I Was Recommenced A Book But Enjoyed Another More

This has been a post that I’ve wanted to post for months, 


- Recommend: Animal Farm
- Enjoyed: The Great Gatsby 
I remember someone on YouTube recommending Animal Farm, but it wasn’t until I saw it at my local bookstore in 2014, as a part of a 3 for $10 that I picked it up with The Great Gatsby and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde that I actually picked it up. 

When I read it I hated it. I don’t know if it’s because I had no idea what the hell was going on, or because it just wasn’t good, I hated it. 

With The Great Gatsby I just fell in love with the book. It flowed well for me. I did see the movie before I read the book which I don’t normally like to do, but when I did read the book, I didn’t see the actors, or hear there voices.  

- Recommend: To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before 
- Enjoyed: My Life Next Door
To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before was such a highly recommend book when it first came out. Everyone raved how good it was. But I found most of it boring as hell. I hated the short chapters and the shallow main character.  

Where as My Life Next Door was a cute, easy flowing, romantic love story. I felt that it flowed much better. 

At first I thought it was because I read To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before and then My Life Next Door right after but that’s not the case. I re read both books in 2018, and had months between reading them and felt the exact same way. 

- Recommend: The Fault in our Stars 
- Enjoyed: Looking For Alaska
I’m not saying TIFIOS was a bad book it’s not, but everyone and their wife was recommending it. Even I did. But when I picked up Looking for Alaska I fell in love with it much more than TIFIOS, and it’s not as recommenced as TIFIOS, which I think is a shame because it has a slight edge on it. 


- Recommend: Fan Girl
- Enjoyed: Since You’ve Been Gone 
For me Fan Girl was awful when I first read it. It was the book that made me not buy recommended books at full price anymore, that and the fact new books are so highly priced.  

With Since You’ve Been Gone I felt more connected with the characters than in Fan Girl. 


- Recommend: The Notebook
- Enjoyed: Safe Haven
With The Notebook it was the movie rather then the book that I was constantly recommended. When I picked it up as it had a further discount on it. Sure it was romantic and cute and well written I just didn’t like it. Where as with Safe Haven I felt more connected with the characters. Not because of the story lines but because I could see them out of the page better. 


- Recommended: If I Stay
- Enjoyed: Just One Day
I liked If I Stay a lot, it was a really good book, I liked the characters and the struggles they went through but for me Just One Day was perfect.