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Old 04-08-2012, 11:22 AM
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Originally Posted by l2ridehd View Post
Really? I counted 39 of the 100 as French or from France. That is 39% of the total. Sorry, I could not even believe 10% of the top 100 books of the twentieth century were from France. So 39% from almost any single country by any measure is a somewhat biased view. No wrong, a very biased view. I am not faulting the list, just trying to show why it is what it is.
That was a survey of French readers who picked which books stuck in their memory. So, there would be a bias towards French writers.