Longest it took you to finish a book?

[shayna]

What is the longest it has taken you to finish a book?

It took me 3 months to finish Inkspell when I was in fifth grade because I thought it was really boring and had a hard time finding an opportunity to sit down and finish it.

[gali]

It took me a week or two.

[shayna]

It took me a week or two.

That's normally the longest it takes me as well. I stumbled across Inkspell and was just remembering how much little 11 year old me struggled to finish a book I so desperately wanted nothing to do with.

[Etario]

I can't recall the title of the book it was but it took me around a week to finish. The book was anywhere from 1500 - 2000 pages.

[kio]

4 months. It wasn't a very long book, it was called You Cannoli Die Once, but for some reason other books kept sounding better

[readitandwept]

It took me about a year to finish the first Game of Thrones book.

[jfinuy]

When living in NYC some 13 years ago, I spent a lovely two months of weekends cozy in bed with War and Peace. The only time I left the apartment those days was for a ritual bacon, egg, and cheese sandwich. With coffee, of course. It was lovely just saturating my time with that lovely slow and steady read.

[Fran]

Oh without a shadow of doubt that record is held by Catch 22 - it took me close on 22 years to read it

[Roriann-book-worm]

The longest is two months, I was reading New Moon from the twilight series and it didn't really catch my attention.

[Victoria Jayne]

I don't remember the name of the book. And it was pretty short maybe 300 pages and it took me about a month to read. It was a really terrible book. About half way through I decided it wasn't worth reading and could barely read a chapter at a time afterwards. But I don't like to stop reading halfway through. It's like stopping in the middle of a conversation, you atleast have to know how it ends. Even if you're really bored.

[moderntimes]

Easily, the longest for any book was "Ulysses" by James Joyce. I started the book about the time I graduated high school, had many false starts. Then in college I began to be more and more fascinated by Joyce, read "Portrait" and "Dubliners" and loved both, took a stronger effort at Ulysses and as it turned out, wrote my senior thesis on changes from "Ulysses" to the Odyssey and why.

Since then, I've read Ulysses maybe 20 times and still read it on the side, all the time.

And I did also get through Finnegans Wake twice, just to be certain that it was awful. (ha ha)

[readerromance2003]

The longest time it took me to finish a book was 2 days and it was Gone with the Wind. The second longest book was one of the Harry Potter books and it took me a day at the time to read it.

[Book-obsessed]

Two years, because I started it at the end of second grade when I still wasn't into the whole reading scene and it had a really confusing prolog and I thought the whole book would be like that so I keep putting it down.

[Sweetness2645]

The longest it has taken me to read a book was a week. That is because it was Inheritance by Christopher Paolini and it was almost 900 pages.

[hasreadit]

American Gods because I was really ill when I read it and didn't understand all the parts of it