Not the sort of finale we had hoped for. P hil Harris, the salty skipper of the Cornelia Marie on the Discovery Channel's Deadliest Catch, has died.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is also the longest book from the series, yet the second shortest film at 2 hours and 18 minutes. By the end of 1997, the UK edition won a National Book Award and a gold medal in the 9 to 11 year-olds category of the Nestle NestlÃ© Smarties Book. prize
A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth has 1,349 pages and approximately 3,374,000 characters. It's claimed to be the longest single volume novel ever published in English. Before Seth's novel, others turned to Samuel Richardson's Clarissa as the longest novel with over a million words (and about 5,500,000 characters).