Yet the tales it tells are far more adventurous and epic than anything in the Lord of the rings. How he could make the battle of Morgoth seem dull is incredible. How the Numonoreans and their island and the silmarils could be so boring is incredible.
What's the most tedious book you're ever read.
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Yet the tales it tells are far more adventurous and epic than anything in the Lord of the rings. How he could make the battle of Morgoth seem dull is incredible. How the Numonoreans and their island and the silmarils could be so boring is incredible.
the way of all flesh by samuel butler.
let's just say the title is misleading
let's just say the title is misleading
One Hundred Years of Solitude
^ this.
I liked Catcher in the Rye. Read it when I was 17, same age as the lad in the story. iirc.
Right now I'd probably just want to slap the fecker silly and tell him to cop on.
Same here, I think it was the speech in particular that I couldn't stand.
I'll always have a hatred for Cider with Rosie after it being one of our GCSE english books and having 50 question fecking tests on each chapter. Our English teacher was a gimp.
for the Irish lads: Peig has to be one of the worst books I've ever had the misfortune to read. Mandatory too for us, back in the day.
One Hundred Years of Solitude and For Whom the Bell Tolls are two of the best books I've ever read.
To each his own I guess.
To each his own I guess.
I read it when I was only a little out of my teens and I found it irritatingly patronising.
Good call. Unreadable mystic bollocks.
what about "zen & the art of motorcycle maintenance". a friend of mine read that and he said it changed his life. I read it and thought it was shite.
same for "prince of tides". a female friend said it moved her completely or words to that affect. I thought that was shite too.
same for "prince of tides". a female friend said it moved her completely or words to that affect. I thought that was shite too.
Now there's one I really can agree with. I only read 50 pages or so and just found it to be a waste of time.
I read the whole feckin thing, waiting for enlightenment. it never came, only the realisation that I wasted all that time reading it.
I guess it's one of those books that worked better in the sixties.
Did anyone read "The Monk who sold his Ferrari"? That's another one of those "will change your life"- books that I was recommended by a friend who said that it has changed his whole perspective on life. It's about abandoning consumerism, eating fruit, finding true joy or whatever. It didn't do anything for me.
Did anyone read "The Monk who sold his Ferrari"? That's another one of those "will change your life"- books that I was recommended by a friend who said that it has changed his whole perspective on life. It's about abandoning consumerism, eating fruit, finding true joy or whatever. It didn't do anything for me.
I'll get that "Monk..." one for the wife.
Yep. ZATAOMM is complete gibberish. I think POT was aimed at the Ophra type audience.
100 Years of Solitude, Cider with Rosie and Zen were all great reads I think.
sure, you actually read it.Oooh, actually, I take back Slaughterhouse Five. The two most tedious books I've ever read were:
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemmingway, and
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert.
I think if I had to choose the most boring out of those two it'd be Madame Bovary, because I was actually forced to finish it.
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemmingway, and
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert.
I think if I had to choose the most boring out of those two it'd be Madame Bovary, because I was actually forced to finish it.
A room with a View. Utter shite from E.M. Forster.
I guess I'm the only one with the common sense to stop reading something I find tedious.
I remember 'The Canterbury Tales' being like chinese water torture but that was part of the curriculum when I was a lad. I'd like to burn every copy though.
I remember 'The Canterbury Tales' being like chinese water torture but that was part of the curriculum when I was a lad. I'd like to burn every copy though.
you obviously haven't read Passage to India
Is it that bad? I've had it on a shelf for 10 years but have yet to find the strength to finally start reading it.
I know what you mean. I wonder if it would make any more sense now that I'm not a kid any more. That feeling of just NOT getting any of it was incredibly frustrating.
I'd have to throw in a vote for '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea' - it's just a series of lists. Very much less exciting than I was expecting.
Germinal by Emile Zola. By the end you will want to eat your face in despair.
now you're just being contrary.