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Title: This Book Shouldn't Be a Great Book, But It Is
Review: This book violates every canon of literary excellence. It's simplistic. It's overly long. It's preachy. The characters give long speeches explaining the book's action and theme. Not one character has any great complexity (although some are more complex than others). And its philosophy is very extreme, as extreme and as unrealizable as Marxism (to use an example from the opposite end of the ideological spectrum).Yet you can't stop reading this book. You can't forget it. And at important moments in your life, you keep flashing back to it, and remembering its message of hope, triumph, and self-reliance.Every human being should read this book. May it endure into the next century!
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