Related Clues:

• Sprawling narratives
• Sizable accounts?
• Palindromic tales
• Great adventures
• No quick reads
• Screen whoppers
• 'The Lord of the Rings' books, e.g.
• Heroic poems
• Soap opera story lines
• Major works
• Sweeping tales
• 'The Lord of the Rings' and the like
• Some are thrilling, some boring, all are long
• "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey," for two
• Extended and dramatic narratives