Tie:
White Noise--trash can after 70 pages
Of Mice And Men--that I was compelled to finish.
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.
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?Originally Posted by tonywalt
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.
One has to laugh before being happy, because otherwise one risks to die before having laughed.
"Je crains [...] que l'âme ne se vide à ces passe-temps vains, et que le fin du fin ne soit la fin des fins." (Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac, Acte III, Scène VII)
I never read Dickens for the very reason I never finished Dracula, Stoker's The Lair of the White Worm is alright though.
This book is awful. Why did you bother finishing it, I gave up after thirty pages...
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.
"L'art de la statistique est de tirer des conclusions erronèes a partir de chiffres exacts." Napoléon Bonaparte.
"Je crois que beaucoup de gens sont dans cet état d’esprit: au fond, ils ne sentent pas concernés par l’Histoire. Mais pourtant, de temps à autre, l’Histoire pose sa main sur eux." Michel Houellebecq.
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!
So if you didn't get it in the first act you won't get it in the second.
"L'art de la statistique est de tirer des conclusions erronèes a partir de chiffres exacts." Napoléon Bonaparte.
"Je crois que beaucoup de gens sont dans cet état d’esprit: au fond, ils ne sentent pas concernés par l’Histoire. Mais pourtant, de temps à autre, l’Histoire pose sa main sur eux." Michel Houellebecq.
The Indian and the Cupboard.
It's so annoying.
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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"Our age, which is cursed with inhuman savagery and want, also allows us superhuman
powers." - WILLIAM BOLITHO
"The price of the succulent cabbage is up,
The cabbage that's grown by the hand of Ah Pup.
'The stock of the Chow soars in country and town
But that of the poet goes steadily down." - JOHN BEDE DALLEY
Ask the Dust by John Fante - the most boring book ever? I think not, I disagree.
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
"Our age, which is cursed with inhuman savagery and want, also allows us superhuman
powers." - WILLIAM BOLITHO
"The price of the succulent cabbage is up,
The cabbage that's grown by the hand of Ah Pup.
'The stock of the Chow soars in country and town
But that of the poet goes steadily down." - JOHN BEDE DALLEY
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