doorstoppers

[malignd at aol.com]

Anyone ever read Terra Nostra by Carlos Fuentes?  It's about 800 pages.  



I once tried to read The Old Gringo which is less than 200 pages and is about Ambrose Bierce and Pancho Villa, for God's sake, and I still couldn't finish it, it was so grindingly dull.






-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Ryan <richardryannyc at yahoo.com>
To: pynchon-l at waste.org; malignd at aol.com
Sent: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:56 am
Subject: Re: doorstoppers








Ved Mehta?  Continents of Exile maybe?

Speaking of New Yorker writers, what about Harold Brodkey's ginormous The 
Runaway - with its 100-page pseudo-Joycian description of masturbation?  Anyone 
read it?  


--- On Sun, 11/16/08, malignd at aol.com <malignd at aol.com> wrote:

> From: malignd at aol.com <malignd at aol.com>
> Subject: Re: doorstoppers
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Sunday, November 16, 2008, 7:41 PM
> 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
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> A Suitable Boy is in print, visible in stores and so
> I'd guess
> reasonably wid
ely 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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