What book did you think you'd hate but ended up loving.?

Question

Why'd you think you'd hate it.

What made you love it?

Answer 1

The Giver by Lowry (well it was assigned reading of course I wanted to hate it but I picked it up about 4 chapters behind where I was suppose to be and managed to finish it in one night)

Night by Wiesel (same as above)

Macbeth (well you try reading shakespeare but I decided to give it a go and loved the plot even when I had to use sparknotes to understand it)

Snake's Pass by Stoker (Stoker's works are really strange and honestly when I read it I didn't like it.  When I was writing a paper on it something clicked about the symbolism with this one that made me really like it)

Host by Meyer (I really don't like Twilight so I was surprised when I enjoyed Host.  It took the concepts I remember from reading Animorphs in 5th grade but the plot had a true depth to it that really caught my attention)

Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder by Fluke (Um my mother reads this series do I need to explain further?)

Answer 2

to kill a mockingbird. i never read it in high school. i saw so many people asking questions here about it i decided to read it for my self, to see what all the /// was about. i never hated it. it wasn't even in my high school library. we never had a required reading list at my school either. it told a fairly accurate account of what life was like in the 30's. i felt bad for the family of the man that died. he died for no reason. he gave up. that made me very sad. but over all l loved the book.

Answer 3

The Illiad. I loved the Odyssey, but thought I was burned out on mythology. I had to read it for school and fell in love.

Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk. The summary really turned me off, but this was, by far, the most disgusting and honest book I've ever read. The characters do horrible things and P. crosses boundaries left and right, but I remember nearly every detail quite vividly, though I felt nauseous at times. It was so worth the read.

Answer 4

Picture of Dorian Grey, by Oscar Wilde. I thought it would be hard to read, move too slowly, and have a stupid, predictable plot. Boy, was I wrong! It had a wonderful plot and was very interesting- it was like Edgar Allen Poe in a novel!

Answer 5

In forth grade I read this book called The Sky is Falling by I think it was Kit Paterson. I had to read it for school and it didn't look good, honestly it looked boring.

It was just written so well I got sea-sick! Also I could really identify with the main character. It just really intrigued me.

Answer 6

I have to admit, the last book I read turned up to be a surprise, a real one.

I purchased that from a second-hand book pile - the ones where you are really lucky to find a good book. The one I bought was called Mrs.Mike by Nancy and Benedict Freedman. I had never heard about the book or its authors before I saw it there. When I started reading it, I thought it would be  a pathetic love-story. Well, it was but not all that pathetic. It had a wonderful setting - the Northern regions of Canada. I had never read about the Arctics and the life of Indians - the trap hunting and sledges and beaver pelts! The knowledge was very new and the narration was excellent (though, I felt, marred at a few places by dialogue.)... On the whole, I liked the book a lot. A good easy read and very touching at few places.

TW K

Answer 7

Atonement by Ian McEwan.

The character development was so intense I thought I'd never get through the narratives about everyone.

The same thing I hated is what made it one of the best books I've ever read. I was so involved that I reread the end two nights in a row...I just didn't want to say good-bye. It was a rich historical fiction that was very involving.

Read it!

Answer 8

gone with the wind, i had to read this for an advanced reading class and thought i'd hate it, but it ended up being one of my favorite books