Hey, here she actually is...being interviewed by the Master himself:
("Now ma'am, I understand you're a philosopher or something and you've written a ton of books, so I want you to just go ahead while everyone at home is listening and say something profound right now!...")
John Barrow, Frank Tipler, and John Wheeler, The Anthropic Cosmological Principle.
Skimmed most of the math. As wild-eyed as any Isaac Asimov book.
Leon Trotsky, History of the Russian Revolution, Vols 1-3; came in its own case.
Books and case made a great door stop, afterwards.
So did Trotsky.
Leon Trotsky, History of the Russian Revolution, Vols 1-3.
Oh, man! I waded through much of that myself. Well, a translation anyway.
Leon got "the point," while on holiday in Mexico.
Many of use would like to see @MonsterNoName vacation there too.
I checked to be sure. Book 6 of wheel of time "Lord of Chaos" is the longest of that series at 1006 pages but I have read 1 book larger than that. "The Rise of American Democracy Jefferson to Lincoln" by Sean Wilentz. 1042 pages.
I read the Eye of the world in paperback when I was a teenager* and was instantly smitten with the WOT world.
When Lord of Chaos came out '94/95 I rushed out and bought the Hardback copy. I took it almost everywhere I went and most of my travel was on public transport.
it was the thickest and heavyist book Ive read cover to cover (The covers had pretty maps in colour on them) .
* My Mum bought the 1st in the series for me She saw the paperback version of 1st edition (which had a picture of Lan and Moraine riding away from Emmonds field with our heros) and bought it for me because she thought it looked like something that I might like :)
I checked to be sure. Book 6 of wheel of time "Lord of Chaos" is the longest of that series at 1006 pages but I have read 1 book larger than that. "The Rise of American Democracy Jefferson to Lincoln" by Sean Wilentz. 1042 pages.
I read the Eye of the world in paperback when I was a teenager* and was instantly smitten with the WOT world.
When Lord of Chaos came out '94/95 I rushed out and bought the Hardback copy. I took it almost everywhere I went and most of my travel was on public transport.
it was the thickest and heavyist book Ive read cover to cover (The covers had pretty maps in colour on them) .
* My Mum bought the 1st in the series for me She saw the paperback version of 1st edition (which had a picture of Lan and Moraine riding away from Emmonds field with our heros) and bought it for me because she thought it looked like something that I might like :)
So I imagine you are waiting anxiously for Jan 8 when we finally get to read the end of the story. I surely hope A Memory of Light is the thickest book I'll have read. About 3000 pages would be good.
The Bible
I've read that cover to cover half a dozen times. It lacks the length and complexity of The Brothers K, which is thinner than the simplistic The Stand. None of these are as thick as several history texts that I've labored through.
Crime And Punishment
Basic Chess Endings (Pal Benko revised version)
I recently finished "the rise and fall of the third reich" by William Shirer. Good book.
Interesting thread. I'll keep it going.
War and Peace, Don Quixote, 3 vols. of Lord of the Rings, Bible, Brothers Karamazov, David Copperfield, Ulysses, Anna Karenina. Currently reading Les Miserables--has got to be in the top 10 for massiveness.
So nobody spoil the ending please.