Reading the Chunksters discussion

I have no idea where this thread went, so I will re-post with all our previous nominations. Please post any others you would like to read.

Nominations:

The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley (Next book to read)
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
Swan Song by Robert R. McCammon
Through a Glass Darkly: A Novel by Karleen Koen
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
An Instance of the Fingerpost: A Novel by Iain Pears
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
The Name of the Rose: Including Postscript by Umberto Eco
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Don Quixote by Cervantes
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Hi Kristi - I just joined since I like to read BIG books and I like the idea of breaking them down. One suggestion I have is The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

oooh...good one!

Gone With the Wind and The Brothers Karamazov.

Good choices! I added them to the list.

Don't a number of Dicken's novels apply?




Does count? It's about 600 pages.

Oh, and maybe .

Oh, and I forgot. Maybe ?

Loretta I believe we had decided that a "Chunkster" was 500 pgs or more...So I will add any that apply! Thanks for all the great Nominations, I will add them tomorrow after I get back from hiking.

*For anyone who remembers differently, if I am wrong about the page count let me know...

If we are talking about Dickens, how about A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens is one I have always wanted to read.

Lyn M wrote: "If we are talking about Dickens, how about A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens is one I have always wanted to read."

A Tale of Two Cities is actually quite a slim book. Dickens is odd that way. In my experience he either hovers around 300-400 pages, or 900-1000.

I remember it being quite a quick read, too. I loved it. :)

Loretta wrote: "Lyn M wrote: "If we are talking about Dickens, how about A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens is one I have always wanted to read."

A Tale of Two Cities is actual..."

You are right, it may not fit. The copy that I have is 541 pages, and my sister said it is a hard read and takes a while, but she reads much slower reader that I am.

Huh, that's surprising--my copy is only 380! I guess I forget about print sizes, etc. Well, I'll leave someone else to "rule" on whether it's an appropriate addition or not. Either way, it's a great read. :-D

I am really looking forward to it, thanks, and I agree, it seems close and probably doesn't fit. Didn't mean to sound argumentative, lol. It certainly isn't on a par with some of the others on the list.

I'm going to save Gone with the Wind incase we end up reading it as a group!

Andrea i want to read it. If you give me about a month and the other girls don't want to I will join u.

That sounds great Dawn! I may need a little longer then that though since I'm reading several BFB now. Are you willing to wait until the end of summer or fall?

Yes that def works for me. Let me know like a week in advance and well set it up. I also have a huge pile I am trying to burn through.

it's on the list, wo when we finish Anna or Pillars we can vote for it. Althought I thought we had already voted for The Mists of Avalon, but if you ladies are more interested in Gone With the Wind I'm more than happy to put up a poll to see if everyone else is interested too!

YEAH LETS TRY A POLL. BUT IF NOT ANDREA WE CAN STILL DO IT. I JUST DON'T SEEMED TO BE INTO THE LAST TWO BOOKS BUT EVENTUALLY THERE WILL BE ONE I LIKE.

OK...I will post the poll when we get closer to the end of the two we have going right now...

SOUNDS LIKE A PLAN

Thanks Kristi!

Ok, since the interest in The Pillars of the Earth has seemed to peter out, what does everyone think of ending the Group read for Pillars and starting a different book?

im in.

OK, if I am going to shelve Pillars, I need people to nominate books again. That way we aren't voting on books we aren't interested in reading right now.

Please nominate 1 book that you would like to read as a group for our next chunkster.

Book must be at least 500 pgs. Any genre.
Please include a link to the book and author.

I've already read both Gone with the Wind and the Mists of Avalon, so how about The Grapes of Wrath or East of Eden by John Steinbeck?

Are we going to do a poll?

My nomination would be for Middlemarch by George Eliot

I will post a poll 7/28...so try to have all you nominations in by then.

I'd like to nominate At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O'Neill, though I'm not sure if people in this group are ok with the subject matter (it's a gay fiction). I checked a few of the editions on goodreads, most are 500-something pages, with one that was 400-something. Hope that's ok.

I already read East of Eden but atleast i join in dicussion and I am always up for something new doesnt matter the Genre.

My vote of course would be Gone with the Wind since I own it already.

I can only handle one chunkster at a time, so I'm sticking with finishing Anna K.

ok Lynn! No problem, I am planning to catch up in Anna now that I don't feel so overwhelmed with Pillars.

I nominate Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

Just a reminder...I will put up the poll tomorrow...make you Nominations!

Hey everyone! I just happened across your group here, and thought this might be a great way to start on a big book. I will nominate Stephen King's The Stand: Complete & Uncut. This is a huge book and I am not sure I will be able to get through it on my own.

(I frequent the horror boards, so most of my nominations will probably be from horror authors; hope that is ok!)

I'm happy to be here, and look forward to my first chunkster.

Welcome Branden! We are all about big books...the can be any Genre! Thanks for the Nomination!

I'm open to anything ;)

The Stand is our winner! We will be starting on Aug 22, and i will post the schedule as soon as I get my copy!

Woot! I'm excited to get started.

cool hopefully i will have my Ereader by then and I can download it and join you all. If not ill buy the book by then.

what eReader are you getting? I have a Nook and I LOVE it!

I have a Kindle and love it! Nothing will ever replace my books, though! But some books, like The Stand, are just way to heavy for me to carry. I have a really bad back and as much as I love the chunksters, my back doesn't. :(

lol...I hear you Kathy. For me it's the price. If I can get a book from the Library, or Used Book store, I will usually go that way, but the ones I know I will keep, or I can't find used, I get on my nook. And of Course there are all the free books you can get too! I love those!

I was so surprised with all the free books I was able to get for my Kindle. (I'm sure it's the same for them all) So many great classics in the public domain, that I've wanted to read were there for the asking! :)

I think I'll buy this one since it will take us a couple months to get through.

Andrea, did you get my PM?? I was planning on setting the schedule from a paper copy, but doing the actual reading on my Nook, so my offer stands...are you going to be the discussion leader?

I could as long as we start when I get back from vacation. I also need some time to get the book and start reading so maybe if we started the the first week in September I would be fine to lead the discussion. I would bring the book with me but I prefer to read in small chuncks and discuss while we read and it would take up too much of my weight limit for books..hahah

I am getting the IPAD but not until October now. My parents are going to get it for my Birthday. I was going to get the Pandigital Novel from Bed Bath and Beyond but I went to look at it and its really cheap looking and feeling. I have to admit I am a little mad because I hate Apple and I find them over priced but my biggest reason for getting it is the back light. The reason I have not bought a kindle or nook or any of the other ones out there is I want to read in the dark because i do most of my reading at night in bed.

Dawn...I am GREEN with envy! I have wanted an IPad since I first heard about them. I think it's going to be my reward next August for paying off my Credit Cards. I have a Nook, and I love it, it's not backlit, like you said, but I just use a book light, and it works great for reading at night. Not trying to sway you, just sayin'...if you wanted to get a nook/kindle and send me your IPad...lol.

Oh, BTW, you can still get the eBook version and read it on you computer. B&N had your eBooks in an online library, so if you have the computer program you can access them on anything that has internet connection. Just so you don't feel like you have to wait to start the book if you don't want to.

No i ordered the book I will be starting with yall. Well another reason I am going with the Ipad is so I have a laptop sort of.