Ogg, you've got competition

[Bramblethorn]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/07/23/booker-prize-longlist-2019-1000-page-novel-one-sentence/

If you’re looking for a long read, the Booker Prize has just the thing.

Lucy Ellmann’s Ducks, Newburyport, one of 13 novels in the running for the literary award, consists of a single sentence running over 1,000 pages.

It is the interior monologue of an Ohio housewife ruminating on everything from dinner party menus to the dark side of Trump’s America, a stream-of-consciousness written without paragraphs or full stops.

The 426,100-word sentence is broken only a handful of times, by a parallel story written from the perspective of a mountain lion.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Ah, gimic, anyone? A thousand pages stream of consciousness? Yeah,right.

Sounds like the literary equivalent to Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music, and trust me, no-one, not even Lou, has heard all four sides of that.

 

[oggbashan]

I know I have. Apart from that book there are some written without using the letter 'e'.

http://mentalfloss.com/article/84280/you-wont-find-letter-e-either-these-two-novels

The earliest 'odd' book is Lawrence Sterne's Tristram Shandy which I still enjoy.