Watched this out of curiosity and ended up going right to Amazon and ordering a used unabridged copy of The Children of Pride to add to my "mammoth" TBR. I did enjoy these recommendations - thanks!
Good luck with your mammoths. Last March I finished Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar (850 pages), the longest book I read last year, I also read Martin Chuzzlewit in October and November (802 pages). I have Crytonomicon (910 pages) ready again, which I know you liked, it was DNFed by me last March, I also have The Ember Blade (826 pages) on Kindle.
I have a nice variety of books to possibly read. But my grandsons chose my March reading prompts yesterday. We forgot to do it last weekend. (I let them choose my reading every month). The prompts they picked out of the reading jar included: Lost Generation Author, New to You Author, and Eco Thriller. Most books by the Lost Generation are well under 800 pages, at least the ones I own. I have a few Eco Thrillers that are close. The New To You Author will definitely be my mammoth. I believe I'll start Barkskins. I bought it two years ago and it's set on my bookcase, unopened, since. Or maybe Middlemarch. I just got it and would love to start it, too.
Great job, Greg! Those are some huge books! I have the same problem with the font size. I’m going to be reading Middlemarch, with Micah’s Classics group, and I think that will count as a mammoth book, but I can’t see the font in the two editions I own! I’ll see if the Penguin edition is better. Terrific video, Greg. Thanks.
@@anotherbibliophilereads I have a Norton Critical edition from college-with a $4.95 price stamp on the inside, and I bought it new-but the text is only 578 pages! I can’t even see the print! I have a Barnes and Noble Classic paperback edition that is 794 pages before the notes, but it has a 35-page introduction written by Lynne Sharon Schwartz, a novelist I really like. I’m counting that too, so we’re slightly over 800. I just finished a re-read of David Copperfield. The text of that is 882 pp. I should have waited…😉
Just finished my mammoth, I went with The Eighth Life in the end (1258 pages on kindle), Cryptonomicon continues to gather dust on my physical TBR shelf.
@@anotherbibliophilereads The Eighth Life seems stubbornly fixed at $7.99 on Amazon Kindle. One of the rare occasions when I pay more than $3 for an e-book....but it did give me several hours of reading. I feel I should give Cryptonomicon another shot sometime, maybe next March, I liked Snow Crash, but I understand the two are quite different.
I love this. Maybe I should have saved War and Peace! But I think I’m going to go with Paul Auster’s 4321, coming in at 1070 pages and which, I’m pretty sure I bought because of one of your recommendations 😊
Hi Greg, glad to have found your channel through March of the Mammoths! Glad to see some nonfiction in the selections as well. I'll be doing a history book of some kind but haven't fully decided yet between three options . Looking forward to more content
Grant by Ron Chernow is on my reading list. But I don't know if I'll get around to it in March. I'd like to read the biographies of Jefferson Davis and Robert E Lee first, after having read one of Lincoln, and Battle Cry Of Freedom last year. And there's lots of novels waiting too. Maybe I'll tackle Gone With The Wind, to stay in the same era. Another mammoth...
@@anotherbibliophilereads I'm not doing all the presidents, but a selection of them and other important figures. So far I've read biographies of Franklin, Washington, Hamilton, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Jackson, Clay and Lincoln. I bought but have yet to read Davis, Lee, Grant, Th. Roosevelt, FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, J.F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, M.L. King, LBJ, Nixon, Carter and Reagan. Every two years I'm a guide to 30 of my high school students, travelling to NYC and DC.
@@wouterdemuyt1013 LBJ and Nixon are two of my favorite subjects for biographies. I grew up in the Washington DC area and it is indeed a great place to visit for students.
I might consider reading a longer book in March. Problem is my RWYO Challenge has been taking a lot longer then expected, so it probably won't happen. I loved Shantaram and would be interested to hear your thoughts on the book.
I've got two potential books for March of the Mammoths. They're both on the English Reformation. I'm unsure whether to put them off until later in Historathon or to just go for them since they look interesting now.
I think I will start with Tale of Genji, I have wanted to read it for so long. However, I just started Mary Beards newest Emperor of Rome?? mine is over 800 pages so maybe that will be my mammoth. Unless I change my mind of course LOL
Genji is supposed to be fantastic. I have one translation on Kindle and one in hardcover. Emperor of Rome is up for the BookTube prize and I hope I get it as an assignment in later rounds.
Watched this out of curiosity and ended up going right to Amazon and ordering a used unabridged copy of The Children of Pride to add to my "mammoth" TBR. I did enjoy these recommendations - thanks!
I’m glad you enjoyed it. The Children of Pride is daunting, but I do want to get to it someday.
I checked out your channel and like the piano playing.
Someone mentioned this to me recently and was happy to hear about it especially since I enjoy reading big books. I looked forward to participating.
Shantaram is excellent -- I read it twice...
I’m looking forward to it.
I like it too, and the sequel "The mountain shadow".
Good luck with your mammoths. Last March I finished Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar (850 pages), the longest book I read last year, I also read Martin Chuzzlewit in October and November (802 pages). I have Crytonomicon (910 pages) ready again, which I know you liked, it was DNFed by me last March, I also have The Ember Blade (826 pages) on Kindle.
I have a nice variety of books to possibly read. But my grandsons chose my March reading prompts yesterday. We forgot to do it last weekend. (I let them choose my reading every month). The prompts they picked out of the reading jar included: Lost Generation Author, New to You Author, and Eco Thriller. Most books by the Lost Generation are well under 800 pages, at least the ones I own. I have a few Eco Thrillers that are close. The New To You Author will definitely be my mammoth. I believe I'll start Barkskins. I bought it two years ago and it's set on my bookcase, unopened, since. Or maybe Middlemarch. I just got it and would love to start it, too.
I read Barkskins in 2016. I remember liking it well enough.
Great job, Greg! Those are some huge books! I have the same problem with the font size. I’m going to be reading Middlemarch, with Micah’s Classics group, and I think that will count as a mammoth book, but I can’t see the font in the two editions I own! I’ll see if the Penguin edition is better. Terrific video, Greg. Thanks.
Love the t-shirt (I want one)! Thanks for the mention. I hope I haven't built up the anticipation to this read too much! 😂🎉😮
My Middlemarch paperback (Bantam Classics) is 795 pages. So close! I read an ebook version in 2022.
@@anotherbibliophilereads I have a Norton Critical edition from college-with a $4.95 price stamp on the inside, and I bought it new-but the text is only 578 pages! I can’t even see the print! I have a Barnes and Noble Classic paperback edition that is 794 pages before the notes, but it has a 35-page introduction written by Lynne Sharon Schwartz, a novelist I really like. I’m counting that too, so we’re slightly over 800. I just finished a re-read of David Copperfield. The text of that is 882 pp. I should have waited…😉
@@BookChatWithPat8668 David Copperfield is a good one.
Just finished my mammoth, I went with The Eighth Life in the end (1258 pages on kindle), Cryptonomicon continues to gather dust on my physical TBR shelf.
I have The Eight Life my Kindle list of books to buy when it goes on sale. Maybe Cryptonomicon just isn’t your cup of tea.
@@anotherbibliophilereads The Eighth Life seems stubbornly fixed at $7.99 on Amazon Kindle. One of the rare occasions when I pay more than $3 for an e-book....but it did give me several hours of reading. I feel I should give Cryptonomicon another shot sometime, maybe next March, I liked Snow Crash, but I understand the two are quite different.
I like mammoths on ebook. Yes, font size matters! _Les Miserables_ is what I have my sights set on, if only I can get to it.
Les Miserables will be a group read for Classics and Company in April. I’m probably read it then.
I just started reading this book
I love this. Maybe I should have saved War and Peace! But I think I’m going to go with Paul Auster’s 4321, coming in at 1070 pages and which, I’m pretty sure I bought because of one of your recommendations 😊
Thanks Debs. I loved 4321 and I have mentioned it a few times on my channel.
The Eighth Life is something of a mammoth, too.
@@jimsbooksreadingandstuff The Eighth Life is on my pile of possibilities.
Great picks Greg! I had a ton of options too but ended up selecting Truman by McCullough. It is my first McCullough so I'm excited. Happy reading!
That’s supposed to be a magnificent biography.
Yeah! I'm a hundred pages in and am really enjoying it!@@anotherbibliophilereads
It's so good!! I'm flying through it.@@anotherbibliophilereads
My Mammoth is War and Peace. So far...so good. Enjoy your reading this month.
War and Peace is epic. Excellent novel.
It's unfortunate the font is so small for some of these big books. Even my reading glasses don't make some of them readable.
I actually prefer reading on my Kindle nowadays.
Hi Greg, glad to have found your channel through March of the Mammoths! Glad to see some nonfiction in the selections as well. I'll be doing a history book of some kind but haven't fully decided yet between three options . Looking forward to more content
I’ll probably have a nonfiction mammoth coming for the BookTube Prize, but not in March. Thanks for watching.
Love the t-shirt (I want one)! Thanks for the mention. I hope I haven't built up the anticipation to this read too much! 😂🎉😮
I bought the t-shirt at Powell’s.
@@anotherbibliophilereads I saw some there; book bags w the saying on them, too 📚
My mammoth for 2024 is The Dying Grass by William T Vollmann with a page count of 1376 pages. Cheers!
The Dying Grass might be my favorite Vollmann novel. Maybe Fathers and Crows edged it out. Tough choice between the two. I hope you like it.
Grant by Ron Chernow is on my reading list. But I don't know if I'll get around to it in March. I'd like to read the biographies of Jefferson Davis and Robert E Lee first, after having read one of Lincoln, and Battle Cry Of Freedom last year. And there's lots of novels waiting too. Maybe I'll tackle Gone With The Wind, to stay in the same era. Another mammoth...
I have Grant on my Kindle. I’m slowly working my way through all the presidents and will get there some day.
@@anotherbibliophilereads I'm not doing all the presidents, but a selection of them and other important figures. So far I've read biographies of Franklin, Washington, Hamilton, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Jackson, Clay and Lincoln. I bought but have yet to read Davis, Lee, Grant, Th. Roosevelt, FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, J.F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, M.L. King, LBJ, Nixon, Carter and Reagan.
Every two years I'm a guide to 30 of my high school students, travelling to NYC and DC.
@@wouterdemuyt1013 LBJ and Nixon are two of my favorite subjects for biographies. I grew up in the Washington DC area and it is indeed a great place to visit for students.
I might consider reading a longer book in March. Problem is my RWYO Challenge has been taking a lot longer then expected, so it probably won't happen. I loved Shantaram and would be interested to hear your thoughts on the book.
My RWYO challenge will definitely take a slow down hit. I’ll be in Mexico for a week in March and I hope to knock Shantaram out then.
I will be reading "Shantaram," too.
Unfortunately, I DNF Shantarm after five chapters. I couldn’t get into the story or characters.
@@anotherbibliophilereads I am into Chapter 5, and I cannot stop reading it. To each his own.
@@michaelhearn1676 Allen loved it too. Third time reading.
What do you call a mafia boss in a ship's crows nest? Mastodon. Just made that up and pleased with myself!
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I've got two potential books for March of the Mammoths. They're both on the English Reformation. I'm unsure whether to put them off until later in Historathon or to just go for them since they look interesting now.
I’d go for it now. I need to play a little loose with Historathon as I’m a judge for the BookTube Prize and those two don’t mesh perfectly.
I think I will start with Tale of Genji, I have wanted to read it for so long. However, I just started Mary Beards newest Emperor of Rome?? mine is over 800 pages so maybe that will be my mammoth. Unless I change my mind of course LOL
Genji is supposed to be fantastic. I have one translation on Kindle and one in hardcover. Emperor of Rome is up for the BookTube prize and I hope I get it as an assignment in later rounds.
I vote Seveneves! It was awesome.
I will get to Sevenves eventually. But not this March.
It’s definitely a maybe 🤔 I wonder if there’s a mammoth of a horror story besides the book IT
“Four Past Midnight” by Stephen King is an anthology of four horror novellas and it is over 900 pages, if that counts?
@@TheLimitlessLibrarian well it does in my opinion. I do enjoy short stories.
Other possibilities on KU:
Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons, 801 pages
Swan Song by Robert R. McCammon, 929 pages
The Stand is a mammoth of a horror book.
@@jimsbooksreadingandstuff I liked it when I read it way back when.