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Title: "Western Cannon" its not
Review: This was not a great book, This reader envies and admires the author being able to return to Columbia College and partake in the "Great Books Program". The author could not maintain this reader's attention. Many passages from the classics seemed to drone on, peppered with some side-light descriptions of the author's younger "college aged" classmates. I can see by the number of five star reviews that this book was a hit with many readers. I thought it provided a narrow scope on classic literature. The book I read previous to this book was Harold Bloom's "The Western Cannon". Harold Bloom gives concrete examples and rules why a book should be considered a classic in Western Literature. This book by David Denby offers a more intuitive approach. I recommend Harold Bloom's book instead.
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