Guys, who is your favourite author and why? Also name his/her few books you love

Mine is Roald Dahl cause of his interesting, quirky way of writing and his stories never fail to fascinate me. I love James and The Giant Peach and Charlie and The Chocolate Factory

Remember that scene in The Office where Michael says, "Sometimes I'll start a sentence and I don't even know where it's going. I just hope I find it along the way"? That's basically how Dostoevsky's characters talk.

Of all the Russian authors, he's the one I've read the most, and somehow I'm still not used to his literary style. every character is a little insane, no encounter feels entirely logical or plausible, and nothing makes that much sense.

I have a silly, somewhat rigid system for how I approach reading. Sometimes it's counter productive because it has the potential to put me in reading slumps. Here are some of my self-imposed rules:

• I have to read at least 1 dense classic or non-fiction each month

• I can only read something purely for fun when I have read something more challenging beforehand.

• if I own a physical copy of a book, I have to finish reading it no matter how shitty it turns out to be.

The first two rules help me (🤡) read more diversely, and read better books in general. the problem with great books though, is that they take so much more brain power on average. Enforcing this has put me in reading slumps in the past, so I'm trying to be more flexible with these two.

The third one serves to control my book shopping impulses:)) this one has also pushed me to stop reading at times.

I'm curious do any of y'all do this, or are you more easy going with your reading habits?

lowkey racist undertones? i never like when authors write dialect of non-native english speakers…and i especially don’t like when it’s a white author writing from the perspective of a white character who is frustrated with non-native english speakers. there’s a scene with an asian doorman that made me uncomfortable, especially with the casual way by which it’s mentioned that other workers blame the asian worker for things that go wrong. it had basically no impact to the story, too—i would have slashed it out if i were the editor.

in general, the passing nature by which the narrator refers to people of color is…weird. it feels like that scene in TSH where bunny (i think it was him?)goes on a racist rant that literally adds nothing to the story; richard doesn’t even react to it. so like…what’s the point of casual racism lmfao.

aside from that. this book is really wordy. like almost excessively so.