What's the longest book you've ever read?

The Blah Story does not sound interesting! The most times I've read a book? Probably just 2 or 3 times.. I had to reread many of the Harry Potter books when new books came out or when the movies came out. Think I'll soon be rereading the Twilight series all over again.

I've read Harry Potter (all of them) and I may get to Twilight eventually, but I have way to much of a backlog now to reread things. Once in a while I make an exception...

@ Kat - I adord the Hobbit but the Lord of the bRings was read so many years ago that I probabl should re ead them Enjoy Dawn. Copycat! I read those books too. All were memorable. Have just finished reading a Patricia Cornwall book. I love mystery and suspense

Oddly enough Karen, the first 3 are my least favorite of the series, especially the first 2.. I cannot bring myself to read them again, or to even watch the movies again!

I think I read IT when I was younger.. or at least part of it, because I loved the movie. I've also read the Harry Potter series a few times.. though I consider them seperate books.

I only read the first 3 Harry Potter books but my 2 eldest kids have read them all and said they get better as they go along.

Reading is a good escape from depression.. and from boredom!

LOL.. that's a long book! I've seen those big books at the book stores, and leafed through them... never actually read them though.

I saw the movie Roots when I was really young.. but never read the book.

I don't remember it too much. I was 12 when I read it. It must have been good for me to read it for fun at that age.

Never read Gone With The Wind, but know the basics of the movie. Is it a good read?

But Lord of the Rings isn't really a trilogy. It's one book that's been separated into three volumes...

I prefer shorter books because I have a hard time putting them down for anything.. I'll even stay up all night reading if it really catches my interest. I've finished decent sized novels in less than 24 hours. I told my son it should take me a week or less to read the entire Lord Of The Rings book.. only because with the kids all home I have a hard time reading more than a couple chapters at a time.

Dawnald, yes but even by today's standards a publisher would tell Tolkien to break the book into pieces. It's separated into three volumes for a good reason. I don't think my reading of it in pieces counts as reading one long book. Often when I'm reading a super-long book... I feel like the end is never going to come. When I read LOTR broken up, it was easy. The end came pretty much exactly when it normally would with a book. If I counted them all as one book then Stone of Tears would be out because it was shorter... but the Bible is still longer. I don't always prefer short books, but I'm a fast reader and if a book takes me longer than a week to read then I get antsy. I've also read some pretty good sized books in less than a day.

Ah, perhaps, but the Lord of the Rings is actually 1 book.. Harry Potter is 7... I've read them as well.

Well, The Lord of the Rings is divided into three books: The Fellowship of the Rings, The two Towers and The Return of The Kings.

That's one of those classics... was it good? I never got into the classics.

War and Peace was okay, but not amazing. I read it in 1992 and don't really remember much about it now.

I guess you saw the movie before reading the book? You tend to prefer the first version you were exposed to.. if you read the book first you'd say the movie wasn't as good.