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Your Top Ten
Thursday, March 15, 2007
One of my goals in creating "The Top Ten" — besides getting FILTHY RICH — was to inspire readers to create their own top ten lists. I know from my own experience - and from the comments of many of the book's 125 contributors - that such listmaking opens a little window into our souls (or at least provokes a walk down memory lane).
My exquisite taste explains only part of the reason that my Top Ten differs yours; the rest involves the fact that different works to speak to us, well, differently; they strike chords that resonate more deeply in you than me. Identifying which books bang our gongs and why is more revealing than a year of therapy — at a fraction of the cost!
I've been thrilled to see more than 200 readers post their own top ten lists on my website and I ran into a computer whiz at a recent reading who said he'd be happy to tabulate the results of those lists. Stay tuned!
As we wait for those results, the folks at Amazon.com have released their own Top Ten list based on lists submitted by 71 folks:
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Oooh, tabulated results from the website lists?! Peder, that makes me feel light-headed. Can't wait to see that.
Yes, I love lists THAT much.
Lisa,
You're a sketch! I shipped the material off to him today - can ya hear his little machines a'crankin'?
I hear somethin' a crankin' but I can't identify the source. I just blame it on the dog.