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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 19930926
Author:Gail Caldwell and David Mehegan, Globe Staff

Gail Caldwell and David Mehegan are book editor and

assistant book editor of the Globe.

It might seem strange to be recommending books for students just back on campus -- after all, didn't they read cheap thrillers all summer? And don't they have to write 5,000-word papers on "Moby-Dick," "Pride and Prejudice" and "The Mill on the Floss"?

Yes, of course, but even so, we've concluded, after looking around bookstores and subway trains, that students are still finding ways to read for pleasure, in and around heavy doses of "Introduction to Sociology." So here's a survey of books for them, ...

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