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  • However, I might still be there in terms of page count since I made an effort to get through some of the doorstopping tomes that had been taunting me from the Reading Pile particularly Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell as well as the mammoth and classic Bone omnibus.

    YetiStomper: Mid-Year Review Patrick 2009

  • Journalist and LiveJournaler Adam Tinworth calls media attempts to contact LJers ‘digital doorstopping’.

    Strange Attractor » 2007 » April 2009

  • Then I remembered a few years ago when I bought Neal Stephenson's doorstopping Quicksilver.

    Does a Book's Popularity Entice You to Read it? 2006

  • We may be small and weak compared to the doorstopping power of Kvothe and The Name of the Wind, but we are many and we will triumph!

    Declaration of War jimhines 2008

  • This is fantasy, after all, original home of the doorstopping tome and the umpteen-volume series.

    Archive 2005-08-01 Abigail Nussbaum 2005

  • This is fantasy, after all, original home of the doorstopping tome and the umpteen-volume series.

    Blogger Went a-Rantin' Abigail Nussbaum 2005

  • But, unlike so many doorstopping volumes of soon-to-be-remaindered lore, this is a tiny book with a comic, naive tone, a pixellated Rasselas.

    Archive 2004-10-01 2004

  • Tender is the acclaimed British food writer Nigel Slater's latest magnum opus, a doorstopping 600-page tour through his London vegetable garden, with accompanying recipes, anecdotes, and planting tips.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • PAUL But no one's going to read the whole darned doorstopping report Bob, it's very handy to put out a pamphlet isn't it?

    ScreenTalk 2009

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