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To: epicure who wrote (33916)	1/26/2012 4:39:42 PM
From: Ron	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 51751

As I recall from high school, there were certain 'standards' that were on the literature reading list. I remember things like Moby Dick, Leaves of Grass, Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer, Jonathan Edwards and his sinners hanging above the abyss of Hell. I don't believe I read Catcher in the Rye until college (probably a little too controversial at that time.) Do they still have those kinds of reading lists? If I were going to assign books for high schoolers, I would probably include a couple of Philip K. Dick classics and some Kurt Vonnegut. Galapagos comes to mind and as for Philip K. Dick, probably the Man in the High Castle.