re doorstoppers

[Ian Livingston]

How 'bout The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel, by Nikos Kazantzakis?  Brilliant,
but it's a small group of individuals who've actually read it.  I've not yet
met another.
-i

On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 7:38 AM, 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.........??
>
>
>
> others?
>
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