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Book meme: Day 10
Jul. 30th, 2010 07:20 pmHey, it's Friday night! I hope you guys have an exciting evening planned -- I know I do. My copy of Faithful Place by Tana French came this afternoon, and I expect to spend all night reading it!
Day 10 - A book you thought you wouldn’t like but ended up loving
You know, I'm a pretty good arbiter of my own taste -- I know what I like and what appeals to me, and I also know what I don't like and what pisses me off. So it's not often that I pick up a book that from the get go I think I'm going to dislike -- more often, I pick up a book that I think I'll enjoy, and I end up hating it.
I guess the closest I come to this is when I pick up a book that I am skeptical about that I end up enjoying more than I thought I would. Like The Forever King by Molly Cochran and Warren Murphy
. I don't tend to like Arthur retellings, so when this book was handed to me, I put off reading it for quite a while. When I finally did sit down with it, I really enjoyed it -- I've read it several times now.
(There are two other books in the trilogy. They are sort of meh. This book, though, is pretty great.)
Oh, and Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg
-- it was given to me to read in a class that I intensely disliked in college, so of course I went into it expecting it to be as obnoxious as the teacher and the other students. But nope. It was amazing. I didn't even find it dated -- I found it to be a really intense emotional journey, and I still have my copy of the book to this day.
You should put your response in the comments, or link to your own blog entry about this!
( Other days of the book meme )
Day 10 - A book you thought you wouldn’t like but ended up loving
You know, I'm a pretty good arbiter of my own taste -- I know what I like and what appeals to me, and I also know what I don't like and what pisses me off. So it's not often that I pick up a book that from the get go I think I'm going to dislike -- more often, I pick up a book that I think I'll enjoy, and I end up hating it.
I guess the closest I come to this is when I pick up a book that I am skeptical about that I end up enjoying more than I thought I would. Like The Forever King by Molly Cochran and Warren Murphy
. I don't tend to like Arthur retellings, so when this book was handed to me, I put off reading it for quite a while. When I finally did sit down with it, I really enjoyed it -- I've read it several times now.(There are two other books in the trilogy. They are sort of meh. This book, though, is pretty great.)
Oh, and Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg
-- it was given to me to read in a class that I intensely disliked in college, so of course I went into it expecting it to be as obnoxious as the teacher and the other students. But nope. It was amazing. I didn't even find it dated -- I found it to be a really intense emotional journey, and I still have my copy of the book to this day.You should put your response in the comments, or link to your own blog entry about this!
( Other days of the book meme )
