Discovered Authors 2011

Jayaprakash Satyamurthy said:
I personally don't think there's a wrong place to start with PKD. But I'm a bit of a fanboy.
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I would agree i didnt even dislike A Maze of Death thatis the only weak PKD i have readbut then i would call myself a fanboy too.He was the first author i thought i must have all his books.
 
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Connavar said:
He was the first author i thought i must have all his books.
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Perhaps, but I certainly think one can do better starting with some books over others. For instance, I wouldn't recommend someone start with "The Simulacra", "We Can Build You" or "VALIS". Not that they were actually bad novels, just simply not showing PKD at his best.
 
Rosemary Kirstein - see here.

Currently reading Liz Williams, another author new to me, although I'm not enjoying the book as much as I did the above. But perhaps I'll have changed my mind when I come to write about it...

Also new to me so far this year and recommended is Douglas Thompson.
 
So far I've discovered William Hope Hodgson. Just finished his House on the Borderland which was weird. It starts off like horror then quickly morphs into the lovechild of Lovecraft and PKD while on drugs!
 
Discovered Steven Erikson the great ! Had to the first 6 on my shelves for a while but wanted to wait until the crippled god was due so that i didn't have a large wait ! Currently on The Bonehunters and have enjoyed almost all the characters presented to me in the books so far ! Also got a copy of Abercrombie's new book which i'm looking forward too, its just when to fit it in around all this Malazan business !
 
So 2011 i have discovered:

C.K Chesterton *****
Euripides *****
Samuel Beckett *****
Brecht ***
Henrik Ibsen *****
August Strindberg ****
Petronius ***
Ovid *****
Catallus ****
Aristophanes ****
Patricia Mckillip ****

The stars are 1 to 5 is how interested i am to read them next after the first book,play. Not how i rated their work.
 
Connavar said:
So 2011 i have discovered:
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Brecht ***
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The stars are 1 to 5 is how interested i am to read them next after the first book,play. Not how i rated their work.
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Little surprised at your rating on Brecht. This may depend on what you have read of his? I read and greatly enjoyed Life Of Galileo, which to me is a great work of Drama....or for that matter, what about Cacucasian Chalk Circle or The Threepenny Opera? Mother Courage I didn't like as much nor The Good Person Of Szechuan. I studied some of these incidentally as part of German class and even recited a poem by Brecht as part of the Goethe competition we have here. Sadly I did not win this prestigious event...:p
 
GOLLUM said:
Little surprised at your rating on Brecht. This may depend on what you have read of his? I read and greatly enjoyed Life Of Galileo, which to me is a great work of Drama....or for that matter, what about Cacucasian Chalk Circle or The Threepenny Opera? Mother Courage I didn't like as much nor The Good Person Of Szechuan. I studied some of these incidentally as part of German class and even recited a poem by Brecht as part of the Goethe competition we have here. Sadly I did not win this prestigious event...:p
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I read Mother Courage which i thought was themes wise interesting but not a great drama. So *** rating is for that work and can get more respect,admiration when i read Life Of Galileo for example.

I just thought compared to Ghosts by Ibsen and Waiting For Godot by Beckett his play was lacking as a great drama.
 
Connavar said:
I read Mother Courage which i thought was themes wise interesting but not a great drama. So *** rating is for that work and can get more respect,admiration when i read Life Of Galileo for example.

I just thought compared to Ghosts by Ibsen and Waiting For Godot by Beckett his play was lacking as a great drama.
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Well, as per my post, Mother Courage and Good Person of Szechuan are my least favourite of the Brecht dramas. Life Of Galileo is really very good....:)

Waiting For Godot is great and Ghosts I've not actually read yet.
 
So far I've discovered:

Fred Hoyle
Joe Haldeman

Right now, I'm discovering:

Tim Powers.
 
One that I'm tipping is Elspeth Cooper, she'll be out in June and I have to say that I really enjoyed her debut.
 
Read The Creator today by Clifford. D. Simak. Loved it, a different take on time-travel. Will be on the lookout for some more of his work for sure.
 
I haven't discovered too many new authors this year, since I've pretty much made a concerted effort to get through my massive backlist of unread books, which I've estimated might take me a good five years to work through given my current reading rate. Recently though I've been exploring the other works of many of the writers mentioned on the excellent but now defunct Fantasy Masterworks list and, generally, enjoying them immensely. Last Call, White Apples and The Armageddon Rag have all proved to be worthwhile reads, whilst I have high hopes for The Course of the Heart, Mother London and The Haunted Woman, the latter being a book I'm particularly looking forward to.
 
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