Most boring/difficult books you've ever read.

[Julianking93]

Mine would have to be The Children of Hurin; anyone agree that it was incredibly dull?

I actually kinda liked it...

Anyway, I'd say Catcher in the Rye.

Yeah, I said it.

 

[superbatranger]

Ayn Rand is a difficult author to read. I still have as of yet to finish Atlas Shrugged. It's good, but difficult.

I don't even know if I'll ever finish that book. Damn text is so small I keep losing my place, and half the time I don't even care about what's going on.

 

[TheSkaAssassin]

Catch 22
The Good Earth
Most Tom Clancy Books

 

[crono738]

Profiles in Courage. To put it bluntly, it was basically the wikipedia pages of a bunch of random people thrown together and sold as a book. And it won Kennedy a Pulitzer Prize.

 

[w00tage]

+ another one to Robert Jordan, the Wheel of Time series - I also have a friend that loves them, and I think they're like eating a 9 course meal made entirely of tofu /shudder

Sadly, very sadly, I'm starting to count David Weber's latest books too. They're just so full of unnecessary conversations, descriptions and exposition that just bore you out right out of the mood to read the story. I reread some of his early works like On Basilisk Station and Ashes of Empire, and man, how different a writer he was then.

 

[D-Mc-G]

The latter half of the huge WHeels Of Time series, it was really good up to the 5th/6th book but then the author began introducing too many minor characters to keep track of and very slow progression through the plot of each book.

 

[ALuckyChance]

"A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius". Yes, that is the actual title of the book. It is so terrible I could not read parts of it, my body rebelled against it. I still have its ashes.

The irony of your statement is hilarious.

 

[Treeinthewoods]

Anything by Jane "I suck at writing" Austen. Pride and Prejudice is probably her greatest crime against humanity.

Also, The Plague by Camus was incredibly dull and non thought provoking. I understood his metaphors I just didn't care what was happening because the book sucks ass.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Now that is a book worth reading. Thank god high school english got one right!

 

[Ungenericteen]

The most boring book I ever read was Trouble with Lemons, it's about a whiny emo teenaged brat who has to face "being a dissappointment" and the author wants us to feel sorry for him. I laughed when my teacher told me how sad it was that this boy thought his family was unrightfully proud of him. He then decides he's the $4!7 and the book ends worst book ever.

 

[Broderick]

Mine was probably the "The Great Gatsby". While I enjoyed the general premice for the story, it was a pain trying to read it.

 

[Bealzibob]

Displaying my heresy here, I'll say ANYTHING BY TOLKIEN.

Oh my gawd, I only read The Hobbit and that was still an uncanny mission. Something about the way he writes is just off. Good read still.

The most boring book I've ever read was probably the first of the Belgariad. I love both of those series like the escapism junkie we all are and I appreciate that he needed to set up the characters and the world otherwise I would of had even more trouble keeping up with story. But god that was a slow read.

I don't read enough anymoar :[

 

[RelexCryo]

Mine would have to be The Children of Hurin; anyone agree that it was incredibly dull?
Most difficult to read - to me, anyway - would be Robinson Crusoe, simply because of the insane amounts of semicolons in every mammoth-sized sentence, that once you finish you immediately forget what it was all about.

The Silmarillion. End of discussion.

 

[kiralon]

Any book of the wheel of time series after book 3 or 4

 

[Gardenia]

Displaying my heresy here, I'll say ANYTHING BY TOLKIEN.

I agree. Oh so much.

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...

You fucking ninja you, I came in this topic to say exactly that!
Oh well, my choice will have to be "Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None." I managed to finish it, eventually, but it was quite the ordeal.

 

[Kiba The Wolf]

Dracula and frankenstein

so boring, I wanted to pull my eyes so I couldn't read any more

also heart of darkness was pretty bad too.

 

[SturmDolch]

Give twenty pages and youll be hooked, that book is so fucked up, Its a million times more disturbing than the movie. and its incredible

A clockwork orange, a real horror show book indeed, I viddied it at the library and was attracted to it like the good old in out, in out, real horrorshow indeed.

=D I like the last sentence. I might have to give it another look when I'm looking for things to read, and the movie was still on my "must-see-someday" list.

 

[Mr.Mudkip]

Mine would have to be The Children of Hurin; anyone agree that it was incredibly dull?
Most difficult to read - to me, anyway - would be Robinson Crusoe, simply because of the insane amounts of semicolons in every mammoth-sized sentence, that once you finish you immediately forget what it was all about.

The Silmarillion. End of discussion.

Hurin and the Silmarillion? Easy. Try the Left Behind series.

 

[kouriichi]

Playboy issue 437.

It bored the crap out of me man. Worst issue ever.

 

[Cain_Zeros]

Displaying my heresy here, I'll say ANYTHING BY TOLKIEN.

To be fair, The Hobbit wasn't bad. However, Lord of the Rings was like bashing my head against a brick wall. A brick wall who's bricks were tenderly shaped by the hands of elves over many years, reinforced with mithril re-bar. The years have worn this wall... You get the point, it's a freakin' wall.

I have a hard time reading Shakespeare's plays. Mainly because, well, they're freakin' plays. You're not supposed to read them. You're supposed to see them performed.