Not dull but hard to follow, it keeps jumping from present to different time periods in the past without notice. And yeah, it kinda not a lot happens.the December King said:
Apocalypsis, I read that too, longest book I will ever read.Rylot said:
Most boring/difficult books you've ever read.
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I actually thoroughly enjoyed that one...boring, it was not.ALuckyChance said:
However, The Death of Ivan Ilyich and War and Peace certainly were. Actually, Russian realist fiction in general I find to be terribly boring and difficult. It's all so....grey and bleak.
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One of the few books I can remember giving up on halfway through is The Dragonbone Chair by Tad Williams. I read a lot of fantasy/sci-fi, but I remember finding it incredibly tedious.
Not quite the same, but when the 5th book in Isobelle Carmody's Obernewtyn Chronicles came out (after many many years) I bought it, but after the 4th book which was roughly the size of a brick but in which only a few things happened, I just haven't found myself caring enough to actually get around to reading it.
Not quite the same, but when the 5th book in Isobelle Carmody's Obernewtyn Chronicles came out (after many many years) I bought it, but after the 4th book which was roughly the size of a brick but in which only a few things happened, I just haven't found myself caring enough to actually get around to reading it.
i am in the middle of the fountainhead and i gotta say its good buttt she need an editor also the way she skips around is very annoying. the philospy behind it is the only thing that is keeping me from putting it down and going off and starting a new book.Xpwn3ntial said:
besides that-a lot of greek plays we read for humanities are just like stop talking man, and the beginning of the simillrillion is like the friggin bible.
Same. I know I have to finish it at some point, but it's gonna be difficult.Sneaky-Pie said:
As for a "difficult" book...The Silmarillion. Don't get me wrong, I like that book. It just took me three tries to get past the first seven or so chapters because I kept getting lost. I'm having similar trouble with Romance of the Three Kingdoms, but playing Dynasty Warriors is helping with that.
What like shakespeare? Think thats pretty renound for not being that boring[Kira Must Die said:
Chaucer on the other hand.....The brothers K is and was a BIATCH to read. As a good friend put it to me the words are very small and the pages very numerous. I don't know why this one but I found watership down pretty tricky as well.
Difficult- Atlas Shrugged just because its so loooooong.
Boring- Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring still havent't finished it its so boring.
Boring- Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring still havent't finished it its so boring.
Pretty much this. I tried to read it a few months ago to see how it has inspired a whole damn religion, but I failed to even get 1/5th of the way through it...Sacman said:
EDIT: Or most books. I CAN read a book in a day or two, but I'm not much of a reader.
boring: honestly; anything that the school has forced us to read over the past two years. and SINCE it is all shit on a bun, they incessantly tell us its all brilliant literature, although everyone has seemingly come down with a severe case of mass BOREDOM.
Difficult: i can't really say I've had trouble reading literature ever. I understood the olde English tripe from school easily, and even the occasional German work my parents let me read (I can read German, so i think its pretty cool.)
Difficult: i can't really say I've had trouble reading literature ever. I understood the olde English tripe from school easily, and even the occasional German work my parents let me read (I can read German, so i think its pretty cool.)
The first half of Grapes of Wrath. It is one of the slowest books in the world, so much that they focus on the grandpa's ball scratching habits at one point. It gets better, but getting to the good point is a bit of a journey... kind of like what the family has to go through. Hm, never noticed that.
That book also happens to be one of the most exquisitely written novels in English literature.SpellingCunts said:
Even in spite of its insistence on allegory.
The Old Man and the Sea is good from the very first sentence. And it only gets better.What890 said:
I suppose for me the most difficult books to read are 19th Century fiction, not necessarily because they are huge novels of ideas, which challenge the intellect and expand the mind, but because of the differences in style and language. Sometimes they just feel so archaic.