Most boring/difficult books you've ever read.
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You can be glad that you are not German. Because if you were you probably would have had to read Effi Briest. Effi Briest is written in such a unnecessarily detailed and complicated manner that it is painful to read.
Here is the first sentence:
"In Front des schon seit Kurfürst Georg Wilhelm von der Familie von Briest bewohnten Herrenhauses zu Hohen-Cremmen fiel heller Sonnenschein auf die mittagsstille Dorfstraße, während nach der Park- und Gartenseite hin ein rechtwinklig angebauter Seitenflügel einen breiten Schatten erst auf einen weiß und grün quadrierten Fliesengang und dann über diesen hinaus auf ein großes, in seiner Mitte mit einer Sonnenuhr und an seinem Rande mit Canna indica und Rhabarberstauden besetzten Rondell warf."
Yes. One sentence.
The book I liked most in school was Romeo and Juliet. It taught me that the English language doesn't have to be as ugly as it is on the internet or in pop music.
Besides I always cheered inside when Shakespeare used German sentence structure, words that sound like German (for example "thine") or phrases that reminded me of German, such as being intimate/respectful depending on thou and you.
Here is the first sentence:
"In Front des schon seit Kurfürst Georg Wilhelm von der Familie von Briest bewohnten Herrenhauses zu Hohen-Cremmen fiel heller Sonnenschein auf die mittagsstille Dorfstraße, während nach der Park- und Gartenseite hin ein rechtwinklig angebauter Seitenflügel einen breiten Schatten erst auf einen weiß und grün quadrierten Fliesengang und dann über diesen hinaus auf ein großes, in seiner Mitte mit einer Sonnenuhr und an seinem Rande mit Canna indica und Rhabarberstauden besetzten Rondell warf."
Yes. One sentence.
The book I liked most in school was Romeo and Juliet. It taught me that the English language doesn't have to be as ugly as it is on the internet or in pop music.
Besides I always cheered inside when Shakespeare used German sentence structure, words that sound like German (for example "thine") or phrases that reminded me of German, such as being intimate/respectful depending on thou and you.
Anything by Tolkien that is not The Hobbit, or LoTR.
The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson. It has a great premise; the black death wipes oyt 99% of the population of Europe, thus the European cultures and Christianity die also. The book follows several people to sevaral diffrent lives, right up to 2002. It was way to hard to follow and had too much religious elements and ideals in it for me. It was Eastren propaganda.
The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson. It has a great premise; the black death wipes oyt 99% of the population of Europe, thus the European cultures and Christianity die also. The book follows several people to sevaral diffrent lives, right up to 2002. It was way to hard to follow and had too much religious elements and ideals in it for me. It was Eastren propaganda.
I believe Atlas Shrugged's narrative suffered greatly from the lack of Big Daddy's and Splicers.Nightmonger said:
The hardest book I've read was Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! mostly because Faulkner's style is all over the place.
19th Century English literature is very droll IMO, but I've heard some of it (like Dickens) was serialized and you're only supposed to be reading about a chapter a week. So maybe I'm doing it wrong.
College Music Theory books. Generally these things are written by pompous assholes that determine what is good and bad music and can only provide examples from stale classical works. There's just too many to name.
Letters To An American Farmer, I can't remember who the author was but I just remember hating every second of that book
Fahrenheit 451. I loved Brave New World, and 1984 (with the exception of that whole slab about the book), but Fahrenheit 451 was just so dull and uninteresting.
Plato's Republic, it was not as technically difficult as people say, but it was possibly the dullest thing I have read in my entire life. I got about 50 pages in and said "Fuck it".
I hear you about the 1984 "book" part, it was much more dull than the rest of the book, interesting at first, then it got old.Lem0nade Inlay said:
I absolutely loved, despite having yet to finish, American Gods by Neil Gaiman.
It's a great read but it doesn't half drag.....
It's a great read but it doesn't half drag.....
Most Boring- The Lord of the Rings (*puts flame shield up)
Most Difficult- Atlas Shrugged (It's so long. It's an ongoing project to finish it)
Most Difficult- Atlas Shrugged (It's so long. It's an ongoing project to finish it)
Most boring, oh god the list is endless help me plz
Most difficult, anything in the Ender series after the first one. Those books were awesome. But difficult.
Most difficult, anything in the Ender series after the first one. Those books were awesome. But difficult.
