re doorstoppers

[James Kyllo]

A Suitable Boy is in print, visible in stores and so I'd guess
reasonably widely read.  It's certainly well worth reading.

J

On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 3:38 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I was thinking in one post of some BIG DOORSTOPPERS that NO ONE (almost; maybe) reads anymore?.......there are those which, of course, are harder to know of by definition....
>
> Pilgrimage....by Dorothy Richardson.......longer than Proust........once famous.
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> Miss MacIntosh, My Darling...Marguerite Young......??
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> A Suitable Boy........Vikram Seth    ???...
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> the Lanny Budd series........longer than Pilgrimage.......Upton Sinclair
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> The Seducer.........??
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> others?
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