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fool i agree i hated reading great expectations. I just recently read jane eyre and loved it. I didn't like Wuthering Heights though. and one that i just dont like is Dr. Phil (my mother in law gave it to my husband to read). I love the majority of classics but i didnt in high school. I am very grateful for my senior english teacher making me read Pride and Prejudice for it is now one of my favorite books and Austen my favorite author. Madame Bovary is slow and a little boring but i find her character interesting, along with all her relationships.
Beowolf was boring for me.
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id have to say that the worst book ever written is "the virginian" by owen wister and following that closely are "an american tragedy" by theodore dreiser, "the monk" by matthew gregory lewis, "the well of loneliness" by radclyffe hall and "on the road" by jack kerouac.
apart from kerouac the other books were ones i had to read for university and i have to say that i think forced reading tends to make the reader dislike the book and the subsequent weeks of close reading hardly help either. even good books like "to kill a mockingbird" and "the remains of the day" can become terribly dull and annoying when forced to be sat down and read and then talked about in detail. years have passed and ive re-read "t.k.a.m.b" and "t.r.o.t.d" and have to say theyre wonderful books. damn you educational system! but no excuses for kerouac or william burroughs' "naked lunch" those were arty farty pieces of pretentious mental masturbation. :banana:
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Boring books ... The Russian classics spring to mind, I think I've only ever been able to finish one Russian book. But then again, I haven't started more than three anyway.
Other classics I hated were Catcher in the Rye, which was just appallingly annoying and boring to me. Charles Dickens bores me, as well as Toni Morrison's Beloved and Joseph Conrad's Nostromo. Oh yeah, and this quite new book by Chuck Palahniuk, Choke. It was dreadful.
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i think that reading novel are more boring than drama,the same also at being forced to read a book (either novel or drama) at school or college,right?
well,about me,i get bored with Fielding's Joseph Andrews and more or less Dicken's David Copperfield
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The Shipping News. I can't remember who it was by, but it was the only book I can remember giving up on. It took me about 3 weeks to get trhough a chapter, a size whch I should have been able to get through in 15 minutes normally.
Oh, and Life of Pi was utter crap. If it WAS a true story, it would have been cool, but it obviously wasn't. Some books can make you believe in fairys, this book couldn't even make me believe there was a boy whos father owned a zoo.
Oh, and catcher in the rye was also a huge let down. It hasn't aged well, it is not timeless. For it to be vaguely interesting you have to have an understanding of the mindset at the time, and other literature around then. As a standalone book, it fails now. In my opinion, of course.
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I usually read through any book in no time, but I found Kim by Rudyard Kipling and Robinson Crusoe the most boring I could find! I couldn't even get through half! Ahhh! my brother is killing me for that remark about Robinson Crusoe!! :rage:
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I had to read this Tim Winton novel once for school. It was very weird and nonetheless extremely boring
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lol, we had to read him aswell, personally i loved him, everyone else hated it (so i think i'm the odd one out)
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Howards End, i hated this book, it was so boring and a labour to read, though i had read it for school, which is a bit of a kill joy....
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Well, I've been hanging around this forum for many weeks, and I'll make this my first posting.
Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind.
Ever since I was a child, I had been drilled repeatedly by my grandmother, my mother, my aunts, and my sister to read this book. I refused simply because I had been forced to watch the movie so many times and the line, "Miss Scarlett I don'ts know nothin' 'bouts birthin' no babies" reverberated through my conscious, making me snicker at the melodrama, but one summer five years ago, I gave it a shot and read all 754 pages of it in paperback--it was a masochistic struggle to get through all of it. I don't know, but I wasn't impressed, not by the critics and not by all the blurbs. As civil war novels go, I found many much better like Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain, and especially MacKinley Kantor's Andersonville. The whole idea of a Southern Belle rambling around attempting to keep Tara in her hands struck me as downright fairy talish. The dialogue between the slaves and the white folks almost ludicrous and ridiculous. I didn't find the novel convincing, and after I read it, my aunt asked my opinion of it, I said, "I didn't like it." and she quickly went into a rant telling me that "Scarlett was a strong woman" and that was pretty much the reason I didn't like, she claimed.
I attempted to state otherwise, but finally relinquished with "Tommorow's another day," and never said one word about Gone With the Wind since--until now. I hated it!
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Oh, I loved Gone with the wind. I guess many other factors that influence us at the time we read a book, help form our opinion of it. I was probably 15 when I read it, and loved it so much that I felt a sense of loss when I finished the last page. I was completely convinced that I will never read a better book in my life. :D I made the ultimate mistake of reading the horrific sequel named "Scarlett" (i forgot the author...) simply because I wanted Rhett and Scarlet to end up together. I didn't care much about the war but was mostly grasped by the romance of Rhett and Scarlet. I guess being a 15 year old teenager hopelessly in love, might have clouded my judgment about the book somewhat. However, I still like to think of that book, and it always brings memories back....sigh.. ;)
As for what I find to be the most boring book, I would probably say "One Hundred Years of Solitute" by Garcia Marquez. It is supposed to be this great book and I have attempted to finish it for the last 8 years, but never came even half way through. I just can't get into the story and don't find the magic or the depth it is supposed to have. Can anyone convince me otherwise, so I can find motivation to make another attempt?
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Dear Amra,
I'm a new member and I've read your mail now. I also loved Gone with The Wind" . You probably know they made a contest and now there is a second book "Scarlet" and it's also good. But one of my favourite authors is Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I think you schould try to read the novel "One Hundred Years of Solitute". I think this is his best novel. But first you can try to read the "Red Monday". It's shorter.
The most boring book of my life is "Ulysses" by James Joyce. I read 1/2 of it but I don't think that I would finish it.
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Heart of Darkness - well it wasn't exactly boring, bur very oppressive.. and the description of the rain forests reminded me of spinach in brine, yuck.
Emma - no offence, but i sooooo hate Jane Austen... :rage: I like her wit, but nothing ever happens in her books... it's not only that there's no exterior action... but also the characters are so shallow.. i mean all the 'issues' they discuss are just so ridiculous (Mr Darcy in Pride and Prejudice is the only Austen character i've liked, so far, coz he's grumpy and not as silly as all the others). I s'pose people were like that in Austen's days, but that doesn't mean i wanna read about it :(
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anything by james joyce and virginia woolf is boring . i just cannot put up with that terrible style. and also, joseph conrad with his sea stories. a tale of two cities are rather boring, too. actually historic novels are often so .
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omg, what a difference! i love historic novels!
