This 534-page doorstopper is no ordinary kids 'book, for sure.    From Wordnik.com.  [GreenCine Daily: Sunday shorts.] Reference

For your derivative hacktastic doorstopper fantasy?.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Open Letter] Reference

So, no big 700 page doorstopper here though i do like those, too.    From Wordnik.com.  [Review: A Betrayal In Winter by Daniel Abraham] Reference

Just imagine a hot doorstopper battercake chock full of tasty fillings.    From Wordnik.com.  [DIY Okonomiyaki] Reference

I just got my contributor's copy, and it's a swell doorstopper of a book.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing: January 12, 2003 - January 18, 2003 Archives] Reference

I have seen people either loving or hating Vikram's doorstopper of a novel.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Suitable Heavyweight] Reference

Take out all the filler in that doorstopper, and you're left with about one hundred pages. wESh.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kristen Stewart Wants BREAKING DAWN to be Two Movies and What Does She Think of a 3D TWILIGHT? – Collider.com] Reference

"You can take away my John Grisham doorstopper, sonny, when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.".    From Wordnik.com.  [We Caught the Terrorist, So Let's Have More Restrictions!] Reference

We have this doorstopper thingie in the upstairs bathroom that's a taut metal coil with a little rubber cap on the end.    From Wordnik.com.  [idiot-milk Diary Entry] Reference

The presentation and the attitude bespoke of professionalism so I was eager to sink my teeth into this epic doorstopper.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-07-01] Reference

I've always found King to be most effective in short form, which seems odd considering his penchant for massive doorstopper novels.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2004-01-01] Reference

If you are looking for book to take with you on vacation, and don't want to haul around a 600 page doorstopper, this one is for you.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-07-01] Reference

It also tells us that, at 277 pages in all, it's been slimmed down from the 480-page doorstopper which was the draft EU constitution.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-07-01] Reference

I used to like Delillo when he wrote short little novels but then he wrote that baseball doorstopper and I couldn't get past page 50.    From Wordnik.com.  [Confess Your Readerly Sins!] Reference

I nearly grabbed it at the library but a friend has lent me the latest Peter Hamilton doorstopper and I should really read that first.    From Wordnik.com.  [A particulary geeky side of scifi] Reference

The novel sprawls just over 170 pages, which is considered short by modern standards set by thousand plus pages long doorstopper tomes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ursula K. Le Guin - The Lathe of Heaven (Book Review)] Reference

And isn't The Lord of the Rings the great-granddaddy of all epic fantasy, the wellspring from which all endless doorstopper series flow?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-12-01] Reference

The Happy Booker hosts Janis Cooke Newman, author of doorstopper Mary, with a short essay about the book and Mary Todd Lincoln's white cake.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wednesday Hangovers] Reference

Michelle couldn't be there as well, but at least ChoYee did us a great favour for helping to get a really nice doorstopper as a birthday present.    From Wordnik.com.  [teddy-risation™] Reference

If thick doorstopper novels aren't your thing, take a look at her collection of bittersweet short stories, I Wish Someone Were Waiting for me Somewhere.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gail Vida Hamburg: Paris on the Brain: Books for Spring Vacationers and Armchair Travelers] Reference

Just because a kid is capable of reading a giant fat doorstopper of a fantasy doesn't mean they don't like to relax and enjoy a good picture book now and again.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Mad Bitches Against Gay People"] Reference

It may be fun to read for the entertainment value in a Mystery Science Theater 3000 kind of way, if you don't mind reading a bunch of doorstopper books to get to that point.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-05-01] Reference

It seems an obvious thing: we all have short attention spans in this internet-saturated age. 4000 word stories should be enormously popular, moreso than giant doorstopper novels.    From Wordnik.com.  [Salute Your Shorts] Reference

Sumner picked up a rock that Dorff used as a doorstopper and hit him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Homepage | The Forum | Fargo, ND] Reference

Mr King took the rock to his Cunnamulla home to use it as a doorstopper.    From Wordnik.com.  [AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories] Reference

I imagine it is another doorstopper, the first having weighed in at about 30 lbs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph] Reference

Does the novel satisfy the standard set by these illustrious predecessors of the doorstopper form?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Valve] Reference

At nearly 700 pages, this dessert doorstopper announces boldly that it takes the meal's finale seriously.    From Wordnik.com.  [chron.com Chronicle] Reference

The time constraints of my current Bookerthon make me particularly prone to groan at the sight of a doorstopper.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blogposts | guardian.co.uk] Reference

Pynchon's doorstopper novel, Mason & Dixon; and "Silvertown Blues" is a stirring appreciation of blue-collar endeavor.    From Wordnik.com.  [AvaxHome] Reference

The gallery include Barry McGee, Chris Johanson and Leslie Shows, who is on the cover of SFMOMA's doorstopper of an anniversary-show publication.    From Wordnik.com.  [ArtsJournal: Daily Arts News] Reference

So it’s going to take me a while to sort out this doorstopper.    From Wordnik.com.  [2008 June « One-Minute Book Reviews] Reference

AS long as the book isn’t some 400-600 page doorstopper, I am fine with pdf copies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Transcript: Getting Your Book Reviewed « Coyote Con] Reference

It was an unsalvageable doorstopper.    From Wordnik.com.  [Asimov's Science Fiction]

"This 534-page doorstopper is no ordinary kids 'book, for sure.    From Wordnik.com.  [GreenCine Daily] Reference

"Besson is at the height of his powers in this unbridled doorstopper of a novel, in which the author of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maitresse] Reference

65-million-year-old egg is but a stolen souvenir used as a doorstopper in a local hut.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Times of India] Reference