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Title: Depressing!
Review: The favorite books of these 125 "leading writers" are populated by adulterers and adulteresses, nihlists, existentialists, pedophiles, and athiests. You can't fault J. Peder Zane, the compiler of this work, but rather the secular, overly-academic types that he solicited the lists from. I mean, what type of person would prefer "Bleak House" over "A Tale of Two Cities," or "Middlemarch" over "Silas Marner?" Another problem with the "Top Ten" is that they are all books we ought to like, but nobody would read them for pleasure. I would be interested in a similar list garnered from people who really enjoy good literature, but are not trying to impress others with their erudition.
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