Doorstopper - TV Tropes. This one's more of an Edit Warstopper. To link to this poem, put the URL below into your page: <a href="http:// of Myself by Walt Whitman</a> Plain for. 9787019210606 7019210600 Hymns Just for You 9788483830574 8483830574 Balas de Plata, Elmer Mendoza 9789027219824 9027219826 Studies in French Applied Linguistics. Yes, this is an actual photo of a real book. No, it's not long enough to contain one thousandth of the actual content - just the featured articles. All of Wikipedia is free to download - the text alone is over 8 gigabytes. A common literary term that refers to a book being so thick and heavy that it can be used as a doorstopper. Or a literary 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. The Strictly Formula trope as used in popular culture. Stories sometimes have a rigidly adhered-to structure. All the beats fall in the same place.If one book is over 1,0. Doorstopper. This goes double if the typeface is smaller than 1. It is a doorstopper series if, and only if, every actual book in the series is a Door Stopper. This is not strictly a Doorstopper but an . These books, though, can invariably 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. Othertimes, 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. Can also cause the written text to disappear into the center fold—or the book itself to rip apart halfway through reading! Keep in mind how lucky we are today compared to the 2. These games can have upwards of 7. Extremely useful if one wishes to Throw the Book at Them. Of bothtypes. A doorstopper can incite a case of Archive Panic with one single volume. Paired with The Death of Superman and World Without a Superman, another 7 and 9 issues respectively, it is thicker than a phone book. Other comic books can — and have — run longer, but few of them are published as a single- volume, 1,3. And they're tradedrift paperbacks! Though spread out into multiple volumes, each one is still pretty hefty. This volume is only three years worth, and it's almost four pounds! The complete collected edition of From Hell. Two books per year for 1. The Hulk omnibus, for example, weighs six pounds. As of May 2. 01. 3, the largest published is the collection of the first ten. Dark Tower comic adaptations, at 1. They aren't usually as long as the Marvel Omnibuses, but make up for it by being printed at an expanded page size. Each one contains a year's worth of storylines. And don't even get started on the upcoming Meltdown Man graphic novel. It weighs in at around 1. Fortunately it comes in a sturdy cardboard carrying case. And cost $6. 0 each, making them similar in price as well. The Transformers Omnibus as a . Not recommended to be read in one sitting. DC Entertainment is not responsible for any hallucinations you may experience if you try. Frank Miller's Big Damn Sin City, a compilation of every Sin City yarn written to- date. It's the size of a dictionary. Broke the bank at a whopping two dollars. Which is about $1. Still not a lot. The planned Third Edition is projected to cost about $5. Each volume clocks in at about 4,0. PRACTICALLY EVERY SINGLE WORD IS LINKED. The severely abridged version still has 4. It includes — aside from definitions — short biographies, maps, diagrams (including a full page schematic of a pocket watch); and the appendices include difficulties of the language, a preposition guide, and a compendium of Spanish conjugations (Spanish is a hard language). Everything in three volumes totalling 3. And this was published in the late 1. And this is the paperback edition. There are an estimated 3. Chinese characters used. Because this information is available electronically, the (enormous. It's an encyclopaedia on about everything know back then along with facsimiles, maps, tables and other pictures. This was the result. As of May 3. 0, 2. Wikipedia totals around 3,0. It takes 5. 25 volumes to get to the letter 'A'. The letter 'A' then takes 4. Heck, the table of contents itself takes up 9. He explained how to do an complex search. And all ten people in the room pressed enter at the same time; cue general computational blackout at the CAS mainframe. They usually contain several hundred pages even in a more sparsely- populated area. Anybody who uses the Yellow Pages will most likely remember having crushed a toe with one. Recently shrunk to paperback size, with the same number of pages. The legendary Capital by Karl Marx. Three volumes of well over five hundred pages each, about 2,5. Marx was working on the other two but died before adding the finishing touches to them. Engels is the one who finished, edited and published the other two volumes. The fourth one eventually saw the light, but it wasn't past the preparation stage and instead of being called Capital: volume IV it was called Critical History of the Theory of Surplus. It was compiled from the official censored accounts, was mostly written during World War I, has no editorial commentary, and still runs 8 volumes (each of which is a 5. Before You Die series is made of these. Each books lists 1. Each one reaches into the 9. And it's meant as a gift for 7- year- old children! Subjects include Musical Scales, the physical properties of nearly all known substances,note ranging from melting point to magnetic susceptibility to sheer strength to materials known to be superconducting and the temperature ranges at which they do so, useful mathematical equations and tables, physical constants, safety procedures for dangerous chemicals (such as poisons and their cures), diagrams of molecular structures, physical stats on the moons and planets of our solar system,note such as their surface gravity, size, mass, and composition, and several thousand pages of other useful, interesting, and simply random assorted data about the world around us. Printed in 1. 2 pt font on dictionary style paper nearly thin enough to read through, it still manages to measure in at 8. The modern editions weigh in at about 1. The book at one point used a square 6x. Their standard hardcover desk dictionary is around four and a half pounds, at over 2,8. The part that tends to horrify students of the language? That edition of the dictionary is called Le Petit Robert. Yes, the little Robert. The unabridged version, Le Robert, is around the size of the Oxford English Dictionary, and the company wisely prefers to offer it on CD or DVD to non- libraries. Total Baseball was published in 8 editions between 1. Each addition contained comprehensive statistics for every player in Major League Baseball. They also had season and team records, league and team histories, select player biographies, post- season and All- Star game recaps, essays on various aspects of the game (e. Negro Leagues, baseball journalism, player nicknames), and even directories for managers, coaches, and umpires. All this packed into over 2. Total Football and Total Hockey were every bit as comprehensive, albeit at just under 2. Yes, you read that right. And it's not even finished - the author has been updating this fic since March of 2. The most recent chapters are roughly 4. That's enough for them to qualify as novels on their own, at least according to The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America's criteria. It held that title for about two months before Worlds Conquest exited its hiatus. As of chapter 5. 03 it sits at 3,8. The earlier part Hugs and Kisses: The Beginning is also over a million words, with the two combined totalling just over 4. As of 1. 5 March 2. And by the way, it's all original plot and mostly all OCs. There are a few other stories out there that are longer than this, but what really makes Spirit of Redemption stand out is that it was written in only 2. It's also the longest completed fanfic. The writer, Myetel, once had a job writing technical manuals for NASA. Perhaps that explains it.. Depending on how much of Arc III has been lost, it may have been over 3 million in its full version. My Goddess fanfic Trial By Tenderness sits at just over 2. December 2. 01. 4 — at Harry Potter word- per- page rates, that's around 7,0. Atlas Shrugged. The author doesn't seem to be planning on stopping anytime soon, either. As of 2/2. 0/2. 01. Not counting Shards, an Alternate Universe story currently at 1. It's posted as 7 separate stories (mirroring the 7- book format of the HP series), so the site doesn't record the full tale's word count. This is really too bad, since it clocks in at just over 3 million words. Surprisingly enough (for a fanfic), it's actually a complete story. The author wrote it between September '0. Jan '0. 7, posting an average of 6. That's 3. 5 million words long. Which actually makes it longer than the Sacrifices Arc. Combining it with its sequel Brave New World, already mentioned above, results in a length of over 3. As of putting this here, just the Friendship is Magic branch of the loops has gone for 1. In total, the loops ranks in at +4. It's gotten to the point where the trope page has sub- pages for any compilation with more then 2. The MLP Loops obviously enough, The Pokemon Loops, The RWBY Loops, The Winx Club Loops.. Part IV in particular contains 2,2. FF. net's top 1. 0 longest individual stories. In total, the word count for the fics goes over 3. In total, the trilogy spans 4,4. That doesn't even count the various sequels or side stories (most of the author's other entries tie in to The Verse). While each story has 2. Still, as of July 2. Upon completion, it turned out to be 2. The third part sits at well over 8. August 2. 01. 5. And the fourth sits at over 6. Altogether, the completed seasons and side- stories total 2,1. This total does not include the uncompleted Season 8 to make it easier to add when it's finished, or the non- canon Fourth Wall Variety Show stuff. Imagine a binding of that. For a while, they hovered over 8. Seasons 3 and 5 both breaking 1. The Dark World/Shining Armor arc was a massive 8.
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