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PEOPLE; Ventura pick makes it on librarian's list.(NEWS)

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From: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
Date: 20010325
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan's favorite book, "All the Pretty Horses," is also a top pick of Glenna Nowell, retired librarian in Gardiner, Maine.

In a letter to Nowell, Annan compared Cormac McCarthy's book to his other favorite, "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse.

"In both, the environment - the physical world - is itself a character that shapes events and the actions of the other characters," he wrote.

Nowell started polling politicians, athletes, authors and actors in 1988 for an annual list of celebrities' favorite reading materials.

Minnesota Gov. Jesse ...

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