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As I’m sure you can imagine, Finnish winters are long, dark and rather unpleasant (especially for someone like me who doesn’t deal well with cold). So in the winter I like to really delve into some massive book that can consume my attention for a month or more.
In the past I’ve read things such as Gibbon or Mommsen over the winter. Nice, large, “difficultâ€
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You know, if you're looking for a big novel that's absolutely superb, you can do far worse than
'The Terror' by Dan Simmons. Everyone I know who's read it thought it was one of the best novels they've ever read (including me). As it'll be very cold where you are, probably very apt as well :wink: Superbly researched and written, and a real page-turner.
http://www.reviewsofbooks.com/terror/review/
http://www.amazon.com/Terror-Novel-Dan- ... 0316017442
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Lost Girls is really nice. It was just recently recommended on German public television by a literature critic, to my surprise, I must admit. Do you read German?
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Thanks! Both of those look really interesting. I don't read German, unfortunately.
I had kind of expected something Roman related, but both of these look fascinating. I don't read a lot of fiction normally, so they would be a nice change.
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I ploughed my way through Ovid's "Metamorphosis" last year and can recommend it as an absorbing read.
That or The Illiad and The Odyssey .
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