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What is the most boring book you've read?

I'm talking about the most enervating, soul crushing slog you've ever endured to the end just to say you've read it in full

For me? It's the picture of dorian gray

>> No.12197413

>>12197390
Lolita

>> No.12197424

>>12197390
Anyone who doesn't say The Bible is lying

>> No.12197427

>>12197390
the one where he misspells all the words(but it's on purpose and very deep)

>> No.12197448

>>12197390
Wuthering Heights

>> No.12197452

>>12197424
Have you read the bible in full? If you have youve probably read some parts repeatedly and with enthusiasm.

>> No.12197462

>>12197390
Swan's Way. I don't fucking care why you prefer madelines during tea after church you self-absorbed fuck. Fuck you.

>> No.12197466

>>12197424
But im reading the kjv OT atm and its more of a pageturner than ivan ilyich and count of monte cristo was

>> No.12197468

fucking jane dried vagina eyre

>> No.12197469

>>12197448
... just .......

>> No.12197473

>>12197390
IJ

>> No.12197503

>>12197390

Tie between Jude the Obscure and The Tale of Genji. The latter because it's about 900 years old, translated, and a culture I'm foreign to. The former because it's shit.

>> No.12197514

line of beauty is up there
a lot of purgatorio sent me to sleep

>> No.12197573

The Republic

>> No.12197615

I promessi sposi for me. The only vaguely interesting bit was where the robber baron had a religious conversion, everything else was dull as dishwater.

>> No.12197618

>>12197413
came here to post this

>> No.12197625

The Pale King.

>> No.12197641

>>12197424
Parts of it maybe but other parts are definitely page turners, exodus up until they start describing the tabernacle is quite entertaining for example

>> No.12197670

Stoner. That's what I get for trusting /lit/

>> No.12197678

>>12197390
Tess of D'ubervilles or whatever.

>> No.12197679
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>>12197390
I'm not done with it yet but fucking Walden. I'm 300 pages in and this man wont stop talking about his fucking beans. Here are some stand out bean quotes:
>Most men I do not meet at all, for they seem not to have time; they are bust about their beans.
Look at this next one, he's fucking larping.
>Daily the beans saw me come to their rescue armed with a hoe, and thin the ranks of their enemies, filling up the trenches with weedy dead.
And my favorite
>What shall I learn of beans or beans of me?
There's an entire chapter dedicated to this dude's beans. Lots of good stuff as well but definitely could've been trimmed.

>> No.12197685

>>12197679
>bust
meant to type busy whoops

>> No.12197710

The Odyssey

>> No.12197726

On the road by Jack Kerouac

>> No.12197731

>>12197670
Came here to say this. Either Stoner or Moby Dick.

>> No.12197736

>>12197670
>>12197731
>Stoner
How is Stoner boring? It isn't even that long and that chapter where Stoner roasts Lomax' protege was some of the funniest shit I've ever read.

>> No.12197737

>>12197390
The Alchemist

>> No.12197738

>>12197424
the bible is pretty good

>> No.12197772

>>12197424
Christian who's read full bible here. Have to say some parts of Leviticus or numbers are pretty slow because they don't seem to have much plot, but are relevant to the parts that are actually good.

>> No.12197774

Notes from Underground. Dostoevsky is a meme.

>> No.12197779

>>12197731
>Moby Dick
KYS yourself

>> No.12197788

The Man Without Qualities, so fucking good at times but just so fucking long and full of rants

>>12197573
same

>> No.12197799

>>12197427
Faulkner?

>> No.12197802

>>12197390
La Nausée

>> No.12197805

>>12197726

Took me two tries. In between, I read Dharma Bums, and it made reading On the Road much easier and worthwhile.

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>>12197466
I recommend that you skip most of Psalm unless you are really into it. The repetition broke my will to continue for quite some time. I believe there was a precursor of repetition in an earlier chapter. If you are getting bored then skip ahead - that's better than stopping altogether.

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12197819

One of the only books I intend to never finish

>> No.12197828

>>12197726
Idk why but his hitchhiking stories are pretty entertaining to me.

>> No.12197836

Aristotle, Metaphysics
Fuck that faggot

>> No.12197841

>>12197390
>be poorfag
>find copy of Sword of Shannara in the gutter on the way home from school
>WTH, it beats going miles to the nearest library
>because needed book for book report
>736 page slog of tripe
>my introduction to fantasy literature
>after reading have to listen to friends fawn about how great it is
>fume in a silent rage
>fuck Terry Brooks

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Obsessive focus on minute detail can work very well if done properly but this book is like reading an encyclopedia
I had to take breaks just to get through it

>> No.12197858

Gravity's Rainbow

>> No.12197859

>>12197390
Thats a great book fag

>> No.12197861

>>12197842
>thinks reading the encyclopedia is boring compared to some of the turds in this thread
The dictionary is pretty good, too desu.

>> No.12197865

>>12197424
Leviticus and Numbers, sure. Also parts of Deuteronomy and Exodus. The rest of it though? Very fascinating stuff.

>> No.12197868

>>12197858
Explain yourself

>> No.12197870

>>12197427
Either Finnegan's wake or naked lunch

>> No.12197874

Prior Analytics and Posterior Analytics by Aristotle

>> No.12197932
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Picture of Dorian Gray
The Scarlet Letter
Firestarter
Communist Manifesto

>> No.12198015

>>12197874
Ah you beat me to it. Prior Analytics makes you feel like you can take on anything after finishing it.

>> No.12198030

Shitty answer, but Lord of the Flies. Never read it in high school, forced myself to read it now to see if it was worth anything, truly hated it.
Also >>12197413

>> No.12198109

>>12197859
Maybe if you care about purposefully contracting AIDS and/or put any stock into wilde's self-inserted opinions on art in essay form

>> No.12199060

Slaughterhouse 5.

No idea why that book is considered a classic

>> No.12199062

Gravity's rainbow
JR
Great expectations
Nicholas Nickleby
The politics by aristotle
The prince

>> No.12199069

>>12197448
I like Wuthering Heights but this is understandable. Especially after it gets into the second generation.

>> No.12199073

Moby Dick

>> No.12199074

>>12197679
Walden is boring as shit lmao. I think Thoreau was actually autistic with how detailed and obsessed he was about shit like that. His essays are good but wow Walden is extremely overrated.

>> No.12199076

>>12197726
this makes no sense to me, that is a very entertaining book

>> No.12199102

The Castle by Kafka. I like The Processand The Metamorphosis but this was just a pain to get through.

>> No.12199103

>>12197427
Flowers for Algernon

>> No.12199107

>>12199060
Wtf I literally read the entire book in one sitting because it was so good.

>> No.12199113

>>12197390
infinite jest

>> No.12199680

>>12197726
I understand not liking it. But boring? How?

>> No.12199683

War and Peace. I'm surprised to see it wasn't mentioned before.

>> No.12199957

>>12197390
The Tunnel

>> No.12199967

>>12197868
It's basically a bunch of seemingly arbitrary wacky shit happening to characters I don't care about that doesn't have any point. I don't read comic books, but it felt like a child's comic book adapted for grownups.

I love V. so much and was so excited for GR but you know when you read a post on /lit/ that uses a lot of big words and seems highbrow and funny but could actually be written by anyone with half a brain who's read a lot of books? That was GR for me

>> No.12199972

>>12199062
Love The Recognitions and have read it multiple times but I can't get through the first 100 pages of JR no matter how hard I try. Holy shit is it a slog

>> No.12199975

>>12197427
Clockwork orange? Yeah also that.

>> No.12199979

>>12199680
Not the guy who wrote the post but it's just the same shit happening over and over and the main guy is just in love with his buddy. Honestly the book would have been much more compelling if you felt like it was leading up to them having a homo experience a la y tu mama tambien. No homo

>> No.12200089

>>12199102
This, love Kafka, but so many parts of the Castle was just insanely boring

>> No.12200114

>>12197679
based beanwriter

>> No.12200185

>>12197462
fucking this

>> No.12200188

>>12197413
Fuck you, I flew through Lolita unlike any book I’ve ever read. It’s incredible.
>>12197390
I might take some heat for this but Master and Margarita was pretty fucking boring.

>> No.12200218

Kafka
Burroughs
Henry Miller

>> No.12201386
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Pride and prejudice

>> No.12202121

>>12197811
Alright thanks mate, i read psalm 22 and liked it a bunch but i'll keep that in mind

>> No.12202191

>>12197774
i had fun reading after the monologue

>> No.12202205

Mrs Dalloway and Emma

>> No.12202667

>>12198030
I thought it was horrifying.

>> No.12202691

>>12199113
What in the actual fuck? Explain yourself. I thought it was very funny.

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>> No.12202696

>>12202205
Mrs Dalloway is comfy as fuck.

>> No.12202717

Gravity’s Rainbow

>> No.12202725

>>12197390
Why didnt yiuike Dorian grey
For me it was
>Thinking fast and slow
>V. By Thomas Pynchon

>> No.12202742

>>12199074
>I think Thoreau was actually autistic
What of it. If you read his work with the enthusiasm with which it was written then it reads pretty well.
>picking strawberries 45 minutes after getting out of jail
>save money for a train ticket? fuck that noise I'll just walk
Good stuff.

>> No.12202745

Arthur C Clarke's 2nd and 3rd books in the Rendezvous with Rama series were awful to trudge through.

>> No.12202748

>>12202745
Is the first one good? What kind of sci-fi is it?

I liked the TV series the expanse

>> No.12202878

>>12202691
He is just maintaining continuance of the infinite jest.

>> No.12202985

>>12202748
The first book was great, which made me even more disappointed in the later novels. The first book is far more rooted in hard scifi, everything is just more plausible and Gentry doesnt insert his Jewish liberal ideals in it.

>> No.12203025

>>12197390
>>12197390
>>12197390
>>12197390
>>12197390
>>12197390
Frankenstein , easily one of the most poorly written, and boring stories ever. nobody with deductive reasoning could enjoy this horror.

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>>12201386
this 100%

>> No.12203030

Ulysses

>> No.12203042

>>12202725
>y'all mind if I inject scores of pages dedicated to my personal views on X?

>> No.12203043

>>12197468
This. Was forced to read it in one night for an academic competition.

>> No.12203052

>>12197772
joshua was way more dry than leviticus

>> No.12203102

>>12197390

Hmm. The Idiot. I know shoot me. I love Russian lit but let's face it. Bulgakov was the best Russian writer and he succeeds at not boring the reader to death. Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky on the other hand...hit or miss.

>> No.12203113

Gonna get shit for this but Dubliners

>> No.12203190

luminarium alex shakar

>> No.12203202

>>12197503
Jude the Obscure was the ultimate warning about ignoring bitches and acquiring currency. It was anti-marriage and super controversial. He's trying to get educated but gets baby-trapped by a slut and then his oneitis won't have anything to do with him because women never marry down in class - which is just as true today as it was then despite women having their own income and status.

>> No.12203204

Islands in the stream by Hemingway. It's just him sitting on a small island and occasionally going fishing.

>> No.12203212

Frankenstein

>> No.12203275

>>12197625
This. I fell asleep twice.

>> No.12203301

>>12199107
you're probably mentally deficient

>> No.12203310

>>12197710
it's far more entertaining than most of the Iliad though

>> No.12203319

>>12198030
I can understand disliking it but how is a slog? The language is all very simple and it's essentially a dark adventure story

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>>12197390
I always think of this guy when I hear that title

>> No.12203339

>>12197424
Sounds like you haven’t actually read it in full and are just being a meme guy

>> No.12203356

>>12197413
same. What a cheesy """romance""" book. It has nothing to offer other than muh pedophilia.

>> No.12203363

>>12203356
If anything it only has "muh prose" to offer

>> No.12203364

>>12199683
I found War and Peace anything but boring. It took took me just five days to complete it. There are 200 page books that take me longer than that.

>> No.12203526

>>12203025

This. It was torture to get through

>> No.12203537

>>12197424
>implying I've read it

>> No.12203539

>>12197390
Catcher in the Rye

>> No.12203566

>>12197390

"Great Expectations". You really see how this book was serialized. No way someone can sit through more than two chapters of this.

>> No.12203581

Paradiso from the Divine Comedy, inferno and purgatorio were pretty good though

>> No.12203598

>>12203113
I waa bored and forced myself through it the fiest time, being genuinely kind of touched by a painful case but not the dead.

Second time a year later i liked all the stories and thought it was beautiful. Joyce had this extremely depressing realism in his prose in dubliners and its harder to get through than portrait and the easy parts of ulysses

>> No.12203635

>>12197424
I tried reading the full bible but I stopped when they were just cataloging everything. That shit is way too boring.

>> No.12203641

>>12197679
sounds pretty based

>> No.12203646

Everyone here says to start with the Greeks but I find Aristotle and Plato - or at least, translations of their works - to be extremely boring. I kind of feel like I'm just reading the same points over and over, just phrased differently and without any real substance.

>> No.12203701

>>12197448
I loathed it but I was in high school and I read much more bigly brained books now so I may give it another shot.

>> No.12203711

>>12203310
Yeah this. I'm assuming he didn't read the Iliad.

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>>12197390
mein kampfette. i had the utmost desire to kill myself around p. 200

>> No.12203756

>>12197390
>no one posted Anne of Green Gables
God, 10 pages describing a tree

>> No.12203873

Jane Eyre
For whom the bell tolls

>> No.12203883

>>12197573
oui

>> No.12203901

>>12197679
>he isn't a bean boy
embarrassing

>> No.12203928

Something Wicked this way comes by Ray Bradbury was absolute crap

>> No.12203976

To the Lighthouse desu

>> No.12204017

>>12197390
Probably Moby-Dick, but I don't regret reading it and I think it's still a great book. The book(s) I actually regret reading most would be A Song of Ice and Fire.

>> No.12204037

>>12197424
Sorry but I didn't read a collection of 73 books of various topics linearly like a buffoon so it wasn't that bad.

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>>12197424
>>12204037
How are you supposed to read it?

>> No.12204051

>>12197390
for me it's harry potter, i truly regret reading this shite

>> No.12204059

Tale of Genji

>> No.12204130

>>12204059
I'm already Genji

>> No.12204143

>>12204051
hp is children's lit and you have to be some special little autismo to not get fascinated by the books when you're 11

>> No.12204165

>>12197858
gravitys rainbow is universally known as challenging AF

>> No.12204184

>>12203202
jeffy?

>> No.12204194

>>12197427
bottom’s dream

>> No.12204202

>>12199972
post-recognitions gaddis isn’t good. accolades for JR were apologies for ignoring the recognitions and everything after is watered down JR.

>> No.12204228

>>12197390

Désert, by Le Cléziot

As empty as its title prefigures.

>> No.12204229

>>12197390
The Deptford Trilogy.

Holy shit, Leafs are the most boring people on Earth.

>> No.12204379

>>12203539

Can relate.

>> No.12204401

>>12204037
There are 66 books in the Bible

Don’t at me about the garbage apocrypha and other texts because even the translators of the apocrypha said they were not inspired as part of the Bible

>> No.12204409

>>12204130
I almost dropped my entire bowl of oatmeal at this

>> No.12204609

>>12204046
Read it "pick and choose" fashion. anything else saps me.

>> No.12204635

>>12197731
Please cut your veins

>> No.12204644

>>12202691
every single character has the same backstory with a different wacky situation, the aa meetings and the whole ennet house plotline was insanely boring hammering in the same shitty idea for hundreds of pages, not including any real closure only small bits because muh Sierpinski triangle is retarded, the prose is absolute shite, the whole wraith shoein at the end is horseshit. it would have been an great 500 page book

>> No.12204656

>>12204409
you should be more careful haha

>> No.12204757

bel ami

>> No.12204871

Lady Chatts love boy

>> No.12206144

>>12203873
>For whom the bell tolls
Fucking this

first 200 pages are justifiably skipable

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The Scarlet Letter

>> No.12206851

>>12203581
It really depends on which Cantos you're reading. Inferno was good, around half of purgatorio was easy to read spread over the boring parts, and the end of paradiso was good too.

>> No.12207192

>>12197390
The Mill on the Floss

>> No.12208119

Old man and the sea.
So boring...

>> No.12208127

>>12197737
Second this. The most overhyped book ever written. The entire book read out like a child's essay.

>> No.12208148

>>12197427
Dude I love that one, it really is deep

>> No.12208522

>>12208119
i bet you call it el mar, faggot

>> No.12208654

>>12203319
No I definitely agree, I just wasn't interested in the story that much. I don't know if it was his prose or the premise as a whole, but something about it never clicked with me. I don't think it's a bad book by any means, I just didn't like it.

>> No.12208777

>>12197424
Some parts where pretty boring but others were good. I was most surprised to find out that I really like the book of job since all I've heard about it is that God had a bet with the devil, btw the other person wasn't even a devil but probably a heavenly being. It's much more deeper than that and goes into the topic of suffering and it's a real shame people have memed it into just being about that one thing that doesn't even play a big role in the book.

>> No.12208782

>>12206534
You are mentally disabled

>> No.12208787

>>12203275
This is unironically ironic

>> No.12208824

>>12197774
why ?

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The Road by you-know-who

>> No.12208864

>>12197390
Most boring: The Brothers Karamzaov
Most entertaining: Don Quijote

>> No.12209448

>>12199967
>It's basically a bunch of seemingly arbitrary wacky shit happening to characters I don't care about that doesn't have any point.
Can 100% agree with this. Infinite Jest does a much better job coming back constantly to characters for worldbuilding, letting them shine on their own. GR keeps introducing new one note characters who get out shined by the main cast leading you to wonder why you even care about that last ten pages you read. The best example of Pynchon getting around this is with Polker, that whole section should be an example of what he should have done, emotional investment, worldbuilding and giving the reigns to someone other than Slothrop for 85% of part 2 and 3.

>> No.12209456

>>12200188
>I might take some heat for this but Master and Margarita was pretty fucking boring.
You're going to have to explain this one. I can understand the Jesus stuff because it isn't a very good adaptation of something that's been adapted by way better writers, but the rest was great.

>> No.12209641

>>12203025
Huh?I enjoyed it...

>> No.12209698

It's the Faulkner, stupid

>> No.12209707

>>12209641
no, you didn't

>> No.12209719

For me it was probably the four books of the Shadowmarch series by Tad Williams, four fuck huge fantasy tomes. Longest slog of my life, especilly because I hadnt kept track of all the different names of the different gods and their doings in all the sideline stories and it all turned out to be important later in the series.

>> No.12209725

>>12199060
>Slaughterhouse 5.

Ignore him.

>> No.12209736

>>12197424
guaranteed replies, this included

>> No.12209798

>>12208119
Weird, I liked it. Hemingway's narrative style is somewhat okay for short stories. If you want to know true pain, read "For whom the Bell tolls".

>> No.12209873

>>12203333
Holy fuck now I will too

>> No.12210454

>>12197390
Morrissey's Autobiography

>> No.12210478

Metamorphosis

>> No.12211214

>>12210478
what?

>> No.12211363

The Sirens of Titan. Jesus what a boring book. Understood none of it and didn't care to. Not sure why I even finished it.

>> No.12211386

The onion field

>> No.12211405

>>12199683
Because it was beautiful you pleb

>> No.12211418 [DELETED] 

>>12197390
The Fall

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>>12197679
THIS NIGGA EATING BEANS!

>> No.12211731

>>12197448
For you

>> No.12211757

>>12197670
Stoner is the opposite of boring.

>> No.12211796

>>12199060
I bought 3 of his books and they're all the same.

>> No.12211869

>>12211796
Read 1 (one) piece of his non-fiction writing; he literally describes how he writes his fiction - they all follow the same formula.

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>>12197390
It would basically require me racking through every awful book I read from 5th grade all the way to graduation day, so no, I don't want to answer your question.

>> No.12212109

>>12211625
Lmao I was waiting for this reply.

>> No.12212298

My century. By Gunter Grass.

>> No.12212474

>>12199113
This