5 Daunting Doorstoppers You've Just Gotta Have!

[Henry]

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/shortstack/2008/11/five_daunting_doorstoppe
rs_you.html 
"Here are five books I suspect have more owners than readers. That's not a
crime! Not even a bad thing! Let's call it the fat-book-you've-gotta-have
phenomenon."
...

"3. Gravity's Rainbow, by Thomas Pynchon. Speaking of gravity, there's this:
an 800-page epic as sprawling as it is significant to the contemporary
American canon. It won the National Book Award when it was published in
1973. But it's a daunting work about a daunting subject -- the impact of
technology on the human animal. Have all its admirers read it all the way
through? I hope so, but suspect not."