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..

[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.