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	Name: Ted Tendick
	City & State: Hayfield, Minnesota
	Vocation / Avocation: Retired

Why I'm a Habitual Reader:

I became a habitual reader simply because I cannot stand the drivel hack written for television which is electronically beamed through empty heads into the void of outer space. The fiction I did, and do, prefer consists mainly of historical novels of which today's publishing industry has little interest.

My List of Ten: Historical Novels

1. Charles the Throwback
Author: Ted Owen
#1 because I wrote it! (A short novel about a domestic bull who threw back [reverted] to resemble his ancient ancestor, the Arochs; and of others whose lives became entwined with his.)

2. I Claudius
Author: Robert Graves
A gripping tale of the fifth Roman Emperor which was, admittedly, cribbed from Seutonius the historian.

3. The Good Earth
Author: Pearl Buck
A novel describing revolutions that gripped China during the early twentieth century.

4. Hawaii
Author: James Mitchner
Mitchner's tale of the Sandwich Islands: From their conception on through their colonization by men.

5. Roots
Author: Alex Haley
A well-told tale of an Afro-American family's journey to the new world.

6. Giants of the Earth
Author: Ole Rolvaag
An excellent story of Norwegian emigrants' lives and struggles in the midwest.

7. Look Homeward Angel
Author: Thomas Wolfe
I particularly admire it for the great poetic prose which editor Maxwell Perkins rescued and rearranged from the profuse jumble submitted by its author.

8. East of Eden
Author: John Steinbeck (another weird author of the thirties, whose ego grew, like Hemingway's, in direct proportion to his success)
A tale of a totally dysfunctional Californian family at the outbreak of the first world war.

9. Vivian Grey
Author: Benjamin Disraeli (at least he wrote it himself)
A fictionalized novel of the early political life of England's Queen Victoria.

10. Your choice of any ghost written autobiography on the life of any of the last nine U.S. presidents.
Author: unknown

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