03-14-2009, 09:41 AM | #1 |
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"The Most Boring Book" I read or tried to read
WARNING: If you're a living author and a member of MobileRead, you need to avoid reading this thread, because your boring book - YOUR EXTREMELY BORING BOOK - may be mentioned, blasted, and sent to Hell to be read only by the undead for their eternal punishment.
I'm a fan of James Joyce, but when I studied Finnegans Wake at the University, I found this massive tome to be quite boring. When compared to the beauty of Ulysses or A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegans Wake is not a novel one reads for excitement. Keep the thread nice, please. (Remember, if you're an author of a Boring Book, you need to be smart and avoid reading this thread, even though you weren't very smart when you published your Boring Book.) Don |
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Lisey's Story by Stephen King.. a surefire insomnia cure.
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"My Life on an Oil Rig" was a boring read.
"My Life in the Shipyards" was a rivetting one. |
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Blindness by Jose Saramago The Alchemist by Paul Coelho Just couldn't bring myself to finish either, despite the hype/awards these novels received... Really? I found it entertaining - not one of King's best by far, but still entertaining. |
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I loved Blindness. In fact, I actually collect Saramago in English First Edition hardbacks. In what manner did it strike you as boring? Don |
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The Sea, The Sea, by Iris Murdoch. At times I gave my contempt it's raving, foam-fleckled, snarling lead, just to break up the "I really couldn't give a fat rat's manky clacker what any of these people do, have done, or will do" boredom.
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The two most boring books I've read cover to cover have been The Silmarillian and A Passage to India.
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I could not finish Gerald's Game by Stephen King... Ugh
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And also add State of fear by Michael Crichton. Why must some authors become so self indulgent, I'll never wast money on either of their work again. |
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