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16. Finally finished Elmer Gantry.......whew. I wonder if it's the only book in captivity

Sat Mar 31, 2012, 12:04 AM

Mar 2012

where the author actually makes fun of himself in the book? One of the characters remarks what a bore Sinclair Lewis is....... good one!

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