Name a book you didn’t think you’d enjoy at all but ended up loving!
Name a book you didn’t think you’d enjoy at all but ended up loving!
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Name a book you didn’t think you’d enjoy at all but ended up loving!
Hunger games
The Other Queen by Philippa Gregory
Exodus… always thought it was biblical..It wasn’t & a brilliant story about the founding of the state of Israel????
Twilight and the hunger games thought would bore me to tears.
Twilight! I took my niece to go see the second movie. I didn’t want to but my sister couldn’t take her. I was blown away and right after the movie was over I went out and bought the whole series and never looked back.
Twilight series
Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson. My son convinced me to read it. Loved the interplay of good vs evil.
Frankenstein. Never thought I would be interested in it, but loved the moral dilemma.
I was surprised by this book too.
The Name of the Wind and The Wise Man’s Fear- The Kingkiller Chronicle
The Magus by John Fowles
twilight! they’re awful, poorly written books but i really enjoyed them, haha!
I did too – and I’m a Lit Major ??
Ditto!
Roses by Leila Meacham
The Snopes trilogy by William Faulkner
The Host by Stephanie Meyers
The Runaway Jury by John Grisham
The Friends by Rosa Guy
We need to talk about Kevin
The Hate U Give
A little life
Me too!
it stays with you for a long time doesn’t it!
And me
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold @Helen
Still on my shelf to read
A Man Called Ove
Child 44
Twilight series
Roanoke Girls
Love in the time of cholera x
Romeo and Juliet ?
Atonement.
The Nightingale.
Jamaica Inn and A man called Ove
Tipping the Velvet – recommended by wife.
Cutting for Stone
Current read – 2001 A Space Odyssey. Been on the shelf for ever, don’t think I’ve seen the film, but I’m hooked.
The Martian
Hi Aileen – I recommend reading the book then watching the film as the book explains some otherwise less obvious parts of the film. Something even more true for Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep / Blade Runner.
Chains of Sand by Jemma Wayne
The Hobbitt
Salmon fishing in the Yemen.
Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver. And The Handmaids Tale.
A man called ove
The Sparrow
I Am Pilgrim
Replay.
Nine Minutes by Beth Flynn
The girl with the dragon tattoo. Definitely wasn’t my genre but it was the choice of my book club and I ended up loving it and also reading the rest of the trilogy.
Have you read the fourth book that was written by a different author. Just wondering if it as is as good as the original three
It took me until about the half way point to get into the Dragon Tattoo and I loved them. The 4 one is written so similarly to the others you can’t tell it’s a different author, he did a great job.
@Karen I heard the reviews were very mixed but I haven’t read it yet.
The Hobbit
Twilight
Life of Pi. Got it as a gift and just started to please the giver.
Unbroken
Dare I admit it
Twilight!!
The Hobbitt
Watership Down
Such a great.
Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values,By Sam Harris
Harry Potter Series. Normally fantasy isn’t my genre but I absolutely fell in love w J.k. Rowling’s world and characters
Hunger Games
Harry Potter, didn’t realise my life was going to change!
The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell
Is it good? Loved Cloud Atlas
Yes…similar themes to cloud atlas.
Lonesome Dove (excellent). And one I thought I’d love but hated: Moby Dick (bore fest…as is all Melville in my opinion ?)
I hated Moby Dick too!! I made myself finish it as I was on a classic phase. The only thing I learned from it was “Never go after anything bigger than yourself”. Lol!!!
JAWS
The catcher in the rye. I was misled by a terrible summary when I was younger and have never thought of picking up the book, but I coincidently picked it up at a library (it was the only title I was familiar with). Now it’s one of my all time favorites!
Terrible summaries will be the end of me. I can’t trust summaries now.
https://youtu.be/z_UIdPx4-uU
Twilight… I got it as a gift and thought… “Jeez teeny bopper, why in the world would you get me this??” but read it and thoroughly enjoyed the whole series ! LOL
Yessss. I agreed to read it with my daughter because I thought it would be a bonding experience and LOVED it. Totally not my kind of book. Then I did the same thing with hunger games.
Uncle Tom’s Cabin. I wanted to try the classic and was really impressed at the timelessness of the writing.
Loved this one
The Chemist by Stephanie Meyer. Was surprised by its intelligence.
The Girl On The Bus by NM Brown ..This is an absolutely Brilliant book ..I was blown away by the storytelling. .This is an edge of your seat thriller as it’s very different .Loved it
A Little Life
Hard to read another book for a while afterwards it’s emotionally challenging well written & an awesome read
Author Hanya Yanagihara of A Little Life
Behind closed doors
Me before you!
The Hunger Games