What is the most boring book ever?

Tie:
White Noise--trash can after 70 pages
Of Mice And Men--that I was compelled to finish.

It's truly sad to see how many people can't, or (probably more accurate) aren't willing to read and discover the beauty, intricacy, innovation, humor, and language that makes Moby Dick so amazing.

As for me, I find the Where's Waldo? series rather slow.

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Originally Posted by tonywalt

Jack Welch's autobiography(former CEO of GE) was tough to get through. It was not necessarily boring, but he sure was. Endless stories of firing people who had crossed him in the past and talking of his greatness.

And, oh yea, alot of stories about how he thought he made a mistake, but then it turned out to be a great thing in the end.

It's the only autobiography that I did not finish.

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Sorry, but it serves you right for picking that book off the shelf. Who would have thought that a Gordon Gekko facsimile could be boring and pretentious?

Dracula by Bram Stoker is so absurd that it can't even be read for fun. You keep wishing for death while you are trying to read it and death never comes. It smells of rank undead Puritanism, but then all vampire stories do, yet what is really unforgivable is its religious tone. It is quite Victorian, it is quite stupid, and it is quite insufferable.

I never read it, but from the Gary Oldman film I seem to remember some really romantic anguish.

And, may I ask, what else is there to expect from something written so early apart from a lot of emotion? The Victorians were very much religion and morality oriented. I would say, stay away from anything 19th century if you don't want to be exasperated. Apart from Austen, then.

I never read Dickens for the very reason I never finished Dracula, Stoker's The Lair of the White Worm is alright though.

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Originally Posted by Tournesol

Hands down: the most boring book ever: 'EAT, PRAY, LOVE'

I COULDN'T WAIT TO FINISH READING THIS NOVEL, AND THE MOVIE WAS EVEN WORSE!

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This book is awful. Why did you bother finishing it, I gave up after thirty pages...

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Originally Posted by Seasider

Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Totally pretentious and boringly macho. By the end I knew nothing more about Zen or Motorbikes than at the beginning. And was sick of the pompous twit.

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Well, you might of guessed that it was pretentious (Zen) and boringly macho (motorbikes) from the title. It used to make me laugh when I saw someone reading it as though it wasn't just another piece of 1970s nonsense with a catchpenny title.

i'll go with skipping christmas. incredibly boring!! a couple choose not to have christmas.. so there they are.. not having christmas.. then their daughter says she wants to come home for christmas with her new boyfriend.. so.. oh dear.. theyve gt to have xmas after all.. so they go out shopping (yes, every shopping trip is explained in detail) and then they have xmas...
WHO CARES??
most boring novel on this planet!

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Originally Posted by DanielBenoit

To paraphrase a critic at the time of the play's debut, "Waiting for Godot achieves a theoretical impossibility in which nothing happens, and yet is completely able to hold our attention. And since the second act is merely a reflection of the first, it's a play in which nothing happens, twice."

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So if you didn't get it in the first act you won't get it in the second.

The Indian and the Cupboard.
It's so annoying.:out:

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Originally Posted by Emil Miller

So if you didn't get it in the first act you won't get it in the second.

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In the meantime, while we are waiting for Godot, I assume life goes on.

-Ask the Dust - JOHN FANTE

-The Bridge of San Luis Rey - THORNTON WILDER

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Originally Posted by deguonis

-Ask the Dust - JOHN FANTE

-The Bridge of San Luis Rey - THORNTON WILDER

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Ask the Dust by John Fante - the most boring book ever? I think not, I disagree.

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Originally Posted by G L Wilson

Ask the Dust by John Fante - the most boring book ever? I think not, I disagree.

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Right.

No. Not the most boring book ever but a true disappointment. Bukowski's review was quite appealing as he said "Fante is my God." So, although I hadn't read Bukowski prior to that date I envisioned "Ask the Dust" to be a truly good book. It was good. Just good. I expected it to be brilliant. That's why I say "a true disappointment."
Anyways, I'm beating about the bush.
Don't get mad, please.
Degu Onis