Ever Read a Book You Didn't Know If You Hated or Loved?

  • wicked ways

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    The Time Traveller's Wife.

    It is really well written, brilliant plot and the character's have great depth but I feel like the it's going too fast. The author is like rushing it or something and it's too confusing with all the time changes and the POV changes. I don't know what's past, present or future and that bugs me.

    I am still not finished it and won;t be for a while. It's hard to read.
    September 12th, 2010 at 02:11am
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    This was my exact response to The Eyes of the Dragon by Stephen King. Confused I love his writing, but I'm not entirely sure how I feel about him as a fantasy writer.
    September 17th, 2010 at 11:52pm
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    Wicked by Gregory Maguire.

    Now don't get me wrong, I love the storyline and I love the musical. But there's just way too much going on in Maguire's novel that I feel like it takes away from the central plot. And he delves into little things so much that I sometimes forget what point he was trying to make in the first place. It's also such a long book that I lost interest after a while. But I still love the storyline.

    Mehh.
    September 18th, 2010 at 12:21am
  • dressedtokill

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    Dirty liar.

    I loved Benji but him and lacey should have ended up together. I wanted it to happen so bad.
    September 20th, 2010 at 05:20pm
  • Browncoat

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    The Giver always bothered the Hell out of me. I can't figure out if I like it. I like the themes, but it was just... meh.
    Looking back, I think I like it better than I did, because I can handle things that aren't literal better, now.

    Doesn't mean I like it, now. I guess I just.... meh.
    Definately a book that I can't gauge my opinion of.
    September 20th, 2010 at 05:50pm
  • Cinna

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    Story of a Girl by Sarah Zarr.

    The emotion in it was strong and I really felt for the main character. But I felt like there wasn't really a plot line. And there wasn't much of an ending either. Ehh, I just don't know how I feel about it. It's not bad, but it's not great either.
    September 22nd, 2010 at 04:45am
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    Graceling by Kristen Cashore.

    The ending is still messing with my head.
    October 2nd, 2010 at 10:29pm
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    Snow Falling on Cedars.
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    I'm on page 100 and I still don't know if I like it or not.Facepalm
    I mean, it has a good plot and all, but for me the book has been going so slow. Maybe the turning point hasn't come yet, I don't know.
    October 27th, 2010 at 10:44pm
  • emilypaget

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    The Fallen series by Kate Lauren. I have no clue if I love or hate it.
    October 31st, 2010 at 04:12am
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    Both The Time Traveler's Wife and Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger. The plots were interesting but moved quite slowly. Also I just found her protagonists really unlikeable at times. Which isn't bad in itself, except I feel that they're supposed to be likeable.
    April 4th, 2011 at 07:14am
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    Bossypants by Tina Fey. I like 30 Rock and I like Mean Girls, but something about Fey's humour doesn't translate all that well to print for me.
    May 17th, 2012 at 02:29pm
  • Agent Operetta

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    The Time Traveler's Wife, I loved the out of chronological timeline. But the plot was slow and could get repetitive. I get it Henry steals clothes from people; although the worst is definitely when they're trying to have a baby who turns out to be one of those creepy, gifted savant children. I ended up straight up hating Claire about halfway through, and I never really got why they ended up together other than that's just how it went--and they had good sex? And there were some race, gender, etc issues.But I still needed to finish the book, and would recommend it to other people.

    The Mortal Instrument Series. Okay, so this is totally a Star Wars/Buffy ripoff and holy crap some of these characters are annoying. Why has no one punched Jace in the face yet? And it's string of relationship cliches but dammit, it's fun and as long as I don't think about it too much I like it.
    May 19th, 2012 at 10:58am
  • daisyfairy

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    Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher. The way that the narrator approaches Hannah's suicide is for the most part, not offensive or straight up rude, but for some reason I didn't really like it. But I still wanted to know what was going to happen next?

    I came away from it feeling like I was supposed to have 'learned a life lesson' from it, and I hate that. I like books that study characters, and I'd have liked to read about the way that Clay deals with receiving the tapes, rather than this overbearing sense that he could've 'saved' Hannah from herself.
    June 23rd, 2012 at 05:23pm
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    SO many times I have wondered this and one recently was "Lost Voices" by Sarah Porter. A quick plot summary is that there are these girls who are in tragic situations and turn into mermaids from the abuse the suffer from. It is interesting, but at times it becomes like a pre-teen girl's diary. The book focused too much on mundane relationship problems, then working towards a plot point.
    May 9th, 2013 at 01:30am
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    May 9th, 2013 at 01:30am
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    Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes is still a hit and miss for me. I liked the plot and some of the characters, but a lot of it felt preachy and forced. :/
    September 30th, 2014 at 01:30am
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    Tears. I can't remember who wrote the book. I know it's one of these new and upcoming authors or what have you but Tears, despite having a really good plot line (and interesting idea behind it) was really confusing and felt extremely rushed. I was half expecting the story to switch between the POVs of the main female and male leads because the prologue was done from the male lead's view and then the rest of the book was written from the girl's. The story is supposed to be about a young girl who if she cries, she can kinda flood the world or something and the boy is the one who controls her "tears" or something. It's supposed to be a "How Atlantis sank into the ocean" theory story.

    It was an interesting book, but like I said everything was fast paced and the girl's view point was too jumbled up and too hard to keep up with because she only had one personality and that was being cynical and sarcastic. I guess I couldn't identify with a seventeen year old female lead given the fact that I'm no longer a teenager.
    October 1st, 2014 at 02:01am
  • P u n c h d r u n k

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    Catcher in the Rye. I had high expectations which were considerably lowered as I was reading, I was in a near constant state of wanting to verbally abuse Holden Caufield (and anyone who identified with him) and yet I kept thinking "this is oddly brilliant".
    It's on my list of books to read again.
    May 20th, 2015 at 08:38pm
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    I just got done reading The Mission by Jason Myers and I'm about 99% sure I absolutely hated it. I didn't like a single character and Myers makes it painfully obvious how much he hates women, but at least this book made me feel something...even if it was complete and utter hatred for every character and their pathetic excuses for their horrible actions.
    July 3rd, 2015 at 06:11pm