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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/329275.The_Book_of_Lost_Books_An_Incomplete_History_of_All_the_Great_Books_You_ll_Never_Read?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="The Book of Lost Books: An Incomplete History of All the Great Books You'll Never Read" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1173800025m/329275.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/329275.The_Book_of_Lost_Books_An_Incomplete_History_of_All_the_Great_Books_You_ll_Never_Read?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">The Book of Lost Books: An Incomplete History of All the Great Books You'll Never Read</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/189036.Stuart_Kelly">Stuart Kelly</a><br/><br/> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8263256?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> rating: 3 of 5 stars<br/>A fascinating idea, and in parts very funny and educational, but overall a bit too densely packed with facts for this lightweight reader. Huge a mount of historical detail, liberally peopled with famous and obscure literati geniuses (genii?) The author assumes an encyclopeadic background such as his own, which meant I struggled sometimes - but I did finish it and for the most part enjoyed it. <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/391359?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>