Who's going to read Bottom's Dream ? If I know Wordcrafters, some of you already have. This is the first English Language release of the 13-pound German novel by Arno Schmidt. Quote from Michael Orthofer, founder of Complete Review, a literary website, "I suspect it will mainly be a conversation piece."

13 pounds? It sounds like a Russian novel!

I skimmed Zettel's Traum when I lived in Germany. It was huge! (I am surprised that it has been translated.)

Welll, my late father read Will & Ariel Durant's "The Story of Civilization" all the way through, and that weights about thirty pounds, but the type's not small.

I've been reading incorrectly for years. I didn't realize I was supposed to uy books by the pound

I wonder how long it took to translate it!

In the old days I used to wait until expensive hardback books came out in paperback. Now I wait until they come out in ebook form.

Somehow, though, I suspect I'll have to wait a long while for a digital version of this.

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I suspect I'll have to wait a long while for a digital version of this.

Or get a bigger hard drive.