Worst/Most Boring book you ever read?

[Randy]

OK, this MIGHT be fun(ny)!



NOTE: Just cause YOU think it's the Worst/Boring doesn't mean it's a bad book!



I'll start:

THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA by Ernie Hemingway



Couldn't WAIT for the old guy to get back on land!!!

Pass the dramamine!

 

[Flurry]

OK, this MIGHT be fun(ny)!



NOTE: Just cause YOU think it's the Worst/Boring doesn't mean it's a bad book!



I'll start:

THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA by Ernie Hemingway



Couldn't WAIT for the old guy to get back on land!!!

Pass the dramamine!

This... sounds familiar.

 

[Princess]

An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser....

If your English teacher ever assigns that book to read--just take the F. It will be less painful in the long run.



After spending 9 weeks reading that stupid thing, all I wanted to do was shoot myself in the foot.

 

[Skillet]

Death of a Salesman. I just didn't really like it. Everything was obvious, no twists. It's a classic, but doesn't mean it's my type.

 

[akiratheoni]

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce. Some parts were good but most of it was boring.

 

[Raven]

Atonement. Mum says the most boring is The God Delusion. But then she also said she didnt understand a word of it

 

[Crys]

Fifty Shades of Grey. Ye-uck.

 

[MrDawn]

I hated reading The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. My father's wife forced me to read it and it took me forever to finish it because I thought it was so boring.

 

[Nebulous]

My father's wife forced me to read it

How did she do that?

 

[MrDawn]

How did she do that?

She threatened to ground me and take all of my stuff away.

 

[EllieCat]

Any William Shakespeare book or poem that I can’t understand.

 

[passenger]

CELL by Stephen King

The only Stephen King book or short story that I have found excruciatingly un-exciting & wasted effort.

https://stephenking.com/works/novel/cell.html

 

[DrLeftover]

It was a Nobel Prize winner, has been through multiple reprints, made into movies, and so on.

Buddenbrooks, by Thomas Mann, published in 1901.


It was assigned reading when I was in college, and we had to write a report on the damned thing.

I never made it through the first chapter. For the report, I turned to a random page somewhere in the back third of the book and went into manic detail about something or other that Mann was blathering on about in that peculiarly German style. I think I got a decent grade on it because I did pass the class.

 

[riseabovethis]

it took me about 6 months to get past the first chapter of The Hobbit because I found it so boring. When I hit the second chapter I read the rest without stopping.

 

[Daltonio]

I honestly can't remember, I think any boring ones probably just don't stick in my memory like the good ones do.