Guinness Book Of records says Marcel Proust with his 13 Volumes of "Remembrance of Things Past" is the longest. However this does not even crack 10 million characters. The approximate total for Wheel of Time is 20 million characters or 4,056,130 words. For comparison Harry Potter comes to 1,081,170 words for 7 volumes. Well at least there are other books I can read.
Thursday, 6 November 2014
A Reading Milestone
About 8 months back I mentioned the Wheel of Time fantasy series by Robert Jordan. I was about half way through at that stage but today I finished the final book, Vol 14 A Memory of Light. Perhaps it would have been better titled a Memory of Start because I cannot remember exactly when I started reading this yarn. It is certainly the longest tale I have read and took me at least a year to get through it. This may be the longest ever written at over 10,000 pages. What is the longest story ever written?
Guinness Book Of records says Marcel Proust with his 13 Volumes of "Remembrance of Things Past" is the longest. However this does not even crack 10 million characters. The approximate total for Wheel of Time is 20 million characters or 4,056,130 words. For comparison Harry Potter comes to 1,081,170 words for 7 volumes. Well at least there are other books I can read.
Guinness Book Of records says Marcel Proust with his 13 Volumes of "Remembrance of Things Past" is the longest. However this does not even crack 10 million characters. The approximate total for Wheel of Time is 20 million characters or 4,056,130 words. For comparison Harry Potter comes to 1,081,170 words for 7 volumes. Well at least there are other books I can read.
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