doorstoppers

[James Kyllo]

I've read it. It was a bit of a struggle at times, but worthwhile.
However, the Fuentes which I'd recommend is "The Years with Laura
Diaz".   With Frida Kahlo for tangential p-connection.

On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 10:39 PM,  <malignd at aol.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
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> -----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
>> reaso
> nably widely read.  It's certainly well worth
>> reading.
>>
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>>
>> -----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 widely read.  It's certainly well worth
>> reading.
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>> J
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>> 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
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>> > The Seducer.........??
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>> > others?
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