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?

  • ITworksGuys@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I picked up Alastair Reynolds’s Revelation Space and put it down for a while.

    I am a pretty avid reader and sci-fi fan but it weirdly took me a while to get into this book.

    So glad I did. One of my favorites now.

    • ElricVonDaniken@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Revelation.Space is very much a first novel. It’s promising but clunky and rough around the edges where Reynolds spends too many pages building up.characters who aren’t particularly interesting. It’s the product if a very accomplished writer of short fiction coming to grips with writing at novel length.

      His second Chasm City is a lot more polished.

      For that reason I usually recommend that people start with one of his standalone novels or his short fiction (like I did).