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The London Daily Telegraph's Sunday magazine, Seven, rolls out its list of "The 110 Best Books," a compilation which, it says, would make "the perfect library." The perfect English gentleman's library, we presume they mean. It's a good list, all right, but awfully Brit-centric. What, no Adventures of Huckleberry Finn? No Great Gatsby? And why, oh why, include Jonathan Livingston Seagull among "Books That Changed Your World"? OK, so it probably changed Richard Bach's world, not to mention his bank account. But was anybody else's worldview permanently affected by Bach's story of a seagull? Here's the Telegraph's list. What do you think?
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Posted by jack @ 2:59 PM Mon, Apr 07, 2008
No prob. w/ Brits, but where are Dame Rebecca West, Barbara Pym, Barry Unsworth?