"The Most Boring Book" I read or tried to read - Page 8

sirbruce · 03-18-2009, 08:33 PM

A Separate Peace by John Knowles. They made us read it in High School. Ugh, chapter after chapter of endless internal monologue with the main character agonizing over whether or not he consciously or unconsciously injured another student on purpose. With no satisfactory conclusion. And then the injured student, after somewhat recovering, dies in a freak accident.

Dragoro · 03-18-2009, 09:51 PM

A spererate peace is a great book!!

joblack · 03-19-2009, 12:55 AM

The bible is the most boring book I've ever read.

Dr. Drib · 03-19-2009, 07:32 AM

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Originally Posted by Timoleon

Gravity's Rainbow, by Thomas Pynchon. The uppity-ups in The New Yorker magazine sang the praises of this book to the skies, so I read it during college in the early 1970s, being an English major and all. All I remember now is sitting in the school library with this book in my hands, looking at the clock on the wall and marveling at how slow time was passing. A strange memory, because I can't even remember what the book was about, and I'll be damned if I'm going to google it at this stage in my life...

"A screaming comes across the sky" -- great opening.

"Bureaucratic smega" -- a great descriptor from the book.

Don

badgoodDeb · 03-19-2009, 02:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Xenophon

For me, the top of the list of "most boring books" would have to be The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan. (er... should the be bottom of the list?) I used it for an insomnia cure throughout Jr. High and High School. Two pages and I would drift off without fail.

Xenophon

There is a "Little Pilgrim's Progress" which turns Pilgrim into a youngish boy, along with the other names in the original. It's much more readable. It was done sometime after 1950 or so.

fugazied · 03-19-2009, 11:25 PM

Crime and Punishment for me. Could not get into it!

Perhaps you guys could benefit from this? http://www.wikihow.com/Read-a-Boring-Book

awi · 03-20-2009, 04:44 AM

Lord of the Rings for me, could not get past 1/3 of the first book.....

cklammer · 03-20-2009, 11:50 PM

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Originally Posted by joblack

The bible is the most boring book I've ever read.

Come on, the Old Testament at least is full of action ....

Since my last post in this thread I have been giving the subject of "the most boring book I have read" some thought .... Instead of "War and Peace" I am now nominating "The Silmarillion" instead.

HarryT · 03-21-2009, 12:30 PM

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Originally Posted by cklammer

Come on, the Old Testament at least is full of action ....

Since my last post in this thread I have been giving the subject of "the most boring book I have read" some thought .... Instead of "War and Peace" I am now nominating "The Silmarillion" instead.

You have to be in the right "mindset" to read the Simarillion. If you read it expecting an "action" story like LOTR then I agree, you're in for a big disappointment. If you regard it, rather like the Old Testament, as being "background history" told in a rather "biblical" style, then it can be very enjoyable, taken in small doses. Certainly not a book to sit down and read from cover to cover.

pilotbob · 03-21-2009, 01:05 PM

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Originally Posted by HarryT

Certainly not a book to sit down and read from cover to cover.

So, you're saying it's not a boring book if you don't read it like you would read a book.

BOb

Ea · 03-21-2009, 01:07 PM

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Originally Posted by pilotbob

So, you're saying it's not a boring book if you don't read it like you would read a book.

Are you saying there's only one way to read a book?

pilotbob · 03-21-2009, 01:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Ea

Are you saying there's only one way to read a book?

Did i say that?

BOb

Ea · 03-21-2009, 01:17 PM

Well, "... don't read it like you would read a book." imply that there's right and wrong ways to read a book. But okay, I'd agree that you're not saying there's only one way, just that what HarryT suggest is not the way a book is read.

pilotbob · 03-21-2009, 01:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Ea

Well, "... don't read it like you would read a book." imply that there's right and wrong ways to read a book. But okay, I'd agree that you're not saying there's only one way, just that what HarryT suggest is not the way a book is read.

Well.. "take it in small chunks and it is ok" really means... This is a damn boring book and can only be tolerated a few words at a time.

BOb

Ea · 03-21-2009, 01:28 PM

Nope. Just means it's too rich to be gobbled down in one go

03-18-2009, 08:33 PM	#106
sirbruce Provocateur Posts: 1,859 Karma: 505847 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Columbus, OH Device: Kindle Touch, Kindle 2, Kindle DX, iPhone 3GS	A Separate Peace by John Knowles. They made us read it in High School. Ugh, chapter after chapter of endless internal monologue with the main character agonizing over whether or not he consciously or unconsciously injured another student on purpose. With no satisfactory conclusion. And then the injured student, after somewhat recovering, dies in a freak accident. Last edited by sirbruce; 03-18-2009 at 09:53 PM.

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