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TEN COMMANDMENTS LEADS LIST OF LISTS; AMERICANS LOVE TO MAKE LISTS. SO LET'S LOOK AT SOME FAVORITES.(LIFE)

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From: The News & Record (Piedmont Triad, NC)
Date: 19980816
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Byline: RICHARD NILSEN The Arizona Republic

Every columnist in America seems to have written about the Modern Library list of the 100 best English-language novels of the past 100 years. It's almost obligatory.

The only thing they seemed to agree on is that James Joyce's "Ulysses" is hard to read.

But they missed the real significance of the list. And that is that Americans don't actually read the books but, instead, read the list.

We are a country crazy for lists. There is the list of the 100 greatest American films put out by the American Film Institute. "The ...

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