{"id":1442735,"date":"2020-02-26T11:00:05","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T16:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sparknotes.com\/blog\/?p=1442735"},"modified":"2020-02-26T11:48:57","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T16:48:57","slug":"7-classic-novels-we-know-we-shouldnt-hate-but-secretly-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/7-classic-novels-we-know-we-shouldnt-hate-but-secretly-do\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Classic Novels We Know We Shouldn&#8217;t Hate (But Secretly Do)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"http:\/\/img.sparknotes.com\/content\/sparklife\/sparktalk\/2620tswiftclassicsMAIN_LargeWide.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Have you ever hated something but felt like you couldn&#8217;t tell anybody because everyone else seems to love the thing you hate? I feel that way about ice cream, which at this point I&#8217;ve just accepted as a deeply embarrassing personality flaw. (I wish I liked it! I curse my taste buds daily! Have you ever had to look someone in the eye and tell them you don&#8217;t like ice cream? It&#8217;s harrowing!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is as true for books as it is for inexplicably popular frozen treats. We <em>all<\/em> have at least one book we hate even in the face of overwhelming opposition, and we will continue to hate this book (or books) until the day we die.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, you know which books <em>you<\/em> hate, and I know which books <em>I<\/em> hate, but here&#8217;s what we don&#8217;t yet know: are we normal? Are there others out there like us? Do people hate the same books we do? It seemed like a question worth asking, and so I began my investigation. (By \u201cbegan my investigation,\u201d I mean \u201cbadgered everyone I knew until they coughed up a suitable book that I could use for this article.\u201d) Let&#8217;s begin!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever hated something but felt like you couldn&#8217;t tell anybody because everyone else seems to love the thing you hate? I feel that way about ice cream, which at this point I&#8217;ve just   <a class=\"continue-reading\" href=\"#\"><span class=\"continue-text\">continue reading<\/span><svg class=\"continue-icon\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" alt=\"\">\n    <path fill=\"#007acd\" fill-rule=\"nonzero\" d=\"M13.442 5.558L19.885 12l-6.443 6.442-.884-.884 4.934-4.934L4 12.625v-1.25l13.492-.001-4.934-4.932.884-.884z\"><\/path>\n  <\/svg><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[628,2335,25017,767,694],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442735"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1442735"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1442752,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442735\/revisions\/1442752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1442735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1442735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1442735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}