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1. One book that changed your life
Joyce's Ulysses
2. One book you have read more than once
Joyce's Ulysses, Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night, Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano, Toole's Confederacy of Dunces (which I appreciated more in French), a bunch of Ellroy, Paula Fox's Desperate Characters
3. One book you would want on a desert island
Ulysses once more; or Jeffrey Eugenides' Middlesex
4. One book that made you laugh
A Confederacy of Dunces, parts of Wilt by Tom Sharpe, Rupert Morgan's Let There Be Lite and the great Miss Agatha Runcible in Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodies
5. One book that made you cry
Benjamin Constant's Adolphe (not Hitler-related)
6. One book you wish had been written
7. One book you wish had never had been written
Albert Cohen's Belle du seigneur
8. One book you are currently reading
Re-reading Master and Margarita (they're currently in the nut house and Rimski's fled from two vampires)
9. One book you have been meaning to read
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