re doorstoppers

[Bekah]

Btw,  fwiw,  just a few days ago I completed the 6th (The Fugitive)   
of the 7 (it depends on the version) volumes in  In Search of Lost  
Time (Proust).   I'm set to finish the last volume (Time Regained)   
next month,  but I may tackle it at Thanksgiving.   It's been a goal  
to read the whole novel for some time so a like-minded friend and I  
got together and pushed each other into doing it this year (!) and  
we've gone at the rate of about 1 volume a month since June.    There  
were many times when, on my own,  I would have put it down but I'm so  
glad I didn't.

I don't know as it would be considerer a doorstopper in itself  
because it always comes in separate volumes - as far as I know. Only  
The Captive and The Fugitive were together for my "set."    Each  
volume is about 700 pages depending on which version.   I read my  
old  Moncrieff of Swann's Way, then the new Penguin for 3 volumes,   
then the Moncrieff again for the last 3.  This is because I had  
Swann's Way and only bought one or two books at a time and the last 2  
volumes are not sold separately in the Penguin.

Bekah
because it was there


On Nov 16, 2008, at 7:38 AM, Mark Kohut 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.
>
> Miss MacIntosh, My Darling...Marguerite Young......??
>
> A Suitable Boy........Vikram Seth    ???...
>
> the Lanny Budd series........longer than Pilgrimage.......Upton  
> Sinclair
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> The Seducer.........??
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> others?
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