Comments on: Top 10 Longest Novels in the English Language

By: i hurled

i hurled — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:42:03 +0000

I have a gun.

By: j.morton

j.morton — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 18:33:25 +0000

TBNOKAS, The Blog Novel Once Known As Skunkville (TBNOKAS is an ancient Weenipoo Indian term, roughly translated as To Be Not Owl Kissing Angry Stag), currently has over 600 bizarre, engaging, psychotically humorous chapters, close to 2,450 full-size pages, thousands and thousands of pictures from Web picture sharing sites, and is about to cross over the lofty 750,000 word divide as of January 21, 2012. TBNOKAS is far greater in length than the longest widely read novel (Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace: 560,000 words), and now longer as well than Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged (645.000 words)…And now the mighty, unstoppable junker-for-naught,TBOKAS has in its sights as its next target Xavier Herbert’s Poor Fellow My Country (850,000 words). See why 100,000 visits (currently 23,000+ here) have been made at this site and other Internet locations (e,g,, CNN/SI=40,000 views) where this manuscript has been strategically placed. And just to show that it is our motto that we don’t let quality get in the way of quantity, the entire ducment has all been written since the Fall of 2010…We recommend that readers begin any Archival reading no earlier than the beginning of 2011, as the 2010 posts need a lot of editing and improvement. http://blogs.delphiforums.com/skunkville

By: laureniscute329

laureniscute329 — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 20:35:42 +0000

argh!!! what is the name of the novel w the longest sentence??? plzz help!!!

By: segues

segues — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 03:53:32 +0000

**yawn**

I’m sorry, did you say something?

By: Walt Brown

Walt Brown — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 01:56:36 +0000

Now, with 564 chapters, more than 2,200 pages, thousands of illustrations, and nearly 685,000 words as of early December, 2011, far greater in length than the longest widely read novel (Leo Tolstoy’s great War and Peace: 560,000 words in English, 460,000 in the original languages), and now longer as well than Ayn Rand’s controversial, ideological masterpiece, Atlas Shrugged (645.000 words)! More recently exceeded in length (we make no strong claims about quality, but of course we think TBOKAS is wonderful…sometimes) include novels such as never-completed, but fascinating Der Mann ohne Eignschaften (‘The Man without Qualities’: 657,000 words) by Austrian novelist Robert ‘Derr Mann’ Musil, which took 21 years to partially write, leaving his family in dire economic straits due to the novel’s lack of financial payoff . And, right after passing Musil, we blew by James Malcolm Ryder (or, is that Thomas Preskett Prest behind the wheel??… even the experts aren’t sure about this one!) in his (their?) ground-breaking Victorian vampire saga, 667,000 word Varney the Vampire… Up ahead of we are beginning to see the taillights of Marguerite Young, in her Miss McIntosh, My Darling (700,000 words) entry, which I just purchased to see if I can learn a few more novelistic tricks from Margie.
http://forums.delphiforums.com/skunkville

By: John M

John M — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 03:27:48 +0000

And then there is my novel, Skunkville, which has 500+ chapters and well over 600,000 words and was begun less than a year ago. It is published daily on the Web as a blog on Delphi Forums, just google ‘Skunkville Ohio’!!

By: Dude

Dude — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 20:28:10 +0000

Doesn’t The Lord of The Rings have about 600 000 words?

By: YouRang?

YouRang? — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 00:39:28 +0000

It must at times have been a difficult task to decide what’s a novel and what’s a series of novels. I noticed some have mentioned Jordan’s Wheel of Time series. I’m pretty sure each “installment” is considered a seperate novel. Sorry, guys.

Marienbad, My Love. Would that be considered published as it’s only appeared on the net?

Stephen King’s Dark Tower series. Seperate novels? I think so.

But now we come to two works which were published in individual volumes but were clearly trilogies and might be considered parts of a single novel. And neither has been mentioned yet. First is Asimov’s Foundation Trilogy. The second is Mervyn Peake’s story of Titus Groan. These are cases where the overall impact of the work is that of a single novel. And they are among some of the most revered pieces ever in their respective fields. I certainly feel they should be given some consideration.

By: Ryon

Ryon — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 12:23:51 +0000

The Stand by Stephen King is 1,152 pages.

By: TheCritic

TheCritic — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 22:31:26 +0000

I can be wrong but I’m sure Les Miserables deserves a spot here.