Have you ever gotten a book and read it because it looked really good ..?

Question

only to find it was filled with garbage, I mean it was written well and the plot was done well and the characters were amazing, but as you read further you found out something in the book that was just plain disgusting. For example these two guys like each other, they are just friends.

I even read the back of the cover to see what it was about and it gave no indication as to that kind of thing happening

Answer 1

WAS IT BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN????? LOL

Answer 2

I had that happen to me before. Not much, but it has happened. It happened with four books: Black Dawn by D.A. Stern, Convalescent by Stephen Baxter, To Wake the Dead by Richard Laymon, and The Darkness that Comes Before: The Prince of Nothing Book One by R. R. Bakker. Black Dawn I thought it would be this really good apoloyptic survival supernatural novel and it kind of was; it started out okay but then the story went downhill; you can tell the author cared about the villains more the heroes and that's a no-no and too many gory stuff happened for my liking. In Convalescent, I thought it was going to be a conspiracy of undeground people. But the more I read of it, the more it became dull, weldy, confusing, and too much stuff about sex. The main character in there is harly there either. In To Wake the Dead, I thought it was going to be a pretty good vampire novel. But the book wasn't about a vampire, it was about an undead mummy. And the book wasn't really about the mummy. It was basically horror porn: sex, sex, sex everywhere. Even when you shut the book down and picked it up again, there was somebody having sex. Disgusting. And DTCB, I read on the back flap that this was the next Lord of the Rings. But they were mistaken. The book had none of the lyrical beauty of Lord of the Rings. Instead of dark, bitter, way too overdrawn, too much was going on at once, and again, there was sex factor. I tell you, now I wished I never picked up those books. They weren't worth it. Spare yourself too.

Answer 3

I hate that when it happens. Sometimes, I think I have a new favorite author and then I keep reading his/her books and find things I don't want to be reading. Or I find a book that is really bad (not even well-written) and it spoils my adoration of the author. That happened to me with Joyce Carol Oates. *We Were the Mulvaneys* is great, but there is this book about a senator who had a car accident with this girl he picked up at a party. That one turned me off my Oates streak.

Answer 4

Yes. I checked out this book called 'the Boyfriend List' and I thought it was going to be a cute, teenybopper type of book. Well, it was, except the main character proved to be a dimwitted, selfish, poor-self-image ridden loser who you kind of rooted for to lose in the end.

Or maybe that was just me.

Answer 5

Yes I hate that. I read a book, can't remember what it's called, that sounded so good and so interesting, but it was all about child molestation. It said NOTHING about it on the cover. I was disgusted.

Answer 6

Yes, and it sucks! Next time, get a book that is recommended by someone with the same reading tastes as you.

Answer 7

Are you saying one should never judge a book by its cover? Can I use that?

Answer 8

Yes, My mom suggested it and I did not comprehend it.

A Confederacy of Dunces, I forget the Author.

Answer 9

Yeah. It was a mystery book that had an explicit sex scene in the middle of it.

Answer 10

JUDGE A BOOK BUY ITS COVER!
oo look Martha Stewart book! *zoom*

Answer 11

yeah i have it was really good but at the end it felt like they just tried 2 hurry it ^ and i was still confused in the end and many answers werent solved! i hate it when that happens!