What authors write each book completely different?
Hey! i just wanted to see what authors anyone out there might know of that write each book different in style, themes, phrases.
i mean is there anyone that really goes from a quiet nice london mystery to something like "story of an eye" with teenagers stuffing eggs up there virgin holes?
not that extreme it has to be or in that manner but you catch the drift
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Yeah, Clevenger's a great example. He just ups the anty each time, really. I haven't read Stephen Graham Jones yet, but he seems to put out extremely different books, too.
Martin Amis has some pretty different books under his belt. The Rachel Papers and Money: A Suicide Note are pretty far from Time's Arrow or Koba The Dread.
say what you will about Chuck sounding the same for each book, but he does tell every one in a different and unique way.
I'm more familiar with the auteur theory in film than in lit, but I imagine something similar exists in that world.
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Junot Diaz -though he's really only had 2, and really only 1 full length novel. First one was a short story collection, however all linked to tell the life of one guy -Pretty much, anyway. And it was gritty realism whereas the second one (real novel) had some supernatural shit going on. Good stuff.
Agree about Clevenger. I had read Contortionist's Handbook like everyone else, but procrastinated on Dermaphoria for years until taking his intensive in October. So I'm almost finished and I really like it. Not just because I had interactions with him, either -I like it, and I'm surprised how different it is from the first one. I enjoyed the first one, don't get me wrong, but I think his second one stepped up his game.
Denis Johnson's another one. His newest one was straight crime, and short and to the point while the one before that, Tree of Smoke, was friggin' complex and long, like 600 or 700 pages, I think, but Readable, and all about Vietnam. I read them both and loved 'em both. But everything I read from him is different -each time out. I've read 4 of his books and all were different.
Joey Goebel, too. Good thread by the way.
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stephen graham jones can go in there. i read THE LONG TRIAL, and that was different from LEDFEATHER, which was different from BLEED INTO ME
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That's cool to hear. I've read None of those. Are they all good? I'm reading his two new ones (well one of them -waiting for the other to come in the mail) and I've read Demon Theory and All The Beautiful Sinners. But not those you mentioned, and I was curious about them -been waiting to talk to someone who read them.
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LEDFEATHER is awesome. its sorta experimental, but not like HOUSE OF LEAVES, but its a neat thing. i wont say more because it's a big part of the novel
LONG TRIAL is a fast fun read that is both playful and heartfelt, funny and depressing, it was written in a weekend (jones told me he had time to spare) and it reads at a frantic pace.
BLEED is a bunch of native american short stories. some of them are kind of disturbing
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Really? In a weekend, eh? Wish I could do That.
Nice descriptions -thanks for that. I'll be checking those out now. Mixed emotions about Del Rio but I haven't finished it yet and I'm finding it overall to be enjoyable. Really looking forward to his short story collection coming out. Loved the other ones I mentioned. I'll check out Ledfeather first. Sounds intriguing. The other two sound great, too. Thanks again.
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A Daniel Handler novel is entirely different from a Lemony Snicket novel, but that's intentional of course.
I can't believe I didn't think of Denis Johnson. I've said that about his writing a ton of time too. It seems like every book I've read by him is totally different than the last.
ly. Differently
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Are you sure?
"totally differently" just sounds weird...
I did forget to put an "s" on "time" though. That's what happens when you type from your phone.
I don't think it's differently. That just sounds retarded.
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eh wrong thread?
"totally differently" just sounds weird...
I did forget to put an "s" on "time" though. That's what happens when you type from your phone.
Yeah, it's differently.
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Conrad and Nabokov wrote novels in several languages, which I find mind-blowing.
Toby Litt changes genres by each novel. Also his titles follow the Alphabet. I think he is up as far as K with King Death. My favourite of his is Hospital.
"totally differently" just sounds weird...
I did forget to put an "s" on "time" though. That's what happens when you type from your phone.
Yeah, it's differently.
So, let me get this straight. You'd say: each book was differently than the last?
Somehow, I don't think so. It sounds ridiculous if it is the correct usage. To be fair though, Pete probably should've said: Each book was totally different TO the last.
I don't know. Making it an adverb just seems ridiculous to me. What is it modifying?
I think they mean the title should be 'what authors write each book completely differently', not a comment on what Pete said
"totally differently" just sounds weird...
I did forget to put an "s" on "time" though. That's what happens when you type from your phone.
Yeah, it's differently.
So, let me get this straight. You'd say: each book was differently than the last?
Somehow, I don't think so. It sounds ridiculous if it is the correct usage. To be fair though, Pete probably should've said: Each book was totally different TO the last.
I don't know. Making it an adverb just seems ridiculous to me. What is it modifying?
Bob WRITES each book completely DIFFERENTLY. It's still not very elegant, but it's at least correct.
Each book was completely different. Why does he write each book so differently?
It's ugly, but not because of the adverb.
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This.
If I had been correcting Pete I would've quoted him.
"I'm glad I live in the GPS era. In a different century, I would've set off to visit the other side of the village and wandered off into the mountains and been eaten by a carnivorous plant. Or discovered the Americas."
-LaJessica
To Reiterate and Clarify....
"Each book is/was completely different from the last."
"Each book is/was written differently from the last."
The title of the thread is both grammatically incorrect and stylistically clunky, but probably okay in an informal case, as simply correcting the grammar would not render it any less inelegant. I'd suggest a complete rephrasing.
To the OP, I'd suggest, as I often seem to do, Joyce. The similarities might seem overwhelming on the surface due to his stylistic experimentation, but it's the differences that really make his books worth studying.
EDIT: God, I sound so pompous.
This is why we can't have nice things.
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Hospital. <3
I've been wanting to get another book by Toby Litt, which one do you like best after Hospital?
This.
If I had been correcting Pete I would've quoted him.
Oops sorry for starting all of that.
ly. Retardedly.
No.
It sounds retarded.
You are acting retardedly.
This is why we can't have nice things.
ly. Retardedly.
Ha!
Yeh, not so much the voice--excluding Pygmy--but the room the voice fills. Lullaby, for instance, is like a newspaper article--similar to how Bret Easton Ellis made American Psycho into a men's magazine, with the music reviews and such.
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The first name to pop into my head was Richard Matheson. The man has written many genres: love (What Dreams May Come), western (Journal of the Gun Years), war (Beardless Warriors), horror (I Am Legend), suspense (Hunted Past Reason), and more. He's also an award magnet, winning genre awards for many works. He's also done sci-fi, the title of which I don't remember. Look him up.
What about Jay McInerney? I've only read his first three books but they're all written differently.
The Contortionist's Handbook was really different from Dermaphoria, and Clevenger's third is supposed to be vastly different than those two.