/lit/ - Literature

>>14846889
According to Goodreads, Outlaws of the Marsh is 2100 pages but my rough estimate of the ebook version that I read it should be closer to around 1500 pages, which is still the longest thing I've read.

Les Miserables is amazing btw. And whichever anons have read In Search of Lost Time or that one Super Mario Bros. fan fic win the thread.

What's the best >translation for Les Miserables?

The longest book I've read is the Waley translations of the Tale of Genji, 1120 pages.

>>14846971
*Royall Tyler translation

>>14846953
Proust is very far away in my reading list
>>14846971
what was it about?

>>14846982
It's about an ancient Japanese emperors son named "Hikaru Genji," a low-ranking concubine called Kiritsubo Consort. For political reasons, the emperor removes Genji from the line of succession, demoting him to a commoner and he pursues a career as an imperial officer.

It's written by Lady Murasaki Shikibu who was alive during the Fujiwara clans height of power and they dominated the Heian period of Japan. She used her proximity to it's most powerful figures as an influence as she was in the court. The book primarily focuses on Genjis romantic life (which as an emperors son is wild) and describes the customs of the aristocratic society of the time.

>>14846889
>longest books you've read
War and Peace, The Count of Monte Cristo and The Brothers Karamazov.

They all were completely worth it.

>>14847059
interesting it sounds like the Red and the Black

>>14846889
Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
The Count of Monte Cristo
Infinite Jest
Don Quixote

I think rise and fall was longest, print was tiny. Count of Cristo in terms of page numbers. Infinite Jest maybe cuz there's like no fucking paragraphs and a thousand footnotes, it def took me the longest to read.

Want to read les mis just don't think I have the time right now. The Stand or It also on my list but worried King will just feel like a waste of time.

>>14847092
I haven't read the Red and Black but Genji is great. Some parts are boring but it's overall worth it and I recommend the Tyler translation.

>>14846953
How can you tell on goodreads ?

>>14846889
I read all of LOTR together in my teens, literally all I remember not from the movie was the perspicuous descriptions of nature

>>14846971
It depends if you count Genji as one book tho, at least in my country it was published in three volumes

>>14847229
I do, I have it all in one large book. 1184 pages overall.

>>14847241
damn, must be nice, I personally worry when I read books that long, because I fear I will crack the spine

>It's evident that Hugo wanted, in Les Misérables, to create some living abstractions and some ideal figures, both of which were raised to the heights of the Epic. It is a novel constructed like a poem, and where each character is only an exception by the hyperbolic manner in which he represents a generality. With Corinthian metal and rich elements that are usually dedicated to special works (in the lyrical, epic, philosophical sense), Hugo has conceived and built this work, which once again confirms the genius of his youth when he transformed the ancient ode and tragedy to the poems and dramas of our days.
excerpt from Baudelaire's essay on Les Misérables.

>>14846889
Harry potter

>>14846889
Recently? Man Without Qualities.

>>14846889
Don Quixote. It's redemptive quality is that its one long shitpost on chivalry and the romance genre.

>>14847137
The page counts are listed on Goodreads. My ebooks don't have page numbers but have some weird number instead. Comparing to the page counts on goodreads, my ebook numbers are usually twice the amount of pages, and my ebook of Outlaws of the Marsh had "3000" which probably means it was about 1500 pages long.

>>14846889
>and i'm not even in the "slowest" part of the book, the sewer part, which takes 200 pages.
Mister retard, please, the sewers part is comfy and interesting af.
The religious cult parts were the worst, followed closely by the war part. Who the fucks wants to read about battles with 0 map.

My copy of Les Misérables was 1928 so that is my longest read.

>>14846971
>What's the best >translation for Les Miserables?
just read any...

>>14847324
Fyi, it had mixed reviews. Flaubert publicly praised it (he liked Hugo and his style), but secretly loathed it. He thought the "misérables" weren't that misérables. The prostitute is hardly told of, and so on. Not much misery.

In Search of Lost Time

I recently stumbled upon a different translation of Swann's Way for a dollar, which is making a reread mighty tempting. It was a long read but it completely removed any hesitation towards even War & Peace sized books, which is great. There is nothing quite like spending a month reading a tome

>>14848512
>Who the fucks wants to read about battles with 0 map.

I checked a book about Waterloo out of the library just because this annoyed me as soon as that chapter began. It made the experience much more enjoyable.

>>14846889
I really don't understand why the sewer part has gained such notoriety, it's one of the most interesting tangents Hugo goes on. Is it really 200 pages long? Didn't feel like it.
>The only problem i that the descriptions of places, houses, streets, etc, are not of my interest and i can't read them as they have local french names
I agree, Hugo's passion for Paris is sweet but it gets old after a while. Amazing book overall though. I hope I'm not spoiling anything for you but the final chapter of Javert is absolutely heartbreaking. Had me in tears.

>>14846889
off the top of my head Brothers K and Life and Fate, I've read War and Peace only in chunks so I don't count that

For books I think The Idiot is slightly longer than C&P.

If you count VNs, Umineko and Higurashi are each longer than Les Miserables.

>>14846889
Probably the Bible, no clue about the amount of pages but the bitch looked huge. Also obviously Voyna y Mir.

Read Les Mis on my phone, so it never felt large. And specially the memes about sewers confuse me, the part felt perfectly fine. The waterloo shit was bad though. The first 100 pages were with Muriel or? Found that part one of the best too. Though my favourite character is Eponine by far.

>>14848745
>spoiling anything for you
Imagine being that cunt who spoils almost 300 year old books.

Though what was hearth-breaking about it? They guy was an annoying idiot who did more harm than good despite his role, who then finally saw himself. He's basically Don Quijote but without the romance.
Although in the BBC series, the scene was done really well, but mostly due the great acting.

Fantasy is the realm of long books.

>>14848926
The fact that he devoted his entire life to following the law as religiously as he did, all along thinking it was not only the right thing to do but also the only way for him to be even remotely accepted by society, only to find out it was all wrong, was extremely sad to me. His final crisis seems to mirror Valjean's, but whereas Valjean overcame it and found love and happiness, Javerts kills himself with no one to even give a shit.
I guess it just bums me out that he tried his best and fucked up royally anyway.

The Idiot or The Brothers Karamazov, whichever was longer.