Anything by William Faulkner, specially As I Lay Dying. Had to read it for my course work, what a punishment. I can't stand most English and American novelists (sorry folks) apart from George Eliot, Jane Austin, Henry Fielding, John Cowper Powys, Nabokov and more recent writers like DM Thomas, Rushdie, Walker Percy, John Kennedy Toole etc. I don't like Dickens, but then I was brought up on Russian and French novels which are, by far, superior. I admire English humor:Fielding, Swift (Irish) Wodehouse, Jerome K Jerome, Wilde (Irish) the list could be longer, but for serious novel, I choose to look elsewhere.
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