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Recent thick books I've enjoyed include The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton and Great North Road by Peter F. Hamilton. Two rather different books but both certainly qualify length-wise.
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Thanks Yayyap. It may take me some time to get to these books, but read them I will, definitely.
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Some of thr attitudes back then and portrayed in the writing was really a turn off.
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I've got a set of three books that are very good. It is the Century Trilogy by Ken Follett.
1. Fall of Giants (960 pages) 2. Winter of the World (928 pages) 3. Edge of Eternity (1120 pages) The third book is due out in September sometime. These are big books. |
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<shrug> If you avoid novels because their social attitudes differ from current societal norms, you're cutting yourself off from an awful lot of extremely good books. As L.P. Harley's novel said, "The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there."
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That's Hartley.
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Won't you believe it, I'm yet to read a book by Ken Follet. Fall Of Giants might be a BoTM at a group in Goodreads, so there you are.
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As I say, you're missing out on some great books if you decide that you wouldn't read, say, "Tom Sawyer", because it's "racist" by modern standards. I think it is your loss. You are of course welcome to disagree .
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