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Mon Mar-14-05 03:29 PM
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Longest book you've ever read? |
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I had to read "The Wealth of Nations" over my spring break. All 1200 pages of it. It sucked.
What is the longest book you've ever read?
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Mon Mar-14-05 03:29 PM
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And Jesus Wept.
He probably read that sucker, too.
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Mon Mar-14-05 03:31 PM
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2. Not split into volumes? |
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Probably Heimskringla or Seven Pillars of Wisdom.
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Mon Mar-14-05 03:31 PM
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but probably read it faster than some smaller books because I love the story. I could read it over and over again.
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Mon Mar-14-05 03:31 PM
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4. "Gravity's Rainbow" was one |
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"Ulysses" and "War and Peace" were two others.
I don't know which was longer, but I like all three of them.
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Mon Mar-14-05 03:58 PM
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Mon Mar-14-05 04:08 PM
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22. I woulda never guessed |
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Mon Mar-14-05 03:32 PM
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Paperback over 1100 pages if I recall correctly.
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Mon Mar-14-05 03:32 PM
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About 1,100 pages. And I'm about to crack Eco's "Foucault's Pendulum," because I'm a masochist.
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Mon Mar-14-05 03:49 PM
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13. not sure but Infinite Jest was one of them |
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A great read. Cryptonomicon and Gravity's Rainbow were others.
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Mon Mar-14-05 03:58 PM
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17. I'm just now starting Infinite Jest. |
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Edited on Mon Mar-14-05 03:58 PM by redqueen
Not sure which book is the longest I've read, but I'm sure whatever it is, it's somewhere in the 1000-1200 page range.
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Mon Mar-14-05 04:17 PM
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23. Jest is funny as hell. |
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When you finish it, let me know what you thought!
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Mon Mar-14-05 05:51 PM
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39. I love the weird little story in "Jest" |
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Edited on Mon Mar-14-05 05:52 PM by FrankBooth
where the guy holes up in his apartment with a lot of weed and junk food - very funny.
Good book but I don't think I could wade through it again.
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Mon Mar-14-05 09:39 PM
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My partner complained that every time he looked at me that summer I was reading that book, which I think is kinda appropriate considering the subject matter.
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Mon Mar-14-05 03:32 PM
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It was the favorite punishment for detention. I spent so much time in there one year that I easily finished it (had to copy it all the time). My teachers didn't care about killing trees.
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Mon Mar-14-05 03:32 PM
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That's one year of my life I'll never get back...
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Mon Mar-14-05 03:33 PM
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9. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer nt |
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Mon Mar-14-05 03:59 PM
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First I thought it was a science fiction novel. Now it's an everyday occurrence.
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Mon Mar-14-05 03:34 PM
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10. Lord of the Rings, probably |
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What's that, 1,100 pages?
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Mon Mar-14-05 03:36 PM
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Great book, fast read. Probably about 1100 pages? Also read all of George R.R. Martin's Song of Ice and Fire, but at least that's split up into 3 900 pages books :)
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Mon Mar-14-05 04:30 PM
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24. I've read Cryptonomicon |
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too. It was great. I'm reading Quicksilver now.
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Mon Mar-14-05 05:26 PM
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Though I'm not liking it as much as I liked Cryptonomicon. There were definitely parts of that that I could identify with. I think Quicksilver needs to pick up the pace a bit ;) Hopefully, it'll get better, but even if it keeps this pace, I've read that the next two are better!
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Mon Mar-14-05 03:53 PM
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14. I remember King's "The Stand" took me forever |
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to get through and I enjoyed it. That sucka was long!
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Mon Mar-14-05 03:55 PM
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and all 2,000 pages of akira, but it was more than 1 book
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Mon Mar-14-05 05:29 PM
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Not the longest, but it felt like the longest. It took forever to sort out what each sentence meant, who was talking, what was going on, etc.
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Mon Mar-14-05 03:57 PM
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...by Michener, unless Texas was longer.
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Mon Mar-14-05 04:00 PM
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21. All Michener books have minimum 200 pages of geography |
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and go back to the Big Bang but I have to admit that I enjoy all of them.
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Mon Mar-14-05 03:58 PM
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19. Tom Jones, Middlemarch, American Aurora |
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all come to mind. I'm laboring away at Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, which is probably more than 1,200 pages.
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Mon Mar-14-05 05:34 PM
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33. Another Melancholiac? |
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I wrote a graduate seminar paper on Burton's Anatomy umpteen years ago.
Warning--you should tell somebody where you're going when you start that book. You can get lost in those labyrinthine sentences.
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Mon Mar-14-05 05:49 PM
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I love all the Latin, too. :loveya:
So you read the whole thing? :wow:
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Mon Mar-14-05 06:46 PM
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46. Well, I plowed through it. |
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With long breaks.
Don't worry; I give away any spoilers! ;)
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Mon Mar-14-05 04:39 PM
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25. Remembrance of Things Past by Proust |
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I almost gave up when he spent the first 50 or so pages talking about that damn madeleine cake, but once I got into it, I really enjoyed it.
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Mon Mar-14-05 04:43 PM
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26. Curious George Flies a Kite. |
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It took me four months, but I finally finished it.
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Mon Mar-14-05 10:34 PM
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I love that picture. He is so hot there! whew.
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Mon Mar-14-05 04:46 PM
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I think that was the longest. I forget how many pages were in it. It was rather long though. I read it for a Russian literature class (luckily in translation).
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Mon Mar-14-05 05:32 PM
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32. That's the classic I think of for reading length too-"War and Peace" |
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Mon Mar-14-05 04:48 PM
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28. Probably Gone With The Wind. |
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Mon Mar-14-05 05:31 PM
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31. "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" and "My Pet Goat" |
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Thay tuk mee 4EVIR too reed. I dednt' eevin hav themm uppsyde doun!
Sined,
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Mon Mar-14-05 09:37 PM
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47. You couldn't resist, could you? LOL!! |
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Mon Mar-14-05 05:34 PM
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34. Either Clinton's book |
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or the LOTR trilogy--which was about 1100 pages.
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Mon Mar-14-05 05:42 PM
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Mon Mar-14-05 05:50 PM
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37. Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire, Gibbons |
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OK, 3 volumes, about 2500 pages(or more). Should be required reading as many of the woes of our Republic are retreads of Patrician scams. Gibbons had snarky down cold.
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Mon Mar-14-05 05:51 PM
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But I've always been intimidated by the length. You're saying it's worth it?
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Mon Mar-14-05 06:04 PM
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43. if you like history and smart-ass Englishmen |
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and got some time on your hands, by all means.
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Mon Mar-14-05 06:06 PM
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Smart-ass Englishmen I can do without...
But if it's historically accurate, enlightening or educational, I will dive in.
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Mon Mar-14-05 05:52 PM
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40. I'll give you the longest one I've read and learned the best from: |
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Truman by David McCullough.
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Mon Mar-14-05 10:43 PM
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61. Fiction? I'm thinking Shogun, but probably one Michener 's, |
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like Centennial or The Source or Hawaii.
Of course, the entire saga by Colleen McCullough, starting with The First Man in Rome.
Leon Uris -- Trinity -- wasn't that long?
Mostly I don't consider number of pages. My students always ask, "But, but, but...how looooonnnng is the book?" I always say, "As long as it takes to read."
I love being LOST in a book. I really did love Shogun for that -- lost in that world for days.
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Mon Mar-14-05 05:56 PM
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41. "Dahlgren" by Samuel R. Delany felt like the longest |
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At about 819 pages, it took me weeks to read, because it's a densely written book with a lot of surreal imagery. But it's a great read, a very powerful novel.
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Mon Mar-14-05 09:55 PM
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52. :) Did you ever try "Stars in my Pocket Like Grains of Sand"? |
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It's been so long since I've read any Delany.
Sorry for the Off Topic.
I guess War and Peace is the longest book I've ever read.
If you count novels that are serialized then I guess The War Against the Chtorr would have the honor.
Or maybe the ChungKuoSeries.
While Dune and Dune Messiah could be considered as being parts of a segmented novel the rest of the series is just that, a series of novels expanding on each other and exploring similar themes. Mmmm, Chapterhouse Dune and Heretics of Dune are like one big novel though.
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Mon Mar-14-05 10:43 PM
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60. Couldn't make it through that one.... |
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Just tried last summer. Perhaps I'll try again.
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Mon Mar-14-05 10:41 PM
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59. Yeah, kind of hypnotic.... |
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From what I remember the same thing told over and over, in a slightly different fashion each time. Actually they weren't exactly the same, but that's how I remember it. Very weird. Read it several times...
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Mon Mar-14-05 05:57 PM
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I never thought it would end....
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Mon Mar-14-05 06:21 PM
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45. "A Storm of Swords," George R. R. Martin. nt |
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Edited on Mon Mar-14-05 06:21 PM by deadparrot
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Mon Mar-14-05 10:36 PM
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It was one of the few novels I read for pleasure during college, and I couldn't put it down.
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Mon Mar-14-05 09:56 PM
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53. Remembrance of Things Past |
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it's very very very long. And wonderful.
Also, Clarissa--not quite as long but just as wonderful.
In third place, I think, is The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil.
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Mon Mar-14-05 10:27 PM
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54. It only seemed like the longest book... |
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The Disease Concept of Alcoholism by Jellinek
That's got to be the driest book ever written. :beer:
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Mon Mar-14-05 10:33 PM
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55. Texas by James Michener |
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It took 6 weeks of almost constant reading, but it was good!
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Mon Mar-14-05 10:38 PM
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... Ok I know it is really 3 books, but it came in one bound volume and I read it straight through :)
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Mon Mar-14-05 11:00 PM
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65. You mean all 15 or so books of it? |
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With the Robot, the Foundation, and Second Foundation books?
That does make for a very long storyline.
Damned good, though.
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Mon Mar-14-05 10:47 PM
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62. Probably a tie between "Roots" and the autobiography of Nelson Mandela |
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Both longer than my usual books...
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Mon Mar-14-05 10:48 PM
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63. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell |
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Mon Mar-14-05 10:58 PM
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64. Either "Moby Dick" or "Dr. Zhivago" |
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I forget which one was longer.
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