Have you ever enjoyed a book you didn't want to like?

[lexiepiper]

Me too Rawr I don't understand why it's so popular though, I mean there are other very good YA fantasy books about

[Rawr]

I'm completely not sure about first editions, i think my Prisoner of Azkaban is a first edition hardback, on a site it's worth

[lexiepiper]

Yeah, I do love the series I must admit, it's a shame she'll not write more, I miss looking forward to a new release lol

[Lucybird]

My Prisioner of Azkaban is a second edition, I'm not sure how I managed to miss the first edition to be honest, from Goblet of Fire I have all first editions but they're not exactly rare

[Rawr]

Okay my Azkaban is far from first edition unfortunately, with a little more research i know it isn't, i think it's 14th But my Goblet of Fire, Order of the Phoenix, Half Blood Prince and Deathly Hallows are.

 

Back on topic instead of my rambling, i read OotP again recently, i was apprehensive as i didn't enjoy it the first time, probably because i sped through it but re-reading i liked it a lot more.

[BookBee8]

Harry Potter

 

I realise I am really late with responding but...

 

I don't think I have any first editions, and even if I did, my sister lost one and ruined the other.

 

I was the same with Harry Potter though. I didn't want to enjoy it either!

[BookJumper]

Definitely "Harry Potter" - I'd refused to read them right until the first came out for whatever stupid teenage reason (I probably thought they were for kiddies/too popular for the young intellectual in me to appreciate them); then I broke a foot and found myself having pretty much read every other book in the house so I had no choice. I plowed through the first three in a day and the fourth the following, dead to the world. Good stuff.

[Ben]

Just noticed Roxi enjoyed HP. Good news.

[Nollaig]

Well I'm only a little ways into it, don't get too excited just yet.

[Nightwish]

Harry Potter for me as well. I remember I didn't want to like it because this girl I hated was a massive fan She managed to get our teacher to read it to us and I just loved it! My parents took me shopping to get the first book and because Goblet of Fire had just been released I was begging my mum for it I'm glad she put her foot down and made me get PS! Almost 9 years later and I am still a huge fan

[Lucybird]

Just realised I never actually answered this. I guess it's Twilight for me, it's so bad, but it's addictive too. I liked it but felt the whole way through that I really shouldn't be liking it because it was so badly written and half the characters annoyed me, especially Bella. I didn't like it enough to spend money on the second one though- but it is on my bookmooch list

[kala_way]

There are definitely a lot that I've been surprised by how much I liked them.

I read Ender's Game for a class in college. I had never read a sci-fi book before, I'd been suppressing my inner dork up to that point I really loved it though! And it led to tons more amazing books that I'd never considered before.

 

I don't know if there's anything that I really didn't want to like--no reason to block your own pleasure just to spite someone who doesn't care

There are definitely ones that I've liked despite them not really being great books--*cough*Twilight *cough*, uh...Babysitter's Club? most of the historical fiction stuff I read as a kid. I've read some of them back and gagged !

[Lucybird]

The animal ark series for me was like that, they really were bad, I just didn't realise it at the time!