I've read a couple I just can't remember that names. Why don't you tell me yours..

The Scarlet Letter.

I just could NOT get into it. The worst part was that I had to write an essay about it. If I'm not into it AND it's for school, it makes the book 100x worse.

I even thought Fahrenheit 451 was much more interesting. Anyone see the movie for that? Mmmm

Oh man, that book ruled. The epitome of manliness. I got kicked out of the library for laughing out loud at the part where he reminisces about engaging in a non-stop multi-day arm wrestling match so grueling that their fingernails were shooting out blood.

All quiet on the western front.

I never read the book, but I saw the movie and boy, was it was depressing. I could see how the book could be boring, though.

Bill Clinton's Auto Biography was so f**king boring.

JANE EYRE.

oh my god. i wanted to shoot myself.

and we had to watch the movie afterwards -__________-"

what the heckkk. i loved that book ><

ACROSS FIVE APRILS HAS TO BE THE BORINGEST BOOK EVER

I read 'charlotte church's' autobiography.
Well half of it, i didn't manage to finish, it wasn't all that interesting.

a midsummer nights dream

"The Double" Jose Saramago
Its about this guy who's having a dead end job and one night rents a movie and while watching see's someone that looks exactly like him. He goes off and searches for this mystery guy and..... thats all I've read and rememberd. hahaha

Anyways it was hard to read because Saramago's style is to not use any quotation marks or anything else but commas and periods.
It's hard to get into his style if you're use to regular books.

But a Great book that I loved by him was Blindness.
ITS BECOMING A MOVIE AND OMG YAY.

I think the thing about All Quiet On The Western Front is that it isn't particularly about plot, so it isn't for everyone. It's more about characterization, how war manifests itself within these sacks of flesh and blood and transforms it into something unseen before. That's its primary focus, and I've always been a person with a passion for characters and their idiosyncrasies and how dynamic and fluctuating their fundamental core is, so I thought the book was fascinating, but I think people who prefer plot-driven things won't like it as much.

And I personally never could get into Cry, The Beloved Country, by Alan Paton, which is really strange because black studies and such really fascinate me.

YES, YES, THAT WAS THE BOOK.

So sloooooooooooww.

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. had to read it for school and it was probably the worst book i've ever read.

that and O, Pioneers! by NOT IMPORTANT BECAUSE THE BOOK WAS A PIECE OF ......poop. :D

honestly, no point to any of the books. jane eyre is supposed to be this "girly" book but it was focused on a plain jane and her boring life. it was not exciting to read. neither was O, Pioneers. that book was such ish that our teacher decided we didn't have to finish it. we just watched the movie instead (it stars heather graham but her performance was ... not that great)

oi vey. The Great Gatsby and Of Mice and Men. The first was soooooooo dry, and the latter just boring as hell. Bleck.

um macbeth in the beginning but it got okay at the end, but only because my teacher had to freakin translate the story from old english to modern english or whatever.

the golden compass sucked.
and middlemarch was boring, or really anything by george eliot

What the hell. Half of the books listed are actually really good and interesting if you dig deeper into their social and literary context. Hell, some of them are just interesting to read.

Get off your asses, turn off the TV, and start spending more time at the library.

history books.

no, math books are worse

I tried to read the dictionary once...

The Tempest-Shakespeare

Also, my history book. It's a college book even tho im a freshman in high school. It's horrible

That's what I was thinking through this whole thread. A couple of the books mentioned are my favorites.

However, I truly detest Hawthorne's writing style, and thus, The Scarlet Letter didn't work for me.

What's all this about Moby Dick being bad? I loved reading it.

Some people just have different tastes. I personally liked The Great Gatsby, Fahrenheit 451, and Uglies (these are all books listed by other people as boring/not liked), but I'm not about to bash someone else for thinking they're boring.

^ uh, good for you? what, are you setting yourself up to be an example for the rest of us? bc i really don't think anybody cares what you are or are not about to do. anyways, i wasn't bashing anybody, especially since it is perfectly legitimate for anybody to say that someone else's tastes just sucks.

Anyways, I hate Nathaniel Hawthorne's writing. While interesting to analyze, I personally think St. Augustine's Confessions was a drag to read. Dante's Inferno is pretty good, but I couldn't get through Purgatorio nor Paradiso. I hated Virgil's Aeneid. Aeneas is a dull, dull, dull character. Dido's pretty awesome and dramatic, but Aeneas... not so much.

I think most people just prefer INTENSE ZOMG THRILLING STORYLINE over a true literary uh..gem? because the general public has already been force fed action-esque movies/shows their entire lives. they're simply not used to reading about the "mundane" life of characters that don't get blown up? what? boring! classics are obviously classics for a reason, but some people just can't or don't know how to appreciate literary devices, intriguing conversations, diction, etc etc

^ that, and i also think that most of the classic, old books that are simply good provide an insightful and interesting social commentary about how people of certain time periods lived, etc.