This week's Booking Through Thursday Question was:
What’s the largest, thickest, heaviest book you ever read? Was it because you had to? For pleasure? For school?
It seems like it is the one I am currently using to study for an exam: The Complete Guide to Executive Compensation. That is a mother of a book. And not even really interesting. But it is still a text book, and I am not sure that should count.
I have read War and Peace, which seems to be the Gold Standard of Big Long Novels. And The Winds of War, which I have lately seen sold in two volumes. For crying out loud. And The Thorn Birds was a big, fat epic. And The Brothers Karamazov last year (OMG). Oh! And The Cancer Ward was quite the tome. That was Solzhenitsyn. Those I read for fun.
I've said that I like to read a good epic every summer. But I think I may be avoiding the Russians this year.
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- Anne
- I am an HR professional, perennial student, and volunteer. I read all sorts of articles on personal finance and also the travel section and plenty of books and I will tell you all about them. I still believe "if you want to get something done, you ask the busiest person". I live in Glenview, IL.
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2 comments:
Some day, I will get back into reading Proust. If you call it "one book," then it's the largest but it's really seven. And I read the first two. I guess War & Peace is probably the largest I read, and I read it for a college class so I knew I had to finish it.
Yes, Proust. He has been on my TBR shelf for years.
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