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   From: news@pointerstop.ca   
      
   Francis A. Miniter wrote:   
      
   > Steve Hayes wrote:   
   >   
   > The list is highly Anglo-centric, but not a single Scot (or Irishman)   
   > among them.  Surely, Ivanhoe by Scott, or anything by Stevenson, could   
   > have made the list.   
      
   Stevenson, surely.  I admit I have always _intended_ to read Ivanhoe.  So I   
   just put _that_ on hold from the library too. :-)   
      
   > No mention of any of the following:   
      
   Probably an excellent list, as I'd agree about all the authors I've actually   
   read :-) (Except Melville, who was tedious).   
      
   One I meant to mention was /Blindness/ by José Saramago.  I'm waiting with   
   baited breath for the film.   
      
   > And many that were mentioned are down-right second-rate.  And the book   
   > choice for Vonnegut left me wondering.  Why not Slaughterhouse-Five or   
   > Mother Night?   
      
   I thought Cat's Cradle was Steve's choice.  I've always had a special liking   
   for that book, as it was the first of Vonnegut's that I read, but imo you   
   could put anything of his on the list.  And there wasn't enough of it.   
   --   
   derek   
      
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