I didn't have any expectations about this book, but I found it nauseous with spiritual or wannabe moral directions. I thought the message was too obvious without letting the reader figure it out by him/herself nor without any place for any interpretation, an insult to my intelligence.

If someone who enjoyed it (and it seems almost everyone who read it did) could tell me what they liked about it, I'd be glad to hear it. Maybe there's something in it that I didn't get.

This book was good, maybe even a great one, but I made the mistake to read the Lord of the Rings first and the later had so much more depth that the former seemed like a badly thought short story made too long.

I do get the fact that it's the first (or one of the firsts) published by Tolkien and it was targeted at his own son. I have children myself and understand there isn't always a need for them to understand everything, quite the opposite. That's why I forgive the flaws I found in The Hobbit.

Now with the second part of the movie adaptation just out, I've come to see it in a new light. There are still some parts for which the explanations are shaky at best, especially compared to the average in Tolkien's global work. I think it suffers mostly in comparison to the rest of Tolkien's work, but it still may be a good start for a younger audience into his massive and incredible universe.

A friend of mine who has great taste in books bought me a copy of Perfume by Patrick Suskind a few years ago and said I would adore it.

I finished the novel and was quite disappointed by the whole book.

I find the more praise heaped onto something (whether it be a book, film, album etc) the more disappointed I am when I read it.

I think my expectations get raised too highly

I was really looking forward to this author's books, as I like historical mysteries. This first book of hers was a big disappointment: the main character was obnoxiously self-centered, women continually fell over for him for no reason that the author made clear, and the mystery plot was ridiculously contrived and full of holes. For me, there are too many good historical mysteries to waste time on this author.

I've just finished WH, feeling that it was one of the canon that I hadn't read and should and can't help wondering what all the fuss was about. Lots of people being angry and selfish and seeing the consequences of that. It's my own fault though really... I expected it to be like Jane Eyre :)

I had heard so many people talk about The Time Traveler's Wife, and when the movie came out (which I never saw), I decided I should read it. Oh man, I found it sooo boring and I could not get into it at all. The idea of the plot was interesting, but the characters just seemed really distant and unsympathetic to me. I rarely stop reading a book once I start it, but this was one exception. I read about 1/3 of the book when I realized I dreaded picking it up again to continue reading. I figured I was wasting time I could use to read something I actually enjoyed, so I posted the book to give away. I hope someone else is now enjoying it :)

Everyone told me this would be the book for me as i like dystopian blah blah blah. But i really didn't like it. I found it boring and the story felt like it was just a way to get people to read the underlying message. Don't get me wrong, i like books with a message but i also like the story to be enjoyable too. Not a fan of this one and i was really looking forward to reading it.

Very recently, I picked up the Mary Russell series by Laurie R. King. The first two books were very good, and I was so absorbed by the second that I read it in a day. Unfortunately, the next book, A Letter of Mary, didn't live up to its claim of "a novel of suspense." It was actually fairly boring. I think I will put aside the series for a bit before I return and pick up the fourth.