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This might be tangential, or maybe not. But there are quite a few interesting threads for reading listed down below among the Similar Threads for this topic. I'm surprised so few of these (or others on 0ther topics) are ever bumped up.

Yes, chopped up narratives are confusing to read; Cloud Atlas, the book, being the deliberately prime example. But The Sea by John Banville was another with a very non-linear narrative. I don't know what to say. Some authors just do it (for reasons I don't know), but I thought both of those...

There is a BAR Booklist you can also add your Memorable Books to (or vote for) if you are so inclined. :)

I wish I were familiar with the evolving styles of modern authors [your title asks about young authors] to answer with some precision, but "young" seem to be largely out of my reading stream, and the "modern" ones you mention are largely unknown/unread by me. However two thoughts are prompted...

Yay! Now to see what it says. It's new to me. :D I hope some romance readers join in.

Dylan Thomas - "I see the boys of summer" For its nearly inscrutable meaning, its vivid images tumbling one upon the other, the first difficult poem I saw after all the more easily understandable poems read in school. It was breathtaking on first encounter and still holds close many...

Interesting enough to read, whether or not it is the final choice here. :)

Yes, I'm afraid that is a deep-seated difference between us.

I, very personally, think the evidence is quite ambiguous on whether human beings have a propensity for good or for bad behavior. That a capability for each exists, in each and every person, it seems to me there is no doubt. But "propensity?" I wonder. I'm inclined more to think that an old...

Eek!:eek:

This looks like a very quiet discussion shaping up. Any more votes?

For those interested in some serious reading on the topic: "Winner of the Pulitzer prize in 1974 and the culmination of a life's work, The Denial of Death is Ernest Becker's brilliant and impassioned answer to the "why" of human existence. In bold contrast to the predominant Freudian school of...

Sounds like a new kind of cross-species steeplechase. Comical to read. :D I'm glad the human finally prevailed. /phew!/

C'mon, all you romantics! Take a stand for love, and join the discussion. But first vote.

Preordained! Oh you rascal!

A "debate" with a predictable outcome.

Carpe Jugulum! Great, just great. ROTFL. :D

Buffy is a real get-up-and-go, let's do it, easy-to-understand kind of kid. Fluff and camp make the fun. Re:Stoker's Dracula: right on! Good reading. Anne Rice has more like it. Haven't read any romantic vamps, though. Not even real-women vamps. :D

psnovel: Security can indeed be a problem for writing one's thoughts. MS Word includes a secure password capability for file protection, if you have it. Otherwise, free apps as mentioned. Some have used shorthand (Samuel Pepys was a famous person who did), although that is only mild security...

To buy fewer books than I read. PS to psnovel. Try a journal, not a diary. Write when you feel like, with no blank pages to stare at you. I kept one up for many years -- clarified my thoughts and feelings.