doorstoppers

[Henry]

HMmm, doorstopper authors I loathe....  How about Umberto Eco!  I was a big fan of his essays on semiotics, but I find his novels to be more difficult than OBA with much less payoff for me, but maybe that's just my rusty Latin.

Shouldn't count trilogies bound as one book as doorstopper, or there's no end.  Stephen King?  I don't hate him, but I have better things, such as sleep, to do with my time.

I'm spinning my reading wheels until after Stuffing Day (I have some great recipes if anyone needs), after which I knuckle down and finally read... War and Peace.

Henry Mu
Information, Media, and Technology Management Consultant

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From: MalignD

Milan Kundera.  Now there's a writer I truly loathe.  Reading him is like the scene in Take the Money and Run where a problematic prisoner is put in the box with an insurance salesman (if memory serves).
I read Terra Nostra and remember liking it--doubt i'd read it
again--Milan Kundera of all people wrote an afterword in the edition I
read.