Most boring/difficult books you've ever read.

[5-0]

Pride and Prejudice in my second year of high school. I was under the impression that every book from that period would be just as hard and boring to read. Frankenstein disproved that; the reality is that nothing ever happened! Watching the film proved that 3 chapters could be skipped with no ill effects.

 

[Readial]

Wuthering Heights, It gave me a headache for 2 WEEKS after reading it. Or it could be no sleep that did it because I tried so hard to UNDERSTAND of what the hell are bumbling in this "Romance" story.

 

[Klarinette]

The first time I was ever exposed to Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet, in ninth grade), it was the most confusing thing I've ever had to wade through.

I also attempted the Divine Comedy once.

 

[Paddin]

The most boring book I ever read was The Phoenix and The Carpet by E. Nesbit. What a pathetic load of drizzle, it is sickeningly bad and boring. If you got a magic carpet that could take you anywhere...

Why the fuck would you only use it to have bloody picnics on the beach?!

It was a children's novel, I couldn't read it when I was 12.

 

[sp86]

Philosophische Untersuchungen by Wittgenstein. No I didn't read it in German. Its still an exercise in Mindfuckery.

 

[Aeriath]

SNIP

It's annoying to read, but understandable for me. I had a hard time reading Sunset Song mostly because we were reading it as a class, so I couldn't just stop and check the glossary for each and every one of the many Scots words the author used which I had never heard in my life. Later that year we read To Kill a Mockingbird which I did enjoy, but that was the exception to the rule that books you are forced to read seem terrible.

I tried to read LotR because I thought they'd be good, but I found it to be unbearably boring, which was dissapointing because I enjoyed the movies so much.

 

[10zack986]

The Great Gatsby, definitely. This is coming from someone who enjoyed Lord of the Flies and To Kill a Mockingbird.

Gatsby isn't great. He's not even remotely eccentric. I was expecting some rich mad man similar to Sheogorath. What I got was a pretty normal guy who happened to have a boner for a spoiled whore. He's not even the main character. The main character is even MORE bland.

Fuck that book, seriously.

 

[PatrickXD]

lord of the Flies was awful, but I was pretty young, like 9 or 10, so I'd probably like it now... I don't generally find books boring anymore, Lord of the Rings is amazing and Dune is my favourite when most people tell me it's a load of bull.

 

[whatdoyouthink]

anything that schools make you read, the worst was probably Frankenstein by Mary Shelley... i think

 

[Sexy Street]

A farwell to Arms.
Pretty much anything by Hemingway

 

[Master_of_Oldskool]

The Great Gatsby. How can barely 120 pages be so hard to slog through? I'll tell you how. When those 120 pages could have been condensed down to bloody 50 without having any impact on the plot. Instead, we get a whole half of a chapter that's nothing but a list of characters who will never make an appearance again. This book is wordy, it's pretentious, and it's loaded with anti-semetism.

And I was forced to read it last year.

If I ever have the opportunity, I'm going to dance on F. Scott Fitzgerald's grave.

 

[OmegaXIII]

I thoroughly enjoyed it but my god Dante's Inferno was difficult to read

 

[Gavmando]

Bored of the Rings. I've tried twice to read that drivel and I just cant do it.

Hey Tolkein! (Even though you're dead and cant hear me.) You dont need 20 pages to describe a blade of grass!!!

It was the biggest pile of crap that i've ever tried to read...
Closely followed by the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan. That was just a long winded snooze-fest populated by pansies. And Jordan must have had some real issues with women, because every woman in those books treats every guy she meets like shit. Seriously dude, cant you have a female character who didnt get a double serve of mega-***** instead of normal human compassion? (And yes. I know he's dead too.)

Oh, and anything by Sara Douglass. Seriously! WTF was the point to Beyond The Hanging Wall? You had an emperor who was doing a good job, and then you had him overthrown by a tool who had been down a mine for 20 years. It wasnt broken! You didnt need to fix it!

I think I was channelling Yahtzee with that rant. I did just watch one of his videos.

 

[Harley Q]

The chronicles of Narnia, sooooooo boring, I got to the second last book and stopped before I lost the will to live.

 

[Sexy Street]

Hemingway's 'The Old Man and The Sea'. The pacing is really slow, meaning it takes forever and a half to get to the good stuff.

What good stuff? I hated that book like it was trying to light my testicles on fire.

 

[Kalabrikan]

I tried reading Ulysses by James Joyce over the summer because I was trying to get through a bunch of those "greatest books ever" and it showed up more on any greatest books ever list than any other book.

If anyone tries to read it, good luck. It isn't hard to understand, but it is so, so dull. I stopped about 200 pages in and had nearly 800 to go.

 

[Ascarus]

I would agree with a few of the literary examples supplied (notably anything by ayn rand) but that being said, from a different genre (in this case fantasy) robert jordan's WoT series got so long and tedious and complicated and tired that i skipped books 8 through 10 entirely and only read 1/2 of book 7.

book 11 actually wasn't too bad. i haven't bothered with book 12 yet.

 

[unicornninja]

To Kill A Mocking Bird!!!!! This is the most boring book I have ever fucking red. The story sucked and it could have been done in like 10 chapters or LESS!! I hated this book and I also dont get why anyone could possibly like it?!?! The characters are boring and nothing happens in the book! FUCK, the plot summary on Wikipedia is how long the book should have been! I dont see why its regarded as a classic. Anyone else hate this piece of shit?

 

[bak00777]

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

just play bioshock. its supposed to be based off of her proposed ideas from Atlas Shurgged.

 

[Aurgelmir]

The Illuminatus Trillogy... nevever got to the end of that one... was jsut so friggin mind fucking.