Thursday, April 16, 2015

Make up your mind there are moments of light/ The one thing that's sure/ Is that there is no cure/ But that doesn't mean we don't fight

So, what are the longest books, you ask? Here are the top 15 with the ones I've read bolded.

3424 Marcel Proust Remembrance of Things Past
2944 Anthony Powell A Dance to the Music of Time
1824 Robert Musil The Man Without Qualities
1703 Uwe Johnson Jahrestage
1533 Samuel Richardson Clarissa
1474 Vikram Seth A Suitable Boy
1440 Yukio Mishima The Sea of Fertility
1436 Herman Melville Moby-Dick
1386 Leo Tolstoy War and Peace
1330 Victor Hugo Les Misérables

1288 John Dos Passos U.S.A.
1280 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Don Quixote
1240 Alexandre Dumas The Count of Monte-Cristo
1216 J.R.R. Tolkien The Lord of the Rings
1079 David Foster Wallace Infinite Jest


Of the 23,445 pages that make up the longest 15 on the list, I've read 15,624 or so (I'm in the middle of A Dance to the Music of Time, so it's a bit hard to say exactly). That's about 67%, which I guess isn't terrible but also isn't that great. Though I guess I'm about 66% done with the list, too, so it's about right. I feel like I need to invest in these longest ones. Maybe I can also get to The Man Without Qualities this year as well; I can try really hard to be at 100 in early December and read it then (hahahah, I'm still behind on books, this is a terrible plan).

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