Booking through Thursday this week:
What’s the largest, thickest, heaviest book you ever read? Was it because you had to? For pleasure? For school?
Well, I’ve read both War and Peace and Anna Karenina. Anna I’ve read twice, and I think I would like to read again at some point. And yes, it was for school. I did an entire semester of Tolstoy and one of Gogol. I’m pretty well-versed in Tolstoy and Gogol (in fact, my senior paper was on The Church versus the Devil in Gogol’s Ukrainian stories, which is something everyone wants to know about).
I’ve also read Gone With the Wind, which is also pretty hefty. Oh, and let’s throw in some Dickens (Great Expectations and A Tale of Two Cities). There’s also Leon Uris (Mila 18 and Exodus) not to mention James A. Michener (although, at the moment, I can’t remember what I read, but it probably had a lot of setting).
And, of course, Jane Eyre. Who could forget Jane?
In other words, big, fat books? Bring. Them. On.
Writing Wrongs 
Wow when I was thinking of heavy books I forgot about Dickens and Bronte. Go figure. You’ve read some great books. I’ve been meaning to read some of both Gogol and Tolstoy.
Great books! I just looked up the thickest Dickens books to see where they fall — it looks like Bleak House is one of the heftiest. I read that a few years ago and really liked it.
here’s mine http://tributebooksmama.blogspot.com/2011/01/booking-through-thursday_27.html