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Subject: Premature Praise?
Date Posted: 9/22/2014 7:57 PM ET
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I just started reading Vanity Fair. more...
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the author is so present in his own more...
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Vanity Fair is so witty! Thackeray makes the stor more...
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Yeah, it was great to read abo more...
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No I haven't read any Collins. At one time some of the p more...
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Geez, I feel old-----when I was in J-school in the late Nineteen-Forties, in my lit class, American N more...
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1949. That was the year Betty McDonald published more...
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I love Wilkie Collins (The Moonstone and Woman in White are especially brilliant) and adore Charles Dickens (David Copper more...
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Without planning to, I read this year more...
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Okay, the word premature is in the title of this thread for a reason. I tend to peter out on books like we've discussed thus far. I've read David Copperfield. I actually finished it. I can honestly say it wa more...
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Laura, this comment isn't exactly what you mean, but I wanted to report what happened when I read Kazuo more...
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Love discussions such as this as it hel more...
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Well, there was once someone who tw more...
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