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| Quote (George @ Sep. 27 2013,01:24) | | Quote (k.e.. @ Sep. 27 2013,00:31) | | Quote (sparc @ Sep. 27 2013,05:57) | | Quote (Woodbine @ Sep. 26 2013,19:17) | 
Or at similar length you could read....
Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray - 78,462 words.
George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty-Four - 88,942 words.
J.D. Salinger - The Catcher in the Rye - 73,404 words.
Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse-Five - 49,459 words.
Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Scarlet Letter - 63,604 words.
Ray Bradbury - The Martian Chronicles - 64,768 words.
William Golding - Lord of the Flies - 59,900 words.
Tough choice I know. |
An intellectually self-contained fundamentalist life in a remote place on Montserrat leaves a lot of idle time. |
Indeed but I'll bet he's never read any of those books. |
I suspect he's read The Scarlet Letter, but for very different reasons than most. And he took notes. |
Funny, I've read them all - except The Scarlet Letter.
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Rocks have no biology.
Robert Byers.
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