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a)Because you love his work
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John Irving - I think I have three left to read. His books are always among my favourites, although the at-the-time current favourite of his changes often. Right now, it's
The World According to Garp.
Vladimir Nabokov - I've read around 8 of his books and loved them all.
Pnin is a firm favourite. Whilst I loved
Lolita, my first Nabokov, I now appreciate
The Enchanter as being as good if not better.
Jill Dawson - Since reading
Watch Me Disappear a year or two ago, I've read a couple more of this author's books and can actually see her becoming a 'read-all-of'.
Haruki Marukami - Absolutely adore his books, and have read 8 of them.
Kazuo Ishiguro - I've read half of his (the easiest half).
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b)for various and mysterious raison you end up having read a lot by the author
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Ian McKewen - I don't understand why I've read so many of this author's works, for I find them quite tedious. I imagine it's because they're short, and because I really
want to like him, but I just can't.
James Joyce - I studied
Dubliners for my A level and then, for some reason, I managed to read or half-read everything else. I'm not quite sure why, but I assume now that it was my teenage self wanting to appear well-read.
Dubliners remains my favourite, even if it's not quite considered up there with the best of Joyce by most.
Chuck Palahniuk - I know not why.
Isabel Allende - I've read four of her books in Spanish, for no other reason than her works are at my level, and I would certainly prefer to read them than translated Harry Potters.
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d)You wish you could but his books are very hard to come by,not translated yet or where lost in time.
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Patrick McGrath - oh why oh why won't they reprint
Dr Haggard's Disease? I've read the others.
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e)I would love to but there is just to many of them books.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Gabriel García Marquez... I'm sure there are more.
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f)I read all their books but shame prevent me from openly discussing it.
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Er... Enid Blyton? More recently, Margaret Atwood, Jostein Gaarder and Bill Bryson.