re doorstoppers

[Bekah]

Does The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu count?  I read that 1118  
pager a few years ago.  I wasn't all that impressed except by the  
scope, the age,  the size, the ... well, okay... it was an impressive  
book.

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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