That 90% of the book has no connection to (instead focusing on the inane life of Jed or whatever the hell she's called, I think Jed may be her brother).TheGoldenMan said:
Most boring/difficult books you've ever read.
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The Catcher in the Rye. I really just can't bring myself to read this. I keep trying to read it again and again, but within 1 page I get to the point where I just want to scream at the kid to shut up and slap him 'till he cries. I got problems too(actually I can really relate to him; maybe that's why I hate him), but I don't whine about them. To me the book is about a dumb teen who likes to whine and whine and whine and whine. Every page is excruciating. I've gotten to page 30ish. I keep hoping that eventually it will better, but it just doesn't. I really want to finish this book but I can't stand every page I have to read.
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I'm surprised how many people don't like Lord of the Flies, I thoroughly enjoyed it. It's actually one of my top 10 favorite books. Also I have to say I agree with a lot of people. Ayn Rand's books are good, but they're really long.
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I'm surprised how many people don't like Lord of the Flies, I thoroughly enjoyed it. It's actually one of my top 10 favorite books. Also I have to say I agree with a lot of people. Ayn Rand's books are good, but they're really long.
In elementary school we had this system where you had to read a book and test on it on the computer so I tried to get all my point by reading a book called "The Black Arrow." That was the only one of those tests I ever failed.
Let me say up front that I'm a rather intellectual reader. My personal shelf includes The Art of War, The Lord of the Rings, and the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. So now that you know where I'm coming from, it'll make my point all the clearer.
Herman Melville's Moby Dick.
Saw the movie (the one with Patrick Stewart) in an english class and decided to read the book, and GOOD GOD! It's like Herman Melville got sidetracked by anything! I'm reading along and all of a sudden, in the middle of the action, he goes off on this historical tangent for like twenty pages!
I got about halfway through, then finally got sick of it and gave up.
Herman Melville's Moby Dick.
Saw the movie (the one with Patrick Stewart) in an english class and decided to read the book, and GOOD GOD! It's like Herman Melville got sidetracked by anything! I'm reading along and all of a sudden, in the middle of the action, he goes off on this historical tangent for like twenty pages!
I got about halfway through, then finally got sick of it and gave up.
I had to read it over the summer for an English project. I thought it was actually pretty good. Which was why it was such a challenge to ridicule the whole thing in my essay.Ask said:
"Tom Robinson sadly did not win the fence jumping contest despite overcoming his disability."
The first part of Fellowship Of The Ring was... bah.
It explained the lore of the hobbits, but man, that took nearly forever to get through.
And the P.O.W's accounts from The Good War. It was still amazing though.
I scanned through the replies, and no one has posted 'Of Mice and Men'?
I have read books. Many, many, many, books. But this was the most boring piece of shit ever.
I have read books. Many, many, many, books. But this was the most boring piece of shit ever.
The Odyssey, in prose. God it was hard (but actually good!). But it didn't help that I had to pseudo-annotate the books for some class assignment.
Charles Dickins- Oliver Twist. i thought it would be fun, it was one of the rare times i was wrong.
that, and any book the school gives me to read and makes me read, though a few werent too bad.
that, and any book the school gives me to read and makes me read, though a few werent too bad.
House of Leaves as well for me...
Besides that, Watt by Samuel Beckett. There is literally four pages of "from the bed to the door from the door to the fire from the fire to the window from the window to the bed from the bed to the fire from the fire to the..." <- The fuck is that supposed to be!?
Besides that, Watt by Samuel Beckett. There is literally four pages of "from the bed to the door from the door to the fire from the fire to the window from the window to the bed from the bed to the fire from the fire to the..." <- The fuck is that supposed to be!?
Hmmmm. Tie between Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World" and Dostoevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov." They're both good, but there are sections of REAAAAALLLLLYYY boring stuff (like three chapters of Mitya's lawyer talking to the jury in TBK. Arrrrrrrrrrrgh).