Monday, 11 June 2012

Musing Mondays #3

Musing Mondays is a meme hosted by Should be Reading.

What is the longest book you have ever read? How long did it take you to read it?

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows which was 831 pages long. It was the mass market paperback adult edition. It took me about 8 days to read because I usually read 100 pages a day. It would be have been "It" by Stephen King which is something like 1300 pages but I stopped reading at around page 700 because it was so tiring! That took me around a week to read that much. I'm hoping to pick it back up soon.
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  1. Unknown11 June 2012 at 13:34

    I have yet to finish the Harry Potter series ~ I can't really say what's kept me from reading the rest except 'so many books, so little time..'

    Mine was a Stephen King novel ~ My Musing :)

    Happy Reading :) *New Follower*

    ~Keely~

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    1. Lauren11 June 2012 at 14:26

      Thanks for the follow! I hope you get to finish the Harry Potter series soon, the last two books are the best IMO.

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  2. caite11 June 2012 at 13:50

    I have not read King...or Harry...and actually have an objection to these Giant Books. Is 800 pages really necessary?

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    1. Lauren11 June 2012 at 14:24

      For certain books, yes, it is. You can't tell a long story in a 200-300 pages. If it needs to be 800 pages then it's necessary. Although some books do drag and could be a lot shorter but Harry didn't drag on.

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  3. Kwizgiver11 June 2012 at 16:07

    I'm another King fan, I really love his writing style. The more answers I visit, the more books I'm remembering reading.

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  4. Laurel-Rain Snow11 June 2012 at 17:35

    Most of my long books are from "back in the day," but my recent King book was 849 pages. I don't like to hold the heavy books these days...lol

    Here's MY MUSING MONDAYS POST

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  5. Unknown11 June 2012 at 17:52

    I still haven't read IT, but I just love all of King's works :)

    http://carabosseslibrary.blogspot.com/2012/06/musing-mondays_11.html

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  6. Rachael-Madison ^__^11 June 2012 at 18:14

    Mine was also a HP novel :D I haven't read any of Stephen King's works though...

    Thanks for commenting. Here's my Musing Monday if anyone wants to check it out c:

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  7. Lauren @ Northern Plunder12 June 2012 at 13:01

    I remember reading this book, I read it in a day simply because I was up by torch light wanting to know what happened. Needless to say I was caught when the next day I was a zombie and super tired, it was a school night too :P

    Here is my Musing Mondays post.
    Lauren from Northern Plunder

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  8. WutheringWillow @ A Paperback Life14 June 2012 at 04:08

    Hi! Thanks for the visit to my blog! Sorry it took me so long to reply as I was knee deep in grading papers all week.

    I loved Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows! I gobbled it up in just two days. For me, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix felt the longest among the Harry Potter books. I don't know the actual page count but it took me quite some time to finish it.

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    1. Lauren15 June 2012 at 10:26

      Order of the Phoenix was the longest but I read it in the first edition so it's shorter than Deathly Hallows adult edition. I can't remember how long it took me to read Deathly Hallows the first time in the first edition, probably a couple of days also. But it took me 8 days to read the adult edition because I had read it previously and was in no rush to finish/to find out what happened.

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