Not quite what you asked but I decided to give The Great Gatsby a second chance after I learned it was Hunter S. Thompson’s favorite book. The first time I read it was when it was assigned to me as a high school freshman so predictably I hated it for all the usual reasons.

Reading when I was older and doing so voluntarily made me change my mind. I still don’t think it’s the greatest book ever or anything but I feel like I get it and what it was trying to say now.