"The Most Boring Book" I read or tried to read - Page 6

Ea · 03-17-2009, 01:25 PM

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Originally Posted by JSWolf

And this has to do with The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy how?

Nothing. I just commented that BBC made a mini series over Middlemarch. They also produced the Hitchhiker radio series, but that's another topic

JSWolf · 03-17-2009, 01:26 PM

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Originally Posted by shadowwolf36

Interesting...like I said, I will give the printed version a try...could be the reader of the audio book that turned me off....who knows.

One thing to do is listen to the radio drama and then you will have the voices to go in your head as you read the printed edition. The TV mini-series was pretty good and the movie was awful. The best non-book version is the radio drama.

jsuplido · 03-17-2009, 04:24 PM

Bag of Bones by Stephen King. I keep saying "come on, make something happen already!"

jsuplido · 03-17-2009, 04:27 PM

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Originally Posted by pomposity

Two 'most boring' contenders, I think:

1) Moby Dick

2) Handbook of Mammalian Body Masses

- can't decide between the two

I love Moby Dick. I read it when I was in middle school. I think reading a well-read, second-hand book added to the experience.

Well, to each their own...

Sparrow · 03-17-2009, 04:35 PM

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Originally Posted by jsuplido

I love Moby Dick. I read it when I was in middle school. I think reading a well-read, second-hand book added to the experience.

Didn't you find some of the natural history segments interminable?

I think sea-life is fascinating - but I could hardly keep my eyes open.

Would have been much better, imho, without those digressions.

astra · 03-17-2009, 04:40 PM

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Originally Posted by jsuplido

Bag of Bones by Stephen King. I keep saying "come on, make something happen already!"

True, one of the worst book I read.

Dragoro · 03-17-2009, 04:51 PM

I loved Moby Dick.

badgoodDeb · 03-17-2009, 05:22 PM

Am I a heathen if I say I was too bored to ever finish the second book of the DUNE series? Which also means I never got to the third book.

montsnmags · 03-17-2009, 07:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Sparrow

Didn't you find some of the natural history segments interminable?

I think sea-life is fascinating - but I could hardly keep my eyes open.

Would have been much better, imho, without those digressions.

It was those digressions that I enjoyed the most.

Cheers,
Marc

lorisgirl · 03-17-2009, 10:17 PM

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Originally Posted by macgirl

*Ducks under flame-proof shelter*

Blindness by Jose Saramago
The Alchemist by Paul Coelho

Just couldn't bring myself to finish either, despite the hype/awards these novels received...

Saramago is a hard one to get to like. It's mandatory in high school and I hated it back then. After a few years in college I started liking him a lot. Try The Duplicated Man (O Homem Duplicado), if it's available in english. This one drew me into his world and changed the view I had about his novels!

lorisgirl · 03-17-2009, 10:19 PM

"The Pidgeon Project", by Irving Wallace. I got it from an used book store for nothing and it took me six months to finish. Slow like hell, I was bored by the end of the first page.

dragonbone · 03-17-2009, 10:48 PM

I loved Moby Dick and have read it twice!

HappyMartin · 03-18-2009, 12:40 AM

Loved Moby Dick. Loved the rambling natural history bits. Particularly the one where he concluded that a whale was a fish. My Grandfather was a whaler and as a child I tried to explain to him that a whale was a mammal not a fish. He said it tasted a lot like a fish! Read Moby Dick many times and always think of my Grandfather.

wayspooled · 03-18-2009, 03:12 AM

A Confederacy of Dunces. Loved the title, it won a pulitzer so I figured it wouldn't be but so bad.. but I doubt I made 40 pages into it.

Dr. Drib · 03-18-2009, 06:33 AM

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Originally Posted by badgoodDeb

Am I a heathen if I say I was too bored to ever finish the second book of the DUNE series? Which also means I never got to the third book.

The second book was considered by critics, at the time of the book's publication, to be an extremely weak sequel to Dune.

I thought the book was very bad.

Don

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03-17-2009, 04:24 PM	#78
jsuplido @jsuplido Posts: 58 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2006 Location: Guam Device: iPhone, PRS-300	Bag of Bones by Stephen King. I keep saying "come on, make something happen already!"

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Dragoro Lovecraft Fan Posts: 414 Karma: 539914 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Michigan Device: Kindle Paperwhite 2, Kindle Touch	I loved Moby Dick.

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badgoodDeb Grand Sorcerer Posts: 8,501 Karma: 64095689 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Harrisburg outskirts Device: Palms, K1-4s, iPads, iPhones, KV, KO1	Am I a heathen if I say I was too bored to ever finish the second book of the DUNE series? Which also means I never got to the third book.

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lorisgirl Super newbie Posts: 15 Karma: 12 Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Sao Paulo Device: iRex iLiad 2nd Edition	"The Pidgeon Project", by Irving Wallace. I got it from an used book store for nothing and it took me six months to finish. Slow like hell, I was bored by the end of the first page.

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dragonbone must love dogs Posts: 480 Karma: 1079 Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Tokyo Device: Sony PRS-700, iPhone 32GB 3GS, iPad 64GB WiFi	I loved Moby Dick and have read it twice!

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HappyMartin Martin Kristiansen Posts: 1,546 Karma: 8480958 Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Johannesburg Device: Kindle International Ipad 2	Loved Moby Dick. Loved the rambling natural history bits. Particularly the one where he concluded that a whale was a fish. My Grandfather was a whaler and as a child I tried to explain to him that a whale was a mammal not a fish. He said it tasted a lot like a fish! Read Moby Dick many times and always think of my Grandfather.

03-18-2009, 03:12 AM	#89
wayspooled Crab In The Dark Posts: 486 Karma: 2328180 Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Virginia Device: Tablet PC until a 10" comes out that I like	A Confederacy of Dunces. Loved the title, it won a pulitzer so I figured it wouldn't be but so bad.. but I doubt I made 40 pages into it.

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