Discover a new author

>Discover a new author
>First book you read by them is life-altering, easily makes your top ten list

>Next thing you read from them is insufferable garbage

What's his/her name, Veeky Forums?

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Denis Johnson
1st Book read - Jesus' Son

2nd book - Fiskadoro -wtf Johnson

though I did later like Angels
Train Dreams
and The Name of the World

The Laughing Monsters was meh but Fiskadoro really fucking irked me

Dostoievsky. First read Crime and Punishment and i loved it.

Then i read Demons and, save for Kirilov's parts, it was meh.

Then i got The Idiot and it was also meh, altough a litle better.

Then Memories from the House of the Dead. Wich was great.

And at last i read Brothers Karamazov and absolutely loved it. Even shed tears over it.

Gene Wolfe: New Sun vs Long/Short Sun

What happened lads?

That's funny. I love Brother's K, but Demons and The Idiot are also GOAT in my opinion.
Granted, I had to read The Idiot twice before I recognized how good it is. I'd say it's Dostoevsky's second-best.

Editors and readership all saying it was too hard
Blame genre fiction

>read author's magnum opus
>it's a life-changing masterpiece of art
>read author's other books
>exact same themes and motifs

>wow another guy who reads Dostoy as his only foray into russian lit

color me impressed

Really? I just finished New Sun. Will Urth/Long/Short Sun disappoint?

Also Veeky Forums should give more credit to Wolfe's earlier work as well as his short stuff. Book of the New Meme was fantastic but The Fifth Head of Cerberus is still my favourite science-fiction novel.

Why don't you name your books?

>Show authors
>don't name book they've read

Henry James did this to me
The American- Great
Daisy Miller- Awful
Turn of the Screw- Eh ok
Portrait of a Lady- Awful

Anne Frank's Dairy was magnificent. I went out to read the rest of her oeuvre, and it was just horrid.

Probably The Tin Drum. The rest of his work is disappointing.

>Portrait of a Lady- Awful

this opinion is incorrect

>One Hundred Years of Solitude--GOAT
>Love in the Time of Cholera---GOAT
>Chronicle of a Death Foretold---Bretty gud
>The General in His Labyrinth---Breettttyyy guud
>Autumn of the Patriarch---What the FUCK happened
>Memoirs of my Melancholy Whores---Gabo pls...
>Of Love and Other Demons---Notbad.jpg

I honestly think he has like only two really bad novels. Autumn of the Patriarch was just a fucking wankfest.

His short stories are pretty great, as are his non-fiction works like Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor and News of a Kiddnapping

Bolano, Savage Detectives was miles from 2666

>her
kek

Shift to subtext, readers too dim to read past surface ... his books are still just as cryptic, but his style chnges for each one. Short sun was a masterpiece.

read Eyes of a Blue Dog.