Most boring/difficult books you've ever read.

[Veylon]

Das Kapital. Maybe it's because of the time he wrote it, but Karl never seemed to tire of emphasizing the difference between intrinsic and extrinsic value to the point that I simply couldn't bear the reexamining of the price of a bushel barrel of corn yet again.

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

Spoiler: This book made me sleep

It was assigned reading for grade 12 English. Normally I don't mind doing studies on novels but this book tried really hard to annoy me and succeeded.

No, I don't want to read another love letter. Thank you very much!

I prefer to read Shakespeare over that.

 

[Nouw]

Starship Troopers is a good book but hard to read. I can not stress this enough

 

[JUMBO PALACE]

Crime and Punishment was pretty tough to read but I enjoyed the story. The Communist Manifesto gets my vote though. I had to read it for an Advanced History class and I just couldn't do it. It's just so DENSE.

 

[octafish]

It took me two attempts to get through Gravity's Rainbow, totally worth it though and I have read it another two times since. Pynchon's Mason and Dixon is my favorite of his because it seems more coherent while still retaining the fantastic flights of imagination. I haven't read all of Joyce's Ulysses, just snippets, that is probably the hardest/most intimidating I've attempted.

I can't believe people don't like To Kill a Mockingbird, it is the most perfect novel ever. Beautifully evocative and tightly written, a book not only about prejudice but class, innocence, and the moment in childhood when you become aware of the lives of others and the greater society in which you live. My daughter's name is Scout.

Most dull, the Silmarillion, I never got more than a few pages in, and never wanted to go further either.

 

[RoyalSorceress]

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, I read most of the first book and some of the second book, and was bored out of my skull.
I also found The Never-ending Story (the book not movie) boring and oddly depressing.

 

[Infernai]

Remembering Babylon......i swear to god if i ever find David Malouf, i am going to punch him in the face for writing that freaking book!

 

[teutonicman]

Great Expectations, that book was murder. Curse you Dickens!

 

[Maeve2011]

Oh my god...
Mine are:
Walden (fell asleep after the first 3 pages)
Great Expectations (Couldn't get through it, it was so damn boring)

I really hate advanced English classes...at least Animal Farm was good...

 

[Bob the Average]

"star ship troopers" was the second driest thing i have ever read, i threw it away after reading half of it. It was completely mindless. the first being "the triangle factory fire" was just uninteresting while the bits about early union workers on strike being bullied was vaguely interesting it didn't offer anything a text book couldn't have. At the point where main characters started dieing horrible fiery deaths in mass i was joyful until i realized i was only 2/3 of the way threw.

 

[instantbenz]

Land of the Green Plums

Romania sux ... we get it ... stop depressing me!!!

 

[nightwolf667]

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens: making crucifixion seem like a pleasantry.

Reading a book is worse than slowly bleeding out while your lungs collapse, your shoulders dislocate, and you suffocate out in the hot sun over the course of three days? Really? Clearly, no one has ever tried to suffocate you.

I'll grant you that it's a long and arduous read though and that the ending doesn't make much sense. Now, it's not boring or difficult but I'll throw out Tess of the D'Urberville's as one of the most nonsensical and depressing things I've ever read. Yes, I do understand that it's about the injustice of rape done on a peasant and all that. It's the character of Angel who I really hate...

Angel: "Tess, you are the most wonderful amazing creature I have ever met, far too perfect for me, let me tell you my sin! When I was younger and foolish, I went down to Cheapside and spent three months drenched in sinful lust with a wanton woman! Oh my darling, can you ever forgive me?"

Tess: "Well, if we are to be honest with each other my beloved Angel. I must tell you my great sin, I was raped."

Angel: "You scheming harlot! Get away from me!"

;_; Bastard...

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

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

fucking this so much. the teachers are always having hard ons about them "OH THIS BOOK IS SO GOOD. THERE IS SO MUCH UNDERLAYING MATERIAL AND THE AUTHOR TRIES TO CONVEY SO MUCH IN THE FORESHADOWING AND SYMBOLISM OF THIS BOOK!" "god dammit lady..i dont want fucking symbolism and foreshadowing, give me fucking explosions sex and awesome badasses..."

i forgot what it was called...i might have to go look it up with how much i hated it. but it was a high school book. it was about a guy who went out to sea like everyday to catch this one behemoth (shark i believe? can't remember) but god dammit my teacher annoyed the fuck out of me saying there is so much symbolism behind the "fishing rod", seriously? its a FUCKING FISHING ROD. unless its super rod that can catch starmie, i DONT GIVE A FUCK!

 

[strum4h]

SNOW FALLING ON CEDARS. Aside from the sex scenes. It was the most boring book I have ever read.

 

[Crimson King]

Stephen King's Dark Tower IV: Wizard und Glass.
The book is 99.99999[repeating]% a flashback, and the only parts worth reading are the parts that aren't a flashback. Keep in mind that the book is almost a thousand pages long.
This book should be formally recognize as a form of torture.

 

[crazygator]

The most difficult book I ever had to read was a book on Japanese Architecture for a Culture class in college. It is so much harder to read about a subject you care nothing for.

 

[phohouse]

Johnny Tremain. It was just... horrible. None of the characters were even remotely interesting at all. The plot was boring as hell. Even the pages felt dusty and old, despite being new.

 

[Jfswift]

I found an online copy of "The Night Land" by William Hope Hodgson. It was pretty ahead of it's time really, written in 1912 with a world that had lost it's sun and most of the population were huddled into little biodome/pyramid shelters. Oh yea, and anyone who ventured outside would be attacked by mutants. Sounded like a cool post-apocalypic kind of story but the way it was written was really hard to read for me so I finally gave up.

 

[Zapotec]

You're actually making me want to read this book again. It's one of my favorites

 

[Outright Villainy]

Anything from Irish class back in school.

Fucking Peig Sayers.

Haha, Peig? Really?
You're oooooooooooooooooold.

I've never heard anyone except my parent's generation ***** about that book, it hasn't been around for a while. But then again any book that needs to be studied for Irish is a pile of old balls. Fuck you An Triail. Fuck you and your stupid lazy writing.