Most boring/difficult books you've ever read.
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House of Leaves as well for me...
Besides that, Watt by Samuel Beckett. There is literally four pages of "from the bed to the door from the door to the fire from the fire to the window from the window to the bed from the bed to the fire from the fire to the..." <- The fuck is that supposed to be!?
Besides that, Watt by Samuel Beckett. There is literally four pages of "from the bed to the door from the door to the fire from the fire to the window from the window to the bed from the bed to the fire from the fire to the..." <- The fuck is that supposed to be!?
Hmmmm. Tie between Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World" and Dostoevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov." They're both good, but there are sections of REAAAAALLLLLYYY boring stuff (like three chapters of Mitya's lawyer talking to the jury in TBK. Arrrrrrrrrrrgh).
"An Edible History of Humanity" by Tom Standage... wasn't all that fun. I was forced to read it for AP History... >>'
The book for Tom Clanceys End Game. I don't know why I bought it but I did.
There are like 50 different characters. And, being a book, there were no visual clues to tell characters apart (which is how I remember characters 90% of the time in most mediums). Now, I have memory and focus problems. But I was somewhat scraping by with all the American characters. Then BOOM. The Russians. I can manage if there are characters named Mark and Greg. But when I had to try to remember the difference between Pvt. Kamarov and Pvt. Kakrov I gave up.
There are like 50 different characters. And, being a book, there were no visual clues to tell characters apart (which is how I remember characters 90% of the time in most mediums). Now, I have memory and focus problems. But I was somewhat scraping by with all the American characters. Then BOOM. The Russians. I can manage if there are characters named Mark and Greg. But when I had to try to remember the difference between Pvt. Kamarov and Pvt. Kakrov I gave up.
Every Wheel of time book after book 6 is all the most boring books i have read.
I have red them all but I feel that after book 6 the series concentrates to much on politics.
The hardest book Ive read must be The romance of the three kingdoms
I have red them all but I feel that after book 6 the series concentrates to much on politics.
The hardest book Ive read must be The romance of the three kingdoms
Anything by Hawthorne or Hemingway. I love older books, but seriously those two authors are the hardest to read I have ever seen.
Most Boring was "Not Exactly the Three Musketeers" by someone I can't remember. Imagine a fantasy story where none of the character's backstories are explained; several references to the real world come up, but are never explained; and the main characters are completely unlikeable. I read to the very end, hoping that it would redeem itself, but it never did. In fact one of the three main characters dies and his death evokes no emotion because he was so unlikeable.
Oh, it also had a thing with feces. Yes, we know people evacuate their bowels when they die, you don't have to make a point about it every time someone dies.
Most Boring was "Not Exactly the Three Musketeers" by someone I can't remember. Imagine a fantasy story where none of the character's backstories are explained; several references to the real world come up, but are never explained; and the main characters are completely unlikeable. I read to the very end, hoping that it would redeem itself, but it never did. In fact one of the three main characters dies and his death evokes no emotion because he was so unlikeable.
Oh, it also had a thing with feces. Yes, we know people evacuate their bowels when they die, you don't have to make a point about it every time someone dies.
As a huge fan of tolkien's legacy as the father of modern fantasy, I was sad that I couldn't even finish reading the Fellowship... But god damn that's a hard one.
I'm going to disagree with Ayn Rand, her philosophy may be ridiculous, and her books (at least the one I've read) FAR too long with a ridiculous length speech, but she definitely is a talented writer.
I'm going to disagree with Ayn Rand, her philosophy may be ridiculous, and her books (at least the one I've read) FAR too long with a ridiculous length speech, but she definitely is a talented writer.
For me it would have to be "The Sound and the Fury", by William Faulkner. Although its final act was decent, the whole book would have had a much greater payoff if I could've just figured out what the fucking plot was.
Les Miserables.
Hugo goes off for 100 pages recounting a battle that had at best a minimal impact on the plot.
Hugo goes off for 100 pages recounting a battle that had at best a minimal impact on the plot.
I can't remember the name of the book, but it was about a girl with down syndrome, in some shitty little Aussie outback town, trying to help her local footy team not suck as much.
It was horrific.
It was horrific.
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, OMG I hate that book so much, though I didn't really finish it but thats how much I hated it.