Which books bored you to tears?

Kenny C. · 07-22-2005, 09:54 PM

Well, not to tears but the Lord of the Rings trilogy bored me. I could never get into those books. The Harry Potter books also bored me. But the book that I went into with high hopes and was ASTOUNDINGLY bored by it was Frankenstein. It wasn't so much the story that bored me, but Shelley's writing style.
-Kenny

natedawg5280 · 07-22-2005, 09:58 PM

I'd say every book has boring aspects.. like the aboveward mentioned ones... but those one's I found fantastic... (Though I never read Frankenstein)
'War of the Worlds' was very boring. In my opinion.

Boy Genius · 07-22-2005, 10:14 PM

Frankenstein would have been better off if Mary Shelley had paid someone else to write it and then shot herself.

Okay, maybe it wasn't quite that bad, but it really, really needed work. As you said, her style was what destroyed the book.

DualPhilologist · 07-23-2005, 05:55 PM

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Originally Posted by natedawg5280

'War of the Worlds' was very boring. In my opinion.

Yes! Me too! After The Time Machine, I was expecting something at least halfway decent. But I had to make myself finish that.

I've read a lot of boring books: anything by Willa Cather (Death Comes for the Archbishop, My Antonia), Vanity Fair, Gulliver's Travels, and more I've probably tried to block from my memory. But, the most boring book I have ever read has to be Ivanhoe. Nothing happens. At all. For like 800 pages. Well, practically nothing, anyway. Nothing interesting, that's for sure.

**Wesley7777** · 07-24-2005, 11:06 PM

Harry Potter, i got about 60 pages into the first book and i noticed that my tears were making water spots on the pages.

muffinmonkey007 · 07-24-2005, 11:15 PM

The left behind books kept my intrest until the forth one, so i stopped reading them after that.

Boy Genius · 07-25-2005, 05:33 PM

Impressive...you made it all the way to the fourth book.

Really though, I can't talk, because I read them as a twelve year old and thought they were great. Then I read real literature, and of course I loathe the Left Behind books now.

**JBanana** · 07-25-2005, 11:17 PM

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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KingdomHeart44 · 07-25-2005, 11:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Kenny C.

Well, not to tears but the Lord of the Rings trilogy bored me. I could never get into those books. The Harry Potter books also bored me. But the book that I went into with high hopes and was ASTOUNDINGLY bored by it was Frankenstein. It wasn't so much the story that bored me, but Shelley's writing style.
-Kenny

i cant stand some of the Tom Clancy series... Except for Splinter Cell. IT ROCKED!

bassist_4_Him · 07-26-2005, 01:38 PM

i attempted to read war of the worlds about a year ago, i am still on pg 27

TheProdigalModern · 07-27-2005, 07:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Boy Genius

Frankenstein would have been better off if Mary Shelley had paid someone else to write it and then shot herself.

You've obviously never tried to read Valpurga. Frankenstein is a masterpiece in comparison. (And, in all fairness, it was her masterpiece.)

Visirale · 07-27-2005, 08:11 AM

Obasan, Le Morte d'Arthur... I'm sure there are plenty of others, but I've done my best to remove the emotional scarring they caused.

**Only Alive** · 07-27-2005, 10:47 AM

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Originally Posted by natedawg5280

I'd say every book has boring aspects.. like the aboveward mentioned ones... but those one's I found fantastic... (Though I never read Frankenstein)
'War of the Worlds' was very boring. In my opinion.

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

Gracie Love · 07-27-2005, 11:17 AM

For some reason the Hobbit doesn't keep my attention but then again I am not a very avid reader. I have a learning disability that makes it hard for me to understand what I read so I end up reading things at least twice before I can move on so that has a lot to do with me being bored with the hobbit. I want to read it, I just haven't got into it yet.

Beowulf · 07-27-2005, 04:34 PM

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Originally Posted by JBanana

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 totally agree. My eyes glazed over when I read Great Expectations, and I missed a large portion of that book because the sane part of my brain ran away screaming. Most of Dickens's books are like that. I cannot remember any of Tale of Two Cities except for, like, the last 2 pages.