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Non-Fiction

Zorro

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14. Great book

Reply to pscot (Reply #3)

Sat Oct 24, 2015, 11:26 PM

Oct 2015

I read it decades ago. I recall it took getting through the first 250 pages or so before it gets really absorbing, though. Couldn't quite get into Anna Karenina the same way.

Gutenberg is a great resource for reading classic literature from the past several centuries for free. I've been quite entertained reading H. Rider Haggard's writings, among many others.

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