No thanks to certain books, I've grown to mistrust best sellers list. I've learnt that just because something sells doesn't mean that it's any good. Thanks to this notion, I totally missed out on the Alchemist by Paulo Coelho when it came out. Fortunately, I read about Paulo Coelho in the New Yorker (yes, I seem to keep refering to the New Yorker these days), and I decided to check him out. For the first time in a long while, I sat down and finished a book from cover to cover. Sure, it wasn't a long book. It was a good book -- I think that's my point.
I tend to read in waves, by authors. The last author I checked out was Calvin Trillin. Before that, Haruki Murakami. I'll be reading Paulo Coelho for as long as I can find an unread book in the library.
I'm not sure if its wise to read only a certain author. But that's how I function, by obsessing over one person, one idea, one thing, and never really coming back again. Literally, the phases of my life.
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