Reading the Chunksters discussion

Ok, we are winding down our current Classic Chunkster, and that means it's time to nominate our next one!

Please use this thread to nominate your selection for our next Classic Chunkster.

Remember:

1) Only one nomination per member

2) Link to both the book and the author in your nomination like this:

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

3) This thread will be open for 1 week, so get your nominations in before Tuesday, December 10.

4)Please reference the rules for nominating in the Group Guidelines when deciding on your nomination.

Thanks!

Nominations:

I'm going to nominate the chunkster extraordinary:

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon

It has been rightly called The most astounding work of history ever written. It has been praised as the best English ever written. It accuracy has been questioned at times, based on modern scholarship not available to Gibbon, but it remains a seminal work of scholarship and writing. If it's on your bucket list, as it is on mine, now is the time to tackle it.

The Chunkster of Chunksters.

The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett

I read his Literary Taste and it was witty, hilarious, and absolutely charming. I've wanted to read more from him ever since.

I nominate
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri

I nominate Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset for the Classic Chunkster. It's available as an e-book, but make sure you get the Tina Nunnally translation. I'm dying to read this with a group! My middle name is Kristin, named after this book, and I've never read it.

I nominate Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak.

(This is my first nomination -- so I hope I did that correctly!)

You did indeed!

Ulysses by James Joyce

Excellent nominations!

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo!

OK, I see this group already read Crime and Punishment! Sorry, I did not go back far enough in the archives. I will need to think of another nomination....

I'm nominating the other long classic on my bookshelf - Daniel Deronda by George Eliot. I loved Middlemarch, my first and only George Eliot read, so I'm excited to read another by her.

Looks like we have some good nominations!

I would like to add The Once and Future King by T.H. White

I'm going to nominate Ben-Hur by Lew Wallace

Sandra wrote: "I nominate Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset for the Classic Chunkster. It's available as an e-book, but make sure you get th..."

I have high hopes for Kristin Lavransdatter. Great nomination!

Andrea, I've been trying for a year to get a group to select this book! I've started it and it's good!

That one does look really good, I'll have to play with the naming though... my library has them broken into smaller books, some of which seem to overlap and don't agree with the names here.

The library version is most likely the older translation, which might be very difficult to read/enjoy.

I nominate The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy.

The three books in Kristin L are The Wreath, The Wife, and The Cross, FYI.

I have not heard of the Kristin Lavransdatter trilogy, but it sounds really interesting.

I read the Forsyte Saga a few years ago and loved it, if it's chosen I might give it a second read.

I have the Forsyte Saga on my list for next year, so I'll second that.

Too many books to read!!

Sandra, looking into it, it seems like they part of one version and part of the other, with one book in both. How annoying. The 4 books my library has are (alphabetical):

The Bridal Wreath
The Cross
The Mistress of Husaby
The Wreath

So... looks like the Cross and the Wreath are from the correct version, but I'd have to find "the wife" elsewhere, or read the older version (which I think is The Mistress of Husaby)

I wonder if I request it now, if they'd purchase it before we get that far :P

Or I'll just give in and get the e-book.

Ok, nominations will close today! Any last minute Nominations??

I'd get the ebook - weighs less, lol!

The poll is posted!! Please head over and vote for your favorite!