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?

  • weshric@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    When people ask me why I hate Blood Meridian, I share this passage. This type of writing just does not resonate with me at all. But I respect the people who like it. McCarthy has so many books filled with it:

    “He took great marching steps into the nothingness, counting them against his return. Eyes closed, arms soaring. Upright to what? Something nameless in the night, lode or matrix. To which he and the stars were common satellite. Like the great pendulum in its rotunda scribing through the long day movements of the universe of which you may say it knows nothing and yet know it must.”

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      1 year ago

      This type of prose is why I did not like “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous”. Objectively lovely, but just not something I’m interested in plodding through.