The Bible, especially since I'm not the least religious.
Oh, and Dante's Inferno in a 1910's edition.
Oh, and Dante's Inferno in a 1910's edition.
Most boring/difficult books you've ever read.
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Works of George Ivanovich Gurdjieff. They could be written in language used by Australopithecuses and difference wouldn't be that big. :|
The Silmarillion I found very difficult to read at the beginning. Once it gets going and stops reeling off paragraph after paragraph of names at you, it's pretty good. Children of Hurin I've still not yet finished.
Les Miserables was difficult to read in places. Hugo is descriptive almost to a fault.
Very surprised to see people here criticising To Kill A Mockingbird and anything by Jane Austen though. To each their own, I suppose.
Les Miserables was difficult to read in places. Hugo is descriptive almost to a fault.
Very surprised to see people here criticising To Kill A Mockingbird and anything by Jane Austen though. To each their own, I suppose.
You're absolutely right, there is nothing about stories where a female lead bemoans the fact that her entire existence is dependent on marriage that could possibly have any relevance to 19th century English society. Why would I think such a silly thing?Zeeky_Santos said:
Agreeing with alot of people here, but To Kill A Mockingbird was TERRIBLE! If I didn't have to read it, I wouldn't have, which is way plot summaries are the best in my english literature exams!!
WORD, I loved The Hobbit, but Lord of the Rings just....no. Too long, too distant, couldn't manage to care for ANYONE.comadorcrack said:
Great Gatsby - stupid rich people doing stupid horrible things. I know its like THE book of the Jazz Age but it just makes me realize how shallow and vapid the jazz age was.
Tale of Genji - I have this doorstop I pick up every so often and read another chapter or so. It's not bad per say, its just very foreign to me (well DUH) and I have a hard time understanding the people or their actions.
Dune - this book was so dense, so much going on, there was no real moment that felt superfluous. Hilariously though, after I read it the first time (spent ages trying to get through it) I actually loved it. So yea, ***** of a read but I found it quite worth it.
Whitechapel Gods - odd little steam punk novel I picked up for light reading. Turned out it was a very dense strangely written reading that took me months of putting down and picking back up again to finish. Sadly it had some excellent visual descriptions but the plot and characters, were so...bizarre.
Already mentioned LOTR in a post above, but yea...THAT.
Tale of Genji - I have this doorstop I pick up every so often and read another chapter or so. It's not bad per say, its just very foreign to me (well DUH) and I have a hard time understanding the people or their actions.
Dune - this book was so dense, so much going on, there was no real moment that felt superfluous. Hilariously though, after I read it the first time (spent ages trying to get through it) I actually loved it. So yea, ***** of a read but I found it quite worth it.
Whitechapel Gods - odd little steam punk novel I picked up for light reading. Turned out it was a very dense strangely written reading that took me months of putting down and picking back up again to finish. Sadly it had some excellent visual descriptions but the plot and characters, were so...bizarre.
Already mentioned LOTR in a post above, but yea...THAT.
Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh.
"Ah hate cunts like that. Cunts like Bebgie. Cunts that are intae baseball-batting every fucker that's different; pakis, poofs, n what huv ye. Fuckin failures in a country ay failures. It's nae good blamin it oan the English fir colonising us. Ah don't hate the English. They're just wankers. We are colonised by wankers. We can't even pick a decent, vibrant, healthy culture to be colonised by. No. We're ruled by effete arseholes. What does that make us? The lowest of the fuckin low, the scum of the earth. The most wretched, servile, miserable, pathetic trash that was ever shat intae creation. Ah don't hate the English. They just git oan wi the shite thuv goat. Ah hate the Scots."
And that exerpt is one of the easier passages in the book.
"Ah hate cunts like that. Cunts like Bebgie. Cunts that are intae baseball-batting every fucker that's different; pakis, poofs, n what huv ye. Fuckin failures in a country ay failures. It's nae good blamin it oan the English fir colonising us. Ah don't hate the English. They're just wankers. We are colonised by wankers. We can't even pick a decent, vibrant, healthy culture to be colonised by. No. We're ruled by effete arseholes. What does that make us? The lowest of the fuckin low, the scum of the earth. The most wretched, servile, miserable, pathetic trash that was ever shat intae creation. Ah don't hate the English. They just git oan wi the shite thuv goat. Ah hate the Scots."
And that exerpt is one of the easier passages in the book.
American Psycho was like getting repeatedly hit over the head with a brick wearing an Armani suit. It's brilliant, though, but incredibly difficult. The same with Herzog.
In terms of a book I found difficult and thought was awful - Tom Jones by Henry Fielding. It's one of those books banded around under the slogan 'The Quintessential English Novel', and it's shit. Sorry, but it is. It's also completely irrelevant in the modern world.
In terms of a book I found difficult and thought was awful - Tom Jones by Henry Fielding. It's one of those books banded around under the slogan 'The Quintessential English Novel', and it's shit. Sorry, but it is. It's also completely irrelevant in the modern world.
I ended up reading this twice and saw the old black and white movie for school. Its kind of OK I guess. The really boring ones are probably William Wordsworth's Prellude (although technically a poem) and the middle two Twilight novels.Stryc9 said:
On a relatively unrelated note. Has anyone read the City of Glass, I can't remember who wrote it but it has a recommendation by Stephanie Myer on the front cover and I want to make sure it isn't awful before I consider exposing myself to the first few pages of it.
While I don't want to discredit the great Charles Dickens, everything I've ever read from him is either depressing or boring...
i.e. The little matchstick Girl and Great Expectations.
The most difficult thing I think I tried to read was War and Peace in high school, perhaps I would breeze through it nowadays since I am older.
Unlike quite a few people on here, I thought the bible was very interesting and not that hard to read. It's funny how you see the difference between what the bible says and what people do though when you finally read the thing. I'm an atheist for those wondering, and I'd say that if more people read the bible, there would be less religion.
i.e. The little matchstick Girl and Great Expectations.
The most difficult thing I think I tried to read was War and Peace in high school, perhaps I would breeze through it nowadays since I am older.
Unlike quite a few people on here, I thought the bible was very interesting and not that hard to read. It's funny how you see the difference between what the bible says and what people do though when you finally read the thing. I'm an atheist for those wondering, and I'd say that if more people read the bible, there would be less religion.
Actually, I agree with this. I read the original LOTR books, and The Hobbit, and just couldn't stand them. And I'm an avid reader, I've been reading since I was barely a toddler (my nan taught me at a very early age) and started reading proper literature as soon as I started secondary school, aged 11. I love good literature, planning to read a bunch of Gothic Horror when I get some free time (Frankenstein, Dorian Grey, etc.). But I just could not read the Lord Of The Rings books. I feel slightly bad about it, especially as I loved the films. Hell, my uncle took me years ago to see the two places that inspired the Two Towers of Orthanc and Minas Morgul (Sarehole Mill and Perret's Folly, both near my family home in Birmingham). And even that wasn't inspiring enough for me.RhombusHatesYou said:
Sorry Tolkien, you're awesome, but your books were just too complex even for me...