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All the books of an author...
I'm trying to think of any, but I do not think that I have read all the books by any given author.
"Non ignara mali miseris succurrere disco." Virgil, The Aeneid
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Jane Austen
John Marsden
William McInnes
Amy Tan
And I'm currently working through:
Bill Bryson
JK Rowling
Jasper Fforde
Alexander McCall Smith
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Toni Morrison
Shakespeare
Kurt Vonnegut
Douglas Adams
Jack Kerouak
William S. Burroughs
SE Hinton
Edgar A. Poe
TS Elliot
Ken Kesey
Unfortunately- Jane Austen (I hate her- but it was for a case study)
Walter Mosley (I think so at least- unless there's one I don't know about)
Chuck Palahunick- Highly recommended
Emily Dickenson
And actually there are probabl more that I'm just not aware of- I read quite a lot- and work in a library, and have a degree in this... I don't really watch tv except for a select few things--- so it happens...
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You just reminded me of a quote from Mark Twain:LoveHatesYou wrote:Unfortunately- Jane Austen (I hate her- but it was for a case study)
Mark Twain wrote:"Just the omission of Jane Austen’s books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn’t a book in it."
I ought to read a biography on Twain some time. I keep seeing these quotes and little facts about him.
I'm rather in a quandry (sp?) when it comes to reading all the works of an author. The ones I have a particular liking towards have written huge amounts of material. Voltaire, for example.
Then again, I am a rather young reader.
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I actaully haven't read anything by Nabokov- and aren't you the same person who keep touting to each their own? I understand that at the time Austen was writing she was limited in her material, but I just can't get into it- at all. Feel free to try and explain it to me- you have my myspace. I'm open to discussion. But I had a 6wk. dissertation case study with a woman who wrote many paper on Austen and she tried too- but I do love the discussion.sleepydumpling wrote:Sigh... it makes this old librarian very sad to hear people don't get Jane Austen... sigh... but then those are probably the same people who dig Nabokov, and I just can't stand him in any way!
Just because I don't like her, doesn't mean I don't "get" her.
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That's why I don't say that someone is a bad author, I just say I don't like them.
And for the record, to get Jane Austen is to love her. If someone doesn't love her work, then they very clearly don't get her.