Discovering New Authors

[shadforth]

Do you get a thrill on discovering new authors and looking up and devouring their back-catalogue?! This was the case for me and David Clement Davies,and Mark Chadbourn. And do they always re-deliver or sometimes disappoint? Chadbourn&Davies have always reached new heights.

 

[lionsroar13]

Absolutely! I have little slips of paper everywhere with book titles and authors I would like to try. If one is great I always check for other titles then watch for new stuff What disappoints is when a favorite authors newest book is not on the level of the others.

 

[Sybarite]

Completely. I aim to try new authors on a regular basis – at the moment, I'm reading John Banville's The Body of Evidence after reading several posts on a forum praising it greatly. So it's a delight to find that I am enjoying it.

I don't assume that I will enjoy every book by an author that I like – in some ways, it's good to be disappointed every so often: after all, otherwise, how would you really know what you thought were really good?

 

[GERBAM]

Completely. I aim to try new authors on a regular basis – at the moment, I'm reading John Banville's The Body of Evidence after reading several posts on a forum praising it greatly. So it's a delight to find that I am enjoying it.

Isn't finding new authors an adventure? Whether we 'fall in love' with them or not we at least have stretched ourselves a little.

I read that Banville book years ago and thought it brilliant. I hope you continue to enjoy it.

I don't assume that I will enjoy every book by an author that I like – in some ways, it's good to be disappointed every so often: after all, otherwise, how would you really know what you thought were really good?

Well put and oh so true!!!!

GERBAM