Most boring/difficult books you've ever read.

[Fensfield]

Lord of the Flies -.-

My entire attempt to follow that thing was just dumb staring at the sheer contrivance.. I found it no surprise at the end of the course to discover the author had explained there were no girls in the story because he felt it would undermine his message about children being a bunch of animals.

 

[ALuckyChance]

Wow. I play Rome: Total War for 2 hours, come back, and see an extra 150 replies. Holy crap.

The Harry Potter series were the most boring books I ever read.
And as for difficult, I'm not sure. I don't read a lot.

I used to love the Harry Potter books when I read them, but after a few years, I realized they were only average in quality.

 

[Zinaxos]

Not, Fight Club.

 

[KarumaK]

An American Tragedy... I think it actually stopped my brain functions while I read it.

 

[Frozen Donkey Wheel2]

Definitely Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad. Once, I actually fell asleep while reading it. Which wouldn't be too weird, except for the fact that I kept reading.

 

[Hallow'sEve]

HItty
by Rachel Field

The Alchemist
by Paulo Coelho

Had to do it for summer vacation

 

[milo2215]

The Great Gatsby. The end moral is basicaly "Rich people always get the happy ending."

 

[Hallow'sEve]

The Great Gatsby. The end moral is basicaly "Rich people always get the happy ending."

Can't say it isn't true in real life tho

 

[The Heik]

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.

For me, it would ave to be It by Stephen King. 1000 pages, and most of it was unnecessary or just plain weird. Not what a horror book should be doing.

 

[careful]

ayn rand's fountain head
its cliche, boring, etc.

 

[milo2215]

The Great Gatsby. The end moral is basicaly "Rich people always get the happy ending."

Can't say it isn't true in real life tho

True, but after all that build up in the actual story, nothing happens. Except for DEATH.

 

[AmericanIdiot1993]

I just read The House of Mirth, and that book is so boring! I could barely finish it. That, and then of course my all time least favorite book ever, Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko. It is a lesser known book, and thats a good thing, because it is atrocious.

 

[Siuki]

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. I guess I was only interested in the giant squid on the cover...

 

[coleslawghter]

Have to say Tess of the D'Urbervilles, though Heart of Darkness is a close second.

I totally agree with heart off darkness, i go it from the library and was like KICK ASS this book is what apocalypse now is based on... read a page and a half, couldn't catch a word of it. A clockwork orange on the other hand started out difficult as hell and slowly got easier

 

[nYuknYuknYuk]

Any of the "classics" that people say they like just to sound smart.

 

[coleslawghter]

A Clockwork Orange. I didn't get past the first page. It may be a literary classic, but I can't read it for the life of me.

I couldn't figure the accent out. Maybe if they were speaking it, but written down it's very hard. The above paragraph could be written like this in Clockwork Orange-Speak:

"A Clockwork Orange. I din't give a diddly squat yonder the page afore the rest. Classic scribe it may be, but I couldna read it fer a fifth pence shilling on sunny loafers."

I've started many books I got from the library and then put them down because they give me headaches. But usually I pick the right books and read them.

Give twenty pages and youll be hooked, that book is so fucked up, Its a million times more disturbing than the movie. and its incredible

A clockwork orange, a real horror show book indeed, I viddied it at the library and was attracted to it like the good old in out, in out, real horrorshow indeed.

 

[Troublesome Lagomorph]

Kim.
It was not hard... just boring as hell. It was not interesting at all.
The main character was also completely un-lovable.

 

[OneWingedDevil]

Crime and Punishment. It got to the point that I was re-reading lines because my brain was too broken to process it the first time.

 

[TheSchizoid]

I was forced to read "To Kill A Mockingbird" and "Ender's Game" in High School and loved both. I was forced to read "Kon Tiki" in Junior High and found it absolutely dull. Read "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" on my own choosing and found it absolutely dull AND boring.