06:39:12 AM 743 Views
The Sound and the Fury random thoughts - 04/08/2010 02:51:40 PM 581 Views
That is not at all surprising. Rebekah - 04/08/2010 02:52:37 PM 627 Views
I love the prose but I can't follow the story random thoughts - 06/08/2010 02:41:10 PM 595 Views
that just means i don't have time to read.... temeraire - 05/08/2010 04:30:42 PM 627 Views
The Book of the New Sun took me 3 months to read. Zach - 05/08/2010 06:35:08 PM 823 Views
Re: Books that take a long time to read. j-whitt987 - 06/08/2010 02:07:59 AM 650 Views
Re: Books that take a long time to read. RugbyPlayingAshaman - 12/08/2010 02:29:12 PM 689 Views
Never understood being put off by length Sandwich - 12/08/2010 07:33:26 PM 762 Views
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