Uncle Tom's Cabin, very boring.
Moby-Dick was fantastic from the first page to the last.
Uncle Tom's Cabin, very boring.
Moby-Dick was fantastic from the first page to the last.
Without a doubt the most boring book is Beckets, Waiting for Godot zzzzzzzzzzz.
That's a play, and it was fantastic.
The salvation of the world is in man's suffering. - Faulkner
I am amazed that this string has continued so long. No one has ever read the most boring book, because it induces sleep after one paragraph.
I had to read "the homecoming" by Pinter and "Endgame" by beckett, as well as "brighton Rock" for my english class last year, and they were horrible. I guess there was probably some deeper meaning in it that i missed, but i just couldn't get into them. People in trash cans, men pimping out their wives to their families, and child murderers are obviously NOT my cup of tea. Bleurgh
hmmm, i also didn't enjoy catcher in the rye, i didn't like holden (is that his name? I can't remember)i just didn't understand where he was coming from or what he was supposed to be going through.
however it was, Flask, alas! was a butterless man!- Moby Dick, Herman Melville
remember- Pilliage, then burn!
The chapter on 'C' is very tedious.Originally Posted by Lynne50
david coperfield only read about half of it, havn't been able to finish any of dickens books.
I am not familiar with 'The Homecoming' but I was once inveigled into watching a performance of 'Endgame' and was bored to tears. People sitting in dustbins talking nonsense is not my cup of tea either and the whole thing came across as pretentious rubbish. Perhaps that was the meaning of the dustbins. Some people may delight in trying to discover whatever obscure symbolism, if any, exists in such plays but I'm not one of them.
Brighton Rock, however, is a very British novel and is probably better appreciated by readers in the UK who can relate to the period in which it is set.
As most serious critics think Beckett is one of the greatest playwrights ever, there is some doubt...
The most boring novel I've ever read was Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier. It just dragged on and on and on...
But the tenth one was just as bad.The ninth was overrated, idk why people liked it so much.The chapter on 'C' is very tedious.
Moving on: Idk why, well okay I do, but I don't know why people find Samuel Beckett's plays, expecially Waiting for Godot, to be boring. I mean I know where you're coming from, but how can you not be intrigued by the plays language, characterizatoin, absurdism. Yes the play is about waiting indefinitley and how we are to fulfill our time prior, some people may find that boring, I find it fascinating. 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."
The Moments of Dominion
That happen on the Soul
And leave it with a Discontent
Too exquisite — to tell —
-Emily Dickinson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVW8GCnr9-I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckGIvr6WVw4
Candide was terrible; the plot lacked spice and was perpetually mundane. Sorry Voltaire.
Pride and Prejudice was a bore. I respect Jane Austen's body of work, but, you couldn't add more spice to Pride and Prejudice? I saw the plot events coming 100 pages in.
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Last edited by Dinkleberry2010; 02-06-2010 at 02:52 PM.
Oh come on. He is neither one of the greatest playwrights ever nor one of the worst. But he is certainly the greatest playwright of the post-War period and the greatest of the minimalists. But, everyone has there own tastes. Just don't put words into critics mouths (and I don't just mean you Jermac).
The Moments of Dominion
That happen on the Soul
And leave it with a Discontent
Too exquisite — to tell —
-Emily Dickinson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVW8GCnr9-I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckGIvr6WVw4
Ouch, that's one of my favourites.
I quite like Beckett's plays too, I tend to agree with that "nothing is funnier than unhappiness" line from Endgame.
I had a rough time getting through Henry Fielding's Tom Jones.
"If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia."
- Margaret Atwood
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