Most Boring Book You've Ever Read? Options

[Luna5]

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

[feferity]

I hated the Scarlet Letter =( i had to read it for school, and it was pretty dull. Also, most of the "romance books" i read are pretty boring. They all have the same formula, are usually very slow-paced and with the same *stereotype* characters, and the end is always the same in all of them.

[MissHygienic]

JOHNNY TREMAIN.
LITTLE WOMEN.
RASCAL.
THINGS FALL APART.
TALE OF TWO CITIES.
ECONOMIC SCENES.
MOBY DICK.
HEART OF DARKNESS.
ALL POETRY.

More to come. I have to use all-caps to express my hatred for boring books. Such a waste of time because sometimes, you expect the book to get more interesting instead of more dull.

[transcendentalis...]

^Moby Dick is HORRIBLE.
Great Expectations for me... i couldn't keep track of all those characters.

actually i just don't like reading books for school, except for the ones we read up until 8th grade.

[Luna5]

I wouldn't read those books either.

[Joss-eh-lime]

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea was so boring I didn't bother to finish it.

[dustbunny]

i liked great expectations even though it was a bitch to finish it in a day.

uh trumpeter of krakow? i read that in like 5th grade and thought it was the most boring piece of crap ever.

[RealTalk]

I hate Scarlet Letter too. I hated how at some parts it would be really good then the author would drone on for a whole chapter on description. It seems like every time I attempted to read I'd fall asleep or end up reading the page three times.

[karmakiller]

I started reading Paint It Black, but it was a drag to read. It honestly felt like I was reading a freshmen's paper. I read The Dante Club, and it took me a while and I got a bit bored just because of the advanced vocabulary in it.

[xoxo_proud]

Life of Pi
The Gossip Girls Series
The Uglies
The Bean Trees

I'll think of more...

[ersatz]

The Uglies. What a piece of shit book.

[Luna5]

I started reading Paint It Black, but it was a drag to read. It honestly felt like I was reading a freshmen's paper. I read The Dante Club, and it took me a while and I got a bit bored just because of the advanced vocabulary in it.

I have "The Dante Club" and couldn't finish it either.

[superstitious]

A Thousand Acres, easily.

[LoveToMySilas]

It was some book called, "The Sword". I think I almost fell alseep through the first chapter...I don't think I even finished it.

[brooklyneast05]

JOHNNY TREMAIN.

i liked that book.


some book called ummmmmm a light in the forest? lights in the forest? the light in the forest? idk, it was about some indian boy and it sucked, i could barely get through it.

[MissHygienic]

i liked that book.

YOU'RE KIDDING.

I read it in grade school, and I could not stand that book for the life of me. We always read a few chapters in class by ourselves, you know, "reading time," and I ended up falling asleep more than once. So boring.

[xoxo_proud]

The Uglies. What a piece of shit book.

Yeah. I didn't get very far. I can't stand the way the author writes

And I could never get through the first harry potter book. I love the rest of the series, though

[Jennifer]

Some book called Lake At The End Of The World.. it made no sense, I hated it. And I HAD to read it, because it was for school. I don't recommend it. To anyone

[karmakiller]

I have "The Dante Club" and couldn't finish it either.

I think it'd be a good book if I didn't have to look up a lot of words. The first time I read A Clockwork Orange, I was like "Huhhh?" that whole time.

[synthase]

I can't stand The Time Machine.


SO FREAKING BORINGG

How is Uglies boring? I mean, I get that it drags on in the beginning but toward the end it's AWESOME! & its worth the read.

[Joss-eh-lime]

i loved Uglies! has anyone read the whole series?

boring= Perks of Being a Wallflower

[Amaranthus]

Farenheit 451
The one Kurt Vonnegut story
Great Expectations
Romeo and Juliet


I liked Johnny Tremain, though.

[Stumbleine]

I liked Fahrenheit 451! It was one of the only books I read in school that I liked..

I thought Middlesex was pretty boring...

[Smarmosaur]

And I could never get through the first harry potter book. I love the rest of the series, though

i didn't necesarily love the rest of them, but ditto...i think i spent years trying to finish that book and i never did. =D

what's that one...i'm pretty sure we all read it in elementary school. something about chocolate or fudge or something. i hated it so much i can't even remember what it's about.

[austinoutloud]

what's that one...i'm pretty sure we all read it in elementary school. something about chocolate or fudge or something. i hated it so much i can't even remember what it's about.

omg. that's so annoying that i cant remember it...i know ive read it, but i cant remember the exact title..wow, thats really annoying me now.

but the red pony by john steinbeck was a really boring book.
actually, anything by john steinbeck.

[babierain]

I remember I had to read Across Five Aprils in 8th grade, and it was pretty damn boring.
Theres way more than that, I just cant remember right now.

[avocadosnap]

Sadly enough..Harry Potter and the deathly hallows.
And I am supposed to be an HP nerd, lmao.
It just felt so..bleh. It was as if I'd already read it once.

-_-'

[freeflow]

Scarlet Letter if it wasn't for the movie I would have failed the test, and I kind of find Harry Potter boring for me too. I just can't get into it.

[brooklyneast05]

^ I LOVE HARRY POTTER

[ChristyChaos]

I remember I had to read Across Five Aprils in 8th grade, and it was pretty damn boring.
Theres way more than that, I just cant remember right now.

Boring book. Definitely.

I read Or Give Me Death & Little Women once.
Never reading them again.

[lkajsfklajskds]

great expectations by charles dickens

terrible, dont recommend it unless its mandatory for school.

i dont even think i actually finished it....

[freeflow]

^ I LOVE HARRY POTTER

Tell me something I don't know.

[missnh]

Great Expectations or A Tale of Two Cities. Dickens... v_v

[iDecay]

Romeo and Juliet, hands down. I couldn't take the damn plot and the complicated reading.

[Crash2]

Scarlet Letter if it wasn't for the movie I would have failed the test.

Hahaha I second that. The movie wasn't great either.

[freeflow]

I know! That mess was boring but I had to watch... fail english or watch the movie.

[Senta]

Uglies was soo good. the series always was a bit slow in the beginning, but they end great [: totally worth it. <3


I think...the most boring book I've ever read .. Magyk. :| & the last Harry Potter book.

[andherlayouts]

Sadly enough..Harry Potter and the deathly hallows.
And I am supposed to be an HP nerd, lmao.
It just felt so..bleh. It was as if I'd already read it once.

what!!? i loved that book i thought it was the best =0 =0 =0

I LOVE HARRY POTTER ASWELL !

o and i like the unfortunate events series anyone read?



as for the worst book ive read hmmmmmm:
has to be...i suppose thurdays child because i coulnt get through the first page
:/

[DoubleJ]

Romeo and Juliet. I just couldn't get into it, especially after seeing both movies.

[Luna5]

omg. that's so annoying that i cant remember it...i know ive read it, but i cant remember the exact title..wow, thats really annoying me now.

but the red pony by john steinbeck was a really boring book.
actually, anything by john steinbeck.

So was The Pearl

[luku]

^ My little sister is hates that book!

The most boring book for me to read was A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe.

Really boring.

[JokeInsideJoke]

Sadly enough..Harry Potter and the deathly hallows.
And I am supposed to be an HP nerd, lmao.
It just felt so..bleh. It was as if I'd already read it once.

-_-'

yeah, that and pride and prejuduce......

[*yrrnotelekktric*]

habibi and
under the feet of jesus.

both books for school.

major yawnage.

[Luna5]

habibi and
under the feet of jesus.

both books for school.

major yawnage.

I've never even heard of those books. Strange...

[MissHygienic]

Leviticus and Numbers.

[jaeman]

I stick with the entertaining ones.
Actually, I don't even remember what books I've read were boring.

[xCutUpAngelxxx]

i loved Uglies! has anyone read the whole series?

boring= Perks of Being a Wallflower

I'm pretty sure I read Uglies.It's by Scott Westerfeld, right?I haven't read the rest of the series yet.

OMGG.The Perks of Being a Wallflower is my FAVOURITE book of all time. <33

The most boring books I've ever read are Of Mice and Men by John Steinback (spell check) and Interview with a Vampire by Ann Rice (but the movie was good).

[freeridefight]

Life of Pi
it took forver for him to get in the boat

[Tracy-14]

Ugh, something by Mary Higgens Clark. I cant remember what book it was but I only kept reading it because I had to for class.

[livwho]

yeah, that and pride and prejudice......

One of my favorite books ever.

I couldn't make it through Gossip Girl.

[MissHygienic]

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.

[miyashu]

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.

Class discussions also helped me understand and enjoy that novel.

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

[Melissa]

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.

[ehsgee]

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

[michellerrific]

A Tale Of Two Cities


...was absolutely pathetic.

[S-Majere]

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

[Cataclysm]

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

amen!

[freeflow]

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

[absinthe]

Moby Dick.

Literary torture.

[JokeInsideJoke]

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

[lojay]

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.

[Teesa]

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

[Reidar]

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.

[arcanum]

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

[transcendentalis...]

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

[Reidar]

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.

[fire]

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

[Joanne]

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

[JokeInsideJoke]

and those american girl stories...

[Sprague]

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. ._.

[xhidethedetails]

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.

[pedophile]

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

[ToxicTaco]

Romeo and Juliet Scarlet Letter and
Moby Dick

[Angelala88]

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.

[venti-anemoi]

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.

[Just_Dream]

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

[Reidar]

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.

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.

[Packratofthemind]

All quiet on the western front.

[venti-anemoi]

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.

[ChangeofHeart]

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

[whoahitznikki]

JANE EYRE.

oh my god. i wanted to shoot myself.

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

[moninja]

boring= Perks of Being a Wallflower

what the heckkk. i loved that book ><

ACROSS FIVE APRILS HAS TO BE THE BORINGEST BOOK EVER

[Fluid]

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

[JokeInsideJoke]

a midsummer nights dream

[Flaunted]

"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.

[fig]

All quiet on the western front.

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.

[venti-anemoi]

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.

[TiffanyFactorial]

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)

[LennonLime]

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

[killingthebears]

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

[Melissa]

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.

[moorepocket]

history books.

[JokeInsideJoke]

history books.

no, math books are worse

[kryogenix]

I tried to read the dictionary once...

[gordita]

The Tempest-Shakespeare

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

[Ington]

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.

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.

[venti-anemoi]

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.

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.

[Melissa]

^ 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.

[dustbunny]

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

[Melissa]

^ 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.