Every book from the ASOIAF series. They're all massive, but A Dance with Dragons has over a thousand pages
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In that case, ADWD could be my longest individual book.
As for longest work, either this one or Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time, which may be a bit longer overall. Although I only got to the end of the ones he wrote. I never got round to the Sanderson books. I'd like to try again but unfortunately Sanderson is up there with Stephen King with authors who bore the pants off me.
Depend what you read, Sanderson is very uneven writer in terms of technique, but what draws people to him is rather his originality than his workshop. For example, i think his highest acclaimed series, the "Mistborn" is boring (still original but boring), first book have incredibly tedious action scenes and later ones while fixing it to large extent, don't manage to fit in something good instead so it's the same words but spreaded. On the other hand, Stormlight Archives, while much more wordy, are for me one of the best series i read lately. I also love his early single books, Elantris and Warbreaker. Also The Rithmatist, his version of scholomance genre, but better than anyhing i read in it. Lately in Poland they been publishing Skyward and its continuations but i think it absolute crap, his worst book.
I also hate Wheel of Time, Jordan was third rate scribbler who can't make interesting characters and instead is flooding readers with his sexual frustrations.
I am willing to give him another go. Maybe my issue comes from two places:
- I took a break from WoT (can't blame him for dying, I suppose) and picked up the first Sanderson book a few years later. Maybe it was Jordan's writing that I disliked as I had matured. I was also pissed off that I would have to wade through two more books of this shit. I don't think I finished even the first finale book.
- Curious as to whether the problem was Jordan leaving a mess of notes or whether the problem was Sanderson, I picked up Mistborn. I gave it a good go. I have a rule not to dismiss books before 50 pages (sometimes I forget them after fewer, but that's because I get busy and intend to go back later), but for this one I gave it a hundred pages or so.
Thanks for the recommendation. Tbh, I hear such good things about him that I have wondered what I was missing. So I'll give a few of his other series/novels a go.
Go for Elantris first. It's his novel debut and it's really most in character. Still my favourite book of his.
Also adding to previous post he did wrote pretty decent young adult postapocalyptic superhero trilogy Calamity-Firefight-Steelheart.
My longest and by far best read was the Three-Body trilogy by Liu Cixin, weighing in at a combined 1400 pages. It is hard science-fiction and may require a bit of physical-mathematical background to appreciate how it makes esoteric scientific concepts into driving plot points, but if you have that, it is an absolutely stellar experience from the tons of creative worldbuilding to the inventive storytelling to even the minutest technical details. ~~One thing of note is that the Dark Forest hypothesis, today one of the most well-known solutions to the Fermi paradox, was invented by the author and had its first-ever appearance in the second book of the series.~~
Correction: Upon further looking into it, the Dark Forest hypothesis apparently predates the book, which then axiomatised and coined the term for it
Read the first two. Some guy once pointed out that the Dark Forest hypothesis rests on the assumption that communication is slower and more expensive than instantaneous destruction, which is false.
I wish i only read the first two, they were great, but third is absolute garbage, guy ran out of ideas for plot and instead presented one of two nead ideas he had left along some really weird shit mixed with wide plethora of apocalyptic scenarios broken by some really tedious nothing parts. There's also 4th book written by other author and accepted by original one which straightens out the ending dud, but i would still rather not read it at all.
Some people like it for its scale. It's a matter of taste I guess, since it's held in great esteem as far as I know in China.
Yeah the scale is huge but again we rapidly move from Sol-Alpha Centauri scale to universe level catalcysm. and god's eye over entirety of spacetime. About the esteem afaik it's the first modern Chinese book becoming really worldwide bestseller, of course they will held it in great esteem. Poland had the same phenomenon with Andrzej Sapkowski and his books are even more uneven with good start but by the last 2 the quality is in freefall.
Overall the thing i get from the issue with TBP series is that the "3rd book curse" is universal in every culture.
Really? No one else read "House of Leaves"? Y'all are missing out on the best psychogical essay novel ever written
I read it Sophomore year. It gave me nightmares for a while. I loved it.
House of Leaves is around 700 pages long, am I wrong? Most books mentioned in this post's comments are longer, so maybe that is why.
David Weber Honorverse, something like 30 books averaging around 600 pages each. Main plot is 17 books (i think, at the end main plot and spinoffs converge).
A single tome book would be James Clavell's Shogun, 1125 pages, small font.
I am halfway through Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain, 1047 pages long.
How is it? I've heard good things.
And you've heard well if you ask me.