Most boring/difficult books you've ever read.

[diego_2112]

The Screwtape Letters, by C.S. Lewis. One of the BEST books I've ever read, but a HARD read. Short, but REALLY makes you think, REGARDLESS of your religious beliefs. Hell, C.S. Lewis himSELF started off as an Athiest!

As far as BAD/BORING/STUPID/WORTHLESS/POINTLESS? Dead Tide, by Jeanne Kadow, or however the crap you spell her name. STUPID STUPID STUIPD book.

 

[KarumaK]

An American Tragedy... I think it actually stopped my brain functions while I read it.

So I am not the only one who read it then. Literally this is what I felt when reading An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser. I was in the 8th grade and I noticed it was in my level of books, we had to read books to get points for our grades, and this book was worth over 75 points. I felt as if my brain was going to melt because of how long it was, and some parts of it were kind of messed up. Also didn't help that the text was extremely small so it could be hard to see it.

Point system heh? Same reason I read the book when I went to school, I lost so much time dragging myself through it I came in second... which means I got a weak mp3 player instead of a laptop.

I hate that book.

 

[Kizna]

The most boring and horrible book that I ever read was The Iliad. I think they forced me to read it for English class when I was in 9th grade. The third chapter was basically a list of every person on each boat and who their fathers were and their fathers and their fathers and so on. It was torture, plain and simple.

 

[Shirokurou]

Fuckin' Turgenev. The most drawn-out and non-consistent narrative, I ever saw. People are doing stuff, like buying an estate, and suddenly comitting adultery, cause it's been 'leading up to that'.

Also "The Sorrows of Young Werther" by Goethe. It's like reading someone's livejournal, which is boring, emo and ends with suicide.

 

[AstylahAthrys]

Hardest? Tie between Frankenstein and Fellowship of the Ring. I detested Frankenstein, but I enjoyed Fellowship. Thinking about reading the whole series again.

Most Boring? Again, Frankenstein. Add Lord of the Flies and the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to the list. Three worst books I ever read.

 

[AvsJoe]

Boring? The Mayor of Casterbridge by a mile.
Most difficult? Anything written by The Bard. The English language was much different back then.

 

[EHKOS]

Difficult= Bartlby the Scrivner

 

[Andantil]

Logic by Immanuel Kant.
By far the most difficult book I've read, and I've read some pretty confusing stuff.
It was the first book, besides textbooks, that I've had to take notes on to be able to understand.

Here's a little bit of the very first subject, to give you an idea:
"First Section: Of Concepts
1. Concepts as such and its difference from intuition.
All cognitions, that is, all presentations consciously referred to an object, are either intuitions or concepts. Intuition is a singular representation, the concept is a general or reflected presentation.
Cognition through concepts is called thinking."

 

[MiracleOfSound]

Anything from Irish class back in school.

Fucking Peig Sayers.

Haha, Peig? Really?
You're oooooooooooooooooold.

I've never heard anyone except my parent's generation ***** about that book, it hasn't been around for a while. But then again any book that needs to be studied for Irish is a pile of old balls. Fuck you An Triail. Fuck you and your stupid lazy writing.

Haha yes I'm old (30). It wasn't on the curriculum but our teacher wanted us to read it. Ugh.

Why are Irish stories always so full of poverty, gloom and misery?

 

[Ravek]

Moby Dick was pretty hard to get through sometimes. Mostly because the actual plot only begins late in the book, while you first have to plough through an Encyclopedia of Whaling. With a few laughable inaccuracies.

On the contrary, a book that was particularly easy to read and not boring for a single moment, was Hemingway's novella The Old Man and the Sea. It's short, it's great, go read it.

 

[Outright Villainy]

Anything from Irish class back in school.

Fucking Peig Sayers.

Haha, Peig? Really?
You're oooooooooooooooooold.

I've never heard anyone except my parent's generation ***** about that book, it hasn't been around for a while. But then again any book that needs to be studied for Irish is a pile of old balls. Fuck you An Triail. Fuck you and your stupid lazy writing.

Haha yes I'm old (30). It wasn't on the curriculum but our teacher wanted us to read it. Ugh.

Why are Irish stories always so full of poverty, gloom and misery?

It's like Catholic Porn. I'm serious, Irish people love hearing stories of misery!
Why do you think Joe Duffy is so popular?

[small]"It's terrible Joe..."[/small]

 

[MiracleOfSound]

It's like Catholic Porn. I'm serious, Irish people love hearing stories of misery!
Why do you think Joe Duffy is so popular?

[small]"It's terrible Joe..."[/small]

You know, you're joking but there is soooo much truth in that.

The most devout Catholics I know come from up Wexford direction, and they always want know every detail of every morbid, awful, sickening story in the news and take great pleasure in telling us all about it repeatedly.

'Oh, 'tis terrible, terrible altogether, Mary, sure God love the families'

 

[smeghead25]

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

No I totally agree. I liked the first LOTR but the second one was just so incredibly detailed that iut bordered on incredifuckingboring to read. And then the Elkhorn Forest came along and it crossed that border and ended up way past Mordor and I just couldn't read anymore because his style is just so DULL.

Also, Frank Herbert's Dune. I tried eight separate times to read that book. And the first seven times I got a bit further before I gave up because it was so boring. The eighth time I tried, I got about a quarter of the way through and THEN it got good. Seriously second best sci-fi series ever. Second only to Richard Morgan's Takeshi Kovacs books.

 

[userwhoquitthesite]

Frankenstein/Lord of the Flies. Fantastic, incredible books, but shivvek they are absolute CHORES to get through.

 

[SL33TBL1ND]

The Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck. Boy was that a slog, and ultimately unsatisfying.

I honestly can't see what makes that book a 'classic'.

There's a lot of books like that. I mean, for the life of me I can't see the attraction of Shakespeare's writing. It's just awful! But my most boring book ever would have to be everything school ever made me read.

 

[SwagLordYoloson]

war and peace

 

[Super Toast]

Of Mice and Men. I felt so bored I almost jabbed scissors into the side of my head to make sure I was still alive.

 

[SHWiMM]

The Scarlet Letter. FUCK HAWTHORNE.

 

[EchetusXe]

William Faulkner novels are ridiculously difficult to read.

Boring? hmm, nothing stands out for me.

 

[Outright Villainy]

It's like Catholic Porn. I'm serious, Irish people love hearing stories of misery!
Why do you think Joe Duffy is so popular?

[small]"It's terrible Joe..."[/small]

You know, you're joking but there is soooo much truth in that.

The most devout Catholics I know come from up Wexford direction, and they always want know every detail of every morbid, awful, sickening story in the news and take great pleasure in telling us all about it repeatedly.

'Oh, 'tis terrible, terrible altogether, Mary, sure God love the families'

Didn't I say I was serious?
Here look, this is my serious face:
[HEADING=2]-.-[/HEADING]

Yeah, it's kinda ridiculous; I mean they really do want to know every little detail!
Oh, we Irish are a strange lot...