This 534-page doorstopper is no ordinary kids 'book, for sure. ❋ Unknown (2007)
The Rebecca West doorstopper is wonderful -- her riff on the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand is brilliant -- but her quirks can get annoying; the idealization of "the Serb" and the anti-German bigotry (according to West, Goethe can be reduced to "ain't Nature grand") start to get wearying, though she usually saves the day with a lyrical description of a remote place like Lake Ohrid, or a chilling recitation of the bloody dynastic wars between the Karageorges and the whoozis, the other guys. ❋ Matthew Guerrieri (2007)
While I am tired of the "doorstopper" books, I felt like this story really should have been told in 2 books, so that we get more background on the characters and the world and its history. ❋ Jeff C (2008)
He met with GM ad executives Jack McNulty and George Pruitt, who asked Ken to condense his "doorstopper" proposal into a brief description of the project. ❋ Unknown (2007)
YANKEEOGRAPHY PINSTRIPE LEGENDS $179.99; A&E -- This doorstopper of a boxed set is handsomely made and impressively heavy. ❋ Michael Giltz (2011)
Take out all the filler in that doorstopper, and you're left with about one hundred pages. wESh ❋ Unknown (2010)
About the only names slipping by here are two current authors who keep getting buried, either in the mound of 'grit' that seems to be pouring out of book covers these days or beneath the inaptly applied 'doorstopper' description: Steven Erikson and Joe Abercrombie. ❋ Unknown (2010)
It seems an obvious thing: we all have short attention spans in this internet-saturated age. 4000 word stories should be enormously popular, moreso than giant doorstopper novels. ❋ Yuki_onna (2010)
In China every month's edition is a glossy, advert-packed, doorstopper: testament to the explosion of the high-end fashion industry. ❋ Unknown (2011)
A doorstopper of a catalog covers everything from the history of the crafts movement to the more arcane aspects of weaving, woodworking, ceramics, glassmaking and furniture design, seen through the lens of the radical changes in art, society and lifestyle in postwar America. ❋ Ada Louise Huxtable (2011)
If thick doorstopper novels aren't your thing, take a look at her collection of bittersweet short stories, I Wish Someone Were Waiting for me Somewhere. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Pat writes For demonstrating that in this age of doorstopper fantasy series that seem endless, you can still tell a compelling story without a back story which goes back 300,000 years into the past, without hundreds of characters, without dozens of convoluted storylines. ❋ Lou Anders (2008)
The presentation and the attitude bespoke of professionalism so I was eager to sink my teeth into this epic doorstopper. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The novel sprawls just over 170 pages, which is considered short by modern standards set by thousand plus pages long doorstopper tomes. ❋ Unknown (2008)
My [doorstopper] of [a book] is just shy of 1,000 [pages]. And the pages are HUGE. ❋ Someone Who Kinda Exists (2022)
