Longest Book in the World (Fact #4)

From the Fact #1 we know that the longest published book in the world (which is not encyclopedia) is The Blah Story by Nigel Tomm, for now, 23 volumes are published, they contain 11,338,105 words; 17,868 pages. In Fact #2 and Fact #3 we’ve bumped into a question: “Is The Blah Story a novel?” Let’s answer it.

The Blah Story books (image taken from PRLEAP).

Let’s begin with an excerpt from The Blah Story, Volume 15:

    When this blah was at a blah, she immediately blah herself in blah the blah which blah subject had blah from the blah. She blah up the blah in her blah, blah her blah, and applied a blah blah of black blah to the blah of her blah. The blah soon grew blah blah. Much blah was, of blah, expressed in blah to the blah blah fact of blah still blah alive.
    ‘I should have blah,’ observed blah, ‘that it is blah time you were blah.’
    ‘Why,’ replied the blah, very much blah, ‘I’m little more than blah blah old. My blah lived a blah, and was by no blah in blah blah when blah died.’
    Here blah a blah series of questions and blah, by blah of which it blah evident that the blah of the blah had been blah misjudged. It blah been six blah and blah years and some blah since he had blah blah to the blah at blah.

From an excerpt we see that Wikipedia’s description, which tells that The Blah Story “consists of nothing but repetitions of the word “blah” interspersed with grammatical particles” [>] is a little bit wrong, because Nigel Tomm’s The Blah Story has sentences, grammatical structure and dialogues; it’s not just “repetitions of the word “blah” interspersed with grammatical particles,” it’s much more than that.  

Now let us solve the question: “Is The Blah Story a novel?” As I’ve said earlier, fundamental elements of fiction are: character, plot and theme. Does The Blah Story have those 3 fundamental elements of a novel? My answer is: “Yes, it has.” Let me explain. It has character, because there are dialogs in the text, so, if they are, then somebody must talk. I think it’s clear. I would suggest you to read The Blah Story, because when you read you can feel that something is going on, something is evolving, something is changing, that means The Blah Story has plot. And finally, The Blah Story has theme, which, in my opinion everyone can define for oneself, for example for me it’s about love.

I can summarize Fact #4 in this way: character, plot and theme in The Blah Story are left to define by each reader individually, they are not pre-defined by author Nigel Tomm.

Conclusion. Nigel Tomm’s The Blah Story has character, plot and theme. The Blah Story is a novel.

Is it some kind of abstract literature? Read more about The Blah Story tomorrow.

Longest Book in the World (Fact #3)

From the Fact #1 we know that the longest published book in the world (which is not encyclopedia) is The Blah Story by Nigel Tomm, for now, 23 volumes are published, they contain 11,338,105 words; 17,868 pages. In Fact #2 we’ve bumped into a question: “Is The Blah Story a novel?” Let’s find out the answer now.

In the image above The Blah Story books (taken from PRLEAP).

Let’s begin with an excerpt from The Blah Story, Volume 12:

    Her blah didn’t blah blah to blah some blah advantages. The blah was blah and blah blah, but she blah quite a blah blah blah. Nevertheless, the blah blah that blah gave the blah blah was blah of blah, irony, and blah blah. When blah had blah blah that blah was likely to blah blah a blah once blah she blah no blah of her blah. She blah to blah old blah blah more blah than blah.
    Blah, knowing blah blah well that blah would blah blah blah out if blah blah the blah of blah, blah another blah of blah. She blah after blah blah.
    ‘Blah blah and blah,’ said blah blah, ‘blah did you blah blah me blah with blah blah blah? I haven’t blah for a blah.’
    ‘Blah,’ blah in blah, ‘I blah blah you I blah blah yesterday blah. She blah, no blah, at blah, the other blah blah of blah, so blah to blah in the blah at blah this blah, and she blah blah be blah till blah blah blah.’
    ‘Oh blah, I blah blah now. Well, blah is blah weather to blah in the blah.’
    Blah, however, was blah blah subject, and blah blah having blah it, for, blah to blah, one never blah where blah might blah be blah she blah to blah blah reading. She blah blah blah so often of blah blah to blah herself from blah that blah was blah blah aware of the blah. Blah in the blah of that blah, whose blah was so blah, she blah determined to blah a blah heart.

As you can see it is quite difficult to define a genre of The Blah Story. Let us begin with a definition of a novel.

In Wiktionary we find that a novel is “a work of prose fiction, longer than a short story,” to understand this definition we must understand what is “fiction.” Fundamental elements of fiction are: character, plot and theme.

If The Blah Story has those 3 fundamental elements of fiction then it is a novel. Find the answer tomorrow in my topic Longest Book in the World (Fact #4).

Longest Book in the World (Fact #2)

From the Fact #1 we know that the longest book in the world (which is not encyclopedia) is The Blah Story by Nigel Tomm, for now, 23 volumes of the book are published, they contain 11,338,105 words; 61,745,771 characters (with spaces); 17,868 pages.

In the image above The Blah Story books (taken from PRWEB).

Let us investigate what is the genre of The Blah Story? In Wikipedia’s longest novel  section (controversial entries subsection) it is said: “Up to now, 19 volumes of the novel (consists of nothing but repetitions of the word “blah” interspersed with grammatical particles) are published.” I think this sentence is a little bit contradictory because it states that Nigel Tomm’s The Blah Story is a novel, and at the same time it proposes that The Blah Story “consists of nothing but repetitions of the word “blah” interspersed with grammatical particles.”

So, is The Blah Story a novel or it is not? Read about it tomorrow in my topic Longest Book in the World (Fact #3).

Longest Book in the World (Fact #1)

One day I asked myself: “What is the longest book? What is the longest book ever written? What is the longest book in the world? What is the longest book in Eglish? Do these questions give the same answer?” I decided to figure it out.

At first glance it’s clear, that longest books are encyclopedias. The longest one contains about 370 million Chinese characters. During the Ming Dynasty  approximately 3,000 scholars spent 4 years, beginning in 1403, to work on the Yongle Dadian or “Yongle dadian”, or “Yung-lo ta-tien” (literally it means “The Great Canon” or “Vast Documents of the Yongle Era” or “The Encyclopedia of Yongle Emperor’s Reign in Ming Dynasty”). It is an encyclopedia with 11,095 volumes and 22,877 chapters.

But, what is the longest book which isn’t encyclopedia? It appears that the answer is not so simple. If we’ll look at Wikipedia, longest novel section (in latin or cyrillic alphabets) we’ll find that first two “longest novels” aren’t published (!!), i.e., they are not printed as books (and never was). Longest novel in other scripts is Sohachi Yamaoka’s 40-volume book Tokugawa Ieyasu which contains over 10 million Japanese characters. Maybe it is the longest book, but now it’s unavailable so I can’t check existence of this title.

So, what is the longest book which I could read, which I could buy, which I could love or which I could hate? After some research I’ve found that the longest book in English (and in the world) is The Blah Story by Nigel Tomm. For now, 23 volumes of the book (novel) are published, they contain 11,338,105 words; 61,745,771 characters (with spaces); 17,868 pages.

In the image above The Blah Story books (taken from PRLEAP).

Read more in Longest Book in the World (Fact #2).