re doorstoppers

[Mark Kohut]

Also ambition.

Author's.

Ours.


--- On Mon, 11/17/08, Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:

> From: Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: re doorstoppers
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Monday, November 17, 2008, 6:53 PM
> Partially, it's the "Lisa Simpson Syndrome,"
> the need to prove
> to ourselves that we're smarter than everyone else. I
> think
> getting lost in the library is another part of the
> "Doorstopper"
> infatuation, finding labyrinths of words/worlds to get lost
> in.
> Borges writes about that, as does Calvino.
> 
> > Why are we attracted to doorstoppers?  I, for one,
> live in them  
> > while I read
> > them for months on end, and then I need to find a
> short book or a  
> > book of
> > short stories to bring me back.
> >
> > Henry Mu
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: James Kyllo
> >
> > That's surprising.  It doesn't
> "feel" as long as dozens of others.
> >
> > On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 8:00 PM, Dave Monroe wrote:
> >
> >> Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy
> >>
> >> Published 1993. 1488 pages softcover. 591,552
> words. The longest
> >> conventional novel in English since Clarissa, and
> officially the
> >> longest novel in the English language published in
> a single volume.
> >>
> >>
> >
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_longest_novels#Vikram_Seth.2C_A_Suitabl
> > e_Boy
> >