What author did you read a book by and didn’t like, but gave them another chance and loved it?
I’m so glad I gave Edith Wharton another chance. I read Ethan Frome and thought it was fine. On a whim I picked up The Age of Innocence and fell in love. Now I’m buying anything I can by her. I recently read The House of Mirth, and can confirm she is one of my favorite authors now. Anybody have a similar experience with an author?
JRR tolkien, I just wasn’t old and mature enough to attempt lord of the rings, and I started the Hobbit later which helped ease me back in to that gigantic name before going after LOTR again.
Yep! Except for me I tried to read the hobbit multiple times and couldn’t do it, then went on to lord of the rings years later and loved it, and then came back to the hobbit. LOTR continues to be one of my fav series. I will say the movies helped a lot to get me to read the books, cuz I had to read and watch FOTR and since I’m not a fast reader/procrastinator, reading 100 pages of tolkien at 8pm the night before it’s due is just… not gonna work. Didn’t remember anything but I said one day i wanted to reread the book at my own pace. Which I did and it was 10000% worth it. Such a cozy read :D
I tried to read The Hobbit in middle school and super noped on it. Then in high school I read The Fellowship of the Ring and made it about half way through The Two Towers and just couldn’t be bothered to read further. I really enjoyed some of those two first installments, but I low-key hated plenty other elements of them, they digress boringly too often, I mean, it includes fucking made up languages.
The films are amazing.