[bookshare-discuss] Re: a fun topic, summer chunksters

  • From: "lana" <lana5@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 09:08:23 -0600

you have three more to go, plus the one that had better come out in November.  
NLS has them, as does overdrive, if you have access to these, and, of course, 
bookshare, but the readers are very good. 
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: MissWings 
  To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ; bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 2:05 AM
  Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: a fun topic, summer chunksters


  Speaking of Terry Goodkind, I'm getting ready to start the seventh book of 
the Sword of Truth series, which I'm liking so far.  Well since I've read six 
books I hope I like it!  I've read them from NLS, and I like the narrator for 
them.  I didn't know any more were coming out ... I thought there were only ten 
of them?  Or is he writing more of them that I don't know about.  Hopefully I 
can get them read before then so I'll be ready when the next one comes out, 
although who knows how long it'll take NLS to get it.  It'll give me something 
to look forward to after waiting for the last Harry Potter book to come out 
anyway.

  MissWings

  At 12:39 AM 6/13/2007, lana wrote:


    With one exception, all the Terry Goodkind books are chunksters.  Since the 
last one is supposed to come out in November, it's a good time to refresh and 
get us in the mood for what I hope will be a true series final, not just a 
blackout like Sepranos, but if you thought that was bad, ever see the final 
Blake's 7 episode!!! We don't need another like that. 

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      From: Amy Goldring Tajalli 

      To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 

      Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 4:01 PM

      Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: a fun topic, summer chunksters


      A perfect long read or reread for the summer [except I just finished it] 
would be:



      Victor Hugo's Les Miserables at 1260 but someone would need to scan 
[preferably] the Modern Library edition translated by Charles Wilbur.  All the 
other easily available  editions, including the one in Bookshare, are edited 
and abridged [badly and only 840 pp].



      Tolstoy's War and Peace in the Bookshare edition is 1680 pp which seems a 
little short but I don't know the translator or Scanner.  If someone wants to 
try it I would be interested in more information. [if it had not been for 
Alexander Scourby reading it to me when I first started using talking books I 
might never have finished it. I did not when I had enough sight to read it that 
way.]



      Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago is only 638 page and if you are not 
already familiar with 20 th century Russian History, and some 18th, it may seem 
a lot longer.



      I hope someone will scan volumes 2 and 3 of Solzhenitsyn's Gulag. They 
are worth the effort both to scan and to read. All 3 together probably total 
close to 2000 pages. 







      ----- Original Message ----- 

      From: Amber Wallenstein 

      To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 

      Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 4:47 PM

      Subject: [bookshare-discuss] a fun topic, summer chunksters


      I posted this to a few book groups, and am interested to see what 
chunksters you all will be reading this summer.... And if anyone can give me 
names of other long books that are on bookshare,that you loved,  that would be 
great too.

      Books I want to read this summer include:



      * The Terror by Dan Simmons at a whopping 769 pages



      * the new Harry Potter book by J. K. Rowling at a much to short 784 
pages, which I plan to savor



      * A Suitable Boy byVikram Seth at a jaw-dropping 1349 pages



      * The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett at 973 pages



      * Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King by J 
R R Tolkien at a combined1635 pages



      and short books thrown in there for good measure... The total for these 
chunkster books is drum-roll.... 5510 pages. Whew! I better get busy,then yes?



      I'll update as the summer progresses!

      Amber

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consented to my own ruin, to your ruin, and to the ruin of our children. I give

      you this warning that you may prepare your mind for your fate.

      John Adams

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