Which one was it?

I'm still in school. High school to be exact. I really enjoyed reading a book of Hermann Hesse called Demian. It really helped me to understand some things in this life that I was wondering about. But I also hated that book. It almost make me change my god. In the book, there's mentioned a god called abraxas, and I felt identified with it and the way of living of E. Sinclair, but then I realized that Jehovah is the only true and powerful God. I recently bought that book "The Hound of the Baskervilles" and I would want you to tell me the reasons why you didn't like it.

I like the book about EMIL a crazy little kid that make a lot of mess and any time he make troubles his father locked him at the basement to carve wood. It was a great and funny book.

Sorry to hear that about Sherlock Holms novel. It isn't my favorite compared to other stories about him but i still like it. My favorite book was (and is ) To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. I lost the count of how many times I read it. It teaches us kindness. The other favorite is The Lord of The Rings by Tolkien. While staying at my grandma's house accidentally noticed that book on the bookshelf.. I didn't know it was classic, or famous, because we didn't get internet at home until the last year of my school. But i reread it 7 times. And couldn't stop analyzing the actions of heroes, thinking of what will happen after, worrying after each page of that book. When much after i discovered that that book is famous and i am not the only one to get enamored with it it was quite the surprise.

Well I'm a mad-crazy avid reader... but I can't think of a book that I had to read for school that I actually enjoyed. Tolerated, sort of maybe thought wasn't so bad.... but never one that I all out enjoyed and loved. Let's see... I hated Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitxgerald, Wuthering Heights by Emily Bonte, and The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway. At least, those are the ones that stand out the most in my mind. The two books that I thought weren't so bad (didn't really LOVE and like might not be the right word) were Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. My preferred genre is High Fantasy, and my English teachers shunned it.

I am sure hardly anyone will agree with me. But when it was suggested that I read "The Hobbit" I tried to read it and enjoy it. FIrst, I didn't know then that it was a classic. But I really, really hated the book! I finished it but it took me forever and I didn't enjoy it at all. It was out of my normal genres!

I hated "Bleak House" with a passion, because they forced it on me in school, and it seemed never-ending, in particular the descriptions. I ended up rejecting all novels by Dickens because of it, and never quite managed to get over this. On the other hand, I loved everything science fiction, I don't remember exactly which was my favorite, but I was hooked on Asimov, I think I read everything by him that was ever published here.

I hated "The Tale of Two Cities" and loved anything by Samuel Clemens. My favorite, though, was "Kingsblood Royal" by Sinclair Lewis about a man who set out to trace his family's linage back to a supposed king. His quest didn't lead him to where he thought it would.

My favorite book was a Tale of Two Cities by Dickens, and I am now re-reading it again after 20+ years for our book club. I am happy to say I am still really enjoying it! One of my least favorite books in school was The Great Gatsby--I just couldn't relate to any of the characters. I have tried to re-read that one too, to see if I would enjoy it more, but I don't. I guess my tastes just haven't changed all that much!

I begin my love of reading during my younger days through what was popularly known as komiks(comics magazines) back then. It evolve into a love for reading. It use to be a requirement in school to read a book then write a book report afterwards. I browse into available literature in the school library. I use to lost sense of time when I hold on a copy of Nancy Drew mysteries and Hardy Boys. I used to buy second hand ones since they offer an assortment of new titles. Later on I graduated into romance novels then I gravitated towards those with uncommon plots that one has to think while reading. Some books that I picked with unknown authors keeps me spellbind but I do recall throwing some books that I purchase with good eye catching covers only to be disappointed with the content.

I loved Wuthering Heights when I was in high school. I think I read it about three times and translated parts of it in my native language. I thought it was very romantic, but I'm sure that if I were to re-read it now I'd see it with completely different eyes. Not that I wouldn't enjoy it anymore.

When I was in school, I liked reading detective stories like the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew series. The stories become predictable, though. I can't think of any book that I hated the most. When I was younger, when I encounter books that have difficult words, I don't bother to look for their meanings in the dictionary. I just try to understand them through context, not caring if I get them right or wrong. That way, I got to enjoy the books from start to end.