'Museum of Innocence'..my take.
Since my childhood, i have been asked this question zillion times, "who's your favorite author , kid" and my answers have more or less kept changing all these years. Mark twain, Premchand, Paulo coelho, Somerset Maugham, Arundhati roy, Sir Arthur Conal Doyle, Jane Austen....list goes on. Sometimes, even i was surprised at the rate at which i kept changing my preferences. All the writers i read, had one particular or at most two favorite writers, who inspired there writing style and as i had this desire of becoming a writer someday, i felt rather ashamed on myself. So, as the time passed, in order to devoid myself of such emotions, i developed this answer : you know, it's difficult to have one particular favorite theses days as all the works of a particular author are not of same quality, much like our Indian movie makers....so innovative of me. one day, i hit upon a book titled 'other colors' by a turk named 'orhan pamuk'. it was a col...