"An Edible History of Humanity" by Tom Standage... wasn't all that fun. I was forced to read it for AP History... >>'
Most boring/difficult books you've ever read.
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The book for Tom Clanceys End Game. I don't know why I bought it but I did.
There are like 50 different characters. And, being a book, there were no visual clues to tell characters apart (which is how I remember characters 90% of the time in most mediums). Now, I have memory and focus problems. But I was somewhat scraping by with all the American characters. Then BOOM. The Russians. I can manage if there are characters named Mark and Greg. But when I had to try to remember the difference between Pvt. Kamarov and Pvt. Kakrov I gave up.
There are like 50 different characters. And, being a book, there were no visual clues to tell characters apart (which is how I remember characters 90% of the time in most mediums). Now, I have memory and focus problems. But I was somewhat scraping by with all the American characters. Then BOOM. The Russians. I can manage if there are characters named Mark and Greg. But when I had to try to remember the difference between Pvt. Kamarov and Pvt. Kakrov I gave up.
Every Wheel of time book after book 6 is all the most boring books i have read.
I have red them all but I feel that after book 6 the series concentrates to much on politics.
The hardest book Ive read must be The romance of the three kingdoms
I have red them all but I feel that after book 6 the series concentrates to much on politics.
The hardest book Ive read must be The romance of the three kingdoms
Anything by Hawthorne or Hemingway. I love older books, but seriously those two authors are the hardest to read I have ever seen.
Most Boring was "Not Exactly the Three Musketeers" by someone I can't remember. Imagine a fantasy story where none of the character's backstories are explained; several references to the real world come up, but are never explained; and the main characters are completely unlikeable. I read to the very end, hoping that it would redeem itself, but it never did. In fact one of the three main characters dies and his death evokes no emotion because he was so unlikeable.
Oh, it also had a thing with feces. Yes, we know people evacuate their bowels when they die, you don't have to make a point about it every time someone dies.
Most Boring was "Not Exactly the Three Musketeers" by someone I can't remember. Imagine a fantasy story where none of the character's backstories are explained; several references to the real world come up, but are never explained; and the main characters are completely unlikeable. I read to the very end, hoping that it would redeem itself, but it never did. In fact one of the three main characters dies and his death evokes no emotion because he was so unlikeable.
Oh, it also had a thing with feces. Yes, we know people evacuate their bowels when they die, you don't have to make a point about it every time someone dies.
As a huge fan of tolkien's legacy as the father of modern fantasy, I was sad that I couldn't even finish reading the Fellowship... But god damn that's a hard one.
I'm going to disagree with Ayn Rand, her philosophy may be ridiculous, and her books (at least the one I've read) FAR too long with a ridiculous length speech, but she definitely is a talented writer.
I'm going to disagree with Ayn Rand, her philosophy may be ridiculous, and her books (at least the one I've read) FAR too long with a ridiculous length speech, but she definitely is a talented writer.
For me it would have to be "The Sound and the Fury", by William Faulkner. Although its final act was decent, the whole book would have had a much greater payoff if I could've just figured out what the fucking plot was.
Les Miserables.
Hugo goes off for 100 pages recounting a battle that had at best a minimal impact on the plot.
Hugo goes off for 100 pages recounting a battle that had at best a minimal impact on the plot.
I can't remember the name of the book, but it was about a girl with down syndrome, in some shitty little Aussie outback town, trying to help her local footy team not suck as much.
It was horrific.
It was horrific.
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, OMG I hate that book so much, though I didn't really finish it but thats how much I hated it.
Harry Potter, it bored me to tears. The pacing is so miserably slow, I was on page 50 when I quit because they were still at the train station. Now it wasn't difficult, aside from figuring out what some of the characters were on when they made their incredibly poor decisions.
I go with Robinson Crusoe, infact, I haven't finished the book. I literarly threw it across the room when i got fed up of it. I couldn't stand the 20 page long lectures about how religon is effecting his thought process and how he was thinking about it.ALuckyChance said:
So this last summer I had to do an assignment for high school in which we read from a list of books. The Road by Cormac McCarthy immediately caught my eye. If I decided to read The Road, I would have to read Persuasion by Jane Austen also. The Road was great, and I recommend it to anyone, but Persuasion was terrible. It was probably the worst book I have ever read.
Ha. I read children of hurin when I was stranded for 24 hours in a hungarian airport during a blizzard. I challenge you to come up with a duller senario O_O.ALuckyChance said:
Given the circumstances I still thought it was pretty good though, however on reflection that may have been dew to temporary boredom induced insanity.
