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Position:Home>Books & Authors> Some really thick books?Question: Some really thick books!? I for some reason enjoy sitting for hours with a extremely THICK book!. Like harry potter for instance, I read the 7th book under 24 hours (: could you reccomended me a book somewhat like harry potter, or something about fantasy!?
Books I've read: Harry Potter series Eragon Eldest The Series of Unfortunate Event NarniaWww@QuestionHome@Com Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Hi! The House on the Borderland , The Ghost Pirates or The Night Land written by William Hope Hodgson !. :0) http://en!.wikipedia!.org/wiki/William_Hop!.!.!. http://en!.wikipedia!.org/wiki/The_House_o!.!.!. http://www!.gutenberg!.org/etext/10002 "In 1877, two gentlemen, Messrs Tonnison and Berreggnog, head into Ireland to spend a week fishing in the village of Kraighten!. While there, they discover in the ruins of a very curious house a diary of the man who had once owned it!. Its torn pages seem to hint at an evil beyond anything that existed on this side of the curtains of impossibility!. This is a classic novel that worked to slowly bridge the gap between the British fantastic and supernatural authors of the later 19th century and modern horror fiction!. Classic American horror writer H!. P!. Lovecraft lists this and other works by Hodgson among his greatest influences!." http://en!.wikipedia!.org/wiki/The_Ghost_P!.!.!. http://www!.gutenberg!.org/etext/10966 "The Ghost Pirates !. !. !. is a powerful account of a doomed and haunted ship on its last voyage, and of the terrible sea-devils (of quasi-human aspect, and perhaps the spirits of bygone buccaneers) that besiege it and finally drag it down to an unknown fate!. With its command of maritime knowledge, and its clever selection of hints and incidents suggestive of latent horrors in nature, this book at times reaches enviable peaks of power!." — H!.P!. Lovecraft http://en!.wikipedia!.org/wiki/The_Night_L!.!.!. http://www!.gutenberg!.org/etext/10662 The Night Land by William Hope Hodgson [O]ne of the strangest visions ever published in science fiction or fantasy is presented!. The Sun has gone out: the Earth is lit only by the glow of residual vulcanism!. The last few millions of the human race are gathered together in a gigantic metal pyramid, the Last Redoubt, probably the first arcology in literature, under siege from unknown forces and Powers outside in the dark!. These are held back by a Circle of energy, known as the "air clog," powered from the Earth's internal energy!. For millennia, vast living shapes - the Watchers - have waited in the darkness near the pyramid: it is thought they are waiting for the inevitable time when the Circle's power finally weakens and dies!. Other living things have been seen in the darkness beyond, some of unknown origins, and others that may once have been human!.?a Excerpted from The Night Land on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia!. =^,,^= Www@QuestionHome@Com the talsman Stephen King's Dark Tower series The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings It (Stephen King) The Stand Roger Zelany's Amber Series The Golden Compass The Black Caldron The Complete Grimms Fairy Tales the Complete Death and rebirth of Superman (Graphic Novel )52 (all 4 volumes) (Graphic novels)Www@QuestionHome@Com If you're going to follow their advice and read Twilight (because I know that just about every person is going to tell you to), than only read the first three!. The last one was awful!. Trust me - you'll thank me later!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Les Miserables by Victor Hugo 1463 pages!. ?M?Www@QuestionHome@Com Read "The Stand" by Stephen King!. Read the complete, uncut, and illustrated edition because it's over 1100 pages!.!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Read twilight!. You will love it!. i also love the HP series, trust me, you will like twilight better!Www@QuestionHome@Com The Twilight Series!. ?Www@QuestionHome@Com Don't know much about fantasy but stephen king has some large books with 800 to 1000 pages longWww@QuestionHome@Com |