Best longish book that is worth the time

[Anonymous]

Demon Copperhead
The Golem and the Jinni

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is there a certain genre you prefer? Classics? Literary fiction? Historical fiction? Mysteries? Romance? Fantasy?

It's hard to know where to start.

Where to start what? Reading "longish" books? Or just plain reading? Read what you like -- what I like (literary fiction and pop cnf) isn't necessarily going to be what you like.

I believe "where to start" referred to giving a recommendation, which I have asked for. I like all kinds of genres, though I have a bit of a harder time with science fiction. "Read what you like" is generally good advice, but I asking for a something a little more specific. The poster below noted that Demon Copperfield, which has received rave reviews, is a slog at 600 pages. It's a great example of exactly what I am trying to avoid. I am asking for a book that was worth the pages.

I'd consider medium to longish anything over 400 pages.

[Anonymous]

Panchinko.

East of Eden.

Any multigenerational saga.

[Anonymous]

Classics:
Anna Karenina
Middlemarch
Crime and Punishment
War and Peace
In Search of Lost Time

More Recent:
Children's Book by A.S. Byatt
A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel
Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellman

I'll think of more - I read lots of long books but I don't think of them as long if they are enjoyable, so they are hard to come up with for a list.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is there a certain genre you prefer? Classics? Literary fiction? Historical fiction? Mysteries? Romance? Fantasy?

It's hard to know where to start.

Where to start what? Reading "longish" books? Or just plain reading? Read what you like -- what I like (literary fiction and pop cnf) isn't necessarily going to be what you like.

I believe "where to start" referred to giving a recommendation, which I have asked for. I like all kinds of genres, though I have a bit of a harder time with science fiction. "Read what you like" is generally good advice, but I asking for a something a little more specific. The poster below noted that Demon Copperfield, which has received rave reviews, is a slog at 600 pages. It's a great example of exactly what I am trying to avoid. I am asking for a book that was worth the pages.

I'd consider medium to longish anything over 400 pages.

I wouldn't consider David Copperfield a "slog" at all. If anything, it is an easy read for it's length given how entertaining it is.

[Anonymous]

Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons (although given that you say you don’t love sci fi maybe not for you)

Anything by Dorothy Dunnett

[Anonymous]

I personally love 19th century epics, with Les Miserables at the top of the list.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is there a certain genre you prefer? Classics? Literary fiction? Historical fiction? Mysteries? Romance? Fantasy?

It's hard to know where to start.

Where to start what? Reading "longish" books? Or just plain reading? Read what you like -- what I like (literary fiction and pop cnf) isn't necessarily going to be what you like.

I believe "where to start" referred to giving a recommendation, which I have asked for. I like all kinds of genres, though I have a bit of a harder time with science fiction. "Read what you like" is generally good advice, but I asking for a something a little more specific. The poster below noted that Demon Copperfield, which has received rave reviews, is a slog at 600 pages. It's a great example of exactly what I am trying to avoid. I am asking for a book that was worth the pages.

I'd consider medium to longish anything over 400 pages.

I wouldn't consider David Copperfield a "slog" at all. If anything, it is an easy read for it's length given how entertaining it is.

Seems to be some confusion here over which book is being discussed. David Copperfield or Demon Copperhead?

[Anonymous]

The Golden Bowl , Henry James

[Anonymous]

The Count of Montie Cristo. The Robin Buss translation.

[Anonymous]

The power broker

[Anonymous]

The Love Songs of WEB Dubois
Roots

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m reading Demon Copperhead. 600 hundred pages long and it is sagging. I want to quit! I can’t bare to read it anymore, I don’t care about Demon. Too much internal dialogue and not enough plot.

I loved that book and it didn’t feel long at all!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anna Karenina

+1

[Anonymous]

NP who loved Kingsolver’s Demon Cooperhead. I was drawn in after the first sentence and felt transported completely into the narrator’s world.