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What is the most boring book you've ever read cover to cover?

>> No.10537105

I disliked the great Gatsby, that was hard to read.

>> No.10537109

your diary dehsu

>> No.10537117

American Psycho

>> No.10537121

>>10537087
Catcher in the Rye

>> No.10537126
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>>10537109

>> No.10537311

>>10537121
I'll fight all you Salinger haters

>> No.10537318

>>10537087
The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad

WORST FUCKING BOOK IVE EVER READ

>> No.10537337

moby dick.

>> No.10537344

The Seven Pillars of Wisdom

>> No.10537347

>>10537337
You'll never be happy, you'll live a bad life

>> No.10537348

>>10537087
3-way tie between The Alchemist, Night and Things Fall Apart

>> No.10537349

>>10537087
catcher in the rye,
summary: Waaaa im a teenager...waaaaa!
or
to sail beyond the sunset by heinlein
summary: a time traveling nymphomaniac fucks everybody and tries to fuck her father, and eventually her kids. The fucking doesnt stop, last 30 pages her incestious brood goes back in time to help britian defend againist the german firebomb attacks in WW2, the end. P.S: she has a cat that walks through walls, ok?

>> No.10537355

>>10537087
The Castle, Kafka

>> No.10537359

the bible

>> No.10537940

>>10537087
The pile of hot steaming shit which is Anna Karenina.

>> No.10537948

>>10537359
Only correct answer ITT

>> No.10537949

Parrot in the oven.
I wanted to put the fucking book in the oven after reading that waste of time.

>> No.10537974

>>10537359
BEGAT BEGAT BEGAT BEGAT BEGAT BEGAT BEGAT BEGAT BEGAT BEGAT BEGAT BEGAT BEGAT BEGAT BEGAT BEGAT BEGAT BEGAT BEGAT BEGAT BEGAT BEGAT BEGAT BEGAT BEGAT BEGAT BEGAT BEGAT BEGAT BEGAT BEGAT BEGAT BEGAT BEGAT BEGAT BEGAT BEGAT BEGAT BEGAT BEGAT BEGAT BEGAT BEGAT BEGAT BEGAT BEGAT BEGAT BEGAT BEGAT BEGAT BEGAT BEGAT

>> No.10537999
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10537999

>>10537359
>>10537948
>>10537974
The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

>> No.10538054

>>10537311
Couldn't finish the book, fight /me/

>> No.10538177

>>10537121
Well, at least i can know this anon didn't kill Lennon

>> No.10538185

Anything posted by the MSM or NASA tbqh

Former CIA Pilot claims the MOON has over 250 Million citizens:
http://www.worldwide876media.com/pilot-moon-250-million-citizens/

>> No.10538211

Metro 2033

Not only the most boring book I've ever read but also the worst. If you can imagine reading the same three descriptions of scenes across ~550 pages then you've read it. I only finished it because autism.

>> No.10538257

>>10537087
*th*n Fr*me
Anyone who thinks this book is good should be thrown off a cliff.

>> No.10538292

Wise Man's Fear although I skimmed through some of it.

>> No.10538319

Brothers Karamazov

>> No.10538404

Ulysses.

>> No.10538466

>>10537940
>>10538319
kys

>> No.10538616

>>10537087
Wow everybody in this thread has fucking brain AIDS

>> No.10538656

City of God. Fucking useless philosophy that makes no sense today

>> No.10538676

>>10538404
'fuck outta here

>> No.10538773

>>10538656
>he didn't read confessions
hahahahah

>> No.10538808

>>10538211
I got it because a friend bought the game on my steam account I was sharing with him. Loved it and thought I'd give the book a shot. Didn't get past the first 50 pages tbf. Another buddy of mine grabbed it from me and liked it though, but then again, he's kind of a pleb.

>> No.10538822

>>10537121
Same

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10538833

Not awful but compared to his other stuff it's just plain dull.

>> No.10539002

Belka, Why Don't You Bark?
Meaningless stuff happens, dogs fuck, more meaningless stuff, old man kills people, even more meaningless shit, who gives a fuck

>> No.10539006

>>10537087
DESU Dracula by Bram Stoker is prettty dry.

Diary of Ann Frank is probably the worst though.

>> No.10539020

Tess of the D'urbervilles

>> No.10539043

>>10538773
Bitch of course I read confessions, it doesn't mean that 1000 pages on why Christianity is better than Roman religion has any influence on my atheist life

>> No.10539086

>>10538656
St Augustine is lower-tier in over-all theological importance while being highest-tier in terms of influence and historical importance. His true value comes from comparing him to his contemporaries, seeing where he went wrong, and seeing what his truly brilliant insights were. He's both ridiculously overrated and extremely undervalued in the West.

>> No.10539265

>>10537087
The Iliad. Thought I'd be patrician for book report in HS English class and regretted it sincerely. The book was a drag with all the talk of "Achilles of the Swift Feet" or "Odysseus the Micropenis", mixed in with some god talk and whatnot. Because it was on a time schedule, I had to force myself through 20 pages a day to meet the deadline, and the only thing keeping me going was the knowledge that if I slacked off that day, I'd be reading 40 pages the next day.

>> No.10539271

>>10537087
stoner

>> No.10539312

>>10537999
trips of truth

>> No.10539374
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>> No.10539383

The lord of the rings trilogy.

>> No.10539402

>>10537349
to sail beyond the sunset by heinlein
summary: a time traveling nymphomaniac fucks everybody and tries to fuck her father, and eventually her kids. The fucking doesnt stop, last 30 pages her incestious brood goes back in time to help britian defend againist the german firebomb attacks in WW2, the end. P.S: she has a cat that walks through walls, ok
You make this sound like a fucking crazy read.
How badly does someone have to fuck up about time travelling incest and stopping firebombs for it to be a boring book?

>> No.10539405

>>10537348
You thought Night was boring you piece of cockroach shit

>> No.10539447

Moby Dick
To The Lighthouse

would rather count the hair in my ass than having to read those again

>> No.10539465

>>10537999
The divinely inspired has questionable authorship: thus is the maxim of the deluded, convinced they are wise and saved.

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>>10539271

>> No.10539487

>>10537117
>>10537337
you men are stronger than I. I set down both around halfway through

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>>10539465
>The divinely inspired has questionable authorship
I believe the historically attested authorship of each book, but, as you say, they're Divinely inspired, so the authorship isn't of great importance.

>> No.10539557

this thread is like 1 for 40

the 1 is this man >>10538185

>> No.10539559

...and these are the people that I get my book recommendations and opinions from.

>> No.10539602

>>10539559
This thread is the last straw. I'm never coming back to this place again. See you guys tomorrow

>> No.10539951

the old man and the sea

>> No.10539979

>>10537087
Aristotles Organon

>> No.10539984

>>10539530
>I believe the historically attested authorship of each book
A lot of the Bible is anonymous or pseudonymous, not sure what you mean here.

>> No.10539988

>>10537087
None of them. Because I hate myself, but I don't hate myself that much.

>> No.10539991

>>10537087
Dracula

>> No.10540071

Lord of the rings
Infinite jest
Helliconia trilogy
Dune
Eragon

>> No.10540086

>>10537087
The Pale King

>> No.10540096

>>10539265
uhhhhhh
i mean homer can kinda drone on sometimes i agree but
uhhhh

>> No.10540104

>>10540071
>>10540086
Dfw's not very boring, v conversational prose, always changing gears.

>> No.10540128

>>10537087
Erich Fromm's Escape From Freedom. The the words "emphasis," "importance," and "significance" appear on nearly every page. It's like writing an entire book in emphatic bold.

>> No.10540153

Probably the grapes of wrath.

>> No.10540279

>>10539602
Gave me a chuckle. 6/10

>> No.10540285

I might get a lot of shit for this, but Iliad (Odyssey was dope though).

>> No.10540432

>>10539383
I kinda like what Tolkien was going for, but for the life of me, I can't get past halfway through the first book.
And I've tried several times.

>> No.10540511

Homo "whiny incest" Faber

>> No.10540612

Jane Eyre

my only takeaway was that the life of a 19th century governess is fucking BORING

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>>10537337
DEEELELEEEET

>> No.10541297

>>10539383
>trilogy

It's one book

>> No.10542033

>>10537087
The Fountainhead, I can't imagine being a libertarian or enjoying that trash. We should force any libertarian to read Ayn Rand until they change their mind.

>> No.10542269

>>10537087
Haha I dunno my dude
Pretty much all of them

>> No.10542278

>>10540677
Arrrggtthhhthghg.

>> No.10542284

>>10537087
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

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10542319

I had to read it for a thesis. Autism in architectural form.

>muh social systems
>muh complex ordered systems
>muh hegemonic global style

kys schumacher

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>>10539265
>Odysseus the Micropenis

>> No.10542567

>>10537087
The Dean's fucking December.
Memorably boring, sets up at least three plot threads, develops one, resolves none. Can't understand why people praise Bellow here.

>>10537337
One instance I don't feel bad recommending the movie over the book. Sets up a cracking adventure story plot, then NOTHING HAPPENS for hundreds of pages.

>>10538319
I've attempted this several times, finally just gave up, Dostoyevsky can't write characters for shit anyway, only famous in the West for his slavic mysticism that makes Russia seem more exotic.

>> No.10542619

The Name of the Rose

>> No.10542722

>Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
stuff barely hapened and half way through I was bored to death by the ocean life descriptions
I mean, it must be interesting to some marine biologist but it made the whole thing awfully repetitive

>> No.10542762

>>10542567
>Dostoyevsky can't write characters for shit anyway
The characters in Demons are quite good, real, and true to life archetypes anon. I hain't read his other tomes.

>> No.10542786

>>10542033
>We should force any libertarian to read Ayn Rand
Sounds really hard.

>> No.10542807

>>10537355

I would never be one to deny Kafka's greatness or brilliance, but The Castle is definitely in the top two of my
most boring books I've finished. The other one is Kazuo Ishiguro's The Unconsoled .

>> No.10542986

>>10537087
Ulysses
Gravity’s Rainbow
Infinite Jest