epic novels

[Moon Rabbits]

Are you talking epics, or epics?

An epic (i.e. Odyssey) is a long poem telling about a hero's deeds.

Or are you just talking about really long stories spanning books like the Lord of the Rings?

I just mean a book that is really really long. 1000+ pages?

I'd definitely go with Dante's Divine Comedy. I went into it thinking it would be dry, but man, I loved it. I can only speak for the John Ciardi translation though, no idea how the others read.

This was one of my "thinking about its"