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Hemingway and Thomas are two of my favourite authors. Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises being my favourite book of all time. Under Milk Wood is magical and I own many performances of it, the iconic Burton reading being one of my favourites. An animation of it exists and is wonderful. I’d also...

Dune. I have tried to get into it in all its variations. I just found it incredibly tedious.

If a book I’m reading has a complicated name in it, I’ll read the entire book having never bothered to read or learn that name. “it was only then that Flavinski Ro…” oh yeah, him again.

I struggled with Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes books. Rather enjoyed many of the screen adaptations but the books left me cold .

Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance. Really wanted to like this and tried a few times to read it. Always thinking I would “get it” this time. Well there’s either nothing to get or I am just not seeing it.

Oh yes, Tolkien’s stuff. Can’t get past the Shire.

Ulysses Count Of Monte Cristo Every Shakespeare I have ever attempted The English Patient (you don’t have to be English to read it but you do have to be f***ing patient).