Results: The Long And Winding Novel
Published on 04/11/2016
Attention spans definitely are not what they used to be in this world of instant messaging and Twitter feeds. However, if you still love settling down with a long novel, then this list is just for you.
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These novels all have one thing in common. They are long. Plain and simple. However, for some of us, longer is definitely better. How many of these lengthy novels have you read?
Artamène/Cyrus the Great -- by Georges de Scudéry/Madeleine de Scudéry : 2,100,000 words/13,095 pages -- essentially a romantic novel with endless twists and turns
3%
47 votes
A la recherche du temps perdu/In Search of Lost Time-- by Marcel Proust : 1,267,069 words/3,031 pages/9,609,000 characters -- follows the narrator's life from childhood to adulthood
4%
74 votes
Mission Earth -- by L Ron Hubbard: 1,200,000 words/3,992 pages--the father of Church of Scientology 's satirical science fiction adventure
3%
57 votes
Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften/The Man Without Qualities--by Robert Musil: 1774 pages--written in 3 books, this novel was actually never completed
2%
31 votes
Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady--by Samuel Richardson: 984,870 words-- an epistolary novel (one written as a series of documents such as letters or diary entries)
2%
37 votes
Voyna i mir (War and Peace)--by Leo Tolstoy: 560,000 words --pales in comparison to some on this list, but most likely the most well known long novel
5%
85 votes
Les Misérables --by Victor Hugo: 510,000 words -- another famous book on the list most are familiar with
9%
158 votes
À la recherche du temps perdu /Remembrance of Things Past--by Marcel Proust: 1,500,000 words--hard to believe he has two on this list
1%
21 votes
Atlas Shrugged--by Ayn Rand: 645,000 words -- main theme is the role of man's mind in exiistance
6%
101 votes
Have read all of these
4%
62 votes
Haven't read any
73%
1232 votes
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Some authors pen novels that are average size, but turn out so any novels, that they certainly deserve special mention for being prolific, if not long-winded. If a long novel is not your thing, or even if it is, how many of these hard-working writers are you familiar with?
Charles Hamilton--had written over 100 million words in his lifetime, under 20 different pen names, including Cecil Herbert, T Harcourt Lewelyn, E.S. Turner and Frank Richards
5%
92 votes
Barbara Cartland--specializing in romantic historical novels, she had written over 720 novels
15%
256 votes
Isaac Asimov--specializing in science fiction, he had written over 500 published works
22%
378 votes
R. L. Stine- best known for his Goosebumps series, he has been going strong since the early '90's even writing at one point one book every two weeks
27%
466 votes
None of them
49%
826 votes
All of them
5%
89 votes
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Do you like to read long books? Yes
32%
537 votes
No
38%
652 votes
Undecided
18%
302 votes
Not Applicable
12%
208 votes
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