5 Daunting Doorstoppers You've Just Gotta Have!

[Dave Monroe]

On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 7:29 AM, Henry <scuffling at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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."

Sorry, I missed this one.  Have been off, and, largely, offline for
days now, so ...