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Originally Posted by Deskisamess
And Ladies of the Club
While I never finished it, and remember nothing about the 100 pages of so I did read, I do remember being bored out of my skull. This book was very popular about 25 years ago, and some of my friends raved about it. It was 1,100 pages of yawns.
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I remember this. I think one reason it was so popular was the buzz, that it was the life’s work of a woman who was about 110 years old (maybe a little less). But it was pretty typical sweeping historical family saga type stuff, IIRC, with a parade of characters and nothing interesting to say about them or the times.
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Gone With the Wind
Hated every single page of this book except the last. I did finish it, it's my sister's favorite book. Had serious trouble with the slave dialogue, had to read it out loud to understand what was being said.
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I loved this when I was a girl, but I couldn’t read it now for the racism. Nor for the abusive relationship that was supposed to be so romantic.
And yeah, doorstoppers the pair of them.