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We had a similar discussion at the SciFi convention a couple of weeks ago. One of the authors told the story of some publishing house doing a poll for the top 100 Books of the 20th century. When The Lord of the Rings came out on top they refused to publish the results and ran the poll again, this time including the Bible in the list of eligible candidates. In the second go round The Bible came out as #1. To their consternation The Lord of the Rings came out as #2. Funny, I didn't know the Bible was written in the 20th century. :-) As an aside (and lending some credence to this anecdote) I did find the results of a poll that sounds very much like the one the author mentioned. Some interesting books in this list. Give it a look see. jon

 
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