More recent direct democracy proposals tend to focus on voting schemes (usually high tech) that would allow widespread, virtually continual voting by millions of citizens on whatever proposals surfaced.
Only one book (Order of the Phoenix) topped 200,000 words, but there were two books that came close with more than 190,000 words (Goblet of Fire and Deathly Hallows). When added all together, the Harry Potter books contain 1,084,170 words.
Mollyâs soliloquy is a touchstone for writers aiming to go long. A copy of âUlyssesâ pops up in âGreen Coaster,â the 33-page, single-sentence section that closes Jonathan Coeâs brilliant novel âThe Rottersâ Clubâ (2001). (The BBC has reported that at 13,955 words, it is the longest sentence ever written in English.). Joyce also makes a cameo in the most recent candidate for the absurdly exclusive Book-as-Sentence club, the French novelist Mathias ÃnardâÃ©nard âSâ (zone), 2008 just published in An english. translation