Ever read a book so bad that you actaully stopped reading?

[standokan]

I will probably catch a lot of shit for this, but Lord of the Rings.

Pff don't get me started, it's an excellent story but I strugled to get through it all. Tolkien's way of writing is horrible (IMO).

Yes quite a few books, sometimes if I can't stand the characters, other times if the plot or the writing is shit.

 

[SnakeoilSage]

Lol, that's still a problem though because I don't buy junk food very often at all, nor do I get fast food very often, and I don't even buy coffee from a coffee shop very often either. I'm pretty sure the thing I spend money on the most is yarn right now, and I'm not sure how I feel about cutting back on yarn purchases in order to buy books...

Oh well. I've only just started the second Gaunt's Ghosts omnibus anyway, and that's a good thousand pages, so I'm set for a while. I love big, thick books!

Well when you've got two hobbies they can clash. Well the "money jar" idea is still sound. Tossing in some money when you have some to spare (I know it's rare but it can happen) and then every month or so see how much you've got and if it's enough go get yourself something good to read. The great thing about books is that they're books - you don't need any fancy hardware to read 'em.

 

[Robert Ewing]

I dunno if you guys have ever heard of it, it's kind of an indie underground book. It's basically this book where a guy goes around walking on water and shit. It's called the bible.

 

[MANIIC 8 BALL]

twilight boring tripe completely destroyed vampires and werewolves for me my to faviorite monsters.

 

[Dsdude]

Twilight. I tried it when it first came out (before everyone knew it was bad) and I just couldn't finish it. It was like some weird girls sex fantasy with "monsters"...

 

[repeating integers]

Oh well. I've only just started the second Gaunt's Ghosts omnibus anyway, and that's a good thousand pages, so I'm set for a while. I love big, thick books!

I love me a huge book too. I read quite fast, so small books rarely keep me satisfied for long.

I read the Night's Dawn trilogy quite recently. 3 books, each of which is 1200 pages long. Also it feels like it was only split into 3 books because the author realised belatedly he couldn't possibly publish a single 3600-page book. Each novel just sort of... stops, and then the next one picks up immediately where the last one left off. It's an awesome (if convoluted) series.

 

[Fiz_The_Toaster]

about 90% of books your required to read in high school literature classes.

take your pick, honestly.

boring books are boring.

Now that I think about it, that's pretty true.

I think there's only two books that I loved reading that I was required to read that I actually was pleasantly surprised by. The rest I'd rather be stabbed with a rusty knife than read them.

 

[internetzealot1]

The Yearling. But mainly because it was for summer reading, and I decided that I'd better switch over to The Call of the Wild because its about 10% as long.

 

[Ravenbom]

Finnegans Wake is essentially unreadable.

It's (supposedly) written in idiosyncratic language which means a language only one or a few people know. Which essentially means that there's just a bunch of made up words and misspellings of words in a thick ass tome.
Considering that Joyce, like most authors, was a raging alcoholic it's entirely possible that it's just drunken tirades that somehow got published on the strength of his other works, by intellectuals fearing that if they didn't publish it they would be ostracized for not understanding the book.

I equate it to people who watch The Daily Show and laugh at every barely funny joke like it's the funniest thing they've ever heard for fear of seeming not to get the political reference.

 

[RaffB]

I managed to finish the lord of the rings trilogy, but my god I almost said "Fuck this shit" about 15 times throughout.

Atlas shrugged is very hard to get into without getting bored.

Catcher in the rye was annoying at first, mainly because Holden is a whiny brat, but as he sort of matures, it gets more interesting.

If it wasn't for the fact that I had an exam on it, Of mice and men would have been burnt after 15 minutes.

Thats about it really.

 

[The Big Boss]

Pride and Prejudice. Easily the most over rated historical piece of balls (oops, i mean literature) i have ever read!

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

about 90% of books your required to read in high school literature classes.

take your pick, honestly.

boring books are boring.

Now that I think about it, that's pretty true.

I think there's only two books that I loved reading that I was required to read that I actually was pleasantly surprised by. The rest I'd rather be stabbed with a rusty knife than read them.

yupp, there were some that i didn't mind, heck there was one maybe two that i actually READ AHEAD and finished a week or so before the rest of the class, but that was rare beyond belief, and they did NOT make up in the slightest for the absolute trash that almost made suicide preferable to finishing those books.

off the top of my head, "old man and the sea" and "farewell to manzanar" were two books that did that for me, good fucking lord i couldn't read more than two lines without repeating those lines 5 times and falling asleep on it. (and this is coming from someone who will sit through 2 hour lectures weekly on thermodynamics without batting an eyelash.)

 

[4173]

Chuck Palaramadingdong's Tell-All.

Boring, dull and pointless.

 

[Blow_Pop]

Misery by Stephen King


Dear god I couldn't finish that book and wanted to burn it.

 

[Fiz_The_Toaster]

about 90% of books your required to read in high school literature classes.

take your pick, honestly.

boring books are boring.

Now that I think about it, that's pretty true.

I think there's only two books that I loved reading that I was required to read that I actually was pleasantly surprised by. The rest I'd rather be stabbed with a rusty knife than read them.

yupp, there were some that i didn't mind, heck there was one maybe two that i actually READ AHEAD and finished a week or so before the rest of the class, but that was rare beyond belief, and they did NOT make up in the slightest for the absolute trash that almost made suicide preferable to finishing those books.

off the top of my head, "old man and the sea" and "farewell to manzanar" were two books that did that for me, good fucking lord i couldn't read more than two lines without repeating those lines 5 times and falling asleep on it. (and this is coming from someone who will sit through 2 hour lectures weekly on thermodynamics without batting an eyelash.)

I had to read Old Man and The Sea too, god that was painful. Of Mice and Men and Pride and Prejudice were the big ones that I had to read where I had a hell of a time getting through just a chapter without feeling like I should be doing something more productive, like walking in front of traffic.

With the latter book, I couldn't have cared less about what she wanted and I just wanted her to remove that stick that was most likely surgically implanted in her ass, and get over herself.

 

[kidwithxboxlive]

I will probably catch a lot of shit for this, but Lord of the Rings.

Love the books... But its not everyone's kind of book genre and some get bored with how long it is, but you missed out there...

 

[jurnag12]

about 90% of books your required to read in high school literature classes.

take your pick, honestly.

boring books are boring.

The problem with it is mostly just that either the children are too young or immature to grasp much of the actual meaning behind the books.
Not to mention that it involves adults telling teens to do something, who promptly do it with the minimal amount of interest and effort, purely out of habit.
And many are also either written in a style that is extremely boring, that might also be a factor.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

about 90% of books your required to read in high school literature classes.

take your pick, honestly.

boring books are boring.

The problem with it is mostly just that either the children are too young or immature to grasp much of the actual meaning behind the books.
Not to mention that it involves adults telling teens to do something, who promptly do it with the minimal amount of interest and effort, purely out of habit.

yeah i would agree to that, especially the 2nd reason.

however, i tried going back to reading a couple of them because i had spare time and those were the only books on hand, and they were still absolute boring trash, i ended up putting them down after a chapter in and went and read like 30 articles on how stuff works instead. taste in books is subjective and forcing students to read specific books is also garbage imo, it doesn't do anything besides like you stated, put forth minimal effort and interest and if anything it makes them hate books/the subject more, rather than be enthralled in it with books they would personally really enjoy and get passionate about.

 

[OriginalLadders]

After having read the Hobbit and the Fellowship of the Ring, I got a third of the way through the Two Towers before giving up. It's a decent story, the problem is that the writing is just so boring. I mean nerve-grindingly boring.

 

[pirateninj4]

Twilight. Twilight, oh also Twilight.