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Topic: What is the best classic you've read during 2014?

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Subject: What is the best classic you've read during 2014?
Date Posted: 12/5/2014 10:09 AM ET
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I'm happy to say my favorite class this year was Dr. Zhivago. I'd tried reading it decades ago, but just coul more...
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Date Posted: 12/5/2014 11:22 AM ET
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Date Posted: 12/5/2014 5:21 PM ET
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I think the best classic I've read this year more...
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Date Posted: 12/5/2014 11:33 PM ET
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That would be Eric more...
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Date Posted: 12/6/2014 1:45 AM ET
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Every Man Dies Alone by Fallada: based on more...
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Date Posted: 12/6/2014 6:32 AM ET
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Every Man Dies Alone by Fa more...
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Date Posted: 12/6/2014 7:55 AM ET
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I've got to say Rebecca by Daphne Du Maur more...
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Date Posted: 12/6/2014 8:42 AM ET
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I've never read Rebecca more...
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Date Posted: 12/6/2014 12:02 PM ET
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Oh, Rebecca is a dazzling more...
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Date Posted: 12/6/2014 5:07 PM ET
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I would have to say Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End ( a quartet of novels that came out in the 1920s). Like Bonnie, I wanted t more...
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Date Posted: 12/7/2014 9:30 AM ET
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RE Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End. Lately I've been relentlessly culling books, figuring th more...
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Matt, I read Maxwell Perkins' biography last year. He was Thomas Wolfe's editor for a while. It was said Wolfe's first draft o more...
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Date Posted: 12/7/2014 5:47 PM ET
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I just finished Michener's  Tales more...
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Date Posted: 12/7/2014 6:25 PM ET
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what was the bio of P more...
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I read Max Perkins/Editor of Genius by A. Scott Berg. I'd gotten it from the library (my us more...
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ah Berg. I read his bio more...
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I agree with Stephanie. I more...
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Subject: Favorite 2014 Classic
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My favorite was Giants in the Earth by O. E. Roelvaag.  This book brings more...
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I, too, loved Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier but none more...
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