I'm glad you said something, because I thought it was just me.
I believe I read "Old Man and The Sea"; "Of Mice 'n Men"; "A Nation of Sheep," etc. but that was back in school, many moons ago. I'm experimenting and trying to discern what makes certain books best sellers. I read somewhere that people have such busy lives and such little time, they like books about 200 pages in size so they can zip through them. I've read books, with glaring mistakes, supposedly written by famous people. The public seems to think it's an easy thing to write a book. But those are the folks' that never tried to accomplish the very undertaking they're critizing.
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