Most boring/difficult books you've ever read.
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I tried reading that book during seventh grade. It didn't seem too bad - just not very interesting. my Texas History teacher (FYI, I live in Texas) also showed us the 1940 movie based off of it, which was actually really good, at least to me.Amethyst Wind said:
To me, Lord of the Flies was one of those books that sounded incredibly interesting on paper, but was really boring on execution.LustFull0ne said:
Le' Miserables, a good book but so difficult that I read 2 books in the midst of that one.
They should warn you about 60 pages of a nunnery that the main characters notices, that IS NEVER mentioned again or had any significance.
They should warn you about 60 pages of a nunnery that the main characters notices, that IS NEVER mentioned again or had any significance.
I agree. Oh so much.RhombusHatesYou said:
And then they came upon a tree. And it was a fine tree with many branches, and its many branches had many leaves. On their quest to stop the evil sauron from destroying middle earth, they stopped for a picnic beneath the tree. They built a house and lived beneath the tree for 15 years, and had many lunches. Sometimes frodo had 6 slices of ham for lunch. He wrote a songs about his ham. These songs go on for 9 pages. The song went like this...
The Dark Tower series are pretty difficult to read, I never finished the series.
Although I've heard The Stand is ten times worse.
Although I've heard The Stand is ten times worse.
The Scarlet Letter. Thank you, Mr. Hawthorne, but I don't want an eleven page description of a woman walking through a door.
"I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags, I don't want him satisfied" - John Steinbeck on The Grapes of Wrath.Amethyst Wind said:
I guess you can't deny that he accheived his goals.
I haven't read it, but according to my friends that have, if you have been paying attention to the rest of the book, the speech is sortof unnecessary. It merely puts the ideas explored in the other 1000 pages into a sortof thesis.Xpwn3ntial said:
On the other hand, if you have read the other 1000 pages, whats difference is 60 pages going to make? It must be worth it just to say that you have actually read the whole thing.
Now that I think about it, the only 'classic' book that I've read and enjoyed is both The Count of Monte Christo (which I'm reading for Language Arts class), and a rather simplified version of The Swiss Family Robinson. Everything else is either painful or dull to read.
Finnegan's Wake.
There is no superior answer. Do not say you read it and understood it, you are lying to yourself at the very least if you do. That said it was probably the funniest book I've ever read, like watching a 3 year old trying to say the pledge of allegiance. Not sure what is actually being said but the delivery and sound is just hilarious.
There is no superior answer. Do not say you read it and understood it, you are lying to yourself at the very least if you do. That said it was probably the funniest book I've ever read, like watching a 3 year old trying to say the pledge of allegiance. Not sure what is actually being said but the delivery and sound is just hilarious.
I find anything by Jane Austen to be terminally boring (Emma in particular was an exquisite piece of torture), and I don't much like the Fellowship of the Ring.
Watership Down. I didn't even have to read it, a guy in my class simply suggested it. So I tried it. Never before had I wanted to strangle a rabbit.