Today's BTT question is about large, heavy books:
What's the largest, thickest, heaviest book you've ever read? Was it because you had to? For pleasure? For school?
My response:
I have to admit that I tend to shy away from large, heavy books. But to answer the question, the biggest book I've read was a paperback version of LONESOME DOVE by Larry McMurtry at 943 pages. I might also add that I read that book in a week because the mini-series was coming to TV and I wanted to read it before it started. I read at every waking moment. I was doing nails for a living back in 1990 and I kept my book in my drawer and any minute I could steal a few pages, I did. The book remains one of my all-time favorites. And the mini-series was equally as wonderful! Tommy Lee Jones and Robert Duvall - you can't go wrong with that!!
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It is on my TBR pile!
ReplyDeleteHere is my BTT: Heavy Books post!
Also one of the longest books I've read. And one of my favorites, too!
ReplyDeleteI have never read the book, seen the movie. Here is my answer to this week's Booking Through Thursday.
ReplyDeletehere's mine http://tributebooksmama.blogspot.com/2011/01/booking-through-thursday_27.html
ReplyDeleteI've not read the books or seen the mini-series either, sounds good though!
ReplyDeleteThis is one that I've yet to read!!
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