Most boring/difficult books you've ever read.
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I'm currently writing a research paper on this garbage. It's as painful as reading about the door. And the bush. And the jail. Seriously. ITS AN ENTIRE CHAPTER DESCRIBING A DOOR, A JAIL, AND A BUSH. All of which are only mentioned once. The only thing remarkable about the bush is that its a rose bush. And roses are red. And Hester Prynne must wear a red A (for being a slut), a Scarlet Letter if you will, and roses are red! HAWTHORNE YOU GENIUS!MadCapMunchkin said:
You know what else is red Mr Hawthorne? Blood. Especially the blood that poured forth from my eyes as I read (red, oh shit there it is again!) your sorry excuse for a book.
And I'm expected to sympathize with Hester! I'M EXPECTED TO SYMPATHIZE WITH A CHEATING WIFE WHO HAD SEX WITH THE LOCAL PASTOR. Chillingworth was to good to her. Consequently, the Report button is red. He planned it ALL out.
And how the hell does a comet remotely make a red A? And that's were the book went from dreadfully unbearable to kindling.
EDIT: FIRE IS RED TO OMG!!!!!
The Double and Notes from Underground, both by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Really good, but downright impenetrable.
Edit: to those people saying Shakespeare: those are plays, not novels. They are meant to be experienced at the theatre.
Also the English translation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson was alright, but not nearly as good as the film adaptation had led me to believe. The entire first half of the book reads like the minutes of a shareholders' annual meeting, regailing the reader with the most tedious details of the entire histories of every single business mentioned in the story, so the actually interesting bit only starts half-way into the book. Also I do not care how many gigabytes of RAM each character's laptop has. But that is what happens when the author has died before the editor get their hands on a manuscript; the editor's hands are tied to a certain extent, with not being able to send it back with suggestions for alterations.
Edit: to those people saying Shakespeare: those are plays, not novels. They are meant to be experienced at the theatre.
Also the English translation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson was alright, but not nearly as good as the film adaptation had led me to believe. The entire first half of the book reads like the minutes of a shareholders' annual meeting, regailing the reader with the most tedious details of the entire histories of every single business mentioned in the story, so the actually interesting bit only starts half-way into the book. Also I do not care how many gigabytes of RAM each character's laptop has. But that is what happens when the author has died before the editor get their hands on a manuscript; the editor's hands are tied to a certain extent, with not being able to send it back with suggestions for alterations.
Lord of the Flies. Oh my god. I pity the English students who have to endure it and the teachers who do it semester after semester. (though, to be honest, I swear that my English teacher had a crush on Golding)
You're already drowning in symbolism by the third page. So monotonous, so predictable, so terrible.
William Golding, you suck.
edit: Oh, and Nobokov. What a piece of work that man must have been.
You're already drowning in symbolism by the third page. So monotonous, so predictable, so terrible.
William Golding, you suck.
edit: Oh, and Nobokov. What a piece of work that man must have been.
'nuff said, i tried to read the books before i saw the moveis, after two towers and 20 pages of return of the king I just couldn't pain myself to attempt to read it.RhombusHatesYou said:
Not dull but hard to follow, it keeps jumping from present to different time periods in the past without notice. And yeah, it kinda not a lot happens.the December King said:
Apocalypsis, I read that too, longest book I will ever read.Rylot said:
I actually thoroughly enjoyed that one...boring, it was not.ALuckyChance said:
However, The Death of Ivan Ilyich and War and Peace certainly were. Actually, Russian realist fiction in general I find to be terribly boring and difficult. It's all so....grey and bleak.
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One of the few books I can remember giving up on halfway through is The Dragonbone Chair by Tad Williams. I read a lot of fantasy/sci-fi, but I remember finding it incredibly tedious.
Not quite the same, but when the 5th book in Isobelle Carmody's Obernewtyn Chronicles came out (after many many years) I bought it, but after the 4th book which was roughly the size of a brick but in which only a few things happened, I just haven't found myself caring enough to actually get around to reading it.
Not quite the same, but when the 5th book in Isobelle Carmody's Obernewtyn Chronicles came out (after many many years) I bought it, but after the 4th book which was roughly the size of a brick but in which only a few things happened, I just haven't found myself caring enough to actually get around to reading it.
i am in the middle of the fountainhead and i gotta say its good buttt she need an editor also the way she skips around is very annoying. the philospy behind it is the only thing that is keeping me from putting it down and going off and starting a new book.Xpwn3ntial said:
besides that-a lot of greek plays we read for humanities are just like stop talking man, and the beginning of the simillrillion is like the friggin bible.
Same. I know I have to finish it at some point, but it's gonna be difficult.Sneaky-Pie said:
As for a "difficult" book...The Silmarillion. Don't get me wrong, I like that book. It just took me three tries to get past the first seven or so chapters because I kept getting lost. I'm having similar trouble with Romance of the Three Kingdoms, but playing Dynasty Warriors is helping with that.
What like shakespeare? Think thats pretty renound for not being that boring[Kira Must Die said:
Chaucer on the other hand.....The brothers K is and was a BIATCH to read. As a good friend put it to me the words are very small and the pages very numerous. I don't know why this one but I found watership down pretty tricky as well.
Difficult- Atlas Shrugged just because its so loooooong.
Boring- Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring still havent't finished it its so boring.
Boring- Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring still havent't finished it its so boring.
