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Re: What is the longest book you own?

Post by cronus » Thu Jan 10, 2013 12:38 pm

As a contiguous piece of work it must be Ayn Rands 'Atlas Shrugged' which makes a great talking piece but anyone tried to read it? :snooze:
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Re: What is the longest book you own?

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Thu Jan 10, 2013 12:45 pm

Revise that gov doc to over six feet. It's taller than I am.
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Re: What is the longest book you own?

Post by Clinton Huxley » Thu Jan 10, 2013 12:47 pm

Gawdzilla Sama wrote:Revise that gov doc to over six feet. It's taller than I am.
Someone needs to form a committee to look into forming a committee into forming a committee into summarising that.
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Re: What is the longest book you own?

Post by Svartalf » Thu Jan 10, 2013 12:48 pm

Not sure... likely a 1980+p collection of Icelandic sagas... I may have some bigger ones, but that one has been read cover to cover, and is printed small
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Re: What is the longest book you own?

Post by cronus » Thu Jan 10, 2013 12:48 pm

Clinton Huxley wrote:
Gawdzilla Sama wrote:Revise that gov doc to over six feet. It's taller than I am.
Someone needs to form a committee to look into forming a committee into forming a committee into summarising that.
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Re: What is the longest book you own?

Post by Pappa » Thu Jan 10, 2013 12:49 pm

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Pappa wrote:Possibly, "The Slave Trade". I forget the author. Excellent book though.
Hugh Thomas?
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Re: What is the longest book you own?

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Clinton Huxley wrote:
Gawdzilla Sama wrote:Revise that gov doc to over six feet. It's taller than I am.
Someone needs to form a committee to look into forming a committee into forming a committee into summarising that.
That's the summary. :coffee:
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Re: What is the longest book you own?

Post by Clinton Huxley » Thu Jan 10, 2013 12:51 pm

Gawdzilla Sama wrote:
Clinton Huxley wrote:
Gawdzilla Sama wrote:Revise that gov doc to over six feet. It's taller than I am.
Someone needs to form a committee to look into forming a committee into forming a committee into summarising that.
That's the summary. :coffee:
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Re: What is the longest book you own?

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Thu Jan 10, 2013 12:54 pm

Clinton Huxley wrote:
Gawdzilla Sama wrote:
Clinton Huxley wrote:
Gawdzilla Sama wrote:Revise that gov doc to over six feet. It's taller than I am.
Someone needs to form a committee to look into forming a committee into forming a committee into summarising that.
That's the summary. :coffee:
The main manuscript collapsed under its own weight and was eventually dropped on Nagasaki.
I was the damn thing would implode. It sits there glaring at me, reminding me I promised to get back to work last week. :sigh:
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Re: What is the longest book you own?

Post by Clinton Huxley » Thu Jan 10, 2013 12:55 pm

Gawdzilla Sama wrote:
Clinton Huxley wrote:
Gawdzilla Sama wrote:
Clinton Huxley wrote:
Gawdzilla Sama wrote:Revise that gov doc to over six feet. It's taller than I am.
Someone needs to form a committee to look into forming a committee into forming a committee into summarising that.
That's the summary. :coffee:
The main manuscript collapsed under its own weight and was eventually dropped on Nagasaki.
I was the damn thing would implode. It sits there glaring at me, reminding me I promised to get back to work last week. :sigh:
The pages have eyes! EYES!
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Re: What is the longest book you own?

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Thu Jan 10, 2013 12:58 pm

And e's, t's, r's...
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Re: What is the longest book you own?

Post by MrFungus420 » Thu Jan 10, 2013 5:22 pm

Battlefield Earth at 1050.

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Re: What is the longest book you own?

Post by FBM » Thu Jan 10, 2013 5:24 pm

Samyutta Nikaya. I don't think I'll live long enough to finish it. 2,072 pages.
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Re: What is the longest book you own?

Post by Jason » Thu Jan 10, 2013 5:26 pm

The Bible by God.

Other than that.. several textbooks on biology, math, philosophy, and programming.

Other than those.. probably The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It weighs in at 718 pages in this printing. I've read half of it, and I keep meaning to finish it.
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Re: What is the longest book you own?

Post by Bella Fortuna » Thu Jan 10, 2013 5:26 pm

About 16".
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