“What’s your favorite novel from another author?”

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Can you tell me about one of your favorite books by a different author?

I love, um, so I don't read that much anymore and I'm not going to get into why too much, but generally just like kind of movies, I think that it was better in the past and nowadays it just feels like a lot of stuff is rehashed from the past and maybe changed a little bit. So I'm not that enthused by modern literature. That being said, there might be great books out there. I don't know, but it takes a lot for me to read a novel because it's just like a projector in my brain and I get very immersed in it in a very vulnerable way. So if it sucks, I become very reactive to it because a lot of my time and energy has been wasted.

Just so you know, that's how I write as well. So that should give you an inkling on how carefully I edit the stuff that I write.

One of my favorite novels of all time, which is very, short um I think it's similar like the cinder I think uh is And Then There Were None by again I don't know how to I don't know how to pronounce her name but it's Agatha Christie or Agatha Christie.

Um uh And Then There Were None was originally called 10 Little Niggers when it came out because it was so long ago and apparently nigger wasn't a bad word back then um and then it was changed because that was too offensive to 10 Little Indians but then Indians became a bad word to say.

And then it became, and I think it was, And Then There Were None. And then they said 10 soldiers or 10 or 10 little soldiers or something like that.

And that relates to the 10, there's like a fixture in the novel where there's 10 figurines, basically.

Yeah, that's probably one of my favorite novels.

I had it as a course, like it was for school. This was back when I was a kid and we had a month to read it. And I think I read it the first weekend. Like I just stormed through it - I loved it and I read it again 10 years later loved it again and one of the reasons I adore that novel, aside from the fact that it's executed beautifully in the sense of the way it's organized, she actually said that that was her most difficult novel to edit - like it took her a long time - the ending is phenomenal and even to this day even though the idea behind it which is people go to a place and they start being murdered or killed or dying or whatever and no one knows who or why, the ending still has not been replicated anywhere as far as I know. It's a beautiful psychologically magnificent ending that even now if you were to like go and read it and get the ending you'd still say that's a very novel ending that hasn't been reused very often. So I was blown away by the ending. I was just and I think it stayed with me because it's it's so psychologically magnificent which I'm not going to say because I'm not going to ruin it.