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10-13-2007, 10:33 AM
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| Books that surprised you? Have you ever started a book that didn't seem very good in the beginning but you kept reading after all and ended up loving it? Or the other way around: have you ever started reading a book thinking it'd be good and it disappointed you? --->> One of the books it happened to me with was Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose. I started reading it because many people recommended it to me, but it took me a long time to really get into the story, because I thought the beginning was too slow. However, I kept reading and I ended up turning pages like crazy once the action really started. A great book, and a good reason to finish a book even if in the beginning it might not look like something you would like. |
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10-13-2007, 11:05 AM
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| Community Rank: Trekker   Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: MICHIGAN..is there anywhere else?!?!
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| The Five People You Meet in Heaven. People kept suggesting it to me and I finally read it....WOW! Great book! Starts out a little slow but I love it. Movie was no where as good though....low budget, too many missed details. Glad I read the book first! I highly recommend it!
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10-13-2007, 11:13 AM
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| That just happened to me with Final Resort by Ian St. James. Started out slow, but then really picked up. This is the only book that I've read by this author - wonder if all his books are like this?
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10-13-2007, 07:40 PM
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| Community Rank: Jetsetter   Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Morgantown, WV
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| For as much as I read, I've never read a book that was slow to start and then got better. I know that sounds weird, but typically if they're slow getting going, they're slow all the way through...or I just put them down after about 100 pages. There have been some books that I was excited to read, but then disappointed when I finished. Lisey's Song, by Stephen King was one of them. I read the whole thing because I'm a SK freak, but I was really  when I got to the end. I felt like I'd wasted a few days of my life.
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10-14-2007, 09:41 AM
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| "Tuesdays with Morrie" really disappointed me. "Jane Eyre" surprised me and is one of my favorite books. boB
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| I'm like wvugrrl, I've never read a book that started slow and ended well. Maybe it was just my attitude --- bad first impression was hard to turn around or something. I have been disappointed by quite a few books. One of the most recent was Jill Connor Brown's first novel. I  her SPQ books, but her try at fiction was not nearly as funny and very predictable.  She should stick to non-fiction - the truth is always funnier! 
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10-14-2007, 04:17 PM
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| Wuthering Heights and The Great Gatsby: worst. books. ever.
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10-14-2007, 07:44 PM
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| Loved the book.. from beginning to end but it was the ending storyline that REALLY surprised me.. "Suzannes Diary for Nicholas" I never saw it coming!!
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10-14-2007, 09:07 PM
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| The Heart is a Lonely Hunter -- I practically dragged myself through it, but by the end the pieces all fell together and had decided that I liked it.
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10-15-2007, 03:46 AM
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| good -- then bad: The Memory Keeper's Daughter - good in the beginning, but got so bad that I just put it down and didn't pick it back up. oh, and House of Sand?? (it's an Oprah bookclub book, and after getting it was when I decided I would no longer allow HER to pick my books) Slow to start: Outlander. Took me a while to get into it, but after that - I couldn't put it down. I still read the entire series about once or twice a year. |
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10-15-2007, 09:21 AM
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| Eragon. The first chapter just did not do it for me at all. I put it down. My son demanded that I try it again a few months later, and I did....and then I was hooked. Great story. What a good kid I have  . I am so ready for book three!
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10-16-2007, 05:37 PM
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| Oh No! I LOVED The House of Sand and Fog. And I liked Memory Keeper's Daughter too. The (of course, Oprah) book that started slow for me, but I ended up liking was Stones From the River. It was really long too, so the slow part took a while.
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