Worst/Most Boring Book You've Ever Read

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Originally posted by Lady Tesser You have to be a history major nutjob to be able to read through such books without going to sleep, Cerpin. <--- (history major nutjob)

YES! Solidarity, brother! Man, don't get me started on people and history...

I'm about to seriously kill this book, I swear.



Just 100 more pages and an essay test and it goes up in flames.

Wanna burn my copy of Beloved?? Have no idea why I still have it. I guess I hate to harm books.

Fahrenheit 451 was a great book. I really liked it. And I didn't see many problems with The Grapes of Wrath either. I wrote a great paper on it. But I guess I can see it.

Can't think of any other books besides Beloved right now. I try to block out the bad one I've read. Why relive those memories?

BabyGhia

PS. Have fun, Scott! Take pictures of the bonfire!

While we're on the subject of book burning, as much as I loved Farenheit 451 (which is a whole lot), I think that the irony of burning that book would be too great.

Currently, my least favorite book may still be Scarlet Letter, but I absolutely loathed Great Expectations. I had to write a creative essay, adding an extra chapter to the book. I decided to kill off one of the main characters out of sheer loathing for that story.

Oh boy. I'm in purgatory.

Guess what I get to read again, in my senior year.

Flowers for Algernon.

I'm getting all nostalgic here, this reminds me of the first time I read it..in sixth grade (5th? 7th? I can't remember.)

And let me tell you..it has not grown on me in the interim.

The upside to this? I get to keep the copy of this book apparently.

And it has a date with an upcoming yard sale.

Hey, I might as well get something out of this.

(I was going to finally put my KGB Zippo to good use. But the idea of this dreck turning some minute profit for me is even better.)

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Originally posted by Sharpshooter005 Oh boy. I'm in purgatory. Guess what I get to read again, in my senior year. Flowers for Algernon. I'm getting all nostalgic here, this reminds me of the first time I read it..in sixth grade (5th? 7th? I can't remember.) And let me tell you..it has not grown on me in the interim. The upside to this? I get to keep the copy of this book apparently. And it has a date with an upcoming yard sale. Hey, I might as well get something out of this. (I was going to finally put my KGB Zippo to good use. But the idea of this dreck turning some minute profit for me is even better.)

Guess what? They turned that piece of crap into a movie called Charly, which wasn't as bad as the book, but could have been a lot beter. I feel your pain.

The Scarlet Letter.


That should be enough.

Well after reading The Great Gatbsy, I'll just say that it wasn't so bad. I thought it was kinda boring until the last 3 chapters which managed to redeem it somewhat.

Now we're reading A Farewell to Arms and I'm not liking it already. I don't understand how anyone can like Hemingway.

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Originally posted by Lt. Sanji Now we're reading A Farewell to Arms and I'm not liking it already. I don't understand how anyone can like Hemingway.

I know a lot of people whose heads would implode if they heard you say that.

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<--- (history major nutjob)

What about people who are most likely going to be history majors. But are, arguably, nutjobs right now.

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Now we're reading A Farewell to Arms and I'm not liking it already. I don't understand how anyone can like Hemingway.

The first (only, so far) time I read that, I hated it. For days, I wouldn't shut up about the book.

Then I read "the sun also rises", and thought it was great.

Maybe thats the nutjob thing acting up again?

Oh. Anybody ever read "Jonathan Livingston Seagull?"

Yeah. Guess what my exciting, no holds barred psychology class gets to read after Flowers for Algernon.

From all I've heard...yeah, I'm just glad its incredibly short.

Yeah, I didn't think Old Man and the Sea was that bad.

But AFTA just isn't doing it for me...

Antigone - Sophocles

ehhh, maybe it's because it wasn't as good as Oedipus Rex or Oedipus at Colonus. whatever. no Oedipus, only his daughters, oh yeah, and too much Creon.

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Originally posted by Captain Maw Antigone - Sophocles ehhh, maybe it's because it wasn't as good as Oedipus Rex or Oedipus at Colonus. whatever. no Oedipus, only his daughters, oh yeah, and too much Creon.

Phsssssht. Antigone is much better than Colonus.

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Originally posted by Cerpin Taxt I'm about to seriously kill this book, I swear. Just 100 more pages and an essay test and it goes up in flames.

Since I don't need it any more, but I'm low on lighter fluid, and this school has a "no book burning or else it's your ass" policy, I decided to tear it to shreds instead:

Hahahaha. Nice.

Anyone ever read Twelfth Night? It sucks so bad. (how much Shakespeare sucks)^10 + lesbians = Twelfth Night.

Remember when I was griping about Flowers for Algernon?

No my psychology teacher had to outdo himself now.



This one is much shorter. The bulk of it is pictures of seagulls, and/or incredibly dry paragraphs about air speed velocities (unladen, sadly.) So it's..well, yeah. Basically just skimming it so I'm not failing the class.

This is just one of those things I've deemed undeserving of any..you know..effort. Also I forgot to pawn off my copy of flowers for algernon, or this, at the yard sale.

Thankfully there are a number of matches and lighters lying around. For when the time comes...

J.K Tolkien's The Hobbit I dont really like it very much or his other books in the Lord of the Rings series theres too much going on for me and I mix everything and everyone up excpet for Gandalf for some reason I thought was cool? But thats just me.

-Beth

Really anything by Barbara Cartland. She wrote Mary Sues, and raped ellipses.

OK. I have to say this. I really can't see how I possibly forgot to mention this, but it deserves bringing this thread up.

Note:This is a toss-up since its literature...but not really books...

Anything, and Everything by Jack Chick

You've seen them. Maybe even read them. I can guarrentee you've been at least within a 1 yard radius of one.

Everything this guy prints is genuine, grade A, bullsh**. I didnt think I could get so pissed off at something in a comic format. But I did.

The drawings and art are actually OK...but they just look hideous when you actually look at the text. Good Lord. Baby vomit look hott in comparison. At least it comes from a baby.

Every last tract and his whole website is an insult to humanity. As an intelligent person, and a Catholic nonetheless, I find this morally disturbing.

How is it some assholes are going after ENTIRE FORMS OF ENTERTAINMENT(Video Games and movies for those not following) yet doing nothing about bigoted harlots like these comics?

I remember the first time I found one. My mom found it when we were at church and gave it to me. Despite the fact I was in my "I don't believe in God and I hate my life and I wish a nuke would fall on me" phase this still pissed me off.

I hate that guy. Times like this I wish that lovable Edward Sloan look-alike maniac priest did exist. (cookie to whoever gets that reference.)


Finish post/rant.

Oh. I'm sorry if I have offended anyones views. And I just used that blue hott thing for familiar emphasis.

Hmm, I didn't mind _Flowers For Algernon_, and I actually got a lot out of _For Whom the Bell Tolls_. (Maybe the latter was helped by the fact that I'd seen the movie first, though that usually hurts a book with me. I liked the movie better than the book, but the book was okay, and helped fill in some of the gaps for me. Anyway, that book/movie holds a special place in my heart.)

If I had to pick my *least* favorite/most hated book of all time, I guess it would probably be a toss-up between _Middlemarch_ and _Silas Marner_, which we were forced to read in high school in the early to middle 1970s. At that time I much preferred the works of Robert E. Howard and Fritz Leiber and H.P. Lovecraft.

Doc