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Harry Potter 1, after the 1ooo th time Dx
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I had to read "Tale of Two Cities" for school once. It really bored me...I never actually finished it yet I somehow managed to pass the test on it.
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Haha, I gotta agree with you there. I can only re-read it so many times. XD; Probably the most boring book for me was Great Expectations, I just don't understand why this book is held in such high regards. I had to read it for my novels class, and I REALLY tried to read it... I'm pretty sure 90% of the class was using spark notes to get by on tests. XD From what I've heard, Dickens was paid by the chapter to write it...so its no wonder it felt very long and drawn out. I might not've hated it if it had been 200 pages shorter. ;w; |
For me... one of the most boring books is one of these that I had to read for school. "Krzyzacy" (in English it's "The Teutonic Knights") by Henryk Sienkiewicz. First book in my life that I didn't finish. It was so boring, this archaic style, boring characters and everything... So horrible to read x_x
Oh. And I also found "Pawn of Prophecy" by David and Leigh Eddings really boring. I just can't finish it, there wan't anything intersting, anything that could keep me reading. I don't really remember why exactly I don't like it. Maybe for a little bit lazy narration in conection with this style of writing, maybe for something else. But from this time I keep away from Eddings' books except for "Elenium" and "Tamuli" ;d |
@ Queen Fool: How can you hate The Outsiders I loved that book! XD I'm trying to reread it now, but I don't have the time. I guess we have very different tastes in books.
I'm currently trying to read A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Twain. I'm finding parts of the book okay, but then there are chapters where all of it is just two characters talking back and forth in old English. I'm only halfway through it. D= I did find Call of the Wild by London to be very good, though. most of my classmates are finding it or found it to be boring. Both of the books are on our summer reading list, by the way. |
Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy. The bleeding thing is around 700, 800 pages in first person from this Gary-Sue telling you every minute detail of his entier life. I love character studies, and had my credit not depended on me finishing that book I wouldn't have. The characters were all flat and none of them very interesting. "Oh, we were raised in the south but now I'm going to spend 100 pages telling you how we once saved a fish" Fucker. The whole thing could have been 250 pages and then maybe it would have been tolerable, but almost none of it added to the plot. I've never hated a book before this one, and I loathed this sucker. There's a movie of it, which I never want to see.
And people keep trashing Great Expectations, I really liked it... |
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New Spring (wheel of time prequel)
Pride and Prejudice Great Expectations |
The Little White Horse. WAY too fluffy and unimaginative. A perfect little girl restores peace and order and gets married at twelve by some kid she knew from her old town.
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Back when I was in high school I had to read The Great Gatsby and I couldn't stand it! I think I read the first chapter and after that just pretended that I read it and used cliff notes. *shudders* I never thought I would hate a book, but that one changed my mind.
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I think the Lord Of The Rings books are kind of boring.
They're just too slow moving. Also dictionarys aren't that interesting either |
^ The Lord of the Rings Trilogy is an acquired taste. For many of us, that large amount of detail and description is actually what makes Tolkein's writing so fantastic. Once you lean back and let it wash over you, instead of fighting it the whole way, you learn that it helps you visualize the entire story just the way he meant it to be.
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I really didn't like that book either. I didn't like To Kill A Mockingbird either. Maybe I wasn't mature enough to read it. I'm not sure but I surely paid no attention and barely passed the quizzes for them. |
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last years math book xD
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I agree with you on To Kill A Mockingbird.
The first time I read it it was moving, then we had to read it for school like, 3 different times. it lost its appeal. >_< The Great Gatsby really bored me as well. I dont know why. But I couldnt keep awake to read it. D: (I forgot about Wuthring Heights. Oh lord. D: When we were reading this in pre-AP english I couldnt keep awake.) |
Wow. A lot of the books that people don't like I really liked o.o; The Great Gatsby, To Kill a Mockingbird, and several other books that have been mentioned several times here are some of my favorites (including Lord of the Rings!) Anyway XP I got really tired of The Wheel of Time books somewhere in the 4th book. I keep reading because I WANT TO KNOW HOW IT ENDS but each book just gets harder and harder to read x.x I can't even remember why I was so fascinated with the first ones anymore. I also didn't like Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce when we had to read it (I was only a freshman in high school. Waaay too young to understand the book) but I sort of like it now. It isn't as terrible as I thought at the time, anyway. XP I didn't like the Odyssey, either. I don't know what it was about it, but I really had to force myself to read it, and it was a battle the entire way x.x
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I tried reading My Antonia a few weeks ago. It's my sisters favorite book, so I thought I would give it a chance. It was terribly boring and I didn't enjoy it at all. I felt kinda guilty since I disliked it and my sister loves it. ^^;;
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There's a few books I find boring. The Lord of the rings I found boring and really couldn't get into. The films however, I love.
Romeo and Juliet is boring too. I mean it was alright the first time I read it but.. as I went through highschool we had to read it/study it virtually every year. Now I wouldn't go near the book even if you paid me. |
A lot of people disagree with me on this one, but the most boring book I've ever read is 'Of Mice and Men.' It's was ok in some parts but it just seemed to drag on forever. So I didn't really like it.
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I haven't really encountered a book that I thought was boring (exception to history textbooks). Maybe I didn't like it so much....but never really boring.
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"Old Man and the Sea"
No, seriously. MOST BORING THING IN THE WORLD. EVER. EVER. EVER. No one can beat that book in boringness. NO ONE. |
House On Mango Street.
I didn't like it at all. And Then There Were None. I knew who was the Killer from the beginning. To Kill a Mocking Bird Couldn't get into it. A Gathering of Old Men It Took forever to tell you how the Real Killer was. My Dog Skip it was Lame to me. Silent Night Couldn't get into it at all. I don't remember any of the Authors.Sorry. |
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Oooh, "The Story of Miss Jane Pittman" I think it was... Dx We had to read it for Honors English two years back, and I'll never forget how horrible that book was.
Most books I read for school are boring, though. D: It's one of those things, people never like to read something they have to. Especially since if I find a book boring normally I'll just leave it until I feel like picking it back up, to see if it gets better, usually a long while later. >.> |
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