Is there a book or a book series you didn't think you would like but ended up loving it?

For me it's Dungeon Crawler Carl series. I've never read a LITRPG before I thought this is the most absurd shit ever, but it's so well written and the funniest books I've ever read with some seriousness. I don't normally do audible books, but this is a series that it's best on audible the voice actor is phenomenal. Any ways, my son got me into it and I am heading into Book 5 in the series.

The premise: A man. His ex-girlfriend's cat. A sadistic game show unlike anything in the universe: a dungeon crawl where survival depends on killing your prey in the most entertaining way possible

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RosaMarie · 46-50, F

Try Lev Grossman The Magicians Trilogy

PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M

@RosaMarie Just recently read that series. Very different. And kind of get the impression he didn't like C S Lewis. 😂

RosaMarie · 46-50, F

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow He's brutally honest about the flaws of 18 year olds

RosaMarie · 46-50, F

No 15 year olds who do no wrong and save the world

PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M

@RosaMarie True. And well Fillory is a very obvious analogue for Narnia. To the point of bordering on plagiarism in some details. Not sure if it is so much a shot at C S Lewis or the world he created.

RosaMarie · 46-50, F

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow For sure. Yes, it's more than a nod to it for sure.

PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M

@RosaMarie I think part of it is probably the same frustration Tolkein had with CS Lewis was frustration that he was very open about the fact he didn't feel Narnia had to make sense because it was aimed at children.

RosaMarie · 46-50, F

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow I don't disagree, but I also don't think that applied to The Magicians

PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M

@RosaMarie Not to the overall story but he certainly pokes fun at it by making Fillory ridiculously disfunctional.

RosaMarie · 46-50, F

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow Sure, of course. Start with the premise that magic exists and Narnia was wildly, obsessively popular. Proceed from there.