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There were books you had to have read, or pretended to have read, if you wanted to be even halfway cool in the 1970s. There was Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet, Robert M Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Hermann Hesse’s Steppenwolf and, if you were a man who aspired to an even higher plateau of coolness, Germaine Greer’s ...