From William Grimes in today’s NYT: “An odd book fell into my hands recently, a doorstopper with the irresistible title 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die… Two potent factors make 1001 Books compelling: guilt and time. It plays on every serious reader’s lingering sense of inadequacy. Page after page reveals a writer or a novel unread, and therefore a demerit on the great report card of one’s cultural life. Then there’s that bullying title, with its ominous allusion to the final day when, for all of us, the last page is turned. “
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