I suppose books are my real passion in life.

I hope for so much from every book I read. And time and again, I find myself disappointed. I look across my bookshelves and see hundreds of titles which in my memory seem merely mediocre or second-rate. Only occasionally does a novel appear for which I feel a lasting passion, a book that I think could in time become a classic.

What makes a classic is difficult to define. It's entirely subjective, of course. And the term is employed far too promiscuously.

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