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FROM: "Karen A.K. Keller" <[removed]@tln.lib.mi.us>
REC'D: 2/1/01, 12:32 PM

I've had a request from a patron who wanted "thick books." She said she's
such an avid reader and if she picks up a slim or medium-sized book she
just reads it too fast. If she has a thick book in front of her then she
is more prone to savor and take longer to read. She is not looking for
classics (War & Peace, etc.) nor is she interested in thick romances or
historical fiction (she said she's read plenty of that already).
Basically thick, contemporary fiction. Your suggestions are appreciated.

Karen Keller
Brighton (MI) District Library

FROM: "Rosenthal, Nan" <[removed]@camden.lib.nj.us>
REC'D: 2/1/01, 12:43 PM

The Poisonwood Bible is thick and a good read.

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From: Karen A.K. Keller [[removed]@tln.lib.mi.us]
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 1:20 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Thick Books


I've had a request from a patron who wanted "thick books." She said she's
such an avid reader and if she picks up a slim or medium-sized book she
just reads it too fast. If she has a thick book in front of her then she
is more prone to savor and take longer to read. She is not looking for
classics (War & Peace, etc.) nor is she interested in thick romances or
historical fiction (she said she's read plenty of that already).
Basically thick, contemporary fiction. Your suggestions are appreciated.

Karen Keller
Brighton (MI) District Library

FROM: "Jeanie Brown" <[removed]@mindspring.com>
REC'D: 2/1/01, 12:43 PM

I haven't read it but GLORIA by Keith Maillard seems to fit the criteria.
[removed]@mindspring.com
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From: "Karen A.K. Keller" <[removed]@tln.lib.mi.us>
To: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 10:19 AM
Subject: Thick Books


> I've had a request from a patron who wanted "thick books." She said she's
> such an avid reader and if she picks up a slim or medium-sized book she
> just reads it too fast. If she has a thick book in front of her then she
> is more prone to savor and take longer to read. She is not looking for
> classics (War & Peace, etc.) nor is she interested in thick romances or
> historical fiction (she said she's read plenty of that already).
> Basically thick, contemporary fiction. Your suggestions are appreciated.
>
>
>
> Karen Keller
> Brighton (MI) District Library
>
>
>
>
> ......................................................................
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FROM: "Jeanne Linn" <[removed]@libby.org>
REC'D: 2/1/01, 12:43 PM

Do you think she would like Robert Jordan's "Wheel of Time" Series? They
are about 1,000 pages each! Jeanne

-----Original Message-----
From: Karen A.K. Keller <[removed]@tln.lib.mi.us>
To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
Date: Thursday, February 01, 2001 11:29 AM
Subject: Thick Books


>I've had a request from a patron who wanted "thick books." She said she's
>such an avid reader and if she picks up a slim or medium-sized book she
>just reads it too fast. If she has a thick book in front of her then she
>is more prone to savor and take longer to read. She is not looking for
>classics (War & Peace, etc.) nor is she interested in thick romances or
>historical fiction (she said she's read plenty of that already).
>Basically thick, contemporary fiction. Your suggestions are appreciated.
>
>
>
>Karen Keller
>Brighton (MI) District Library
>
>
>
>
>......................................................................
>Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
>Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html
>

FROM: Greta Ulrich <[removed]@nileslibrary.org>
REC'D: 2/1/01, 12:54 PM

Most of John Irving's books are pretty thick.

Greta Ulrich
Niles Public Library
Niles, IL

-----Original Message-----
From: Karen A.K. Keller [[removed]@tln.lib.mi.us]
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 12:20 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Thick Books


I've had a request from a patron who wanted "thick books." She said she's
such an avid reader and if she picks up a slim or medium-sized book she
just reads it too fast. If she has a thick book in front of her then she
is more prone to savor and take longer to read. She is not looking for
classics (War & Peace, etc.) nor is she interested in thick romances or
historical fiction (she said she's read plenty of that already).
Basically thick, contemporary fiction. Your suggestions are appreciated.

Karen Keller
Brighton (MI) District Library

FROM: [removed]@mln.lib.ma.us
REC'D: 2/1/01, 1:04 PM

Underworld by Don DeLillo is a good choice for a "thick book."

Megan Flynn
Wellesley Free Library
Wellesley, MA

FROM: "Lisa Colcord" <[removed]@ci.glendale.az.us>
REC'D: 2/1/01, 1:04 PM

Off the top of my head, I can think of these:

From the Corner of His Eye by Koontz (622 pages)
Widow for One Year by Irving (537 pages)
A Fine Balance by Mistry (603 pages)
Secret History by Tartt (523 pages)
I Know This Much is True by Lamb (901 pages)
Sophie's Choice by Styron (515 pages)

Admittedly, Sophie's Choice is historical, but it is set in this century, so she might like it anyway. Of the others, I've read and loved Irving's novel, Tartt's novel, and Fine Balance comes highly recommended from another reader. My brother loved the Koontz, insists I need to read it.


Lisa Colcord
Librarian
Glendale Public library
Glendale, AZ

....my views are my own....

-The secret to life is enjoying the passage of time- James Taylor

>>> [removed]@mindspring.com 02/01/01 11:44AM >>>
I haven't read it but GLORIA by Keith Maillard seems to fit the criteria.
[removed]@mindspring.com
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From: "Karen A.K. Keller" <[removed]@tln.lib.mi.us>
To: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 10:19 AM
Subject: Thick Books


> I've had a request from a patron who wanted "thick books." She said she's
> such an avid reader and if she picks up a slim or medium-sized book she
> just reads it too fast. If she has a thick book in front of her then she
> is more prone to savor and take longer to read. She is not looking for
> classics (War & Peace, etc.) nor is she interested in thick romances or
> historical fiction (she said she's read plenty of that already).
> Basically thick, contemporary fiction. Your suggestions are appreciated.
>
>
>
> Karen Keller
> Brighton (MI) District Library
>
>
>
>
> ......................................................................
> Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
> Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html

FROM: Kathleen Stipek <[removed]@exchange.acld.lib.fl.us>
REC'D: 2/1/01, 1:15 PM

Lonesome Dove is another nice, long one--and a good read besides.

........................................................................
Kathleen Stipek, Adult Services/Interlibrary Loans, Alachua County
Library District (FMG), 401 E. University AV, Gainesville FL 32601
[removed]@exchange.acld.lib.fl.us)
352-334-3938 (v) 352-334-3948 (f)

"Non, merci."--Cyrano de Bergerac


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From: Jeanne Linn [[removed]@libby.org]
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 1:29 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Re: Thick Books


Do you think she would like Robert Jordan's "Wheel of Time" Series? They
are about 1,000 pages each! Jeanne

-----Original Message-----
From: Karen A.K. Keller <[removed]@tln.lib.mi.us>
To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
Date: Thursday, February 01, 2001 11:29 AM
Subject: Thick Books


>I've had a request from a patron who wanted "thick books." She said she's
>such an avid reader and if she picks up a slim or medium-sized book she
>just reads it too fast. If she has a thick book in front of her then she
>is more prone to savor and take longer to read. She is not looking for
>classics (War & Peace, etc.) nor is she interested in thick romances or
>historical fiction (she said she's read plenty of that already).
>Basically thick, contemporary fiction. Your suggestions are appreciated.
>
>
>
>Karen Keller
>Brighton (MI) District Library
>
>
>
>
>......................................................................
>Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
>Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html
>

FROM: "Karen A.K. Keller" <[removed]@tln.lib.mi.us>
REC'D: 2/1/01, 1:15 PM

Please, I should have been more specific! No, she doesn't want Science
Fiction and/or Fantasy.


On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Jeanne Linn wrote:

> Do you think she would like Robert Jordan's "Wheel of Time" Series? They
> are about 1,000 pages each! Jeanne
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Karen A.K. Keller <[removed]@tln.lib.mi.us>
> To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
> Date: Thursday, February 01, 2001 11:29 AM
> Subject: Thick Books
>
>
> >I've had a request from a patron who wanted "thick books." She said she's
> >such an avid reader and if she picks up a slim or medium-sized book she
> >just reads it too fast. If she has a thick book in front of her then she
> >is more prone to savor and take longer to read. She is not looking for
> >classics (War & Peace, etc.) nor is she interested in thick romances or
> >historical fiction (she said she's read plenty of that already).
> >Basically thick, contemporary fiction. Your suggestions are appreciated.
> >
> >
> >
> >Karen Keller
> >Brighton (MI) District Library
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >......................................................................
> >Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
> >Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html
> >
>
>
> ......................................................................
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Karen Keller
Brighton (MI) District Library

FROM: Martha Hansen <[removed]@nils.lib.il.us>
REC'D: 2/1/01, 1:26 PM

How about Anthony Powells' Dance to the Music of Time, it is four volumes.
Each volume is very thick.

Martha Hansen
Woodstock Public Library

p.s. or the Oxford English Dictionary ;-)

-----Original Message-----
From: Karen A.K. Keller [[removed]@tln.lib.mi.us]
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 12:20 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Thick Books


I've had a request from a patron who wanted "thick books." She said she's
such an avid reader and if she picks up a slim or medium-sized book she
just reads it too fast. If she has a thick book in front of her then she
is more prone to savor and take longer to read. She is not looking for
classics (War & Peace, etc.) nor is she interested in thick romances or
historical fiction (she said she's read plenty of that already).
Basically thick, contemporary fiction. Your suggestions are appreciated.

Karen Keller
Brighton (MI) District Library

FROM: Joan Ennis <[removed]@selco.lib.mn.us>
REC'D: 2/1/01, 1:26 PM

"Prodigal Summer" is over 400 pages.

Jeanne Linn wrote:

> Do you think she would like Robert Jordan's "Wheel of Time" Series? They
> are about 1,000 pages each! Jeanne
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Karen A.K. Keller <[removed]@tln.lib.mi.us>
> To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
> Date: Thursday, February 01, 2001 11:29 AM
> Subject: Thick Books
>
> >I've had a request from a patron who wanted "thick books." She said she's
> >such an avid reader and if she picks up a slim or medium-sized book she
> >just reads it too fast. If she has a thick book in front of her then she
> >is more prone to savor and take longer to read. She is not looking for
> >classics (War & Peace, etc.) nor is she interested in thick romances or
> >historical fiction (she said she's read plenty of that already).
> >Basically thick, contemporary fiction. Your suggestions are appreciated.
> >
> >
> >
> >Karen Keller
> >Brighton (MI) District Library
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >......................................................................
> >Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
> >Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html
> >
>
> ......................................................................
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FROM: Mary Van Dyke <[removed]@CLSN3046.glenview.lib.il.us>
REC'D: 2/1/01, 1:37 PM

I'd recommend Barbara kingsolver's POISONWOOD BIBLE and her latest
PRODRIGAL
SUMMER.

Mary Van Dyke
Glenview (IL) Public Library

FROM: "Mary Rindfleisch" <[removed]@biblio.org>
REC'D: 2/1/01, 1:47 PM

The first one who pops to mind is John Irving. Also Pat Conroy, Tom Wolfe,
some of Tom Keneally, Tom Clancy and Stephen King if she is into that kind
of thing, Elizabeth George if mysteries are acceptable, some of Nelson
DeMille, Ken Follett, Robert Ludlum. Everything else I can think of off the
top of my head is historical, I'm afraid.

Mary Rindfleisch
Adult Services/Readers' Advisory Librarian
Ridgefield Library
472 Main St.
Ridgefield, CT 06877
Phone: 203-438-2282
e-mail: [removed]@biblio.org

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From: [removed]@maillist.webrary.org
[[removed]@maillist.webrary.org]On Behalf Of Karen A.K. Keller
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 1:20 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Thick Books


I've had a request from a patron who wanted "thick books." She said she's
such an avid reader and if she picks up a slim or medium-sized book she
just reads it too fast. If she has a thick book in front of her then she
is more prone to savor and take longer to read. She is not looking for
classics (War & Peace, etc.) nor is she interested in thick romances or
historical fiction (she said she's read plenty of that already).
Basically thick, contemporary fiction. Your suggestions are appreciated.

Karen Keller
Brighton (MI) District Library

FROM: "Mary Rindfleisch" <[removed]@biblio.org>
REC'D: 2/1/01, 1:47 PM

Ooh -- a couple more just occured to me -- Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, Neal
Stephenson's _Cryptonomicon_. And of course there are hundreds of thick SF
and fantasy titles. It didn't sound like your patron had that kind of thing
in mind, but there are some that are way beyond genre strictures.

Mary Rindfleisch
Adult Services/Readers' Advisory Librarian
Ridgefield Library
472 Main St.
Ridgefield, CT 06877
Phone: 203-438-2282
e-mail: [removed]@biblio.org

FROM: "Jeanne Linn" <[removed]@libby.org>
REC'D: 2/1/01, 1:58 PM

These are I guess historical too, so maybe she has read, Diana Gabaldan's
Outlander series. Jeanne

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From: Karen A.K. Keller <[removed]@tln.lib.mi.us>
To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
Date: Thursday, February 01, 2001 11:29 AM
Subject: Thick Books


>I've had a request from a patron who wanted "thick books." She said she's
>such an avid reader and if she picks up a slim or medium-sized book she
>just reads it too fast. If she has a thick book in front of her then she
>is more prone to savor and take longer to read. She is not looking for
>classics (War & Peace, etc.) nor is she interested in thick romances or
>historical fiction (she said she's read plenty of that already).
>Basically thick, contemporary fiction. Your suggestions are appreciated.
>
>
>
>Karen Keller
>Brighton (MI) District Library
>
>
>
>
>......................................................................
>Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
>Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html
>

FROM: Mary Ann Bakken <[removed]@linc.lib.il.us>
REC'D: 2/1/01, 1:58 PM

How about Blonde, by Joyce Carol Oates? I'd heard and read good things and
took it home, then brought it back unread just BECAUSE it was too thick and
heavy for me to read comfortably! (I feel like such a wimp, but there you
are.)

Mary Ann Bakken
St. Charles (IL) Public Library

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> From: Karen A.K. Keller[[removed]@tln.lib.mi.us]
> Reply To: Fiction_L
> Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 12:58 PM
> To: Fiction_L
> Subject: Thick Books
>
> I've had a request from a patron who wanted "thick books." She said she's
> such an avid reader and if she picks up a slim or medium-sized book she
> just reads it too fast. If she has a thick book in front of her then she
> is more prone to savor and take longer to read. She is not looking for
> classics (War & Peace, etc.) nor is she interested in thick romances or
> historical fiction (she said she's read plenty of that already).
> Basically thick, contemporary fiction. Your suggestions are appreciated.
>
>
>
> Karen Keller
> Brighton (MI) District Library
>
>
>
>
> ......................................................................
> Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
> Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html
>

FROM: "Bonnie Zeitlin" <[removed]@webrary.org>
REC'D: 2/1/01, 2:09 PM

Lion's Game by Nelson DeMille (677 pages) is a possibility.


Bonnie Zeitlin
Reference Librarian
Morton Grove Public Library
Morton Grove, IL
(847) 965-4220
[removed]@webrary.org
http://www.webrary.org
Opinions expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect
official Library policy.


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>From: "Karen A.K. Keller" <[removed]@tln.lib.mi.us>
>To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>Subject: Thick Books
>Date: Thu, Feb 1, 2001, 12:19 PM
>

> I've had a request from a patron who wanted "thick books." She said she's
> such an avid reader and if she picks up a slim or medium-sized book she
> just reads it too fast. If she has a thick book in front of her then she
> is more prone to savor and take longer to read. She is not looking for
> classics (War & Peace, etc.) nor is she interested in thick romances or
> historical fiction (she said she's read plenty of that already).
> Basically thick, contemporary fiction. Your suggestions are appreciated.
>
>
>
> Karen Keller
> Brighton (MI) District Library
>
>
>
>
> ......................................................................
> Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
> Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html
>

FROM: "Gayle Richardson" <[removed]@spl.org>
REC'D: 2/1/01, 2:09 PM

I strongly recommend THE ADVENTURES OF GOODNIGHT AND LOVING by Leslie Thomas. It's 510 pages and even at that you don't want it to end. (And, no, it's NOT
about the Goodnight and Loving cattle trail). Gayle Richardson Seattle Public

>>> [removed]@tln.lib.mi.us 02/01/01 10:22 AM >>>
I've had a request from a patron who wanted "thick books." She said she's
such an avid reader and if she picks up a slim or medium-sized book she
just reads it too fast. If she has a thick book in front of her then she
is more prone to savor and take longer to read. She is not looking for
classics (War & Peace, etc.) nor is she interested in thick romances or
historical fiction (she said she's read plenty of that already).
Basically thick, contemporary fiction. Your suggestions are appreciated.

Karen Keller
Brighton (MI) District Library

FROM: Lisa Olsen <[removed]@clsn1269.cumberland.lib.nc.us>
REC'D: 2/1/01, 2:19 PM

Tom Clancy writes fairly hefty volumes. His latest "The Bear and the
Dragon" was over 1000 pages. However, I think his earlier shorter books
are better and if your patron has not already read him she may be
deliberately avoiding him.

__________________________________________________

Lisa A. Olsen

Information Services

Cumberland County Public Library & Information Center
East Regional Library
4809 Clinton Road
Fayetteville, NC 28301-8401

(910)485-2955

On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Karen A.K. Keller wrote:

> I've had a request from a patron who wanted "thick books." She said she's
> such an avid reader and if she picks up a slim or medium-sized book she
> just reads it too fast. If she has a thick book in front of her then she
> is more prone to savor and take longer to read. She is not looking for
> classics (War & Peace, etc.) nor is she interested in thick romances or
> historical fiction (she said she's read plenty of that already).
> Basically thick, contemporary fiction. Your suggestions are appreciated.
>
>
>
> Karen Keller
> Brighton (MI) District Library
>
>
>
>
> ......................................................................
> Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
> Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html
>

FROM: Kathleen Stipek <[removed]@exchange.acld.lib.fl.us>
REC'D: 2/1/01, 2:19 PM

Or R.F. Delderfield?

........................................................................
.....................
Kathleen Stipek, Adult Services/Interlibrary Loans, Alachua County
Library District (FMG), 401 E. University AV, Gainesville FL 32601
[removed]@exchange.acld.lib.fl.us)
352-334-3938 (v) 352-334-3948 (f)

"Non, merci."--Cyrano de Bergerac


-----Original Message-----
From: Martha Hansen [[removed]@nils.lib.il.us]
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 1:52 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: RE: Thick Books


How about Anthony Powells' Dance to the Music of Time, it is four volumes.
Each volume is very thick.

Martha Hansen
Woodstock Public Library

p.s. or the Oxford English Dictionary ;-)

-----Original Message-----
From: Karen A.K. Keller [[removed]@tln.lib.mi.us]
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 12:20 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Thick Books


I've had a request from a patron who wanted "thick books." She said she's
such an avid reader and if she picks up a slim or medium-sized book she
just reads it too fast. If she has a thick book in front of her then she
is more prone to savor and take longer to read. She is not looking for
classics (War & Peace, etc.) nor is she interested in thick romances or
historical fiction (she said she's read plenty of that already).
Basically thick, contemporary fiction. Your suggestions are appreciated.

Karen Keller
Brighton (MI) District Library

FROM: Gail Ellis - LIBRARYX <[removed]@MAIL.MARICOPA.GOV>
REC'D: 2/1/01, 2:30 PM

A Man in Full by Tom Wolfe (889 pages). It was a good read.


Gail Ellis
Reference Librarian
North Central Regional Library - Maricopa County Library District
Phoenix, AZ

...my views are my own...

-----Original Message-----
From: Karen A.K. Keller [[removed]@tln.lib.mi.us]
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 11:20 AM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Thick Books


I've had a request from a patron who wanted "thick books." She said she's
such an avid reader and if she picks up a slim or medium-sized book she
just reads it too fast. If she has a thick book in front of her then she
is more prone to savor and take longer to read. She is not looking for
classics (War & Peace, etc.) nor is she interested in thick romances or
historical fiction (she said she's read plenty of that already).
Basically thick, contemporary fiction. Your suggestions are appreciated.

Karen Keller
Brighton (MI) District Library

FROM: Barry Trott <[removed]@mail.wrl.org>
REC'D: 2/1/01, 2:30 PM

Vikram Seth -- A Suitable Boy

Barry

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Readers' Services Librarian Williamsburg VA 23188
Williamsburg Regional Library Phone: 757-259-4050 or
[removed]@mail.wrl.org 757-259-7720
http://www.wrl.org/REF/Bookweb_Main.html
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FROM: [removed]@chuma.cas.usf.edu
REC'D: 2/1/01, 2:40 PM

I know you said no 'classics,' but Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset is
a wonderful book.

FROM: "Doxtator, Jan" <[removed]@uwsp.edu>
REC'D: 2/1/01, 3:02 PM

I am so intrigued. Is there some reason she can't just go to the
fiction stacks and pull fat books off the shelf, read the blurbs or a few
pages? For many years, we did a display every summer called "Big Fat Books
for Long Summer Reads" and selected books for the display as I've described
above. Very easy and fun too!

Jan Doxtator
Portage County Public Library
Stevens Point, WI 54481

FROM: Beth McGuire <[removed]@ccl.charleston.lib.sc.us>
REC'D: 2/1/01, 3:02 PM

Off the top of my head ...


Tully by Paullina Simons

Beach Music by Pat Conroy (and others by him)


Beth

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Readers' Advisory Services 843.805.6879

Charleston County Public Library

email: [removed]@ccpl.org

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FROM: "Carol Kubala" <[removed]@columbiapl.libct.org>
REC'D: 2/1/01, 3:12 PM

I'd recommend Colleen McCullough's books, Ceasar's Women, First man in Rome,
Grass Crown, etc.

--
Carol Kubala
Adult Services Librarian
Saxton B. Little Free Library/Columbia, CT
860 228-0350 - voice
860 228-1569 - fax

FROM: Annette Weiss <[removed]@metronet.lib.mi.us>
REC'D: 2/1/01, 3:12 PM

This seems silly, but I guess we've had sillier! In terms of thick, and
coincidentally good, I suggest Seth Vikram's A Suitable Boy.

Vikram Seth's novel is, at its core, a love story: the tale of Lata's--and
her mother, Mrs. Rupa Mehra's--attempts to find a suitable boy for Lata,
through love or through exacting maternal appraisal. Set in the early
1950s in an India newly independent and struggling through a time of
crisis, A Suitable Boy takes us into the richly imagined world of four
large extended families and spins a compulsively readable tale of their
lives and loves. A sweeping panoramic portrait of a complex, multiethnic
society in flux, A Suitable Boy remains the story of ordinary people
caught up in a web of love and ambition, humor and sadness, prejudice and
reconciliation, the most delicate social etiquette and the most appalling
violence

Annette
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FROM: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 2/1/01, 3:23 PM

>From: Kathleen Stipek <[removed]@exchange.acld.lib.fl.us>
>Reply-To: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>Subject: RE: Thick Books
>Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:47:43 -0500
>
>Lonesome Dove is another nice, long one--and a good read besides.
>

As indeed are most of Larry McMurtry's, with the exception of "Hud," aka
"Horseman Pass By."

Also anything by Edward Rutherfurd or Sharon Kay Penman should fit this
description.

And Tom Clancy!!

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FROM: Ann Chambers Theis <[removed]@co.chesterfield.va.us>
REC'D: 2/1/01, 3:44 PM

I don't think I've seen these fairly recent titles mentioned yet - the
Dunning is a mystery set during WWII.

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon (659p)
Horse Heaven by Jane Smiley (561p)
Two O'Clock Eastern Wartime by John Dunning (500p)
Ahab's Wife by Sena Naslund (668p)
The Cloud Sketcher by Richard Rayner (448p) due Feb 5th
The Colony of Unrequited Dreams by Wayne Johnston (556p)
Ann

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FROM: Heidi McCraw <[removed]@monroe.lib.mi.us>
REC'D: 2/1/01, 3:44 PM

Antarctic Navigation, by Elizabeth Arthur

--------------------------------
Heidi K. McCraw
Head of Collection Services
Monroe County Library System
3700 S. Custer, Monroe, MI 48161


On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Karen A.K. Keller wrote:

> I've had a request from a patron who wanted "thick books." She said she's
> such an avid reader and if she picks up a slim or medium-sized book she
> just reads it too fast. If she has a thick book in front of her then she
> is more prone to savor and take longer to read. She is not looking for
> classics (War & Peace, etc.) nor is she interested in thick romances or
> historical fiction (she said she's read plenty of that already).
> Basically thick, contemporary fiction. Your suggestions are appreciated.
>
>
>
> Karen Keller
> Brighton (MI) District Library
>
>
>
>
> ......................................................................
> Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
> Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html
>

FROM: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 2/1/01, 3:54 PM

>From: Martha Hansen <[removed]@nils.lib.il.us>
>Reply-To: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>Subject: RE: Thick Books
>Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 12:51:40 -0600
>
>How about Anthony Powells' Dance to the Music of Time, it is four volumes.
>Each volume is very thick.
>
>

And if she has intellectual leanings, there's always Proust...
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FROM: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 2/1/01, 3:54 PM

How could I possibly have forgotten...James Michener!!
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FROM: Brent Miller <[removed]@library.ca.gov>
REC'D: 2/1/01, 4:04 PM

Ursula Hegi's two most recent works are not only thick, but companion
pieces -- they have families and characters in common:

Stones from the River
The Vision of Emma Blau


Brent

FROM: JANE BAIRD <[removed]@library.ci.anchorage.ak.us>
REC'D: 2/1/01, 4:04 PM

The newest book by Dean Koontz is
622 p. of gripping reading pleasure. It's
definitely one of his best so far if your patron likes suspenseful psycho-
drama. The title is "From the Corner of His Eye".

Jane Baird
Anchorage Municipal Libraries

FROM: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 2/1/01, 4:16 PM

Taylor Caldwell and Susan Howatch have written some pretty thick items.
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FROM: Kathleen Stipek <[removed]@exchange.acld.lib.fl.us>
REC'D: 2/1/01, 4:36 PM

Also The Shell Seekers, September, and Coming Home by Rosamund Pilcher. All
are 500+ pages and good reads.

........................................................................
.....................
Kathleen Stipek, Adult Services/Interlibrary Loans, Alachua County
Library District (FMG), 401 E. University AV, Gainesville FL 32601
[removed]@exchange.acld.lib.fl.us)
352-334-3938 (v) 352-334-3948 (f)

"Non, merci."--Cyrano de Bergerac


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From: Heidi McCraw [[removed]@monroe.lib.mi.us]
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 3:40 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Re: Thick Books


Antarctic Navigation, by Elizabeth Arthur

--------------------------------
Heidi K. McCraw
Head of Collection Services
Monroe County Library System
3700 S. Custer, Monroe, MI 48161


On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Karen A.K. Keller wrote:

> I've had a request from a patron who wanted "thick books." She said she's
> such an avid reader and if she picks up a slim or medium-sized book she
> just reads it too fast. If she has a thick book in front of her then she
> is more prone to savor and take longer to read. She is not looking for
> classics (War & Peace, etc.) nor is she interested in thick romances or
> historical fiction (she said she's read plenty of that already).
> Basically thick, contemporary fiction. Your suggestions are appreciated.
>
>
>
> Karen Keller
> Brighton (MI) District Library
>
>
>
>
> ......................................................................
> Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
> Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html
>

FROM: "Matthew Shaw" <[removed]@and.lib.in.us>
REC'D: 2/1/01, 4:47 PM

You might also try Maeve Binchy.

Matthew Shaw
Anderson Public Library

FROM: "Mary Rindfleisch" <[removed]@biblio.org>
REC'D: 2/1/01, 4:47 PM

One more, if World War II is not considered too "historical" for your
patron -- Marge Piercy's _Gone to Soldiers_ -- a good, long, absorbing read.

Mary Rindfleisch
Adult Services/Readers' Advisory Librarian
Ridgefield Library
472 Main St.
Ridgefield, CT 06877
Phone: 203-438-2282
e-mail: [removed]@biblio.org

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[[removed]@maillist.webrary.org]On Behalf Of Heidi McCraw
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 3:40 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Re: Thick Books


Antarctic Navigation, by Elizabeth Arthur

--------------------------------
Heidi K. McCraw
Head of Collection Services
Monroe County Library System
3700 S. Custer, Monroe, MI 48161


On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Karen A.K. Keller wrote:

> I've had a request from a patron who wanted "thick books." She said she's
> such an avid reader and if she picks up a slim or medium-sized book she
> just reads it too fast. If she has a thick book in front of her then she
> is more prone to savor and take longer to read. She is not looking for
> classics (War & Peace, etc.) nor is she interested in thick romances or
> historical fiction (she said she's read plenty of that already).
> Basically thick, contemporary fiction. Your suggestions are appreciated.
>
>
>
> Karen Keller
> Brighton (MI) District Library
>
>
>
>
> ......................................................................
> Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
> Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html
>

FROM: "Marney Cooley" <[removed]@frlib.org>
REC'D: 2/1/01, 5:19 PM

Poisonwood Bible or The River King or Prodigal Summer? How thick is thick:)
Marney Cooley, Director
Flat Rock Public Library
25200 Gibraltar Rd.
Flat Rock, MI 48134
Fax: 734 789-8266
e-mail: [removed]@frlib.org
----- Original Message -----
From: Karen A.K. Keller <[removed]@tln.lib.mi.us>
To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 12:19 PM
Subject: Thick Books


> I've had a request from a patron who wanted "thick books." She said she's
> such an avid reader and if she picks up a slim or medium-sized book she
> just reads it too fast. If she has a thick book in front of her then she
> is more prone to savor and take longer to read. She is not looking for
> classics (War & Peace, etc.) nor is she interested in thick romances or
> historical fiction (she said she's read plenty of that already).
> Basically thick, contemporary fiction. Your suggestions are appreciated.
>
>
>
> Karen Keller
> Brighton (MI) District Library
>
>
>
>
> ......................................................................
> Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
> Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html

FROM: Tracey Callison <[removed]@addison.lib.il.us>
REC'D: 2/1/01, 5:39 PM

I enjoyed Jane Smiley's _Horse Heaven_ (clocking in at a respectable 561pp.)
which was an interesting look behind the scenes at the horse racing world
and its denizens (including the horses). As far as Tom Clancy goes - I
really couldn't recommend his latest to anyone who actually likes his
previous work. It's incredibly didactic (politically) and was really
lacking or light on (IMO) the elements that made me enjoy his earlier work
so much (the technical details, military operations, etc.).

I can empathize with the patron - I often find myself looking for new things
to read that are either quite thick or are a trilogy/series, so that if I
enjoy it there's plenty to keep me occupied. But then, I read a lot of
SF/F, which gives me a deep well to draw from...

Tracey Callison
Addison PL

FROM: Melissa Norton <[removed]@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 2/1/01, 6:00 PM

Richard North Patterson has written several
interconnected (PROTECT AND DEFEND pulls them all
together) novels of generous (but enjoyable) length.

Melissa

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FROM: Melissa Norton <[removed]@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 2/1/01, 6:11 PM

Maeve Binchy


Melissa

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FROM: "Linda Lundquist" <[removed]@mediaone.net>
REC'D: 2/1/01, 6:52 PM

The Blind Assassin is 521 pp. I count that as pretty thick.

Linda Lundquist
Youth Services Librarian
Bartlett Public Library

FROM: [removed]@aol.com
REC'D: 2/1/01, 10:43 PM

In a message dated 2/1/2001 1:25:44 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[removed]@tln.lib.mi.us writes:

<<
I've had a request from a patron who wanted "thick books." She said she's
such an avid reader and if she picks up a slim or medium-sized book she
just reads it too fast. If she has a thick book in front of her then she
is more prone to savor and take longer to read. She is not looking for
classics (War & Peace, etc.) nor is she interested in thick romances or
historical fiction (she said she's read plenty of that already).
Basically thick, contemporary fiction. Your suggestions are appreciated. >>

Stephen King's The Stand is certainly thick.
Jean Auel's Clan of the Cave Bear, et al.
Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series.
Nora Roberts' contemporaries such as Montana Sky, Heart of the Sea

Diane Chamberlain's books such as Brass Ring, The Courage Tree, etc.

There are just a few that come to mind.

Binnie Syril Braunstein
romance novelist/former librarian

FROM: [removed]@aol.com
REC'D: 2/1/01, 11:04 PM

Tom Wolfe's THE RIGHT STUFF looked pretty hefty.

Also - even if your patron says she's read all the historical novels, ask her
if she's tried Celeste DeBlasis's The Tiger's Woman?

And how about M.M. Kaye - The Far Pavillions

And Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet.

Binnie Syril Braunstein
romance novelist/former librarian

FROM: Sarah Flowers <[removed]@scinet.co.santa-clara.ca.us>
REC'D: 2/1/01, 11:04 PM

How about ...And Ladies of the Club, by Helen Hooven Santmyer, at a hefty
1176 pages? And did someone mention Underworld, by Don DeLillo? Although
you said she doesn't like science fiction and fantasy, she might want to
give Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephenson a try--it's as much historical
novel as it is science fiction, as it goes back and forth between World
War II and the present/near-future.

Also, The Winds of War (885 pp) and War and Remembrance (1042 pp) by
Herman Wouk.


Sarah Flowers, Community Librarian
Morgan Hill Public Library
17575 Peak Avenue, Morgan Hill CA 95037-4128
[removed]@scinet.co.santa-clara.ca.us
*** All standard disclaimers apply ***

On Thu, 1 Feb 2001 [removed]@aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 2/1/2001 1:25:44 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> [removed]@tln.lib.mi.us writes:
>
> <<
> I've had a request from a patron who wanted "thick books." She said she's
> such an avid reader and if she picks up a slim or medium-sized book she
> just reads it too fast. If she has a thick book in front of her then she
> is more prone to savor and take longer to read. She is not looking for
> classics (War & Peace, etc.) nor is she interested in thick romances or
> historical fiction (she said she's read plenty of that already).
> Basically thick, contemporary fiction. Your suggestions are appreciated. >>
>
> Stephen King's The Stand is certainly thick.
> Jean Auel's Clan of the Cave Bear, et al.
> Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series.
> Nora Roberts' contemporaries such as Montana Sky, Heart of the Sea
>
> Diane Chamberlain's books such as Brass Ring, The Courage Tree, etc.
>
> There are just a few that come to mind.
>
> Binnie Syril Braunstein
> romance novelist/former librarian
>
> ......................................................................
> Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
> Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html
>

FROM: [removed]@aol.com
REC'D: 2/1/01, 11:24 PM

And there's always John Galsworthy and The Forsyte Saga, etc.

Binnie Syril Braunstein
romance novelist/former librarian

FROM: [removed]@aol.com
REC'D: 2/1/01, 11:24 PM

How about Puzo's The Godfather?

Binnie Syril Braunstein
romance novelist/former librarian

FROM: "Batraxos" <[removed]@worldnet.att.net>
REC'D: 2/1/01, 11:34 PM

I read a good one last summer that was about 900 pages or so. Called "The
Rift" by Walter J. Williams. While he usually writes SciFi, this one wasn't.

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From: Karen A.K. Keller <[removed]@tln.lib.mi.us>
To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
Date: Thursday, February 01, 2001 1:25 PM
Subject: Thick Books


>I've had a request from a patron who wanted "thick books." She said she's
>such an avid reader and if she picks up a slim or medium-sized book she
>just reads it too fast. If she has a thick book in front of her then she
>is more prone to savor and take longer to read. She is not looking for
>classics (War & Peace, etc.) nor is she interested in thick romances or
>historical fiction (she said she's read plenty of that already).
>Basically thick, contemporary fiction. Your suggestions are appreciated.
>
>
>
>Karen Keller
>Brighton (MI) District Library
>
>
>
>
>......................................................................
>Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
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>

FROM: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 2/2/01, 7:43 AM

Here are some more possibilities:

Gary Jennings ("Aztec," "Spangle," "Journeyer," et al.)
Marion Zimmer Bradley, "The Mists of Avalon" and sequels (Arthurian)
Umberto Eco, "The Name of the Rose"
John Creasey, "The Masters of Bow Street"
Colleen McCullough ("The Thorn Birds," which is generally promoted as
mainstream, and her historicals about Ancient Rome)
Prehistoric fic by Jean Auel, Linda Lay Shuler, and Kathleen & W. Michael
Gear
Historical novels by Fred Mustard Stewart, Lawrence Schoonover, Paul I.
Wellman, Margaret George, Thomas B. Costain, F. Van Wyck Mason
"Gone With the Wind"
Noah Gordon's "Shaman"
James Clavell's Oriental series ("Shogun" et al.)
Roberta Gellis's Roselynde Chronicles (yes, I know she's considered a
romance author, but I think of these as historicals with a romance angle)
Irving Stone's biographical novels
Gwen Bristow's "Celia Garth," "Jubilee Trail"
Richard Adams's "Shardik," "Watership Down"
"Voyage," by Sterling Hayden
If she likes McMurtry, try "Brules," by Harry Combs, "Little Big Man" by
Thomas Berger, and "Heart of the Country" & "The Further Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn," by Greg Matthews
"Lady of the Forest," Jennifer Roberson (Robin Hood from Marian's POV)
"Maori," Alan Dean Foster
Mary Johnston's "The Long Roll" and "Cease Firing"
Arthur Hailey
"The Once & Future King"
Peter Danielson's series of Biblical historicals (I think there are about 20
of them now)
Celeste deBlasis's "Swan" series
James Michener
Susan Howatch
Taylor Caldwell
Dorothy Dunnett's Niccolo & Lymond historical serieses
John Jakes: the Kent Family Chronicles and Civil War Trilogy
Sharon Kay Penman
Edward Rutherfurd


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FROM: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 2/2/01, 8:01 AM

How did I forget...Herman Wouk's "Winds of War" and "War & Remembrance."
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FROM: "Adrienne Furness" <[removed]@rochester.rr.com>
REC'D: 2/2/01, 8:01 AM

I'd recommend _Bellefleur_ by Joyce Carol Oates (558 pages).

Adrienne Furness
Maplewood Community Library
Rochester, NY

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From: "Karen A.K. Keller" <[removed]@tln.lib.mi.us>
To: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 1:19 PM
Subject: Thick Books


> I've had a request from a patron who wanted "thick books." She said she's
> such an avid reader and if she picks up a slim or medium-sized book she
> just reads it too fast. If she has a thick book in front of her then she
> is more prone to savor and take longer to read. She is not looking for
> classics (War & Peace, etc.) nor is she interested in thick romances or
> historical fiction (she said she's read plenty of that already).
> Basically thick, contemporary fiction. Your suggestions are appreciated.
>
>
>
> Karen Keller
> Brighton (MI) District Library
>
>
>
>
> ......................................................................
> Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
> Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html

FROM: "Mary Rindfleisch" <[removed]@biblio.org>
REC'D: 2/2/01, 9:14 AM

I love the many suggestions for thick books, many of which I have read and
enjoyed, AND I don't want to be nitpicky BUT it seems to me that many, many
of the suggestions ignore the very specific directive by the original poster
that her patron did not want historical fiction or romance suggestions. I
would like to suggest that we all read the original message a little more
carefully before firing off our replies. While some of the free associating
that goes on is very inspiring in a general way, it is not particularly
helpful to the librarian with a patron waiting for a particular type of
answer. No offense meant to any who have made wonderful if off-the-point
suggestions -- maybe we can use this thread for other purposes as well!

Mary Rindfleisch
Adult Services/Readers' Advisory Librarian
Ridgefield Library
472 Main St.
Ridgefield, CT 06877
Phone: 203-438-2282
e-mail: [removed]@biblio.org

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From: [removed]@maillist.webrary.org
[[removed]@maillist.webrary.org]On Behalf Of christine jeffords
Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 8:36 AM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: RE: Thick Books


Here are some more possibilities:

Gary Jennings ("Aztec," "Spangle," "Journeyer," et al.)
Marion Zimmer Bradley, "The Mists of Avalon" and sequels (Arthurian)
Umberto Eco, "The Name of the Rose"
John Creasey, "The Masters of Bow Street"
Colleen McCullough ("The Thorn Birds," which is generally promoted as
mainstream, and her historicals about Ancient Rome)
Prehistoric fic by Jean Auel, Linda Lay Shuler, and Kathleen & W. Michael
Gear
Historical novels by Fred Mustard Stewart, Lawrence Schoonover, Paul I.
Wellman, Margaret George, Thomas B. Costain, F. Van Wyck Mason
"Gone With the Wind"
Noah Gordon's "Shaman"
James Clavell's Oriental series ("Shogun" et al.)
Roberta Gellis's Roselynde Chronicles (yes, I know she's considered a
romance author, but I think of these as historicals with a romance angle)
Irving Stone's biographical novels
Gwen Bristow's "Celia Garth," "Jubilee Trail"
Richard Adams's "Shardik," "Watership Down"
"Voyage," by Sterling Hayden
If she likes McMurtry, try "Brules," by Harry Combs, "Little Big Man" by
Thomas Berger, and "Heart of the Country" & "The Further Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn," by Greg Matthews
"Lady of the Forest," Jennifer Roberson (Robin Hood from Marian's POV)
"Maori," Alan Dean Foster
Mary Johnston's "The Long Roll" and "Cease Firing"
Arthur Hailey
"The Once & Future King"
Peter Danielson's series of Biblical historicals (I think there are about 20
of them now)
Celeste deBlasis's "Swan" series
James Michener
Susan Howatch
Taylor Caldwell
Dorothy Dunnett's Niccolo & Lymond historical serieses
John Jakes: the Kent Family Chronicles and Civil War Trilogy
Sharon Kay Penman
Edward Rutherfurd


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FROM: [removed]@aol.com
REC'D: 2/2/01, 9:35 AM

I assume she's read Gone With The Wind.

Binnie Syril Braunstein
romance novelist/former librarian - who hasn't yet read GWTW

FROM: Nancy Eggert <[removed]@chipublib.org>
REC'D: 2/2/01, 9:56 AM

Some of Norman Mailer's titles (Harlot's Ghost, Executioner's Song) would be
classified as big thick books. I know the paperback versions have well over
1,000 pages.


JANE BAIRD wrote:

> The newest book by Dean Koontz is
> 622 p. of gripping reading pleasure. It's
> definitely one of his best so far if your patron likes suspenseful psycho-
> drama. The title is "From the Corner of His Eye".
>
> Jane Baird
> Anchorage Municipal Libraries
>
> ......................................................................
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FROM: Ned Heeger-Brehm <[removed]@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 2/2/01, 12:25 PM

I've just finished Haruki Murakami's Wind-Up Bird
Chronicle for a book club (enjoyed it, though a bit
spacey and repetitive).

Also Last Samurai, by Helen Dewitt (really enjoyed,
but hard first chapter).

And Instance of the Fingerpost, by Ian Pears, unless
that's already been mentioned (LOVED it -- a great
"thick book."

Ned Heeger-Brehm
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FROM: Patricia Anderson <[removed]@mail.pratt.lib.md.us>
REC'D: 2/2/01, 12:57 PM

Anything by James Michener, "War and Rememberance" and "Winds of War" by
Herman Wouk, "An Instance of the Fingerpost" by Ian Pears.

Pat A., FCPL

FROM: Debbie Darwine <[removed]@lagrangelibrary.org>
REC'D: 2/2/01, 12:57 PM

Handling Sin by Michael Malone is 500+, and I thought it was very absorbing.

Debbie Darwine
LaGrange Public Library
LaGrange, IL

FROM: Amy Brozio-Andrews <[removed]@uhls.lib.ny.us>
REC'D: 2/2/01, 1:28 PM

Try "Gloria" by Maillard - very thick book, but worth every page!

Amy Brozio-Andrews
Albany Public Library
Albany, NY


"Karen A.K. Keller" wrote:

> I've had a request from a patron who wanted "thick books." She said she's
> such an avid reader and if she picks up a slim or medium-sized book she
> just reads it too fast. If she has a thick book in front of her then she
> is more prone to savor and take longer to read. She is not looking for
> classics (War & Peace, etc.) nor is she interested in thick romances or
> historical fiction (she said she's read plenty of that already).
> Basically thick, contemporary fiction. Your suggestions are appreciated.
>
> Karen Keller
> Brighton (MI) District Library
>
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FROM: [removed]@aol.com
REC'D: 2/2/01, 2:32 PM

How about James Clavell's Shogun, et al?

Binnie Syril Braunstein
romance novelist/former librarian

FROM: "Jeanne Meyer" <[removed]@nslsilus.org>
REC'D: 2/2/01, 2:53 PM

How about Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace?

FROM: David Wright <[removed]@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 2/2/01, 3:35 PM

Along the lines of authors like Proust and
Joyce is Albert Cohen's Belle Du Seignur, a
pretty astonishing Big Book, although
unconventional.

Strong seconds to Galsworthy and Anthony
Powell, and of Mailer's Executioner's Song and
Harlot's Ghost, all big worlds to sink into. A
lot of Gore Vidal's titles are quite epic.

I wince that they like long books, but don't
want to read War and Peace or Anna Karenina or
Crime and Punishment or The Brothers Karamozov or
The Idiot or Middlemarch. Classics schmassics,
these are SUCH GREAT READS! See if you can't
trick them - there's a new Anna Karenina
translation by Pevear and Volakhonsky with a real
sexy cover. A lot of readers I know have been so
pleasantly surprised by these novels. The vast
oevre of Anthony Trollope would keep them busy a
good long while, too.

David Wright
Seattle Public Library

'I took a speed reading course and read 'War and
Peace' in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.'
- Woody Allen
--- Carol Kubala <[removed]@columbiapl.libct.org>
wrote:
> I'd recommend Colleen McCullough's books,
> Ceasar's Women, First man in Rome,
> Grass Crown, etc.
>
> --
> Carol Kubala
> Adult Services Librarian
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> 860 228-1569 - fax
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FROM: Cathy Reid <[removed]@ccpl.lib.oh.us>
REC'D: 2/2/01, 3:55 PM

I don't believe I've seen anyone mention The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. A
terrific read and very long. Also Atlas Shrugged.

Cathy Reid
Clark County Public Library
Springfield, OH

FROM: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 2/3/01, 9:16 AM

>From: David Wright <[removed]@yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>Subject: Re: Thick Books
>Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 13:30:41 -0800 (PST)
>
> I wince that they like long books, but don't
>want to read War and Peace or Anna Karenina or
>Crime and Punishment or The Brothers Karamozov or
>The Idiot or Middlemarch. Classics schmassics,
>these are SUCH GREAT READS!...

Second that; a classic *is* a classic because it has met the Test of Time.
Also, a vast number of "thick books," as becomes plain by perusing the
history of these posts, *are* "genre"--historicals, romances, sf & fantasy.
Isn't there some diplomatic way to persuade the reader to broaden her
horizons?
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FROM: Paula Davino <[removed]@kentnet.dtcc.edu>
REC'D: 2/4/01, 4:58 PM

Binnie,

What are you waiting for???? It's an excellent read!! I've read it
several times, and it remains my favorite. There are better books, but I
simply adore Scarlett. She remains the one fictional character that I
would most want to be.

paula.

Paula Davino
Assistant Director
Dover Public Library
Dover, Delaware
[removed]@kentnet.dtcc.edu


On Fri, 2 Feb 2001 [removed]@aol.com wrote:

> I assume she's read Gone With The Wind.
>
> Binnie Syril Braunstein
> romance novelist/former librarian - who hasn't yet read GWTW
>
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FROM: [removed]@aol.com
REC'D: 2/5/01, 8:47 AM

In a message dated 2/4/2001 5:51:02 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[removed]@kentnet.dtcc.edu writes:

<< Binnie,

What are you waiting for???? It's an excellent read!! I've read it
several times, and it remains my favorite. There are better books, but I
simply adore Scarlett. She remains the one fictional character that I
would most want to be.

paula.

Paula Davino
Assistant Director
Dover Public Library
Dover, Delaware
[removed]@kentnet.dtcc.edu
>>

I know, I know. The problem is - I'm an incurable romantic who loves happy
endings. I'm one of the ones that tried to re-write Little Women, and have
Jo say yes to Laurie. What can I say?

Binnie Syril Braunstein
romance novelilst/former librairan - who now realizes that wanting to
re-write the book is symptomatic of wanting to write one's own - beginning to
end!

FROM: "Karen A.K. Keller" <[removed]@tln.lib.mi.us>
REC'D: 2/7/01, 9:35 AM

Thanks to those of you who suggested titles. I'm distributing this
compiled list early since the patron who requested this came in yesterday.
For those of you who helped out, let me say she was extremely delighted.
She said, "this is just like getting a birthday gift."

A couple of notes... I edited the suggestions based on the fact that my
patron did not want historical fiction or science fiction and, wasn't much
of a romance reader either. And, remember she didn't want the
standard "thick" classics, War & Peace, etc. (not because she wouldn't
read them as someone suggested, but because she already had.) Also, she
really did want "thick" books so I used 600 pages or more as the criterion
for inclusion. If an author had more than one title that was "thick" I didn't
include every title. If you don't like my editing because it was so
specifically tailored to this particular patron's request, you'll have to
go to the archives for the full discussion. Again-- many, many thanks


AUTHOR TITLE # OF PGS
Arthur, Elizabeth Antarctic navigation 798
Banks, Russell Cloudsplitter 758
Binchy, Maeve Firefly summer 601
Caldwell, Taylor A pillar of iron 649
Chabon, Michael The amazing adventures of 639
Kavalier & Clay
Clancy, Tom The bear and the dragon 1028
Conroy, Pat Beach music 628
Delderfield, R.F. Give us this day 767
DeLillo, Don Underworld 827
Follett, Ken The pillars of the earth 973
Howatch, Susan Sins of the fathers 608
Irving, John A son of the circus 633
King, Stephen Desperation 690
Kingsolver, Barbara The Poisonwood Bible 948
Koontz, Dean From the corner of his eye 622
Lamb, Wally I know this much is true 901
Ludlum, Robert The apocalypse watch 645
Maillard, Keith Gloria 643
McMurtry, Larry Lonesome Dove 843
Michener, James Alaska 868
Mistry, Rohinton A fine balance 603
Naslund, Sena Jeter Ahab's wife, or, The Star-gazer 668
Oates, Joyce Carol Blonde 738
Pynchon, Thomas Gravity's rainbow 760
Seth, Vikram A suitable boy 1349
Stephenson, Neal Cryptonomicon 918
Wolfe, Tom A man in full 742


Karen Keller
Brighton (MI) District Library

FROM: "Katherine Merrill" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 2/15/01, 4:11 PM

I would definitely suggest OUTLANDER by Diana Gabaldon, as well as the three
other books in the series.

Kate

******************************************
Katherine Merrill
Reference Librarian
Literature & Media Division
Rochester Public Library
Rochester, NY 14604
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>From: "Karen A.K. Keller" <[removed]@tln.lib.mi.us>
>Reply-To: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>Subject: Thick Books
>Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:19:41 -0500 (EST)
>
>I've had a request from a patron who wanted "thick books." She said she's
>such an avid reader and if she picks up a slim or medium-sized book she
>just reads it too fast. If she has a thick book in front of her then she
>is more prone to savor and take longer to read. She is not looking for
>classics (War & Peace, etc.) nor is she interested in thick romances or
>historical fiction (she said she's read plenty of that already).
>Basically thick, contemporary fiction. Your suggestions are appreciated.
>
>
>
>Karen Keller
>Brighton (MI) District Library
>
>
>
>
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