Oi Lady! Does Ishiguru or McEwan or another other of these namby pamby authors really seem like my thang? I am too busy reading Batman!
I think I said that what I want to do (maybe between the ages of 50 & 60, and before my eyesight completely goes) is read the classics. All the Dickens, Doystoyevsky, Hemingway, Tolstoy etc I can handle. Like a book a month. So that would be 120 books over the course of ten years. Now that's fair enough isn't it? ps I thought it was EM Forster! haha!
pps that Flannery O'Connor collection is sitting staring at me right now, not got to it.
I am ashamed of my reading these days, I never find the time I should and that I always used to. The main reason is the books I used to tear through in days, and the authors that made me want to do it, I've read everything of those books. The only author that makes me feel that way these days is...gulp.....Lee Child haha.
But since you haven't read Iain Banks' Culture novels or any Hammett maybe you shouldn't be casting too many stones around that greenhouse.
(and I can't take anyone seriously on this subject until they have read all 21 Travis McGee books).
{and if anybody else takes me seriously this week I'm just going to...stop making stupid jokes.}