Disclaimer: I'm not asking for book recommendations, it's just a discussion.
Everyone has their own unloved author and you somehow read a lot of books from him and one of them seemed normal to you against the background of the others. Let's put aside the question: "Why should I read an author I didn't like?"
For example (not my reading experience, but just something like a template): "I don't like Dan Brown, but I liked his first book, Angels and Demons. I really love the city of Rome and I liked how he conveyed the atmosphere of this city, but the rest of his books seemed to me much more stupid and boring."
by mystery5009
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Murakami Haruki. I don’t like him, but the one book by him I think is great and you should definitely read is whichever one you read first.
He’s been writing the same book for 40 years, and it’s a good book, but he’s written it ~18 times. It’s good to read it once. Doesn’t matter whether you read Norwegian Wood or Kafka on the Shore or Sputnik Sweetheart or Killing Commandatore or whatever. The first one will likely be pretty good.
The others are the same thing.
Even before the allegations, I could t stand Neil Gaiman. I didn’t like his books or comic books. Not at all. Then he wrote that Norse Mythology book and I really loved it.