Who are your favorite authors?
Vladimir Nabokov, Scott Fitzgerald,Gabriel Garcia Marquez
What are your five favorite books, and why?
Le Rouge et Le Noire, Crime and Punishment, Ulysses, A la Recherche du Temps Perdu, Lolita, One Hundred Years of Solitude.
Brilliantly written, original styles, using metaphors and allusions extensively, paradoxically, like the faces of beautiful women, always remind us of someone else, like a famous actress, for instance; while those books with no recognisable style at all, are like people with plain faces, they remind us of no one, for they have no distinguishable features.
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