Please link your reviews for your Very Long Novel Here here. This is only for the Very Long Novel category. This category is classic single work 500 pages or longer, not including introductions or end notes.Omnibus editions of multiple works do not count. Since page counts can vary depending on the edition, average the page count of various editions to determine the length. If you do not have a blog, or somewhere public on the internet where you post book reviews, please write your mini-review/thoughts in the comments section. If you like, you can include the name of your blog and/or the title of the book in your link, like this: "Karen K. @ Books and Chocolate (War and Peace)."
I just finished Anna Karenina on audio (41 hours!) in only 19 reading 'sessions'. It's just so easy to listen to, and I really enjoyed it! I did just notice that in my sign up post I have my name as just 'Carmen' and afterwards I started using Carmen @ TheReadingTrashQueen. Is that a problem?
I have read a great deal of Henry James and know how wordy he can be but "The Wings of the Dove" was a particularly hard book to read and absorb. I happened to be in Venice as I read the last part of the book which is set there, but while that gave me a backdrop to the novel it didn't make reading his endless opaque paragraphs any easier. James provided nice twist and puzzle at the end though.
Trollope's The Way We Live Now was so compelling that I even read it way past my bed time, which is unusual for me, since sleeping is my hobby.
ReplyDeleteI read Don Quixote for the category! It's quite humorous, but unnecessarily long.
ReplyDeleteLinked to my review on Daniel Deronda. Thanks, Karen.
ReplyDeleteCan this be a single work that is not a novel? Because I might read Democracy in America this year. Would it count?
ReplyDeleteGone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell. One of the best books I've ever read.
ReplyDeleteI just finished Anna Karenina on audio (41 hours!) in only 19 reading 'sessions'. It's just so easy to listen to, and I really enjoyed it! I did just notice that in my sign up post I have my name as just 'Carmen' and afterwards I started using Carmen @ TheReadingTrashQueen. Is that a problem?
ReplyDeleteI finished it, but I didn't enjoy it. My review of: Gargantua and Pantagruel
ReplyDeleteWife No. 19 was quite an interesting and insightful autobiography! Highly recommend it.
ReplyDeleteI have read a great deal of Henry James and know how wordy he can be but "The Wings of the Dove" was a particularly hard book to read and absorb. I happened to be in Venice as I read the last part of the book which is set there, but while that gave me a backdrop to the novel it didn't make reading his endless opaque paragraphs any easier. James provided nice twist and puzzle at the end though.
ReplyDeleteCatherine Middleton. I have read The Jewel in the Crown
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