Of Mice and Men. Probably because my english teacher tried to read into too much.
But by christ was it boring. I couldn't throw the book away fast enough
Of Mice and Men. Probably because my english teacher tried to read into too much.
But by christ was it boring. I couldn't throw the book away fast enough
The book that I remember hating and being bored reading from school days was Robinson Crusoe. Weird, because I like that whole adventure-lost-on-an-island concept, but I guess having to read it for a book report spoiled it.
Recently, Finnegan's Wake. Not boring, exactly; reading it is actually kind of fun, once you detach yourself from trying to figure out what's going on. But definitely difficult.
Golden Bough - Jsmes Frazer. Not only is it fairly inaccurate, it is intellectual snobbery which has influenced many other writers who are difficult to read.
I would say Heart of Darkness. Hated that book, but I had to read it for school.
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Lolita - I had to put a lot more effort into getting through it than any other book I've read, I'd go through about 5 pages and think to myself 'what did I just read?' and then start over, I think for me it was the random insertions of french that I did not understand nor did it explain so it would cause me to lose my reading flow.
Currently reading Catch 22, it is good but it doesn't hold my attention for that long so I find myself reading it in short bursts.
The Complete Sherlock Holmes.
All the SH books in one big ass book. In the original late 1800s - early 1900s century british English. (thats late 1900s early 20th century for you Amerifags)
That was hard. Still don't know how much money "a sovereign" is.
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Am I the only one that hated Great Expectations. Maybe it was because I was 15 at the time, but my god.
Most Norwegians I know beyond Oslo, my Norwegian girlfriend included, hate Nynorsk with a passion and see it as pointless/useless.
As for me:
Most difficult: The Canterbury Tales, given that I also had to translate them.
Most boring: I think i've a good eye for books, because none of what i've read is particularly boring; save perhaps, for Lord of the Flies.
I really liked that in school actually I quite like Dickens if I was made to read "literature" for some reason...
I hated Shakespear though... I have a large vocabulary, read voraciously, and am not uncomfortable reading obscure / archaic words, but so much of the text seemed lost upon me like the "jokes" that would have made sense at the time, often sound like gibberish in todays english, as context has shifted both in language and time. So a lot of things had to be explained or read in footnotes to get the most out of it. That, and I'm not a big lover of theatre anyway i have to say.
the bible followed by lord of the flies, barely made it through either
I read a book by R.A. Salvatore once, I can't think of anything more boring or difficult to force myself to finish.
The story is an epic one upon a crowded stage
Reflecting social patterns and the history of an age.
Beginning with Natasha and her brother, an hussar
Whose cousin Sonya loves him 'cause he's loyal to the Tsar,
His friend, Pierre, a boor who's rich
and his friend, Prince Andrei,
Who hates his wife called Lise who is in the family way!
Andrei goes off to war and Lise dies but leaves a son
And Nicolai is fighting too-- they fight Napoleon!
Pierre's wife's name is Hélène, she's the daughter of Prince Vasily.
Pierre won't go to war, instead he sets his peasants free.
Did I forget to mention Andrei has a sister too?
And Hélène has a brother or is this too much for you?
When Andrei meets Natasha, he loves her heart and soul.
But she meets Hélène's brother, he's a cad.
That's Anatol.
=)
--Flowers for Algernon (1979 musical)
The first quarter of each WoT book is pretty tough.
You go from reasonably high octane action and lots of plot developments at the end of the previous one and then you get to recap everything that has ever happened in the series for the next 300 pages. Oh and the character idiosyncrasies get a bit much... *tugs braid*
Not wanting to make any of you want to decapitate me but
Anything written by J.R.R Tolkien I found it to have far too lengthy descriptions of incredibly mundane things e.g the rock formations in Moria. Also I recall a scene where it was about 60+ pages of dialog with nothing actually happening.
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