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Old 02-15-2010, 07:46 PM   #154
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Reading can be, and is, an escape for many.

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So can be reality TV.... So can be binging on ice-cream late at night.

I can understand some enjoying trash novels. What I don't understand is the need to insist they have equal value to Gogol.

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....If I read the book "The Da Vinci Code" and thoroughly enjoyed it because it gave me an alternate point of view to a long established religious opinion...."
Viewing The Da Vinci Code as an alternative point of view to a "long established religious opinion" is scary, even though I hold the validity of "religious opinion" on par with that of The Da Vinci Code....

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