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Depressing Books Could Be Just What The Doctor Ordered

Posted at 8:30AM Tuesday 05 Feb 2013

Instead of 'mood-boosting books', imagine doctors handing out prescriptions for gloomy masterpieces by Samuel Beckett and Thomas Hardy.

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