Ulysses – I’ve tried many times and never got through it.
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My own biography! Being serious, there’s an Australian novel by Gregory Roberts called Shantaram that I didn’t read through.
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View all 32 →My new year resolution is actually to read all the classics and I’m ashamed that I haven’t read everything by the Brontë sisters.
To Kill a Mockingbird – I was meant to read it for an exam and I didn’t and I cheated. I was allowed to use a laptop to type my answers because I couldn’t see my writing, so I hid an electronic copy of the book on the laptop.
Fifty per cent of the books on my shelf, so much so that I gave them away.
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View profile →Looking down at other people. I was brought up to treat people as you treat yourself, with respect. The people you meet on the way up are the people you meet on the way down.
I don’t know and I don’t really care – I’ll be dead.
I haven’t grown up.
Hardworking, authentic and honest.
The inability to do things for myself.
Maybe in the 1990s, but I was so selfish at the time, I wouldn’t really have noticed what was going on.
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