EDNote: VN might have preferred a list like, "What x books should everyone reread at least once". . . .

Subject:
What Five Books Should Everyone Read at least Once? ...
From:
"Sandy P. Klein" <spklein52@hotmail.com>
Date:
Sun, 23 Sep 2007 12:32:42 -0400
To:
spklein52@hotmail.com

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Complete article at the following URL:  http://papercuts.tscpl.org/2007/09/52_questions_38_what_five_book.html 

52 Questions # 38: What Five Books Should Everyone Read at least Once?

This is in response to a list that's been around for a while, but which I just learnedLolita, One of the books Oprah says you should read about.  On Oprah's website you can find this article about the Five Books Everyone Should Read At Least Once.  Their picks are Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, Four Quartets by TS Eliot, The Wisdom of the Desert: Sayings from the Desert Fathers of the Fourth Century translated by Thomas Merton, Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett and Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe.
First of all, I'm not entirely sure that lists like this are such a good idea.   Who have given the author of this article and Oprah the authority to say that these are books everyone should have read?  Of course, I might be a bit put off because I haven't personally read any of these books. 
 
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