Which books bored you to tears?

guitarczar · 09-18-2005, 12:56 AM

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Originally Posted by JBanana

Gullivers Travels was really boring. I couldn't make it through the introduction.

I couldn't get into Great Expectation by Dickens. It just bored me to near virtual tears. I hate it when a classic novel is really a boring book that goes on and on and seemingly never ends

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I enjoyed Great Expectations, which is actually the only Dickens book I have read. He's does a great job of developing the characters. The ending has twists too. I suppose I could put up with his longer descriptive style because that's how I like to write as well. Very original descriptions. I was at one point going to attempt to read David Copperfield, but 1000 + pages, that's a lot.

smhatahy · 09-18-2005, 01:14 AM

LOTR Trilogy... which is weird because i like "The Hobbit" a lot

Crafter333 · 09-20-2005, 07:30 AM

"The Mayor of Casterbridge", by Thomas Hardy. It gets better, near the end, but it's not a "great" work, by any stretch of the imagination.

For the first hundred pages, or so, "The Count of Monte Cristo", but then I really got into it. One of my favorite books, now.

I couldn't get into Great Expectations, at all, which stinks, 'cause I've heard it's really good. I tried to get into it, but something about the style...

*sigh* I'll have to try it again some time.

Boy Genius · 09-20-2005, 08:27 PM

Don't bother; Dickens was at his worst with Great Expectations. Horrible style, content - you name it, he had it wrong.

As for The Count of Monte Cristo - exquisete. I loved that book.

**adamwagg** · 09-20-2005, 08:43 PM

I dont think that 20 pages into a book you can really say if you are bored - give the author a chance. If you get halfway or 100-200 pages then that is fine.

20 pages is just soft and lazy.

But the book that really bored me was Tailor of the Panama. I got about 3/4 of the way through realised I was bored and didnt actuallly care what happened so I stopped.

Boy Genius · 09-20-2005, 09:04 PM

I will stop up to the halfway point (or thereabouts) when reading a book. After that though, I kind of feel obligated to read until the end, even if it is completely boring.
(This rule usually only applies to fiction [in the form of novels] though.)

AlphaSigma · 10-21-2005, 11:12 PM

"Tale of Two Cities" just bored the snot outta me, no joke.

bobthecockroach · 10-21-2005, 11:20 PM

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Originally Posted by adamwagg

I dont think that 20 pages into a book you can really say if you are bored - give the author a chance. If you get halfway or 100-200 pages then that is fine.

20 pages is just soft and lazy.

Seriously.

apologia · 10-21-2005, 11:37 PM

Robinson Crusoe. I dunno why, but I find it quite boring. Maybe I'm just not into how the details of how two ppl can survive on an island. But then again, I only read until page 60 or something. Oh but I find LOTR very interesting. I can read the whole book in 3 days. Or less if I was stuck in prison.

Sunkist · 10-22-2005, 12:36 AM

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Originally Posted by Only Alive

I thought War of the Worlds was a very good book. Just not too exciting.
And Frankenstein... blech... no need to comment on that one.
I also thought The Scarlet Letter was kinda dumb / boring.

-Nick

I found The Scarlet Letter to be rather boring.

I made it about thirty pages into the first Left Behind book and stopped reading it. (I was glad I had only paid a dollar for it at a garage sale.)

Braid · 10-23-2005, 11:35 AM

Agreed. The Scarlett Letter was horridly boring.

I found all of Shakespeares' works to be boring and then I reread them last year/this year and found that I actually enjoyed them. Of course, I was ten when I first attempted to read them...

Leather Stocking by James Fenimore Cooper was also horridly boring. I have never attempted to read it again.

BelovedOne · 01-23-2006, 09:11 PM

I actually really enjoyed Frankenstein.

Dickens bored me to death.. primarily because his grammar irritated me so badly that I could never get into any of his stories.

But by far, the worse was Tropic of Capricorn by Henry Miller.

SageMenno · 03-18-2006, 01:27 PM

Shakespeare's works, The War of the Worlds, Moby Dick, The Great Gatsby, pretty much anything I was ever forced to read in school, with the exception of The Crucible. I love reading, but wow some books are just incredibly boring.

LefseRae · 03-18-2006, 01:31 PM

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Originally Posted by SageMenno

Shakespeare's works, The War of the Worlds, Moby Dick, The Great Gatsby, pretty much anything I was ever forced to read in school, with the exception of The Crucible. I love reading, but wow some books are just incredibly boring.

Yeah, Moby Dick was just....Uff Da. I mean, I only want to know so much about whale hunting when I read a novel!

Wuthering Heights wasn't so much boring as it was freaky. Really really freaky. But boring too.

Boy Genius · 03-18-2006, 01:37 PM

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Shakespeare's works, The War of the Worlds, Moby Dick, The Great Gatsby

Ironically, I enjoyed all of the works you've just mentioned.