What is the thickest book you own?

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Towers of Midnight from the Wheel of Time. It's the last book I bought before getting a kindle and the reason for getting a kindle. That book in hardback was physically painful to read!
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The thickest book i own would be my English dictionary followed by Shogun by James Clavell
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Hmm...probably Lord of the Rings, Les Meserables, or any of my anthologies.
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bookwrm22 wrote:Probably Sherlock Holmes or the Lord of the Rings

-- 13 Oct 2014, 14:53 --

Probably Sherlock Holmes or the Lord of the Rings

Ditto for me (unless you count one of my 1901 Encyclopedia Books)
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Does the dictionary count? If not then Sherlock Holmes. I didn't really like it because it was too complicated.
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scarletwriting wrote:Does the dictionary count? If not then Sherlock Holmes. I didn't really like it because it was too complicated.
If the dictionary counts, then I'm counting an old SAT study book. That thing is obnoxious.
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Off the top of my head without going through all of them to make sure... it has to be my all-in-one of Jane Austen's works. Or maybe this one textbook I have on Shakespeare. Well, actually one of my study Bible's or maybe my Greek and Hebrew Interlinear... Man... I hope I never have to move. Ha!
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My annotated Milton: xxii/1181 pages. However, my New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary has more pages by far: it's in two volumes, the first of which has 1,876 pages, and the second, 1,925. The paper is thin, though, which is why they're not quite as thick as the Milton individually, though of course the two volumes together are much thicker.
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It would probably have to be any of my books from the Eragon series. It's a little daunting how large each one is.
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Ken Follett - Fall of Giants !!
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The Bible and close second would be Under the Dome and then probably Harry Potter.
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Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace (1079 pages).

Edit: James Clavell's The Asian Saga (Shogun etc. are in the 1,000-1,400 range)
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Ken Follet!!! I'm watching pillars of the earth now for the second time. Going to ask for the book this christmas :D
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The thickest book I own is Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
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Eye of the World by Robert Jordan
OR (because I'm not sure right now)
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
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