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Old 11-02-2009, 10:43 PM   #232
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That's my criterion too, and for me it's Dickens, Austen, Trollope, and so on. Proust and Balzac really aren't to my taste, but obviously we all have different likes and dislikes!
And *I* (imnsho) think this is where all these best of lists fail. My tastes, likes, dislikes are different from the next guy. How can anyone make a bests list without butting up against someones dislikes.

By the way, I like Tom Sawyer. It's a juvenile book. Meant to be. Huckleberry Finn is better, but then *I* think Roughing It is better yet. So there...
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