My scripture. Might as well.
At least someone will read it.
My first thought was to pick the longest book I know of, which is Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality by Eliezer Yudkowsky. I think the PDF version is 2000 pages. Not really sure I want to reread it, though. So maybe the book I’ve reread the most times, which would be 11/22/63 by Stephen King. What a fantastic book.
That’s the longest one you know?
If I had to pick just one book, it’d be “The Haunting of Hill House” by Shirley Jackson. It’s perfect for soft horror fans and really pulls you into its eerie atmosphere every time. Always a great read!
“The Winds of Winter” because that’d mean he fucking finished it.
Don’t you put that curse on me. I still have books in my to-read pile from five years ago.
That copy of One Piece that contains all the manga in one piece
https://www.jbe-books.com/products/onepiece-by-ilan-manouach?variant=40286439997463
Infinite Jest because I started it months ago and I’m not even close to a quarter of the way through.
damn footnotes
Kitchen Confidential. A great look into restaurants.
Letters From a Stoic, by Seneca
Complete Works of Shakespeare
Three Easy pieces
Maybe The Shadow Rising or A Memory of Light, but I’d prefer if I could have the whole Wheel of Time series.
Forgot to add the why. Because they are incredible fantasy novels with rich characters, fascinating world building, and a well-defined magic with a system of deference that I really like.
Also, The Expanse is a competitor in my mind. Different stories by miles but similarly worth reading on a loop.
Probably The Lord of the Rings. I read the entire thing almost ten years ago, and only remember bits and pieces. It’s so long that I could definitely read it multiple times and still learn new information every time I read it.
Agreed, but that is three books. If one book was a strict requirement, I would go for silmarillion.
Nonsense, LOTR has been sold as a single volume for a long time now. I have the 50th anniversary edition, which is a single physical book.
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy; the five-part trilogy if that can count, but even if I was just stuck with the first one it’d be worth it.
I have the “Triology” as an old omnibus that I bought second hand. It’s huge and very unpractical to read, but it does have all 5 parts in one book.
I’d take that or Steven Kings The Dark Tower series which I actually have as one long epub file that contains the complete series. That counts as one book too, right?
I just need as much as possible to read.
Isn’t there a 6th finished by his son?
Entire Wikipedia digital file
Entire Archive.org digital file.
That’s what I installed on my old iPod classic, just in case the system collapses.
