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

  • From: "Shelley L. Rhodes" <juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 19:48:34 -0400

Alexander Skorby is an awesome narrator, I loved his narration of Homor's 
The Oddessy.

Shelley L. Rhodes M.A., VRT, CTVI
and Judson, guiding golden
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More than Any other time, When i hold a beloved book in my hand, my 
limitations fall from me, my spirit is free.
- Helen Keller

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Amy Goldring Tajalli" <agoldringtajalli@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 6:01 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

  Book blog:
  http://community.livejournal.com/book_cuddler/
  I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have 
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
  E-Mail: amber.wallens@xxxxxxxxx



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