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I've never met an avid read that said, "Hmm, nawww, it's too many pages."
There's one book I've felt that way about... Johnathan Strange and Mr Norrell. Not exactly an epic fantasy, but it's a debut novel that clocks in at about 800 pages. I bought it because I'd heard so many great things about it and it was on sale in paperback at Target... but even in paperback the thing is a mammoth. I'd had a hard time reading more than a few pages of it.
"It's not you, it's me, baby. I'm just not ready for that kind of a commitment."
However I do think the problem is more the size than the actual length -- if it was the size of a GRRM trade paperback or if I had an ebook version of it I would have probably already finished the thing. Same with Android Karenina.
(Before you get your hopes up about Johnathan Strange and Mr. Norrell being a debut novel at over 300,000 words, it's very British and was published back in 2004. Pretty sure your market's different.)