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[[File:wikipedia-book 3302.jpg|link=Wikipedia|frame|This one's more of an [[Edit War]] [[Pun|stopper.]] <ref>Yes, this is a real book. No, it's not long enough to contain one thousandth of the actual content - just the featured articles.</ref>]]

{{quote|''"The covers of this book are too far apart."''~~|'''[[Ambrose Bierce]]'''}}~~

{{quote|''"The covers of this book are too far apart."''

|'''[[Ambrose Bierce]]'''}}

A common literary term that refers to a book so thick and heavy that it can be used as a [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|doorstopper]]. Or a [[Throw the Book At Them|weapon]]. Or a method with which to [[The Best Page in The Universe|give a chiropractor 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.

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* De Dikke Van Dale (the 'fat' Van Dale), the most well-known Dutch dictionary, is devided in three volumes and has a total of 4.464 pages.

== ~~Fanfic~~ ==

== Fan Works ==

* Thanks to the lack of editors, [[Fan Fiction]] has a tendency to run into this, if you count works that are never or hardly ever printed and thus are unsuitable for doorstop use. For instance, [[Fanfiction.net]], as of April 6, 2009, lists [http://www.fanfiction.net/book/Harry_Potter/10/0/1/1/1084/0/0/0/0/1/ one] ''[[Harry Potter]]'' story longer than ''the entire 1,084,000-word series''. [http://www.fanfiction.net/book/Harry_Potter/10/0/1/1/255/0/0/0/0/1/ 582] stories are longer than the 255,000-word ''Order of the Phoenix'', the longest in the series, many of these incomplete. At least seventeen FF.Net stories have over a million words, with the ''[[Ah! My Goddess]]'' fanfic ''Trial By Tenderness'' having recently broken the 2 million mark—at ''Harry Potter'' word-per-page rates, that's 6,800 pages, and over three times the length of ''[[Atlas Shrugged]]''. The author doesn't seem to be planning on stopping anytime soon, either.

** [http://www.fanfiction.net/community/Longest_Stories/64113/ Here's fanfiction.net group dedicated to very long stories on the site.]

* Video game [[novelization]]s almost inevitably fall under this trope, by the nature of the format.

* The released chapters of ''[[Misfiled Dreams]]'' run 456 pages, including 2 blank pages in the first chapter and 5 pages of art. The ''unreleased'' (and unedited) chapters run another '''616''' pages and counting.

* [[The Unity Saga]], a ''Star Wars''/''Star Trek'' crossover that runs a total of 250 chapters. Most of the chapters have a manageable size, but the final entries in each of the six parts suddenly balloon to a very intimidating length.

* ''[[The Unity Saga]]'', a ''Star Wars''/''Star Trek'' crossover that runs a total of 250 chapters. Most of the chapters have a manageable size, but the final entries in each of the six parts suddenly balloon to a very intimidating length.

=== Less Than 250K Words ===

* ''[[Tiberium Wars]]'' is 24 chapters long and is clocking at over 200,000 words.

* ''[[The Dream Land Story]]''. It's 87 (gradually-increasing-in-length) chapters, and 121,171 words long, made even crazier by the fact that it's a ''[[Kirby]]'' fanfic. (And it ''works!'')

* [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4044080/1/Land_Before_Time_Twilight_Valley Land Before Time: Twilight Valley] is a small doorstopper at 183,977 words.

* ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4044080/1/Land_Before_Time_Twilight_Valley Land Before Time: Twilight Valley]'' is a small doorstopper at 183,977 words.

* ''[http://rangerwiki.net/index.php?title=Rhyme_and_Reason Rhyme and Reason]'' was not only the first fanfic based on ''[[Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers (animation)|Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers]]'' and has always been considered one of the best, but with 158,492 words, it also used to be the longest and definitely considered a Doorstopper, until ''[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/582131/1/Gadget-in-Chains Gadget in Chains]'' surpassed its word count.

** The Russian original of ''Offensive Care'' has 176,362 words. The author's own English translation grew slightly beyond 200,000 words.

* [http://fanfiction.net/s/4424201/1/ Teaching Darkness: Memories] by RaeLogan is over 206,000 words, and itself is '''part 5''' in a series, with the previous story at only a little over 52,000 (at least a quarter of its sequel's size!).

* ''[http://fanfiction.net/s/4424201/1/ Teaching Darkness: Memories]'' by RaeLogan is over 206,000 words, and itself is '''part 5''' in a series, with the previous story at only a little over 52,000 (at least a quarter of its sequel's size!).

* ''[[Thawing Permafrost]]'' is by no means a titan like the rest on this list, but it still qualifies as a door-stopper and the longest Mizore-centric fic in the '''[[Rosario + Vampire]]'' category (132,909 words, 35 chapters across 518 pages, according to the author).

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* The ''[[Firefly]]'' fanfic ''[[Forward]]'' is 458,608 words in length.

* One particularly high quality fanfic in the ''[[Swat Kats]]'' section is [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3849671/1/SWAT_Kats_Endgame Endgame], which is complete at 474,707 words and 70 chapters (for those who bean count, that's 6768.8 words per chapter nearly).

* [https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3528794/1/Ano-Hito-no-Jij%C5%8D Ano Hito no Jijō], a ''[[Kare Kano]]'' fanfic, is 279,422 words long.

* ''[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3528794/1/Ano-Hito-no-Jij%C5%8D Ano Hito no Jijō]'', a ''[[Kare Kano]]'' fanfic, is 279,422 words long.

* ScytheRider's ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4298303/1/Pokemon_Mystery_Dungeon_Silver_Resistance Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Silver Resistance]'', weighing in at 443,889 words.

* Thunderblade's ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1605452/1/Battle_of_the_Sacred_Essences Battle of the Sacred Essences]'' is "only" 252,754 words but it still comes out in excess of 400 pages when printed.