I can see how, without any guidance, Pride and Prejudice would be a rather boring book, but class discussions about this book have, by far, been the most interesting for me. I enjoyed the book a lot.

I had a difficult time with The Stranger.

Class discussions also helped me understand and enjoy that novel.

I couldn't stand Kate Chopin's "The Awakening."

I've never read "Awakening," but I do remember liking Kate Chopin's short stories.

Most boring throng of reading so far has got to be ALMOST everything first semester of Lit Hum. Thucydides's "History of the Pellopenisian [f**k the spelling] war." UGH, torture.

great expectations by charles dickens.
i just can't seem to finish it..:/

A Tale Of Two Cities


...was absolutely pathetic.

The Da Vinci Code.
Talk about crap bound in card.

amen!

The Stranger. The book was ok but it was boring.

Moby Dick.

Literary torture.

a countess below stairs. it was supost to be a romance novel but out of 500 pages about 30 of them actualy had somethinng about the main charicters. it was SO off topic

Honestly, I think the most boring book I read was The Odyssey. I find Greek Mythology interesting when I am being taught it, but I can't read it. I can't remember how many times I fell asleep reading that book. So many people loved it, but it just wasn't me.

great expectations. omg.
i just remember reading about an old lady who lived in a house in which everything seemed like it was stopped in time. and also, a boy named pip. haha

The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby
The Joy Luck Club
The Great Gatsby

But I have to opine on a few names here. The Odyssey? That book ruled. I got sent to the counselor's office for laughing out loud during the ending, which has a huge, bloody massacre. And Fahrenheit 451 was hilarious. You can't really get a better turning point in a novel than melting your oppressive boss with a flamethrower.

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, hands down.

gatsby's plot wasn't bad, i just detest fitzgerald's writing style.

The plot was awful to me. Gatsby was supposed to be built up as this omniscient entity that ultimately fell short to the very humanistic qualities that made him a mystery to begin with, but all it did was make the narrator seem like a naive douchebag. When that's established (literary critics call that the "transit of doucheness"), the element of contrasting the frivolous, aristocratic characters to the consequences of what reality actually brings beyond their spectrum is pretty much defeated, since the eyes we're seeing the events unfold through aren't deemed to even be credible.

At least the movie was entertaining, but only in regards to the actor playing Nick being so wooden and unemotional that I could pretend he was a cyborg sent to analyze and assassinate the protagonists.

Also, I concur with Romeo and Juliet being horrible. As far as I was concerned, the main villains were those two shoving their lovey-dovey romance sequences in my face, and the lead hero was the dagger that ended everything (although I would have chosen a meteorite). The dagger definitely deserved way more time in the spotlight, perhaps through a heartfelt monologue to wrap things up. We never even hear from the dagger's point of view. Fortunately, Hamlet and its hilarity redeemed Shakespeare for me in high school.

I laughed so hard when Daisy started to cry over clothes, sissy.

Z for Zachariah. I had to read it for school... so so boring.

and those american girl stories...

Oh my god, Great Expectations, hands freaking down. I couldn't even get past chapter one without getting bored. I don't know how I managed to get through the entire book -- though, nothing really stuck in my head. I don't even remember what it was about. That's how boring it was. ._.

Old Man and The Sea. Unless you really really like fishing hands down this is one of the worst books you will EVER read. Even my english teacher hates it.

A Separate Piece & The Number Devil: A Mathematical Adventure. Worst. Books. Ever.

Romeo and Juliet Scarlet Letter and
Moby Dick

I dont know if I can actually say that I've read it. It's definitely something assigned to read in class, but I normally read some of it and if it's too boring then I end up reading it on spark notes.

Maybe Heart of Darkness. I can't remember if I liked the Great Gatsby or not... or if I even read it.

In Dubious Battle, by Steinbeck.

And..... can't remember the title, but we had to read it for sophomore lit. Something with "country" in the title. It was about South Africa post apartheid. I wanted to kill the narrator. Actually, I don't even remember if the narrator was an actual person in the story or if he (it) was some omniscient being or something. It was boring.