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Goblinmonger

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4. I loves me some Tolkien

Reply to Curmudgeoness (Reply #3)

Mon Apr 29, 2013, 11:17 AM

Apr 2013

but in no world is his work better than either 1984 or Mockingbird.

That Rand and Hubbard are on the same list with those three books tells me all I need to know about the bullshit factor of said list.

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