The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born

As a kid, when i heard that caption'THE BEAUTIFUL ONES ARE NOT YET BORN', it made me feel very ugly
i started reading quite early, at about 8,' thing fall apart'  made a lot of sense to me
but as a kid, whenever i tried 'the beautiful ones are not yet born',
it never made any sense at all to me
because while reading, i just wanted to find out Kwei's reasons for calling all of us 'ugly'
anyway, later as an adult, i read the book, and then it made a lot of sense.
another book that used to decieve me then was all of 'James Chase'
Naked beautiful women on the cover and nothing about them inside
as a kid, that really pissed me too.
so i'm just curious
what are some of the books that got you really wondering from the captions, or back pages
that got you making up the story in your head even before you read it
then after you read it, you found out it said something totally different

the palm wine drinkard
the title earned me a very interesting discussion with all the literature teachers in my school and my mom
i read the book and bagged another discussion
only after reading it for the second time with prior knowledge of what it was i was reading, did it finally make sense to me
there's sense in absolute rubbish is what i learnt

One book which also  intrigued me as a young man is "A Dance of the Forest" by Wole Soyinka. I read it thrice before I could get the message our which my Prof was trying to pass across.

glad to know i am notthe only one.
there is this book i have. i have been trying to read it for over two years now but all efforts are proving abortive. i need someone to tell me that reading that book is possible. who has read 'the man died' prison notes of Wole Soyinka

can't believe it took me a year to get through the first chapter. the man died, is an interesting book.  chapter eight now. Before i read it, i kept saying to myself that no book can be so boring as to kill me, then it turned out the book wasn't even boring afterll.

so say that to yourself, whenever you want to attack your fame fatal again

dance of a forest is quite interesting

For me, that will be The Trial by Franz Kafka.
Funny and full of unresolved and intriguing suspense! At the end, you wonder if its a novel or just someone trying to recollect so many dreams of Josef K the central character. It was after reading commentaries on it that the full message dawned.

The other one is Lives Of The Poets by E.L Doctorow.
Initially I thought it will offer a glimpse into the lives of some famous poets. Turns out to be a successful mix of creativity, imagination and logic woven into each other. Glad I read it through!