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Summary: Inspiration for the unintentionally ignorant
Review: OK, so it's full of run-on (and on and on and on....) sentences, and it has an abundance of Christian-bashing (although raised a Christian, I did find myself agreeing with the author most of the time), and he did leave out the other Little Red Book, by Harvey Penick, but how can you not appreciate the sheer girth of this guy's insight into all of these.... Sorry, I'd better end this sentence and start a new one. You see, not only have I read it through twice, but this book is a mainstay next to the toilet. Despite its obvious flaws, this collection of 100 refreshingly blunt book reports is simply one of the most inspirational things I've ever read. It stunningly reminded me of how limited my influences have been in shaping by beliefs (or lack of), and was instrumental in my decision to get a Masters in Social Science. I'm obviously not speaking to the nit-pickworthy scholars out there, but for the thirsty non-intellectuals ready to realize that most of what we know is what we've been told by other narrow minded (however well meaning) people. And arguing about who or what's left out is a moot point; this book is merely a starting point to expanding our capacity for understanding others. Of course, like Mr. Seymour-Smith's, all this is just my opinion.
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Summary: anti-Semitic garbage
Review: Seymour-Smith deserves one stars for at least trying to tactical the issue of a top 100 book-list review. However, his failure to list a man's book whom put my aunt in the Warsaw Ghetto and started WWII, Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf," makes Seymour-Smith's book reek of anti-Semiticism. How somebody can forget a book that lead to the desecration(the "Holocaust"), of the 6 million covenanted ones, is unexplainable and unjustifiable. How can we "never forget" if the book is not there to review, Mr. Seymour-Smith?
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Summary: Waste of time!
Review: The man dismisses the cherished beliefs of billions in a sentence, brings up famous writers just to trash them, goes on and on about "Gone with the Wind," and offers no evidence to support most of his regal sounding pronouncements. The pompous introduction is fair warning of what the rest of the book will be like. My advice: get the list of books and read them yourself. You won't understand them from this book's descriptions!
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