re doorstoppers

[Bekah]

I got about 1/2 way A Suitable Boy  - it still sits on my shelf -  
patiently waiting - life got in the way  -  it's  a very good book.

"And Ladies of the Club" by Helen Hooven Santmyer is still on the  
bookstore sshelves, too,  and it's 1185 pages.    I read this fairly  
intelligent woman's historical fiction book - not romance but about  
an Ohio reading group,  the members of which go through the conflicts  
of the years from the end of the Civil War to the the middle of the  
Great Depression.  It was quite enjoyable but I wouldn't necessarily  
recommend it here.

 From the Wiki:    ''Originally published by the Ohio State  
University Press in 1982 and only selling a few hundred copies, the  
book was chosen as a Book of the Month Club selection in 1984, making  
it a best-seller that year. The recognition earned its 88-year-old  
author critical acclaim and literary recognition; according to the  
back cover of the 1985 paperback edition, the novel took Santmyer  
more than 50 years to write."

Anyway,  I was reading this book at work and a co-worker stopped by  
my desk and looked at it,  picked it up feeling the weight, the  
size,  and asked incredulously,  "You're really reading this?"    
"Yeah."  "Oh man,  I didn't know people really read those  
things."  (ha!)

Bekah

On Nov 16, 2008, at 10:44 AM, James Kyllo wrote:

> 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.
>>
>> Miss MacIntosh, My Darling...Marguerite Young......??
>>
>> A Suitable Boy........Vikram Seth    ???...
>>
>> the Lanny Budd series........longer than Pilgrimage.......Upton  
>> Sinclair
>>
>> The Seducer.........??
>>
>>
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>> others?
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