Anonymous
Post 08/21/2023 07:38     Subject: Best longish book that is worth the time
I second Pachinko and if Demon feels like a slog try Poisonwood Bible also by Barbara Kingsolver. I loved both!

Pillars of the Earth is also a great rec.
Anonymous
Post 08/21/2023 06:28     Subject: Best longish book that is worth the time
Anonymous wrote:NP who loved Kingsolver’s Demon Cooperhead. I was drawn in after the first sentence and felt transported completely into the narrator’s world.


Also recommend Damian Coopersmith
Anonymous
Post 08/21/2023 06:23     Subject: Best longish book that is worth the time
Herman Wouk - The Winds of War; War and Remembrance ; the Caine Mutiny

John Galsworthy - the Forsythe Saga

Wallace Stegner - Angle of Repose
Anonymous
Post 08/21/2023 01:21     Subject: Best longish book that is worth the time
Anonymous wrote:Demon Copperhead
The Golem and the Jinni


The Golem & the Jinni is excellent. Fwiw, the audiobook has an outstanding narrator. I've read and listened to it repeatedly.
Anonymous
Post 08/21/2023 00:17     Subject: Best longish book that is worth the time
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro

A Heart Breaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers



Not long and he’s pretty insufferable [/quot



+1,000. I found myself getting so annoyed I had to stop.
Anonymous
Post 08/20/2023 23:57     Subject: Best longish book that is worth the time
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro

A Heart Breaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers



Not long and he’s pretty insufferable


I hated A Heartbreaking Work (agree it’s not long), but I loved Zeitoun and What is the What. Two of my favorites! (Also not long)
Anonymous
Post 08/20/2023 23:55     Subject: Re:Best longish book that is worth the time
Anonymous wrote:Cutting for Stone was excellent.


Have you tried his new book?
Anonymous
Post 08/20/2023 23:49     Subject: Best longish book that is worth the time
Anonymous wrote:The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro

A Heart Breaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers



Not long and he’s pretty insufferable
Anonymous
Post 08/20/2023 23:45     Subject: Re:Best longish book that is worth the time
Cutting for Stone was excellent.
Anonymous
Post 08/20/2023 23:40     Subject: Best longish book that is worth the time
Anonymous wrote:NP who loved Kingsolver’s Demon Cooperhead. I was drawn in after the first sentence and felt transported completely into the narrator’s world.


Ugh, I am committed to finishing it, but man she needs an editor. It could be cut in half. So much dead space where nothing happens. Demon’s voice doesn’t strike me as authentic either. Kingsolver’s voice comes through.
Anonymous
Post 08/20/2023 22:56     Subject: Re:Best longish book that is worth the time
Anonymous wrote:Third.
Amazing book. All time favorite.


That was for pillars of the Earth.
Anonymous
Post 08/20/2023 22:55     Subject: Re:Best longish book that is worth the time
Third.
Amazing book. All time favorite.
Anonymous
Post 08/20/2023 22:47     Subject: Best longish book that is worth the time
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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!


also loved it.


One more who loved it.
Has anyone read Crossroads from Jonathan Franzen?


I read it a few years ago and loved it.

I would also recommend the luminaries, which took me a while to get into but then I was hooked, and victory city, which I loved right away.
Anonymous
Post 08/20/2023 22:40     Subject: Best longish book that is worth the time
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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!


also loved it.


One more who loved it.
Has anyone read Crossroads from Jonathan Franzen?
Anonymous
Post 08/20/2023 22:37     Subject: Best longish book that is worth the time
Anonymous wrote:
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!


also loved it.