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Books you thought you would dislike but ended up loving
Has it ever...
Has it ever happened to you where there is a mildly popular book or a book you have to read for class that has been going around school and you think you will hate it but then you love it?
For me that would be THE ABSOLUTELY TRUE DIARY OF A PART TIME INDIAN was REALLY REALLY good! It was a book I had to read to get all of my genres done for reading and I was NOT EXCITED but the book ended up being amazing!
So what are some books you judged (based on cover, based on genre, based on what other people said) and you were utterly mistaken?
submitted by Theo W., age 13, Dark, dreary places
(February 23, 2014 - 1:46 pm)
(February 23, 2014 - 1:46 pm)
Well Percy Jackson and the Olympians series my mom found online when I had run out of books to read. She showed it to me (the first book) and told me what it was about. Well I thought I was not going to like it at all, but I had nothing else to read, so I put that book on hold at the library. It came at last, I started reading it, and it turned out to be the best book EVER (I turned out to love the whole series)! Well unless you count the Harry Potter series (another series I thought I would not like). But anyways, that series turned out to be my favorite, and after that series, I read the Heroes of Olympus (just finished The House of Hades last night). So that is one book I thought I would hate, but I was mistaken (completely).
(February 23, 2014 - 4:42 pm)
@ Ashlee G.
I was totally the same! I had heard so many good things about the series, but when I picked up the first book, I thought "This is ridiculous! This is such a rip-off of Harry Potter, etc." But eventually I ran out of something to read and went back to it and I am now totally into it!
(February 23, 2014 - 9:12 pm)
Kingdom Keepers. I thought it was a weird plot setup. Now it's like my favorite series because Disney and it's the type of book I would read anyway without all the Disney.
Percy Jackson. I don't even know why. But it was awesome.
The Hunger Games. I thought it sounded really violent and not good at all. Now I'm a pretty big fan.
(February 24, 2014 - 8:43 am)
@Ashlee G: The same thing happened to both of us! My mom practically had to make me read Percy Jackson instead of Harry Potter for the one-millionth time! Now I like Percy Jackson better than Harry Potter!
(February 24, 2014 - 4:20 pm)
Harry Potter. My mom is generally not a big popular culture person, so I always thought it was really stupid, but one day I was bored so I read the first book... and then the second... and then the third and wow.
(February 24, 2014 - 3:42 pm)
Harry Potter. I'd tried it once, expecting to not like it, and I didn't. About a year later, I read it, and I loved it.
Oliver Twist. I had to read it for school. And I love the story.
(February 24, 2014 - 5:41 pm)
When I read Harry Potter the first time (when I was ten I think) I did not even finish the first chapter before I quit reading it. Then about a year or two later, I read it again, and I just flew through those books! And the Hunger Game series is next on my list (yet I am not so sure about that series either...).
(February 24, 2014 - 9:22 pm)
The three main ones that I can think of are Harry Potter, Percy Jackson, and The Hunger Games. I have more, because I'm kind of bad about judging books before I read them, so I'll probably be back.
(February 24, 2014 - 5:43 pm)
The Tapestry. I picked it up in library because the cover looked really awesome. I brought it home and decided to look it up. It seemed liek everyone said it was a ripoff of Harry Potter. I opened it, thinking. "Well, okay, let's see about this." And didn't move for about three hours, at which point I decided, No ripoffs. It's nothing like Harry Potter, except they both go to magic schools and if that's enough of a similarity for you, well, then it's a ripoff. But it's waaay different for me. Max ain't nothing like Harry.
It has become one of my favorites.
Next, the Goblin Wood. My mom said it wasn't for my age. I think she just read the back, and the whole thing about (semi spoiler. But it says it on the back of book, so . . .) her mother being murdered and all the violence. But finally I persuaded her, again becuase the cover looked cool. And I started having doubts. When I finally got to reading it, I wasn't too sure I was going to like it at all. I loved it. And I loved the books after it.
And, lastly, the Edge Chronicles. I was bored. I couldn't find anything in the children's section. The children's librarian, whom I know quite well, suggested them. I looked at them and went, "Look's like a very long series made for little boys who like gore and vulgar stuff.". But I tried it anyway. And I loved it. Sure, it's gorey and vulgar sometimes and the pictures are very graphic, but it's also endearing and the MCs are adorable and lovable and wonderful and yeah, I'm gonna stop now.
(March 25, 2014 - 5:58 pm)
It's not very common that I read a book that I don't think I'll like; I tend to read what appeals to me. So since I can't think of any that I didn't think I'd like but did, I'll say what books I thought I'd like but didn't.
1) Delirium by Lauren Oliver. I really didn't like the way the author wrote. I just felt like every other paragraph was back story, which really annoyed me. I also did not really like the main character much because, to me, it seemed that she all-of-a-sudden falls in love, even though she was raised to think that love was a disease.
2) Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan. Sorry everyone who is really into the series, but this second book just didn't do it for me. I really enjoyed The Lightning Thief, though. I guess I felt like the books started to repeat themselves some. Maybe I'm wrong.
I'm sure there are more books I didn't like, but these are the only ones I can think of.
Sorry if you disagree with me.
-Livv
(April 29, 2014 - 3:52 pm)