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Originally Posted by sakura-panda
I can't defend it to people who can't get through it, because I couldn't either, the first time I read it. However, several years later, I came across some of its sequels at my local bookstore, recalled that I had already purchased the first one, and I gave it another try.
Now it is one of my favorite series -- I own the first five books in trade paperback, all nine books in both epub and audiobook format, the blu-ray and soundtracks for both seasons of the TV series, and I follow one podcast that analyzes every tv episode, as well as a (discontinued) podcast that analyzed the first three books -- but I don't think I could convince anyone else to give it a chance when they don't want to.
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This raises an interesting question. As a reader if I find a book not worth finishing it is rare for me to read anything else by that author, at least knowingly. But of course writers change and hopefully develop with subsequent works. Do you think it is a case that the Author simply got better with subsequent books? Should people having trouble with the first one read a later one, with the help of spoilers or a plot summary of the earlier book or books? Also, having read some of the later, possibly better written books in the series, do you think such a reader might then come back and actually read and enjoy the earlier book or books in the series?