No, seriously, hold the phone. Look what I found! A blog where people are crowd sourcing the project to get through the list (original goal was to as a community get through 1001 books in the course of a year; that's been extended now since they didn't make it in 2011). It's like finding soul mates.
This site has been so exciting to peruse. I've found all kinds of fun and perhaps dangerous things. For example, I found this site that offers books on tape for free.
Dangerously, I found this round of stats on page lengths for every book:
These are the longest ones that I have read, which are eighth, ninth, and tenth sadly:
1436 Herman Melville Moby-Dick
1386 Leo Tolstoy War and Peace
1330 Victor Hugo Les Misérables
None come close to Remembrance of Things Past at nearly 3500 pages. I almost cried. The dangerous part is how tempting it would be to read the shortest ones.
Now I have to decide if I want to participate. I'm rather tempted. If my life were a romantic comedy, this would somehow relate to a meet cute. Fortunately, my life is not.
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