Most boring/difficult books you've ever read.

[ALuckyChance]

Mine would have to be The Children of Hurin; anyone agree that it was incredibly dull?
Most difficult to read - to me, anyway - would be Robinson Crusoe, simply because of the insane amounts of semicolons in every mammoth-sized sentence, that once you finish you immediately forget what it was all about.

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

Displaying my heresy here, I'll say ANYTHING BY TOLKIEN.

 

[Midnight Crossroads]

A horribly translated version of War and Peace. Oh mai Gawd that fucking brick.

 

[Xpwn3ntial]

Ayn Rand is a difficult author to read. I still have as of yet to finish Atlas Shrugged. It's good, but difficult.

 

[Sneaky-Pie]

Moby Dick.

It was terrible.

 

[Ask]

To kill a Mockingbird. I slept through the book AND the movie.

 

[[Kira Must Die]]

Any story that's in old English.
I get what the story is, just not what's actually going on.

 

[the Dept of Science]

Displaying my heresy here, I'll say ANYTHING BY TOLKIEN.

No, thats perfectly understandable. I've tried reading Fellowship of the Ring at least 5 times, I've never made it more than 100 pages in without trying something else.

Crime and Punishment is probably the longest I've spent on a book this year. On the other hand, its the good sort of difficult.

I tried reading the Cantebury Tales, but only managed to read the prologue. The lesson I learned from it was that standardised spelling is a very good thing. You also have to learn tonnes of new words to get through it.

Currently reading Neuromancer, I'll admit, I had to look at a plot summary on the internet a couple of times to get myself up to speed.

 

[zHellas]

Ayn Rand is a difficult author to read. I still have as of yet to finish Atlas Shrugged. It's good, but difficult.

You do know there's 60+ pages of JUST ONE SPEECH, right?

 

[Jack_Uzi]

For me, it must be Lolita. I got it as a gift. I think Nabokov was too fixated on the "oh, look at me being funny, witty and complex here!" than on actually writing the story itself. But that's just me. I've tried to read it a few times.. but I'd rather have Vonnegut anyday.

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

The Gormenghast Trilogy.


Dear lord that shit's dull.

 

[comadorcrack]

Displaying my heresy here, I'll say ANYTHING BY TOLKIEN.

DAMMIT! Ninja's everywhere up in the ***** ¬¬

I'd say the Lord of the rings really. Because the Hobbit is awesome and Witty and Charming right from the begining....

I love The Hobbit ...

♥♥

 

[Hosker]

The shining bored me to tears. I really liked the film as well.

 

[icyneesan]

Pretty much anything I read in High School, they always made us read these crappy 'classics' that always have some sort of moral teaching for you :\

Personally I wanted to read Lord of the Rings again. Probably the hardest thing I read but I enjoyed it

 

[Amethyst Wind]

The Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck. Boy was that a slog, and ultimately unsatisfying.

I honestly can't see what makes that book a 'classic'.

 

[Prince Regent]

Well Nietzsche was a challenge. And if educational books count anyting with the names Schödinger, Bohr and Heienberg in them.

EDIT: I just realized everything that's difficult comes for Germany.

EDIT2: Except Niels Bohr.

 

[Stryc9]

To Kill a Mockingbird. Forced to read it in English, boring as shit. Also pretty much anything else that was assigned reading in school, somehow they always manage to pick the dullest most boring books.

 

[Nightmonger]

I personally enjoyed the Children of Hurin but I suppose it's not for everyone

OT: I found the first chapters of the silmarrilion incredibly hard to get into but it does ease up as the book progresses
also one book that I have made several attempts at is Atlas shrugged ( book biosock is inspired by) i just found it really hard to get into
maybe it's time for another atempt.

 

[Les Awesome]

well I'm being forced to read to kill a mocking bird for english class and
so far................ITS THE WORST BOOK I'VE READ............. so far

 

[voetballeeuw]

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. Holy shit that was boring. The way he had to take ten pages to describe one person annoyed the living crap out of me. Don't get me wrong I don't hate Socialism, just didn't like the book.