Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Why I Love Wednesdays... Favorite Chunksters

Reflections of a Bookaholic

I am returning with my feature... Why I love which takes place on Wednesdays. Today's proclamation of love concerns our Favorite Large (Chunky) Reads

Why I Love... You guessed it...Gone with the Wind


It has been some time since I discussed my love for Gone with the Wind, Selfish Scarlet, and Ravishing Rhett Butler (can men be ravishing?).  Yes, and when I refer to Rhett Butler from Gone with the Wind, I must use his full name.  It just doesn't work any other way.  Most of you know (and will understandably roll your eyes) that my all time favorite book is Gone with the Wind.  You know that you love a book when it's the answer to almost every bookish question.  But I digress.

Gone with the Wind is my favorite Chunkster (a work I never heard before entering the book blogging arena) for a variety of reasons.  When I was in school, we had the accelerated reader program.  This is a reading program where students read books which have predetermined points based on the length and reading level.  After completing a book, you would take a 10 question test on the book and acquire varying points based on how well you do.  We could then cash in our points for prizes.  Some teachers integrated it into their classrooms and some didn't.  My sixth grade teacher, Mrs. Jimenez (who I still love), assigned each  student a point requirement per six week period and I believe that I was required to get 100 points.  I think most books were about 6 or 7 points.  The classics were usually around 9.  Well Gone with the Wind was 56.  So I picked it up...and the rest is history!!  In retrospect, it would seem difficult to take a test on such a long book, but then again, it's hard to forget Gone with the Wind.

I didn't have many chunksters to choose from because I actually don't prefer them.  You know, short attention span and all.


Which chunksters do you love? Feel free to create your own post and link up.  Don't want to create an entire post?  Tell me your favorites in the comments.  Thanks for stopping by for another week of Why I Love Wednesdays!!


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20 comments:

  1. I just read The Wind Done Gone. I think I should have read Gone With the Wind. I would be interested in reading your thoughts on that book. Harry Potter was my favorite.

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  2. I finally, finally was able to participate! I promised myself that I would at least once this summer. I am off school for 1 more glorious week.

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  3. I have never read Gone with the Wind. I did finally sit down and watch the movie a few years ago though.

    My favorite chunky read would have to be the John Jakes North and South books. They are all chunky but such good reads :)

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    1. The movie is pretty great but it leaves a lot out (understandably)

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  4. I haven't read Gone with the Wind, nor even seen the movie! I guess I'm real slow on this one!

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    1. Grab the movie for an introduction. Even if it is an old movie, it is a classic and is very well done.

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  5. I have sooo many chunksters I need to read. Atlas Shrugged for one. Does The Host count as a chunkster? :)

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  6. This is a great topic, Alexis! And I am with you on your choice. I absolutely love Gone with the Wind; definitely one of my all-time favorites. Awesome post :)

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  7. That's really cool!
    I don't think I typically go for chunksters unless it's an author I already love, though one of my favorite books of last year was Froi of the Exiles and it's over 500 pages. and one of my favorite of this year is 450.
    LOL

    Anyway, I've never actually read Gone With the WInd and I've only seen the movie once, but I'm quite repelled by Scarlet's personality. LOL

    I do remember I liked Rhett Butler and yeah, you have to say his full name.

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    1. Scarlet has that response. I think the book gives her a little more depth and her actions are understandable though misguided and downright evil at times.

      Definitely have to say his full name :)

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  8. The Mists of Avalon! It is SO BIG but I didn't even mind because it was also SO GOOD. When I read it it was the 7th longest book on my to-read pile at a whopping 876 pages.

    When I was a kid I loved big books. I thought that books would just get better the bigger they were. I think my attention span has shrunk over the years, and now I'm often a little bit intimidated by chunksters.

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    1. I have that book! I need to read it. I'm usually intimidated by large books though. I like to get through things quickly and move on.

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  9. I still haven't read Gone with the Wind, if you can believe it! I had it as a young teen but don't know what happened to it. My best friend went to St Augustine recently. You should go sometime! They have a restaurant called Scarlett and the entire theme of the place is Gone with the wind.

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    1. I should I'm in those parts often. I'll tell the Hubby we should do that soon.

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  10. I adore this! Mrs. Jimenez sounds awesome and I love that GWTW wad 56 points. :). It's one of my favorites, but I also have a few others that I keep retreading no matter how long - The Thornbirds, Jane Eyre, Exodus and all of Dorothy Dunnett's books, which are long and dense and have the smallest print ever. Excellent post!

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    1. I haven't experienced many of those, but I'll definitely look into them. There is something about books that everyone loves and can talk about together.

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