Trouble with Wimpy Friends!

[puppeteergirl.livejournal.com]

Ugh.

I have a friend who read The Thief (once I assume) and then began to read QoA, but did what I would NEVER do...she quit reading after the hand scene!!! Okay, actually she quit during the whining, but still! Now, I found out about this quite a while after she tossed QoA aside. I've told her that she needed to read on, that it gets WAY better, but I somehow have a suspicion that she never gave the book a second glance. 

Any suggestions about how to get her to read on? 

Has anyone else a similar problem???
 

Comments

[rj-anderson.livejournal.com]

I winced when Gen lost his hand, but I've read too much Dorothy Dunnett to give up when a character suffers horribly any more. At least Megan doesn't torture infants and children -- that's the one thing I still can't bear in Dunnett, even if it's realistic that the bad guys really would be that bad sometimes.

On the other hand, getting your friend to read the Lymond Chronicles so she can meet a really ruthless author and realize that MWT could have done much worse is probably not the solution to this problem. :)