After half a century of reading novels, it becomes harder to find a "new" author that you can get excited about.
I mean as when the first book you read is enough to make you decide to read all his others that you can lay hands on.
Such writers in my youth were Dostoevsky, Stendhal, Trollope. Dickens I never liked at all, except maybe for Great Expectations and even that mainly because I'd seen the movie. Proust is another I've always found boring and unreadable.
Funnily enough, many of my favour...
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