Lol, but those things can be pretty hard to kill!anonanemone wrote:So we're talking at least an unabridged and illustrated War and Peace here?PashaRu wrote:One which, when dropped from less than eight inches above the floor, can kill a medium-sized cockroach.
Anyway, I consider a big book one with more than 500-600 pages. But again it depends on many other things. Font and size for one thing - I have one volume of 400 pages that actually would be somewhere near 700 if it was printed with normal size letter. Thus us one of the reasons I haven't read it yet - I have the feeling my eyes are about to bleed after a page ir two.
Theme and genre also matter. I have in my TBR romance and YA novels that are well beyond 700 pages but are so light and easy to read, I don't actually count them as big books.