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Marienbad My Love
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</noinclude> Marienbad My Love is a free E-book by Mark Leach. Placed online in 2008, it is 17 million words long. Marienbad My Love tells the story of a journalist-turned-filmmaker who is convinced that he must bring about the end of the world by producing a new science fiction film version of the 1961 French New Wave classic Last Year at Marienbad. Leach has described it as experimental literature; he claims to have employed a modified cut-up technique to generate what he calls a “non-linear literary collage.” Although Leach promotes it as the world's longest novel, critics have charged that the work is devoid of meaning, and that as a word collage, it does not qualify as a novel. Leach studied writing at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, where he received a bachelor’s degree in journalism in 1983. He began writing Marienbad My Love in the 1980s. He also claims to have set records for the world's longest word (4.4 million letters), longest English sentence (3 million words) and longest book title, including the subtitle (6,931 words). The book has been reported on by several online news organizations, though it does not appear to have been reviewed by any of the standard journals for literature or science fiction as of May 2009. The claims for the word, sentence and title length have not been acknowledged by Guinness World Records. 
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