doorstoppers

[malignd at aol.com]

Hate to do this by country, but what's the one by the blind Indian guy who writes for the New Yorker?  That's, by reputation, a blow to the skull.


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




-----Original Message-----
From: James Kyllo <jkyllo at gmail.com>
To: markekohut at yahoo.com
Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 1:44 pm
Subject: Re: re doorstoppers








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.........??
>
>
>
> others?
>
>
>
>



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