Good Slow-Moving Novels etc.

[Titus Groan]

Agreed -- I remember Titus Groan as slow and as something that needs to be read slowly, so that those innumerable descriptions can be developed in the reader's imagination.

I do, indeed, demand to be read slowly.

 

[picklematrix]

I found all of the Gormenghast books to be fairly slow reads, though I did read them when I was very young and a slower reader.
I remember the plot taking its time, though I enjoyed the expansiveness of the world.

 

[tinkerdan]

Just finished Dean Koontz's
Fear Nothing
and
Seize the Night

These both seemed to be long drawn out stories even though they took place in a short span of time.
Much like the assesment @Extollager makes with The Thirty-Nine Steps--since the books are suspense thrillers and they are well over 300 pages--Although I'd have to admit that Koontz manages to pull it off; however for me it was touch and go when I had to get past 100 pages before the building suspense begins to pay out and start to keep me awake.