The biggest book(s) you own...

Bard

"Using Linux - Third Edition (Que)" and "Mastering Delphi 4 (Canto)" are both quite large, as books go, taking up a fair chunk of my bookshelf - but they don't exactly count as "Literature".

So- apart from them, the physically biggest books I own would be the complete works of Shakespeare - which is almost a reference manual in itself! - and a Grisham two-in-one (The Client & The Firm) book which I haven't yet read...

how 'bout you? Silly topic, I know... but g'wan anyway...

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Bard

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G'wan... giz a click

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Dont be at yourself

Lord Of The Rings hardback - the size made it a real pain in the **** to read

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Illkillya

an ollld book of The Works of Lewis Carroll.... apart from the alice books it has other stories and a load of logic puzzles and stuff that he used to do

Yurmasyurda

Windows 2000 bible, oh and it's phukin huje

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Chaos-Engine

Lord of the Rings

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Karl Hungus

Some big X-Files omnibus hardback... Big ****er...

Victor

"World Naval Weapons Systems" by Norman Friedman.

Price (new): £200+
Price (paid): £35
Cover: hardback with dust sheet
Pages: 600+
Paper: 90g glossy
Print: fine B&W, some photos / diagrams
Format: larger than A4
Weight: lethal

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Kill, kill, kill the laser mice.

phobos

C/C++ Programmers Bible by Jamsa Klander. Tis bigger than A4 and has no page numbers, so I'm not counting. But it makes the phone book look feeble.

This book would be a weapon if it twas in hardback.

;-phobos-)

Manach

Biggest Computer Book - Visual C++, Kruginski
Non-Computer Book - History of America, Johnson
Fiction - Magician, Feist.

Blitzkrieger

Some "Book of the Century" thing some git bought me It's HUGE! I never look at it cos the table creaks worringly.

Dave

The Stand is huge 1300 pages or something.

-Dave

Bard

oh yeah- I forgot all about the "Chronicle of the 20th Century" which is propping up the corner of my bed

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Bard

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bonkey

Chambers 20th century dictionary

jc

Trojan

Some auld bible thats 70 years old with a wooden hardback shell and metal straps (to keep it shut so the spells can't get out?) is the biggest in our house.

I won't bother listing programming books & sf/fantasy trilogies

Al.

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Trojan

btw, the smallest book I own is "The Light Fantastic" in a small blue hardback, it's about 2" * 2"

Al.

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whitetrash

Biggest -> The Stand and House of Leaves

Smallest -> The Pearl (By Steinbeck, I think)

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yellum

Cryptonomicon, Ulysses, Gravitys Rainbow, Illuminati Trilogy

nesf

Biggest, either my Chronicle of the 20th century, or my large collins dictionary.

I've some other stuff which is bigger, but it's literally raw technical data, and i doubt it counts

Kensai

Night's Dawn trilogy.
Or maybe Arthur Conan Doyle Stories.
Or even one of Robert Jordans books?