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Guy (---.in-addr.btopenworld.com)
Sarah (B) -- very impressed that you've read so many -- you're less than half my age and if you removed the crap from my list (Archer, Rowling etc) you'd have me beaten hands down -- would that I had been so well read all those years ago.
Never read Clan of the Cave Bear -- it's always been one of those "ooh that's famous, and it might be interesting, but I've got a list of stuff I'm supposed to be reading" books. How is it?
While I was delighted that Perfume made it onto the top 100 list, I was a little suprised that The Master and Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov) didn't make it -- if you haven't read it, rush out and buy it now (I seem to say that kind of thing a lot on here).
It's rather magical realisty, though (warning for jon). But Stalin banned it, so it can't be all bad. And Bulgakov was condemned by the Pope as a heretic because of it -- if His Holiness (though it wasn't the current one) and Stalin both hated it, it must have had something going for it. (ooh dear, religion and politics all in one sentence. sorry)
Anyway, seriously, it's a very good read, and nowhere near as sensible and grown up as the fact that that it's a big fat Russian novel might make you think.
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