This may not be the right forum for this, but I read the guidelines, and they didn't help me out too much!
I'm currently reading Glen Cook's The Black Company series, about half way through the third book, and I'm loving it! It's a fantastic series, and I've sped through the first two books in record time, and the story doesn't seem to be slowing down at all.
What I'm starting this thread for is the fact that this is the third time I've tried to read the Black Company series, and the first two times, I was bored instantly and didn't make it past the first couple of chapters. But I kept coming back to the books because they get great reviews, and I really wanted to like them. This has happened several times to me with different books and series, the Amber series being another one, and it's probably the overthinker in me wondering, "How does that happen?"
So I thought I'd ask ya'll what your experience with this kind of thing are, because I'm curious. What books have you tried reading, became bored with, threw across the room at the wall in frustration, and then still came back to months or years later? You can tell I'm a SF&F fan, but you don't have to limit your responses to those genres.
I'm currently reading Glen Cook's The Black Company series, about half way through the third book, and I'm loving it! It's a fantastic series, and I've sped through the first two books in record time, and the story doesn't seem to be slowing down at all.
What I'm starting this thread for is the fact that this is the third time I've tried to read the Black Company series, and the first two times, I was bored instantly and didn't make it past the first couple of chapters. But I kept coming back to the books because they get great reviews, and I really wanted to like them. This has happened several times to me with different books and series, the Amber series being another one, and it's probably the overthinker in me wondering, "How does that happen?"
So I thought I'd ask ya'll what your experience with this kind of thing are, because I'm curious. What books have you tried reading, became bored with, threw across the room at the wall in frustration, and then still came back to months or years later? You can tell I'm a SF&F fan, but you don't have to limit your responses to those genres.