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k00kaburra

PBS' The Great American Read

May 23, 2018 22:11

Last night, PBS aired the launch special for their The Great American Read initiative. Throughout the summer, PBS is asking Americans to vote for their favorite book from a list of one hundred titles, culled from a survey of people across the country. The winner will be announced sometime in the fall ( Read more... )

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as long as they are reading, maybe. wrayb November 14 2018, 23:07:46 UTC

Lists like this both fascinate and puzzle and frustrate (puzzle and frustrate are a single part of the concept of both against facinate). Your short list is more high brow (meant as a complement) than the populist NPR list. Wish there was time to actually discuss.

Re: as long as they are reading, maybe. k00kaburra November 15 2018, 18:27:23 UTC

I wish I could qualify as a high brow reader! Haha. I would love to know how some of these books ended up on the list. One of the titles - I think it was Mind Invaders by Dave Hunt but I'm not 100% sure on that - was out of print so I'm really surprised they included it. I mean, if the purpose of the list was to get folks to read books adding one that isn't easily available seems like a poor choice...