re doorstoppers

[John Bailey]

There's an equal and opposite reaction though - I've had a number of
doorstoppers that caused probable spinal damage from lugging them around for
so long in the hope that they'll improve.

I've long considered it some kind of inverse law - you'll hate a crappy long
book a lot more than a short piece of rubbish.

I still harbour grudges towards The Brothers Karamazov, The Adventures of
Kavalier and Clay and DeLillo's Underworld for these reasons. My editions
were brick-heavy and made me increasingly angry as they plodded along.

On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 8:19 AM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 5:43 PM, Henry <scuffling at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Why are we attracted to doorstoppers?
>
> Three simple words: value value value ...
>
> Me, I like to get my money's worth out of a book.  For starters ...
>
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