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(In fact, I've added it to my Facebook friends and we 're going off to the Lake District for some quality time this weekend.) It's just a rather lonely feeling to be told, repeatedly, that a book- or an album or area of natural beauty or anything, really- will "change your life", or "astound" you, and emerge without noticeably having had those experiences. Sitting dry-eyed in a cinema, surrounded by people weeping their hearts out, or being the only one not bellowing along to the "na, na, na, NA-N A-NANA" coda of "Hey Jude", it is hard not to conclude that you must be at best some sort of philistine, at worst dangerously spiritually impoverished, only a degree or two better than the sort of person who only listens to music on mobile phones.
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Am I Culturally Challenged?
Recently, I read 2666 by Roberto Bolaño, a book that has been acclaimed as the greatest novel of the decade so far. I say "recendy ": actu...
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