Most boring/difficult books you've ever read.

[oxiclean]

longest? I'm currently reading Les Miserables. I actually like it.

Most boring? The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana by Umberto Eco. I heard great things about Eco, and i wanted to read something of his. I decided i wanted to start with one that sounded easier, and this one seemed like it would be easy to get into (it said stuff about comics and pop culture on the back). unfortunately, i realized later that all pop culture references would be from Italy during the 50's and 60's, so i wouldn't understand any of them at all.

 

[RowdyRodimus]

Please forgive me and no, I'm not trolling, but I've never been able to get more than about a dozen pages into The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. I mean I really want to read it and get caught up in it, but I think that after years of hearing how great it is, I found it too Britishly Dry for my tastes.

 

[CpnBeef]

Difficult - Paradise Lost, no contest. i defy anybody to read a page once and not got "wait, what the hel did i just read" and have to pick it apart sentence by sentence.

I'm not sure about boring, i'd go with Enduring Love but that's only because it was my English A-Level required reading and i actually went over it so much i didnt even need to take a copy into the exam (which we were alowed to), I GET IT it's man-love. no need to go crazy!

 

[GloatingSwine]

most difficult: infinite jest by david foster wallace and ulysses by james joyce..
still very good though, not difficult as in incomprehensible but in open to interpretation etc.

Although Infinite Jest is still pretty incomprehensible if you skip the footnotes, because the central event of the narrative actually happens in a footnote.

Except some of the footnotes are completely irrelevant, and there's no way to tell which of the 300 pages of footnotes are going to be relevant and which a complete digression from the already in progress digression in the main text until you've marked your place in the main text, skipped through 1400 pages of it to find the footnote you were looking for and read it.

Infinite Jest is nearly as bonkers as House of Leaves.

And it's still easier to read than Gravity's Rainbow.

 

[daftnoize]

Hm... "Thus Spoke Zarathustra"

I HATE Nietzsche. Damn arrogant, pretentious prick. Of course some of the observations he writes about have a point, but just HOW he writes about his stuff it is TIRING and insulting.

Listened to it on audiobook. Actually loved the style, although the poem at the end was so tedious hearing the refrain about 8 times! (I have not yet chosen the woman to bear children with but i'll have them with you eternity.... SNORE!!)

 

[DSK-]

Some book by Jonathan Kellerman. Jesus christ that was fucking horrible. I'm glad I didn't read all of it.

One of the main reasons I don't read any fiction books is because I don't think any will grab my attention by the glands and be enjoyable to read.

 

[Jonny The Kay]

The Outsiders

 

[Kelethor]

To kill a mocking Bird

I hate racism as much as the next guy, But Jesus Christ that was a long ass ninth grade.

 

[AgDr_ODST]

Pride and Prejudice was absolute garbage. And so was A rasin in the sun

 

[Sarctastic]

The Illuminatus! Trilogy, I just can't keep track of what the characters are doing at what times, furthest I've ever got is a little bit into the second book.

 

[noogai18]

The first part of Pillars of the Earth was pretty dull. The second and third acts were great, but the first act, bluh. It was slow, had dozens of pages devoted to characters who showed up once or twice then dropped off the face of the earth or died, and had some incredibly creepy semi-voyeuristic sex scenes.

Oh, also the Hitchhiker's books that aren't the first one. I read the next two, and they were either a) nigh incomprehensible or b) just didn't make sense.

The most difficult book I've read was 1776, but that was mostly because I had a big old pile of books I didn't have to read for school on a vacation.

 

[TheTim]

Of Mice and Men. God that book sucked.

 

[sharkinz]

The Catcher in the Rye and The Great Gatsby. I did not enjoy those books at all.

 

[FinalHeart95]

Summer books for school. It might be because it's summer, but the books still seem to really, really suck. I've read two so far.

- The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
- Sunrise Over Fallujah by some dude I don't care about

The first one was okay, but WAY too long. Could've cut about 100 pages easy. The second one is a perfect example of AWFUL WRITING. At one point he actually repeats a description of something. No, really. One page he describes this "confession box", and a page or two later he describes it again, this time slightly more in-depth.

The most difficult book I've read, however, is one of my favorites. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.

 

[milkkart]

Anything by Robert Jordan, seriously the Wheel of Time series is the slowest high fantasy book series I've ever attempted and *not* finished reading.

EDIT: Craptastic I gots ninja'D!!!

the descriptions of walking places, oh god so much walking. i think there's a whole book where most of the characters spend the entire thing traveling on a boat, that might be a different series though.

 

[A Pious Cultist]

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

Yeah, the pivotal court case only is introduced at like the three quarters mark.

I think I read Treasure Island completely, no recollection as to what happened in it though.