Worst/Most Boring Book You've Ever Read

The Scarlet Letter. Period.
That book sucked like you don't know what.
Good concept and everything but the way it was written was just unforgivable.
YOU'LL PAY, HAWTHORNE!! YOU'LL PAY!!

Peace.

Frankenstein.

It's so dull. She goes on and on and on about the changing landscapes. Honestly, there's pages and pages about foliage and just stuff that doesn't need mention. It's the one book I've ever skipped chapters just to get through it. If it weren't for summer reading I wouldn't have read it. And the protagionist is such an idiot. The monster, I can't remember the exact wording, but he says something about destroying something Victor cares about. And the moron doesn't know it's a (extremely) veiled threat to Victor's girlfriend. You just got this overwhelming feeling that Mary Shelly thought she was being so clever with that.

The book is nothing like the Frankenstein movies that have popped up over the years. It's really amazing that such a great library of movies was spawned that that dull little rag.

edit: read through the thread a bit. I completely forgot about 'A Farewell to Arms', that wasn't wonderful. But probably my most hated book of all time is 'Native Son'. Good grief, you cannot blame society for all your problems. No one has is wonderfully easy but what makes a human being actually human is the strength to be good people dispite how crappy our lives are. It disgusts me that the author tried to heroize that mindless bastard. If that's your face of equal rights you have more problems than rich airheaded white girls befriending you out of rebellion. I HATE that book.


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-Dork

i have most defnitly gotta say "A Seperate Peace" that book bored the hell out of me, almost the to the point of tears. not to mention every part of the book was rather predictible, save a few parts of it. but meh this book left an awful taste in my mouth.

Artimis Fowl

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If anyone wants to know I'd be happy to go on a rant about all its flaws.

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but I'm tired right now so not tonight.

EDIT: lol oops. Seems I already posted in this thread about it. Atleast I'm consistent ^^;

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Originally posted by Dork Frankenstein.

It really is an incredibly boring book.

Mark Twain's "The Mysterious Stranger" is probably my least favorite book. It's one of those books that starts off normally and then you gradually realize that the world isn't real, nothing matters, and that instead of a story you're getting a dose of painfully sophomoric philosophy from an author who should have known better.

You can inflict this story on yourself online if you really want to: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3186/3186.txt

This story is probably why I overreact to certain Big O theories.

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Originally posted by spiked-knives i have most defnitly gotta say "A Seperate Peace" that book bored the hell out of me, almost the to the point of tears. not to mention every part of the book was rather predictible, save a few parts of it. but meh this book left an awful taste in my mouth.

Ew, i rememebr having to read that book freshman year... yeah, that sucked. The msot exciting part was when the one guy fell out of the tree... and that one guy was like flipping out because of his war memories.

I just had to read The Old Man and the Sea for my English class, and well, that was boring. I know, I know, it's a classic and all, but it doesn't appeal to me at all. it's too much of a guy book! I need action, romance, fantasy, peril, drama, and fairies, etc. Ugh, that book put me to sleep. Thanfully it wasn't that long. Please don't hurt me for this! XD

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Originally posted by spiked-knives i have most defnitly gotta say "A Seperate Peace" that book bored the hell out of me, almost the to the point of tears. not to mention every part of the book was rather predictible, save a few parts of it. but meh this book left an awful taste in my mouth.

I actually rather enjoyed A Separate Peace. I felt sorry for Finny, poor guy. Gene should have been ashamed.

The most boring book I ever read was Ethan Frome. I couldn't keep my attention on it for five minutes without yawning. The descriptions were bland, the plot was lame and pointless, and the characters were uninteresting. I never fell asleep in school until I read this book. I'm serious; it honestly put me to sleep.

the divinci code its boring but interesting i fell asleep on the second page

Cold Sassy Tree. The characters are one-dimensional and the plot is completely asinine. If you're going to read this book, don't. Put it down and run far, FAR away. How it ever got published, I will never know... :: shakes head sadly ::

Don't worry, Redd, I have a special place in my heart for those who know that Hemingway was never 'all that'.

His work has limp chest-thumping and uses the word 'gray' too many times. His descriptions lack everything, his prose is sleep-inducing, his plots wander, and his characters are completely two-dimensional; you can't even care for his characters, not even enough to cheer when they finally die.

The only reason he's known is because he introduced a new form of writing known as 'fiction-as-journalism' (the writing of fiction in a journalistic/newspaper style, all facts and nothing else). So, yeah, maybe a pioneer in new ways of writing, but that writing really reeks.

If there hadn't been the pulp writers during his era, I could swear that Hemingway would have single-handedly destroyed the art of storytelling all by himself if his writing became the standard. Thank the Muses for that favor.

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the divinci code its boring but interesting i fell asleep on the second page

One of these days I'm going to go find that copy of "holy blood, holy grail" thats lying around. Just so I can say I've read the davinci code.

IT'S THE SAME BOOK.

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Ethan Frome.

I was trying very, very hard to forget that book ever existed.

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'Native Son'.

Either native son or black boy is the one where you're supposed to still empathize with the guy after he just arbitrarily describes hanging a stray puppy as a kid.

Oh this is after he torches his home, because "Hey I wonder what that curtain would look like if I just lit it aflame".

Neither of those things are societies fault, thats just you being a lunatic.

The worst thing with two covers I ever opened and actually read was
this tedious waste of paper christened "The Lost years of Merlin".

My God, if Merlin actually had that much of a one-track brain in his teen
years, I somehow doubt King Arthur would have gotten as far as he did.

His powers go off by accident, he lights a tree on fire, which falls and crushes a
small boy (one that everyone hated to begin withand got what he earned).
Merlin proceeds to spend the rest of the book yelling at himself at how
evil his powers are and hypocritically blabbing about this in
disgustingly highfalutin monologue.
Then, after half a dozen speeches and solemn vows,
he winds up using his powers in a bloody blast-off bonanza and blows up
a castle. And in the process, made the story's most irritating character,
Shim the dwarf, grow a hundred times in size.

"Young sorcery fans...set aside harry Potter and pick up Merlin.
--The Cincinnati Enquirer

Bugger!

to kill a mocking bird, all i could hear was butters from south park talking

There are several:

Mein Kampf by that sick Fuhrer

The Pearl by Steinbeck

Of Mice and Men by Steinbeck

Metropolis...
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>_>
Actually, that book was the most intriguing since it was by Angel

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Originally posted by Randolph The worst thing with two covers I ever opened and actually read was this tedious waste of paper christened "The Lost years of Merlin". My God, if Merlin actually had that much of a one-track brain in his teen years, I somehow doubt King Arthur would have gotten as far as he did. His powers go off by accident, he lights a tree on fire, which falls and crushes a small boy (one that everyone hated to begin withand got what he earned). Merlin proceeds to spend the rest of the book yelling at himself at how evil his powers are and hypocritically blabbing about this in disgustingly highfalutin monologue. Then, after half a dozen speeches and solemn vows, he winds up using his powers in a bloody blast-off bonanza and blows up a castle. And in the process, made the story's most irritating character, Shim the dwarf, grow a hundred times in size. "Young sorcery fans...set aside harry Potter and pick up Merlin. --The Cincinnati Enquirer Bugger!

That must be a pretty easy fad to cash in on, "THE REVIEWER SAID IT WAS LIKE HARRY POTTER! I'VE GOTTA GET IT ON PREORDER AT AMAZON!"

That, or some kind of grand unified conspiracy theory ala the davinci code. I'm sure if I wrote a book containing wizards AND the illuminati (who have a weather control machine, and are behind everything from the JFK assassination to the release of crystal pepsi) it would probably skyrocket to the top of the new york times bestseller list.

Oh...well. Actually no, I'd have to just throw in one obligatory "controversial" aspect. So people would believe it was somehow edgy and subversive. Once you get on CNN you can be a plagarist and/or a hack, it dosen't matter. Because it's a hot button issue of some sort.

edit: No I'm not really criticizing either of the books I used as examples, so the fanbase can stop sharpening their pitchforks..I do feel it would be very easy to write a novel with incredibly loose basis in fact, that somehow unified most all popular conspiracy theories under some large umbrella, and have people buy it and possibly go around saying it "raises alot of good points' though.

But seriously, I like the Harry Potter books, the Artemis Fowl books and Maniac Magee. I can totally understand these books will have people who don't find them thier cup of tea.

As far as books I hated/ found boring go, there's Jane Eyre, which had me faling asleep quite literally.

Also, I found that I lack the patience needed to read the LOTR books. It's sad, becasue I kind-of liked the movies...

Anywho, the above mentioned books are just too dull for my tastes.

But I do like three Shakespere books. Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Hamlet.

TTFN.

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Shakespere books.

..Plays. Shakespeare wrote plays.

(Yes yes, I'm aware there were also sonnets and a couple of narrative poems)

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I found that I lack the patience needed to read the LOTR books

I've only read the Hobbit...apparently the LOTR trilogy is better.

I'd hope it is, since to be honest...yeah, that did seem to kind of just drag on and on the more I read it.

edit: Somebody mentioned Siddhartha a while back, which is funny.

I've long had this theory you can basically claim anything represents death, and have it seem completely valid.

Well during my senior year, we read Siddhartha. There was a question on a test...I think it involved Kamala's bird but I can't quite remember...anyway, it was about what symbolism something in one of the later chapters had. And I honestly couldn't remember, so I just went to my old standby and said it represented death. Apparently I was right.

So Siddhartha indirectly validated my theory.

I have another Shakespear l like. The Twelfth Night.

As far as books I find dull/ hate...I'd have to pick out the manga Death Note because I read it once and put it down, never to pick it up agian. >.>

LIGHT TALKS TOO GOD-DAMNED MUCH.

TTFN.

Chitter-Box-Cat

I'd just like to point out that Great Expectations by Charles Dickens is incredibly boring. I honestly began to find the bookmark I was using more interesting after about the fourth word. Believe me, nobody loves books about orphans and abusive caretakers more than I do, but this one is just plain boring.