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Old 08-03-2011, 07:42 AM   #57
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
I know you didn't mean it as a putdown at all. I didn't mind answering. Heck, if I'm going to say I didn't like something that much, then anyone has the right to ask me why and I should say why. Which I did.

It just happens that the book is not one that holds up well enough today to be considered a classic. It's not even that well written.
Masolino d'Amico is an Italian literary critic. He writes
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Forsters studies and describes some of the fundamental traits of the man of every epoch and every country. It is for this reason that his message keeps being valuable, even for our epoch. It is to be foreseen that it will survive."

In fact they keep printing it and people keep reading it. After 80 years and some. And not only in the UK.

Jon, if you have to take as a target something, why don't you do it in a little more realistic way? Constructively like? A propos?
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