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Doorstopper
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A common literary term that refers to a book being so thick and heavy that it can be used as a doorstopper. Or a weapon. Or a substitute for barbells. Or a method with which to give an orthopedist a job. While it is likely to be used in a spirit of derision, as it evokes the idea of Padding in spades, there are also many fine books that could technically stop a door or kill a man in a pinch. Proper Doorstoppers (also known as Tree Killers) should be over 500 pages. If one book is over 1,000 pages, it is probably a Doorstopper. This goes double if the typeface is smaller than 10 points. When talking about a "doorstopper series", the series in question is likely to involve great battles between good and evil, a Chosen One and mysterious jewelry. It is a doorstopper series if, and only if, every actual book in the series is a Doorstopper. Oftentimes, publishers will turn an ordinary trilogy, tetralogy, or series into one huge book. The result is not always a Doorstopper but it is an "Omnibus", and the biggest ones can still be used to stop doors, press flowers, act as fake gold in a bank robbery, or crush small children. These are sometimes for the convenience of fans of the series. Other times, with very long series or ones where the order almost doesn't matter, it's to sell volumes that don't sell anywhere near as well as the most popular books in the series. Conversely, a publisher might avoid releasing an intimidating doorstopper by having the book Divided for Publication. If there's any chance that a doorstopper can be adapted into film, they could either be condensed or split if the content could not be fitted into two or three hours. Can and will cause massive muscle fatigue when reading while holding the book in your hands. Can also cause the written text to disappear into the centerfold — or the book itself to rip apart halfway through reading! Technology Marches On, and these days, a doorstopper can still be really, really long, but all fits neatly on your comparatively light and small smartphone or favorite e-reader. Keep in mind how lucky we are today compared to the 20th century and before, when bookworms had to decide if they really wanted to lug the doorstopper of a book they were really enjoying with them on the bus to work. The Visual Novel genre of Video Games and any video games that use this trope has taken this to an art form. These games can have upwards of 70+ straight hours of reading (around double the length of an average game, which is 25–40 hours) being unusually common for the high-profile games. When a character takes this trope a little too literally, see Useful Book. Extremely useful if one wishes to Throw the Book at Them. A Great Big Book of Everything, as the name implies, is very likely to be a Doorstopper, but that trope requires that it writes about a very wide range of topics. And what's a doorstopper without lots of characters? Of both types. A doorstopper can incite a case of Archive Panic with one single volume. Not to be confused with Door Jam (or a Doorstop Baby). |
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Ward, Worm's sequel, has a whopping 1.94 million words. | |
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Worm comes in at 1.65 million words. For comparison to other series, that's longer than the entire Harry Potter series' 1.08 million words and only a bit shy of books 1-5 of A Song of Ice and Fire's 1.77 million words. More impressive than just the length of the series alone, the entire thing was published over the course of just over 2 years at the rate of at least two chapters a week for its duration (compared to about 10 years in the case of Harry Potter and 15 for ASOIAF). Ward, Worm's sequel, has a whopping 1.94 million words. |
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The Far Side one is in two volumes, each being about as big as a double-size cereal box and the preface even calls it an "18-pound hernia giver". | |
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In Dragon Quest VIII, there exists a book that, if Hero should pick it up, rather than giving an excerpt of its content reads "This book is so weighty Hero's arms begin to tire from holding it." | |
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The "Very Holy Book" in Munchkin comes with a cart to move it around in, and is almost as tall as the priest carting it around. Given the nature of the game, it is probably used to whack monsters over the head with. | |
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Jeff Smith's Bone. Other comic books can — and have — run longer, but few of them are published as a single-volume, 1,300-page tome. | |
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Saga Compendium One, the entire first half of the comic collected in a 1,328-page hardcover. Take care to avoid back strain when lifting. | |
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And then there's The Walking Dead compendium, which is 48 issues, collected in one volume. | |
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Mentioned in A Game of Roleplay where it is remarked that the backstory for A Song of Ice and Fire is larger than a cat. Which makes sense considering the books combined length. |
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The Eagle Tree: In "Holy Trinity," March's uncle buys him the real-life reference guide Lichens of North America, which is thicker than March's arm. | |
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Umineko: When They Cry clocks at around a 6 MB text file for all Episodes — compare War and Peace which is around 3.2 MB worth of text. On the upside, the novel is pretty linear until the eighth Episode. Lampshaded in Episode 5 (out of 8): | |
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The Simpsons: In "Itchy and Scratchy the Movie", Bart throws "Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie: The Book" in a full trash can. The book promptly crushes all the trash beneath it until it's lying almost at the bottom. Parodied in "Smoke on the Daughter" in which an "Angelica Button" book leaves an indent in asphalt when thrown out a car window. |
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While Playboy usually goes over a 100 pages, sometimes it reaches the 250-300 mark (most are advertising to maintain such a number of articles/pictorials, but still!). | |
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On the Castle episode, "The Fifth Bullet," it's noted that a character was saved from a bullet because he was holding a copy of Crime and Punishment. | |
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In Walt Disney Presents "Inside Outer Space", Ludwig von Drake presents his really large book about space with the same name. | |
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Carmilla the Series: The student handbook at Silas University is 700 pages long. Which Laura did not read. She used it as a doorstop. | |
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In Borderlands 2 Sir Hammerlock can be heard advertising his Almanac, which will either teach you how to stop a Stalker (by informing you of their vulnerable mouths) or let you stop a Stalker by throwing the literal book at it. Apparently, Hammerlock ensured that there are enough pages to knock one out stone cold on contact! | |
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For the 20th anniversary of 8-Bit Theater, a crowdfunded book compiling the whole thing was announced. Considering reprinting a Sprite Comic is a legal nightmare, it is just the scripts, albeit with added commentary by the author. And considering the comic lasted 1,225 issues, the very limited physical edition is downright described as a "several pound bludgeoning weaponing of a book", over 300 pages - one update noted how much work involves not making it too long - and very large dimensions (8.5" wide x 13" tall, with a weight of over 3lbs \ 1.5kg!). Impressively, the majority of backers are ones who shelled out the $64+ to get the printed version. | |
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Grady Tripp's long-delayed novel (3000+ pages and nowhere near finished) in Wonder Boys. | |
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Harry Potter: Harry and Ron are shocked that Hermione refers to A History of Magic as "light reading". Rita Skeeter's "The Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore" is 900 pages long. |
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In Time Squad, the Chinese philosopher Confucius was writing long-winded books that were so huge and heavy that you could break the ground with them. | |
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Assassination Classroom: Koro-sensei hands each student a gigantic, super-detailed travel guide of Kyoto. It includes miscellaneous information such as maps, popular sightseeing sights, Kyoto's Top 100 souvenirs, what to do if a five-story pagoda collapses, coping with food that accidentally gets stuck in your throat, and "How to comfort yourself when seeing couples flirting by the Kamo river makes you feel lonely". The guide's contents eventually help the students track down and knock out the delinquents who kidnapped their friends. He later gives 3-E another guidebook for the ideal way to spend their summer break, which actually ends up longer than the Kyoto travel guide. |
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Return of Superman contains all 21 issues of the arc. Paired with The Death of Superman and World Without a Superman, another 7 and 9 issues respectively, it is thicker than a phone book. | |
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Future Histoire of Hyperdimension Neptunia Victory mentions that a plot-relevant function is located on page 141,006 of her user's manual. It's assumed that there are many, many more pages, considering it took her three days using her index to find the information in the first place. | |
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The complete Calvin and Hobbes weighs over five pounds. | |
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The SCP Foundation administration once required new members to read all the SCP and Tale pages (each getting to typical short story length at the longest) aside from the site etiquette and how-to essays. After the number of SCP and Tale pages started reaching into the thousands, however, this policy changed to having members read enough pages (preferably including the highest rated SCPs) to get a good feel for the wiki. Statistics from October 2015 show that the total word count of all the SCP articles and Tales is nearly five million (and that's not counting over half a million words on other pages.) | |
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Garfield: April 28, 2008: | |
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In the Discworld of A.A. Pessimal, witch Irena Politek is considering how she's lost faith in old certainties about the Inevitable and Inexorable Revolution of the Workers And Peasants, that she only keeps it up so as to piss off her aristocratic best friend, and that all three volumes of Karl Spentzer's That's Capital! might just as well be an 1800-page-thick doorstop. | |
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Taerel Setting: Taerel wiki is over 2 million words in size, if it was pointed out it would be about 4444 pages if printed in 12-point, Arial font. That is a thick-ass book, that would be best carried in a backpack. | |
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Paris in the Twentieth Century has a three-meter-tall ledger used by the accounting department (the rise of the personal computer was not one of the aspects of modern life Jules Verne predicted). | |
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If the entirety of the Darwin's Soldiers RPs were to be printed out, it would take 400 pages to print out the second one and over 900 pages to print the final one. | |
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Homestuck, in addition to making a hefty book by itself, contains several in-universe and in-in-universe examples as well: John's unabridged copy of "Colonel Sassacre's Daunting Text of Magical Frivolty and Practical Japery" is described as being big enough to kill a cat if dropped on it. His Nanna died in an incident involving an unabridged version of said book, a ladder, and a meteor. The book also kills a Shale Imp when it's accidentally dropped at one point. And it does eventually end up falling on and killing Jaspers while he is in the Alpha universe. Another Doorstopper is seen later, this time a guide for the "~ATH" programming language. More doorstoppers appear in a Show Within a Show Within A Show "Complacency of the Learned". "Complacency" itself is a doorstopper series, and a stack of six books is half the height of Roxy's sprite or roughly half a meter. While in those books, Frigglish is cursed to write out his knowledge by Calmasis, which becomes quite incomprehensible, and Calmasis ends up killing Frigglish with his own books. For an added bit of irony, Jaspers, who ended up being killed by Colonel Sassacre's book, was renamed Frigglish by Roxy. |
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In The Fault in Our Stars, An Imperial Affliction is stated to be over six hundred pages long. | |
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The Strangers in Paradise Omnibus edition. 2 volumes in a single slipcase box totaling just under 2400 pages. | |
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In The Peanuts Movie, Charlie Brown wants to pick a good book for his report, and is told that the greatest book ever written is War and Peace. Judging by the book's appearance in the movie, it's also the largest book ever written. | |
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The Order of the Stick has passed 1000 strips long and has clocked in at six printed volumes with webcomic itself going into seventh, with one prequel volume for the heroes and villains each, and a non-canonical, just-for-fun collection of comics. For a current on-sale count of nine with tenth down the road. | |
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In Inspector Gadget (1999), there is the humongous manual to Gadget's new cyborg body. And that's just Volume One... | |
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Mentioned in a Nodwick comic where Artax uses a Robert Jordan novel as a bludgeon. | |
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Crossover Wars: Scale's armor has a rather heavy manual. | |
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In Paper Mario: Color Splash, you can find a really thick book titled "The Internet (Print Edition)" on the shelves at Dark Bloo Inn. | |
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Parodied in a MAD back cover; "The Super Thick Book Of The Month Club", which features books that really serve only one function; to impress people. | |
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Azumanga Daioh doesn't seem very long once you've finished it, but the 4-volumes-in-1 omnibus is a somewhat surprising 686 pages. The lightning-fast presentation, however (think "newspaper comic"), belies the length. While the Chobits omnibuses deserve special mention at 720 pages each, EVERY Clamp omnibus being released by Dark Horse Comics qualifies at more than 500 pages each. |
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The Owl House: The Collector's bedtime story book is an outright tower that stretches all the way around the tiny moon he sleeps on, though this is Played With as the pages appear to be made of stone tablets, so the actual contents of the book are likely to be rather reasonable in length despite the presentation being rather absurd. | |
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An artifact in Dungeons & Dragons, the Codex of the Infinite Planes, a giant book containing detailed knowledge about the other dimensions in the cosmology, the reading of which can drive people mad. It requires the strength of two men to lift. The book is literally infinite in length. (Well, one can only assume that's true. Certainly, anyone who has tried to read it long enough to find the last page has been struck dead, gone mad, or worse by its evil power before succeeding.) | |
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Neopets often has very large books that fit this trope, often with a spine that is comically taller than the cover's height, for example this Big Book of Verb Conjugation. | |
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Similar to the FanFiction.Net example above, Writing.Com hosts many works (fanfiction, interactive, or original stories) that quickly amass 1000 chapters or more. Some have several thousand chapters and are less than 1 year old! | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look presents a commercial for a Numberwang board game, based on the game show of the same name. It includes a 37-volume rulebook for players to use in deciding what is and isn't Numberwang. Each individual volume is as thick as a dictionary. | |
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Parodied in Man to Man with Dean Learner, where horror author Garth Marenghi advertises a compilation novel, 'Garth Marenghi's The Oeuvre'', of all 436 of his books, in a reinforced spine made from genuine cat bone. It looks less like one giant book and more like a tower of books fused together. It's actually so large it comes with poles to hold it while you read, and even comes with brackets to mount it on the wall for storage. | |
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And it is outdone by Dies Irae. All things included, one is looking at almost 75 hours worth of reading with some sources claiming it to be even longer than the King James Bible. | |
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The Cerebus "phone book" collections; all but the thinnest four can indeed stop doors. And they're trade drift paperbacks! | |
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The Invisibles Omnibus: 1536 pages and just under 10 lbs. Not recommended to be read in one sitting. DC Entertainment is not responsible for any hallucinations you may experience if you try. | |
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In "Let X = X," Laurie Anderson has this: | |
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In Adrian Mole, early drafts of his novel Lo! The Flat Hills of my Homeland are over seven hundred pages long. He tries to fax it to the BBC, clogging up their fax machine for eight hours. | |
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Given how long some comics like Blondie (1930) have been running... imagine how big a "Complete Blondie" collection would be. This volume is only three years worth, and it's almost four pounds! | |
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Hound: The omnibus edition counts 504 pages and weighs 3.54 pounds. | |
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Rebuild World: As part of the contract writing process, Alpha says that the instruction manual would take more than 120 years to recite. She uses this as justification to skip over it the way many online programs let you check off instead of reading the painfully dense terms and conditions, leaving Akira in the dark about what exactly he's agreeing to. | |
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Lezard Valeth from Valkyrie Profile refers to the Philosopher's Stone as "a ten billion page codex". That is a pretty massive book. | |
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The Gunnerkrigg Court books aren't that long with less than 300 pages each. But the paper quality is so good that they're freakin' heavy. | |
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MPI's complete-series release of the hit 60s to early 70s ABC daily serial Dark Shadows also counts— it's 131 discs featuring all 1,225 episodes from that hit ABC serial, plus an expansive episode guide covering all episodes, plenty of featurettes, interviews, photo galleries, and much more (it's the only daytime serial to date to have gotten a complete-series DVD release). | |
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Desolate Era, by the same author, has 4.2 million, released over 26 months. | |
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The Horus Heresy introduces us to the Book of Magnus and the Book of Lorgar. While the individual "books" of Magnus's opus are described as HUGE, we're never told how many volumes there are. The Book of Lorgar, on the other hand, is described as being hundreds of volumes long, and he plans on giving copies to each of his traitor brothers. One wonders when they would find the time to read them. | |
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Quinton Reviews's series about the Nick Verse, which are very deep dives about the whole content of certain series. Although the first videos were already longer than feature length, it hit notoriety with an 8-hours long video about Victorious. The series of videos as of his latest video ("The Collapse of Sam & Cat") is over 43 hours of content. | |
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Invincible: The three compendiums containing the entire story each hold over a thousand pages, adding up to over three-thousand. | |
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The Japanese-language single-volume collection of Death Note, which has 2400 pages and weighs ten pounds. | |
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Japanese Shonen Jump volumes are phone-book thick, weighing in at about 500 pages each. And this is a weekly series. Hope you're big into recycling. The monthly American version is no slouch either. A few years ago, it covered 7 series and had about 400 pages per issue. Unfortunately, that's been going down recently, with the most recent issue having 4 series and 250 pages. |
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Digger is by itself over 750 pages long, and the omnibus edition adds many pages of extras making it 800 large and rather thick pages. The author says in one of her notes the irony of having produced this book while disliking Doorstopper fantasy novels. | |
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The Myth-O-Mania series kicks off after Hades receives The Big Fat Book of Greek Myths from The Big Fat Book of the Month Club. As he reads it, he discovers that Zeus rewrote all the stories to glorify himself and his spawn, motivating him to create some novels explaining how the tales really went. | |
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Every single volume of Keiko Tobe's With the Light qualifies. Seriously. | |
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In the game Floor 13, when you assassinate an Albanian troublemaker, his thousand-page book wouldn't be published, saving a few trees and improving the popularity of the Prime Minister. | |
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Parodied in Men at Arms, when the Librarian responds to a dwarf digging into the library by reaching for a 3000-page book called How to Kille Insects (sic). The good news is the dwarf was wearing a helmet. The bad news is, said helmet is now stuck on his head. | |
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Class of 3000: The required extra credit material of Westley's first year history class is a massive book. | |
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The Good Place: Chidi's life's work is a 3600-page book that tries to encompass the entirety of ethics and human morality. For reference, Aristotle's "Nichomachean Ethics", considered one of the definitive works on the subject, doesn't even clear 200, and the only other books of any genres that are longer are all series with multiple volumes. Michael, a near-omniscient supernatural being who can read all of the world's literature in an hour, had given up on reading it part way through because it was incredibly convoluted and makes no forking sense. | |
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Technically, they're magazines, not books, but the One Piece Logs average 30 chapters and 700 pages. There's 16 so far and it's not gonna stop anytime soon. | |
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Close followers are the complete collection of Peter Milligan's and Mike Allred's X-Force/X-Statix and related spin-offs, also at over 1200 pages, the collection of Walt Simonson's complete run (as writer) on The Mighty Thor and related spin-offs (1,136 numbered pages of reprints plus about 50 of supplemental materials) and the Amazing Spider-Man Omnibus (Stan Lee and Steve Ditko's entire 39 issue run plus two annuals: 1,088 pages long, three inches thick and a whopping eight pounds). | |
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The Half-World MSTs were counted to be at ca. 200,000 words only after one year, which meant it was updating faster than Homestuck. However, he has both taken down many of these early MSTs and slowed down production of new ones. | |
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In Wonder Boys, Michael Douglas' character, Grady Tripp has been working on a book for years. Despite setting out to write one 250-300 pages in length, he has been writing on it continuously and the total number of pages ranges in the 2000s. | |
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As of May 12, 2014 We Are All Pokémon Trainers is about 14,892 pages and counting, and text-only versions of single forum pages on the main thread alone can be in the range of 5-8 pages. A conservative estimate of the number of printed pages would be about 105,000 pages and counting. | |
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Parodied in Darths & Droids with the rulebook for grappling being (apparently) so large they actually comment on the size. | |
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The complete collected edition of From Hell. | |
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While the Chobits omnibuses deserve special mention at 720 pages each, EVERY Clamp omnibus being released by Dark Horse Comics qualifies at more than 500 pages each. | |
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Which is in turn outdone by CLANNAD, which can take several hundred hours to complete fully. | |
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Twilight Sparkle's Secret Shipfic Folder is not in and of itself a doorstopper. However, the flavor text references various in-universe works of Twilight, and one of the most commonly referenced is Of Ponies And Peril which has at least 128 chapters and required a flow chart at one point. | |
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In Anathem the punishment device simply known as "The Book", an extremely lengthy... well, book, containing mostly mathematic proofs. Avout who violate the rules can be sentenced to study and memorize several chapters. Its length is not the only horrible thing about it, it's written in a way that the internal logic of the chapters is subtly wrong. The first chapter consists of nursery rhymes that don't quite rhyme. The second chapter is several hundred digits of pi. It only goes downhill from there. | |
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If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device: The Book of Judgement is already ridiculously huge and grows at an even more ridiculous rate every day until the Emperor outright outlaws the drafting of new laws to put a hasty end to it. Rogal Dorn's severely outdated copy already has a spine bigger than he is, and he occasionally uses it as a support beam for his various forts. This carries some unnerving implications, considering the parchment in that one is human skin. | |
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The Complete Peanuts, begun by Fantagraphics in 2004: "50 years of art. 25 books. Two books per year for 12½ years." | |
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Blankets is a 582 page autobiographical graphic novel. | |
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Game of Thrones: The Lineages and Histories of the Great Houses of the Seven Kingdoms, With Descriptions of Many High Lords and Noble Ladies and Their Children is just as much a door stopper as the name implies. Even the notoriously long-winded Grand Maester Pycelle calls it ponderous. The Book of Brothers contains the service record of every Kingsguard to serve since its inception three hundred years ago. Tyrion's wedding gift to Joffrey is Lives of Four Kings, a history of four Targaryen kings the size of a phone book. |
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In The Heroes of Olympus, a harpy holds a library door open with a copy of War and Peace in the second book. | |
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Itself outdone by Rewrite, which is currently Key Visual Arts' longest one ever, beating even Clannad and Little Busters!. | |
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The play time for Fate/stay night is usually put as about 70 hours by the most conservative estimates, but more realistic estimates puts it to just shy of about 100 hours. And that's skipping scenes that occur in the multiple routes. In English, the total word count clocks in at a bit over a million words, counting all 3 routes. The sequel, Fate/hollow ataraxia, is also notoriously long. While the main story is straightforward enough, there are an awful lot of bonus scenes and similar things. |
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Warhammer 40,000: The "Tactica Imperium", which contains various amounts of tidbits, from battlefield tactics to command structures of various organizations to how you should request higher levels of ordinance to the exact listings of every single one of your superiors, in order, up to the High Lords of Terra. The reason the information varies so much is because any given sub-sector, if not PLANET, has its own version which is constantly being updated and modified: any given complete collection would outstrip the Library of Congress, a "portable" version would make the Encyclopedia Britannica seem like a pamphlet, and the "bare minimum" that would ever be found in a command tent could double as protection from a boltgun. The Horus Heresy introduces us to the Book of Magnus and the Book of Lorgar. While the individual "books" of Magnus's opus are described as HUGE, we're never told how many volumes there are. The Book of Lorgar, on the other hand, is described as being hundreds of volumes long, and he plans on giving copies to each of his traitor brothers. One wonders when they would find the time to read them. Roboute Guilliman's Codex Astartes, which he wrote in an attempt to predict every possible battlefield situation and how Space Marines should act in such situations, and also covers such subjects as unit markings and launching planetary invasions. Certain chapters consider the Codex to be holy scripture and have their initiates memorize sections of it, impressive considering that some sections are hundreds of pages long. It is comprised of four volumes, 3ft tall and 1 foot thick. |
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El Goonish Shive has been posting comics online since January of 2002. In that time, it has grown to be over 2600 comics long, and if you also count EGS:NP and the Sketchbook, then that's another thousand each. Dan only ever published 2 volumes in physical format each about 200 pages long. If he were to publish the rest it would run to over 20 volumes of that size and the comic is nowhere near its end. | |
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Warhammer: The Dwarfs bring us the Great Book of Grudges. To Dwarfs, seeking revenge is essentially a religious sacrament, and the Book is their way of documenting every slight against the Dwarfen people. the Warhammer universe being what it is, the book is of course insanely long. It's implied that the book is a magical object that is literally endless. |
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Undead Unluck: As part of the training set by Anno Un, Andy is transformed into a colossal book containing everything about his past that extends up into outer space. | |
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The Judge Dredd complete case files. Each one contains a year's worth of storylines. And don't even get started on the upcoming Meltdown Man graphic novel. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: In "The Crystal Empire", Twilight has a copy of "The Magical Compendium, Volumes 1-36", it's as big as a door and true to the bit in the intro about "being able to crush small children", her young dragon assistant, Spike, is indeed crushed underneath it when he attempts to catch it. In "Testing, Testing, 1 2 3", Twilight Sparkle presents Rainbow Dash with a huge book while helping her study for the written portion of the entrance exam to the Wonderbolt Reserves. The Season Eight opener, "School Daze pt. 1", we're introduced to the EEA, a governing body that oversees the schools in Equestria. Their rule book is enourmous. When Twilight realizes that she can't, and shouldn't, rely on the EEA for her Friendship school, she writes her own rulebook that makes the EEA's look puny by comparison. |
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In Doctor Who, the TARDIS Manual certinly qualifies. Not that the Doctor ever really reads it (the 11th Docor threw it into a supernova after disagreeing with it once too often), but at least one volume (possibly the "Quick Start Guide") has 726 pages, and it's mentioned in an audio adventure that the entirity of the manual has it's own street in the TARDIS. | |
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At the height of its popularity around 1994-1995, Electronic Gaming Monthly would crank out issues that totalled about 400+ pages in length (although half the pages were just ads.) This caused EGM2, a spinoff magazine which focused more on tips and tricks launched in July 1994. For comparison's sake, the magazine could barely fill 100 pages by the time it "died" in early 2009. | |
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The Pale King's mandatory reading materials for the IRS employment applicants certainly do qualify. | |
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Superman: Return of Superman contains all 21 issues of the arc. Paired with The Death of Superman and World Without a Superman, another 7 and 9 issues respectively, it is thicker than a phone book. The collected volumes for Superman: Doomsday and Superman: Our Worlds at War are just as long. |
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Re:Zero: the original web novel, which the light novel is based on, is 4,7 million words long across 6 arcs. and it's only halfway done | |
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The title book from Black Mirror: Bandersnatch is about the size of the unabridged Lord of the Rings...and is a choose your own adventure book! The film is about a guy going mad trying to adapt it into a video game. | |
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In Final Fantasy: Lost Stranger, the Mysidia Royal Library is so huge that the map is a textbook thicker than Shogo's skull and heavier than an Ultimania. | |
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The aptly named Gold Brick collections of Antarctic Press's Gold Digger are 25 issues each. | |
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The collected edition Toda Mafalda, at 658 pages. | |
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The microfiche version of the Ultra-Complete Maximegalon Dictionary of Every Language Ever requires a fleet of lorries to transport. The eponymous Guide would require several large buildings to store if it were ever printed on paper instead of stored electronically. The rules for Brockian Ultra Cricket are so intricate and convoluted that, the only time they were printed, the book collapsed under its own weight and became a black hole. |
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The Sandman (1989): Although not really a Doorstopper, Neil Gaiman's introduction to "The Kindly Ones" states that the hardcover version of the book is heavy enough to stun a burglar in the dark, which has always been his definition of true art. | |
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The "Ultimate Collection" volumes for UDON's Street Fighter comics are roughly the size of an average textbook. And cost $60 each, making them similar in price as well. | |
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Omnibus release of Fruits Basket - in two halves but they're huge separately. | |
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In Dragon Age II, take a look at Bethany's sleeping area (if you are Warrior!Hawke or Rogue!Hawke, not sure about Mage!Hawke). There's a book that you can examine for a codex update. The book is enormous - it's not a coffee table book, it IS the coffee table. | |
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The Fruit of Grisaia: Reading through the entire novel will probably take a minimum of 50 hours. | |
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Goblins had a cutaway gag strip to an Alternate Universe known as the Rothfuss reality. | |
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The Wandering Inn is over 10.8 million words long as of December 2022. To add to the Archive Panic, it updates twice weekly with 20-30k words a chapter. | |
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The Baroque Cycle — itself a doorstopper — has a character use the Cryptonomicon to hold a door open. | |
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The lowly digits of A Million Random Digits With 100,000 Normal Deviates alone make the book 600 pages, but with the extensive foreword, this book is far larger and heavier than its contents can justify. | |
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Played with in Mass Effect: Andromeda. During one side task, Ryder gets a full copy of Angaran law, which is well over 5000 pages, but it's provided in the form of an ordinary datapad. | |
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Monday Begins on Saturday has the Book of Fates, containing the brief biographies of 73,619,024,511 intelligent beings. In the late 18th century (with a three century backlog), the editorial board switched to shortened editions with birth and death dates only, and even that, by the time of the book's events, has eight tomes of errata by itself (incomplete: the narrator's death year of 1611 is not included). | |
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Mick Foley's autobiography Have a Nice Day: A Tale of Blood and Sweatsocks is nearly 700 pages long. But that's not all - he has three more, Foley Is Good, The Hardcore Diaries and Countdown To Lockdown, all of which clock in at an average of 400 each. This in addition to his several original novels. He's credited with getting wrestling fans interested in reading when they weren't before. | |
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In Speed Racer, Royalton Industries' racing contract document is this, without any covers. It's thousands of pages long, arranged in four stacks placed on a table. | |
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The story of White Album 2 consists of three fairly lengthy chapters, encompassing the Introductory Chapter, the Closing Chapter, and the Coda. Respectively, they are estimated to clock in at about 15, 40, and 30 hours of playtime. | |
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The CBS Home Entertainment complete-series DVD release of Gunsmoke is remarkably expansive for a complete-series release— it contains 143 discs with all 635 episodes from all 20 years (both half-hour and hour), plus plenty of bonus features (many episodes have the episodic previews, and there are also audio commentaries on a few shows, featurettes, photo galleries, and quite a bit more). | |
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The entire archive of Metamor Keep will be a huge one. | |
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The collected editions of Richard Starking's Elephantmen comics, they also usually come out in hardback first so they're quite heavy. | |
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In The Smurfs (1981) episode "Calling Dr. Smurf", Brainy gave Smurfette an autographed copy of Quotations of Brainy Smurf 20th Edition, which was a pretty heavy book for Smurfette to carry. | |
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The sequel, Fate/hollow ataraxia, is also notoriously long. While the main story is straightforward enough, there are an awful lot of bonus scenes and similar things. | |
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A running joke in the detention segments of You Can't Do That on Television, was students being asked to copy huge segments of a large dictionary — a prop which was obviously several dictionaries glued together. | |
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The Spongebob Squarepants episode "Grandma's Kisses" had a scene where Spongebob's grandmother reads Patrick a small children's book. In contrast, she gives Spongebob a book that's almost as tall as he is. | |
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Coiling Dragon, which has just under 3.4 million Chinese characters. The English fan translation has yet to be counted. | |
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One episode of WKRP in Cincinnati revolves around the station's (ultimately destroyed) commercial for a chain of funeral homes. The owner of the chain comes in for a meeting and hands Andy a copy of what he calls a "brochure". It's hardbound, and the size of a large photo album. | |
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Guards! Guards!: A book entitled The Laws and Ordinances of Ankh and Morpork is large and heavy enough to put a man off-balance and cause a fatal misstep when Carrot misinterprets Captain Vimes' command. | |
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In one chapter of How the Tantabus Parses Sleep, Twilight, Starlight, and Sunburst conduct a study on Moondog and chronicle their findings for Luna. The size of the end result becomes a Running Gag; it has to be mailed to Luna in a shipping container, its table of contents alone is big enough to require its own table of contents, a single copy takes up two entire shelving units in a library, and it takes up over nine hundred megabytes when transferred onto an ereader. | |
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