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I avoided reading this book for a long time. My friends at university heaped scorn on those who seemed to like it a little too much. Most of those people were deserving of scorn for other reasons, so I took that as an indictment of the book too.

I finally read it a few months ago, and I now consider it my favorite book. At last a preachy book where I can count myself as a member of the choir. I've never read anything that seemed so in tune with my own world view. Use that fact to draw your own conclusions about me if you want.
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24532336 to: The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, Part 1) by J.R.R. Tolkien
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24532331 to: Brave New World (Paperback) by Aldous Huxley
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24532326 to: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Paperback) by Mark Twain
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24532324 to: Animal Farm (Paperback) by George Orwell
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24532320 to: Me Talk Pretty One Day (Paperback) by David Sedaris
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24532314 to: Lord of the Flies (Paperback) by William Golding
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24532311 to: The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again (Paperback) by J.R.R. Tolkien
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24532308 1984 (Paperback) by George Orwell
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