What author have you discovered this year?

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I'm reading One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest at the moment, and I'm thrilled with Ken Kesey. His writing style, at least so far, is exactly the kind I love. The imagery is wonderful.

Is there an author you're happy to have discovered this year? Did you perhaps rediscover an author?
 
Oh, a few. After having avoided reading these authors for years, I have finally picked up Orwell, Vonnegut, Hemingway, and a few others. So far, I am liking what I am reading. Some people I know turned me on to them. ;)
 
Maybe. I discovered Jim Butcher.

I thought his books were all right, but they weren't read-your-eyes-out orgies of fantasticness.
Fast Prose, thriller pacing, annoying cliffhangers. You know the drill.

I discovered Diana Wynn Jones too when I picked up Howl's Moving Castle. I really liked Howl. Great character. Too often the cowardly slither-outer gets the shaft. I think most all of his negative qualities were actually positives in disguise. Which was neato. I didn't care for much of her other stuff, though. 'Eight Days Of Luke' in particular couldn't hold my attention.

Her writing style is really telly, if you know what I mean, and some parts of her stories are just odd. Even in fantasy.

I read a "Wrinkle in Time" too by what's her face. I don't know if that's really a 'discovery' because I forgot her name.

Sooo some mid-list fantasy and some children's authors.

What?

Like you could do any better.
 
well i love Jane Austen books and adore Emily bronte poems its such a sham she did not write more novels.
but my author 4 this year is Stephenie Meyer , I AM a major twilight fan and after watching the movie i had 2 read Stephenie Meyers books ,she is a great writer and after reading the 4 books i just can not wait 4 new moon premier .
 
Ken Kesey is one of my favorites! Hope you enjoy the book (I also suggest the 1970s movie starring Jack Nicholson as McMurphy).

I'm very much happy to have discovered many authors this year. Markus Zusak amazed me with the imagery in The Book Thief. Sylvia Plath gave me a new favorite book, The Bell Jar. I read my first Victor Hugo novel, and he introduced me to writing so beautiful that I hated to come to the end of it. Anthony Burgess blew my mind with the language and sheer genius of A Clockwork Orange.

There are so many more, but those are the first authors that came to mind. I will certainly be reading their other works.
 
Edgar Rice Burroughs, who wrote Tarzan of the Apes in 1912.

The book is absolutely crazy, completely non-PC by today's values and exceptionally racist and white-supremacist. There are many passages where Tarzan outsmarts the 'ape-like' black natives because of his 'English good breeding' and 'white man's reasoning and courage.' Then a Louisianian black woman turns up (She is Jane's nanny, and somehow has been omitted from the film versions...) and the first thing she says is "Oh Lawdy!" and faints.

In part I can forgive it due to its age, and it is otherwise brilliantly well written, in classic old school adventure style and is very readable despite many sentences you just baulk at, and apparently he wrote over 20 sequels up into the 1940s including 'Tarzan and the Forbidden City' and 'Tarzan and the Foreign Legion' which sound intriguing. I had no idea.
 
Edgar Rice Burroughs, who wrote Tarzan of the Apes in 1912.

The book is absolutely crazy, completely non-PC by today's values and exceptionally racist and white-supremacist. There are many passages where Tarzan outsmarts the 'ape-like' black natives because of his 'English good breeding' and 'white man's reasoning and courage.' Then a Louisianian black woman turns up (She is Jane's nanny, and somehow has been omitted from the film versions...) and the first thing she says is "Oh Lawdy!" and faints.

In part I can forgive it due to its age, and it is otherwise brilliantly well written, in classic old school adventure style and is very readable despite many sentences you just baulk at, and apparently he wrote over 20 sequels up into the 1940s including 'Tarzan and the Forbidden City' and 'Tarzan and the Foreign Legion' which sound intriguing. I had no idea.
 
Edgar Rice Burroughs, who wrote Tarzan of the Apes in 1912.

The book is absolutely crazy, completely non-PC by today's values and exceptionally racist and white-supremacist. There are many passages where Tarzan outsmarts the 'ape-like' black natives because of his 'English good breeding' and 'white man's reasoning and courage.' Then a Louisianian black woman turns up (She is Jane's nanny, and somehow has been omitted from the film versions...) and the first thing she says is "Oh Lawdy!" and faints.

In part I can forgive it due to its age, and it is otherwise brilliantly well written, in classic old school adventure style and is very readable despite many sentences you just baulk at, and apparently he wrote over 20 sequels up into the 1940s including 'Tarzan and the Forbidden City' and 'Tarzan and the Foreign Legion' which sound intriguing. I had no idea.
 
Edgar Rice Burroughs, who wrote Tarzan of the Apes in 1912.

The book is absolutely crazy, completely non-PC by today's values and exceptionally racist and white-supremacist. There are many passages where Tarzan outsmarts the 'ape-like' black natives because of his 'English good breeding' and 'white man's reasoning and courage.' Then a Louisianian black woman turns up (She is Jane's nanny, and somehow has been omitted from the film versions...) and the first thing she says is "Oh Lawdy!" and faints.

In part I can forgive it due to its age, and it is otherwise brilliantly well written, in classic old school adventure style and is very readable despite many sentences you just baulk at, and apparently he wrote over 20 sequels up into the 1940s including 'Tarzan and the Forbidden City' and 'Tarzan and the Foreign Legion' which sound intriguing. I had no idea.
 
Edgar Rice Burroughs, who wrote Tarzan of the Apes in 1912.

The book is absolutely crazy, completely non-PC by today's values and exceptionally racist and white-supremacist. There are many passages where Tarzan outsmarts the 'ape-like' black natives because of his 'English good breeding' and 'white man's reasoning and courage.' Then a Louisianian black woman turns up (She is Jane's nanny, and somehow has been omitted from the film versions...) and the first thing she says is "Oh Lawdy!" and faints.

In part I can forgive it due to its age, and it is otherwise brilliantly well written, in classic old school adventure style and is very readable despite many sentences you just baulk at, and apparently he wrote over 20 sequels up into the 1940s including 'Tarzan and the Forbidden City' and 'Tarzan and the Foreign Legion' which sound intriguing. I had no idea.
 
Edgar Rice Burroughs, who wrote Tarzan of the Apes in 1912.

The book is absolutely crazy, completely non-PC by today's values and exceptionally racist and white-supremacist. There are many passages where Tarzan outsmarts the 'ape-like' black natives because of his 'English good breeding' and 'white man's reasoning and courage.' Then a Louisianian black woman turns up (She is Jane's nanny, and somehow has been omitted from the film versions...) and the first thing she says is "Oh Lawdy!" and faints.

In part I can forgive it due to its age, and it is otherwise brilliantly well written, in classic old school adventure style and is very readable despite many sentences you just baulk at, and apparently he wrote over 20 sequels up into the 1940s including 'Tarzan and the Forbidden City' and 'Tarzan and the Foreign Legion' which sound intriguing. I had no idea.
 
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