I hated Moby Dick ._.
At first it seemed to grab me a little- but then it killed me with its endless classifications of fish...and the MANY descriptions of the sea....
I ended up just watching the movie ._.,,

to kill a mockingbird. i swear to.... gah that book made me go to sleep. I ahd to read it last year when i did online schoola dn i have to read it again this year. well needless to say.... i rented the movie the first time and i'm doing the same this time.

I would have to say The Scarlet Letter.
that book is just a drag. i personally believe that the author takes to long in describing a scene
instead of just getting straight to the point where the characters talk. And the english is hella old!
no one talks like that anymore, so why bother to read it? T______T
yes, we have to learn about the puritans, but gosh! BORING!
the only exciting part was when we figured out who got Hester Prynne pregnant.
Oh yeah, the book is about a woman who committed adultery when appearantly
she didn't know her husband was still alive. Well, in result, she gets knocked up,
and the people during the puritan times were very religious. Instead of sentencing her to death,
they punish her by letting her wear the letter "A" on her chest. (which is to show everyone she is an adulterer)

For me, the two books I hate the most were required of me to read for school. I love Charles Dickens, but I HATE HATE HATE Great Expectations. Theres also another one that I had to read in my Junior year, The Warrior Woman or the Woman Warrior. It just made no sense! It jumped around too much to have any coherency. I'm not the only one that hated it, my two best friends hated it too.

when i was 9, i had to read this gay book called cockroach cooties... it sucked... it was about two wimpy kids who lived in the ghetto part of chinatown... it was awful :o

The most boring book I've read was.... Children of the lamp. I don't want to talk About it. I didn't even finish it.

I cant say that they were boring just cant stand being forced/timed on reading books.
A lot of the school assigned books were that way for me. I couldnt take my time and read them.

now i havent read any boring books but i do have a pretty cool poem that i really like [p.s.] im posting tis for money!!]

i give all the credit to edgar allan poe!! not plaigarism :lol: :lol:

annabel lee

Annabel Lee


It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By the name of ANNABEL LEE;
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me.

I was a child and she was a child,
In this kingdom by the sea;
But we loved with a love that was more than love-
I and my Annabel Lee;
With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven
Coveted her and me.

And this was the reason that, long ago,
In this kingdom by the sea,
A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling
My beautiful Annabel Lee;
So that her highborn kinsman came
And bore her away from me,
To shut her up in a sepulchre
In this kingdom by the sea.

The angels, not half so happy in heaven,
Went envying her and me-
Yes!- that was the reason (as all men know,
In this kingdom by the sea)
That the wind came out of the cloud by night,
Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.

But our love it was stronger by far than the love
Of those who were older than we-
Of many far wiser than we-
And neither the angels in heaven above,
Nor the demons down under the sea,
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee.

For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling- my darling- my life and my bride,
In the sepulchre there by the sea,
In her tomb by the sounding sea.

The Silmarillion by J.R.R Tolkien was super boring. It was a slow mythology of a pretend place. Every character had 3 or 4 names, and did practially nothing.

Guy makes universe, one guy in universe makes bad stuff. Guy who makes bad stuff hides in mountain. Some guy makes dwarves. This originally pisses off first guy, but he thinks dwarves are cool, so he lets them live... at this point.. I quit reading.

Least favorite book of all time would have to be 'The Book of Dead Days'. Yes, the title sounds wickedly awesome, but I had to drag myself to read the book. It didn't explain anything! Even at the end your still left with the same questions you started the book with.

Originally Posted by pnoyboi

now i havent read any boring books but i do have a pretty cool poem that i really like [p.s.] im posting tis for money!!]

i give all the credit to edgar allan poe!! not plaigarism :lol: :lol:

Oooh, I love Edgar Allen Poe's books and poems. I've read tons of his work. Too bad people these days dismiss his work as 'boring'.[/quote]

Well..... I believe the most boring book i ever read was The Pearl..... We were forced to read it in English last year and i would have rather read Of mice an men 200 times rather than to read that again...

Another book i found boring was Shabanu..... I haven't even gotten through the first 50 pages and i can't seem to get interested yet..... It's about a Muslim girl...... And camels..... I have to read it in Global 10 this year

A Tale of Two Cities.
Got lost on first chapters. Quit. Failed English Test. x__________X

Antigone's sort of boring as well...... And it's sort of weird because Antigone's brother is her dad.... And her other brothers killed eachother and she fell in love with her cousin..... Incest EVERYWHERE!!! *Cries in corner* T_T

The Diary of Anne Frank, My Side of the Mountain, and The Outsiders.
Basically, books we've done in school. I don't even remember who they're by. Except for Anne Frank, of course.

Originally Posted by pwny_of_doom

The Silmarillion by J.R.R Tolkien was super boring. It was a slow mythology of a pretend place. Every character had 3 or 4 names, and did practially nothing.

Guy makes universe, one guy in universe makes bad stuff. Guy who makes bad stuff hides in mountain. Some guy makes dwarves. This originally pisses off first guy, but he thinks dwarves are cool, so he lets them live... at this point.. I quit reading.

The thing about the Silmarillion that puts most people off is that it is not written like a book of fiction. It's written like a factual book of history, and one needs to enjoy reading historical texts to get into it. I didn't find it boring, but I did find it difficult to read.

The most boring book I ever read was probably The Last of the Mohicans. I only read three or so chapters. No one in my group at school wanted to finish it, so we changed books.

I always forgot what the paragraph before was about and there were too many adgetives. There was one almost after every other word. I didn't like it at all.

The Lord Of The Rings. It was a great book [apart from the Silmarillion; that, I didn't enjoy], but GOD! It was BORING! ><
And The Earthsea Quartet. I had to stop, then restart it, then restart AGAIN. I only got through the first two..

I Don't really know i liked all the books i've read and thankfully they've all been either awesome good or the best series. The Best Series for me would Probably be Harry Potter and the worst is really nothing.

I'll second Amigari with Antigone and the whole Oedipus cycle; even though all of them were really short, it was a total snorefest. And Ethan Frome was really horribly boring as well. I was soooo happy when I finished that book because I was afraid I would die of boredom reading it. Also, Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett was pretty much coma-inducing.

Originally Posted by CandyStripes

The Lord Of The Rings. It was a great book [apart from the Silmarillion; that, I didn't enjoy], but GOD! It was BORING! ><
And The Earthsea Quartet. I had to stop, then restart it, then restart AGAIN. I only got through the first two..

Yes, I totally agree with you. He writes such dry rambling descriptions. It takes him like five pages to describe the beauty of a hill. xD
I read the note book that came with my trilogy about his years as a professor and his obsession with certain mythologies. I'm sure that has quite a bit to do with it.

I had to read Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbot for some stupid reason in my 3D modeling class. It was so boring, it felt like it was making parts of my brain freeze and disintegrate into lint. I fell asleep twice reading it.

The most boring book that I have ever read (and one of my most hated books ever) in "Wuthering Heights". I almost fell asleep reading it and when I was awake I was yelling how stupid the characters were and how they sould all die. Another boring book was "Animal Farm". I also didnt like that book.

Two books I just couldn't get through were Great Expectations and The Lord of the Rings (technically a trilogy). It wasn't so much that they were boring as I just couldn't trudge through the writing style of the authors. Dickens wrote Great Expectations bit by bit for a newspaper and he got paid by the word, so he understandably made it as wordy as possible. Tolkien... well, he can go on for a page and a half describing a friggin leaf... Needless to say I didn't finish either one. I love the stories themselves, but I just can't handle reading them. They make my brain hurt. This is one of the few cases where I take the movies over the books.

Great Expectations for me. I never had trouble reading any assigned books for school, I enjoyed most of them but Great Expectations killed me. I just could not get into the story and it seemed to drag on and on. A little over halfway through I just had to stop reading it.