Oh, absolutely. I think the only 5 people in the world who hate Awake are members of this board, so, yeah.
Nah, Awake just inspires intense feelings. All my friends who listen to DT and don't participate in heated online discussions about Kevin Moore seem fairly neutral about Awake.
After I joined DTF and heard that Awake was amongst one of the higher regarded DT albums, I decided to give it more of a fair chance and gave the album more listens, and I finally understood the album-and now it's amongst my all time favorites.
And you're right, a lot of people I know who are more "casual" DT fans, don't really like Awake a lot. My friend who I would consider more "hardcore" of a fan than others even went on to say that "They probably shouldn't play a lot of that at the Maiden/DT concert because it's not that heavy" I responded with "Have you listened to Awake?" To be honest, Awake comes off as very dark, and heavy even moreso than ToT and SC in my opinion (some people who don't give it a lot of chance don't realize that or 'get' the album imo), and that's because it seemed like it turned out that way naturally and they didn't go in saying "Let's make a METALL album!"
Anyway, the most liked DT album around here that *most* can agree on would probably be SFAM or Images.