The Size Of Thoughts, Essays and other lumber -
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Just how long are long books?
- WarAndPeace: 564,268 -- a word count of the ascii text of the gutenberg project version, in english, gave 67040 lines, 564,268 words or 3269999 characters (quoting AstroNomer from the wikipedia helpdesk)
- Ulysses?: about 267,000 words
- DuCoteDeChezSwann?: about 167,000 words
- InfiniteJest has (Abacus paperback edition) 978 pages, ex. the notes, of 43 lines of around 13 words = something like almost 550,000 words
- The WheelOfTime: over 3 million words
See also ReallyBigBook, which is about long series of novels.
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BookOnTheBookshelf. So far it's a
McGuffin, but there's stuff to be said on the book itself
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