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I shudder before you! (and your slashing pen!) Dear Whit : yes, I saw the smile and take your comment in good part. Let me note, though, that the challenge faced by every Editor is to clean up the really bad mistakes and yet never to lose the writer's voice in the editing whatever the genre. Tricky bit, that! 
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Ulysses... Gravity's Rainbow... Mason & Dixon... Foucault's Pendulum... Underworld...
all long, all started but unfinished by me, all of a certain type (postmodern?) -- oh wait, I did manage to get through FP on a second try, but I can't fathom why, now that I have (which probably tends to discourage further attempts at the rest). some day I will finish _Ulysses_ though, just to say I have done.
as to _Remembrance of Things Past_, I couldn't even make it through _Swann's Way_ (vol. i). there's more chance that I will read _The Seven Pillars of Wisdom_ (I have the usual tall stack of unread books).
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The Galsworthy series about "the Pallisers" after I'd seen the PBS series, years ago. Found I had to slow down my reading to get into the rhythm of the prose ... like a Victorian who had no radio or TV or recordings to distract during the long evening hours.
tsuwm, I've read The Seven Pilars of Wisdom and I think you'll find it a good read and informative. Put it on the top of the pile and have at it old chum!
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Mitchener's AztecActually, that was by Gary Jennings. I got about halfway through it before giving up in disgust.  As for other long books I've read... Les Miserables (the unabridged version, naturally), several of Michener's (my favorite Michener is The Source), Shogun by James Clavell, Diana Gabaldon's time travel/historical/romance novels (which are almost always shelved with the romances, but are leagues beyond any of those execrable Harlequin throwaways), The Far Pavilions by M.M. Kaye... I guess that's enough for now.
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With all deference, dear WOW, I believe the series about the Pallisers was by Trollope. Galsworthy's contribution to endless fiction was The Forsyte Saga, which isn't bad if you can get through it. My contribution to what I've found interminable is Hugo's Notre Dame, which I tried in both English and French 3 or 4 times before I could get past the 5th chapter. Strangely enough, I have always found Les Miserables, which is a good bit longer than Notre Dame, fascinating; I read it in French all the way through at least once every 5 years or so.
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I confess to having never read this, but I must pass on the story my sister-in-law tells. She's a librarian in NC, and some years ago a patron returned a borrowed copy of the book and said to Liz, "This was a really great book, but I'm puzzled by one thing. I couldn't figure out who Les was!"
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Early in my former marriage, my wife was a library assistant in a middle school. After a class on library usage, a student approached my wife and asked, "Mrs Sanders, can you tell me where to find the Dewey Decimal System?" 
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