I love Pride and Prejudice, so I thought for sure I would love Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Not so much.

I thought I would like Wicked but it was kind of icky. I didn't finish it even though I kept trying.

I never ever thought I like Bulgakov's Master and Margarita, but the heck, I did, I loved it.
And I thought I was to love Anna Karenina...but too bad, it got too soap-opera like for me :(
And years ago, I thought Harry Potter is the least favourable book in the world, but now I just love it :)

I thought I would love The Time Traveler's Wife, but dang if that isn't an albatross around my neck right now.

Thanks for trying, Susan!

You don't need to enter me but here are a few: Eclipse by Richard North Patterson, way too political for me. The Historian - dragged on and on. :)

I thought that I would really like the book "Rattled" by Debra Gallant, but I struggled to get through it. There were some funny parts but not enough to make it be a book I'd recommend.

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Don't enter me, but I got to the last book of the Great and Terrible Beauty series... and couldn't get more than halfway through it. It's so frustrating to not finish a series! I liked the first two well enough, but a coming of age story should NOT be told in first-person-present-tense! Life lessons aren't realized without backward reflection. They just aren't.

Did the same with the Luxe series--too many hits just kept on coming and I stopped trusting that we'd ever get to a happy ending. I think I read the first chapter or so of the third book.

Oh, that does sound good - sorry it didn't work for you!

I should have absolutely loved Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon: plot elements I like, very similar in tone to The Thirteenth Tale (which I did love), but man, it was a struggle to get through it.

I thought I would love Savvy and I hated it.

Thanks for the giveaway!

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The Shipping News. I like everything else of hers she's written, but I just couldn't get into that one.

I really thought I'd love Joyce Meyer's Any Minute. I tried and tried to get into it. Each night I could only read a few pages. I almost completely abandoned it mid way. But I persevered. I did finish the book.

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We did "Doomsday Book" by Connie Willis for book club. Time travel and the black plague. I thought I'd hate it, but it sucked me right in.

I'm also with the person who mentioned Wicked. It was yucky.

I really thought I would love Wuthering Heights... after so many references to it in the Twilight books, I really wanted to read it, but halfway through I gave up. I just couldn't get into it at all!

I agree w/ the commenter re: 'wicked.' I did not finish the book.

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I thought I would love THE NATURE OF MONSTERS by Clare Clark. I read a lot of really positive reviews. I was surprised by how much I disliked it. I was very disappointed. I'd like to give this one a shot, though. I like books set around archeology, and the myterious nature appeals to me. Thanks for your honest reaction and for your willingness to pass the book along.

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I thought I would like Julia and Julia-could not stand the book.

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