>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, /lit/?
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?
>>8163969
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.
>>8164056
Editors and readership all saying it was too hard
Blame genre fiction
>>8163346
>read author's magnum opus
>it's a life-changing masterpiece of art
>read author's other books
>exact same themes and motifs
>>8163969
>wow another guy who reads Dostoy as his only foray into russian lit
color me impressed
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.
>>8164155
>Portrait of a Lady- Awful
this opinion is incorrect
>>8163346
>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
>>8163346
>her
kek
>>8164056
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.
>>8164306
read Eyes of a Blue Dog.
