Name the book which mixed your emotions the most?

Question

Name , authour and why?

Answer 1

Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse. Why? Because I read it 3 years ago and STILL cannot decide whether I love it or hate it more. I disliked Harry's character so much, and yet I just adored Hermine, and they were supposed to be mirrors. I still brought this book in German and I keep rereading the part where Hermine tells Harry that she is his mirror again and again.

Answer 2

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling--i know some of you are like: yeah right! but the whole time i was reading this book my heart was beating so freakin' fast. It was so suspenseful, scary, action-packed, funny, and sad. I couldn't even regulate my emotions. I had to keep putting the book down so that I could catch my breath. *spoiler alert!* There's this one part with a snake that's hiding inside a woman's body and there's a description of how the house smells terrible and then after all the craziness goes down i realized that the bad smell was the smell of a rotting corpse!! I couldn't sleep without the light on for a whole week after i read that. And all of the stuff going on in the book mixed with the fact that the story was finally ending, that book was just an emotional rollercoaster for me.

Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson--It was so confusing and all of this horrible stuff kept happening. And you realize that the narrator is a perverted, drug-using, a*****e but his crazy story is so interesting you just can't put the book down. And then you realize the book is almost done and you've just read a vulgar, somewhat disturbing book and it had nothing to do with Jesus??

Answer 3

Along the same lines as the first answerer, try "Beasts of No Nation" by Uzodinma Iweala.

It's fiction, but it is amazingly and brutally honest.  The story is very similar to what the first answerer described, a child soldier forced into the war who ends up in a refugee camp at the end.

That and "The Perks of Being a Wallflower."  It's YA but it's powerful, one of the first books I really loved.

Answer 4

Ishmael by Daniel Quinn.  I was assigned that book for summer reading this year, and the general opinion of most of my classmates was that it sucked.  I thought that the premise was unoriginal and is getting a little old.  However, the author managed to convey the point in a new, more creative way.  The points it made were excellent, but this was overshadowed by the fact that the main character was SUCH A FREAKING IDIOT!  (That ruined it a bit for me.)

Answer 5

A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah. He was a child soldier in Somalia. It's so horrifying...and it's told from the point of view of the people usually seen as the criminals...and he was just not a criminal--he was forced into it.