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?

  • GrumpySunflower@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Robert Jordan. I started reading The Eye of the World when I was in late high school, and thought, “This is just King Arthur pretending to not be King Arthur! Crap, utter crap!” About a decade later I was pregnant with my first baby and had horrific insomnia. My husband (who has an amazing reading voice) offered to read to me to help me go to sleep. He started Eye of the World and I was hooked. Apparently, I just needed a really, really good narrator.