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Old 02-07-2011, 04:11 AM   #8133
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And I decided to begin with the classics, missing so many great stuff from far less mediocre times! Thank God for Project Gutemberg!
To be fair to modern day authors, I don't think it's that authors in the past were better, but that most of the common-place stuff of past times has simply been forgotten. We're left with the really good books — books that people from many different decades have found worth reading.
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