Most boring/difficult books you've ever read.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
What good stuff? I hated that book like it was trying to light my testicles on fire.What890 said:
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.
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.
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.
book 11 actually wasn't too bad. i haven't bothered with book 12 yet.
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?
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte.Could not finish that shit.It was so boring it would start putting me to sleep after a few pages
Yeah, that or "The Scarlet Letter." Honestly, we read the book, which took like 3 weeks to do, and I didn't know what was going on. Then we watched an old, episodic play about it (which took another week and a half) only to realized that I gotten the two main male characters mixed up. That was the only thing I learned, however. That book is shit.Amethyst Wind said:
Lord of the Rings was boring at the start and peaked out on boringness during the Tom Bombadil part. I had to restart about 3 times (with about a year's gap in between) jsut to get past that bit.
My answer is probably The Turn of the Screw by Henry James. It was short but took me bloody age to read, at lot longer than it took me to read LotR.
My answer is probably The Turn of the Screw by Henry James. It was short but took me bloody age to read, at lot longer than it took me to read LotR.
Personally, I couldn't get into Steinbecks "grapes of wrath". Now, don't get me wrong, I loved "of mice and men" with a passion, and knowing Steinbeck, I'm absolutely certain the slow pacing picks up into something brilliant, but after a while, I just lost interest.
(May be ninja'd, can't be arsed to check all the pages)
(May be ninja'd, can't be arsed to check all the pages)
Because, To Kill a Mockingbird is both one of my favorite books, and one of my favorite movies. There isn't much of a story to it, but for me it's all about the interactions between the characters. Also, I think it made a big difference for me to see the movie first.dathwampeer said:
Been there, played that. Also, they are based off of a collective of her works, not just Atlas Shrugged.bak00777 said: