Most boring book?

[Anonymous No.19607605]

[Anonymous No.19607619]

>>19607605
my diary

[Anonymous No.19607624]

>>19607619
his diary

[Anonymous No.19607628]

The most borings books I read were history books from like the 1920s. They just go on and on about the most uninteresting parts of history written in the most bland and uninspiring way. I couldn't even get through a chapter. Most of these are out of print like Gutenberg type books

[Anonymous No.19607629]

>>19607628
I mean interesting parts of history*

[Anonymous No.19607677]

>>19607628
You have nothing else to read?

[Anonymous No.19607679]

>>19607605
The Swiss Family Robinson fuck that shit they just kill animals for 500 pages and there is literally zero conflict whatsoever

[Anonymous No.19607692]

>>19607628
This is why zoomers are stupid

[Anonymous No.19607706]

>>19607605
bible desu

[Anonymous No.19607708]

>>19607605
Tragedy and hope

[Anonymous No.19607731]

>>19607605
anything by j*ne aust*n

[Anonymous No.19607750]

Authority, Book 2 of The Southern Reach Trilogy.

[Anonymous No.19607762]

Most boring book I read this year was definitely To the Lighthouse. Do not read it.

[Anonymous No.19607803]

>>19607762
filtered

[Anonymous No.19607849]

>>19607605
I don't know if it's THE most boring but I've just finished Mike Tyson autobiography: what a pile of crap. It's 600 pages of
>I fucked X women
>I won that match
>I did drugs
no knowledge whatsoever, nothing about sport or boxing techniques. It was a waste of time.

[Anonymous No.19607853]

>>19607849
What did you expect anon?

[Anonymous No.19607863]

>>19607605
Anna Karenina

It seemed a soap opera, I couldn't stand it

[Anonymous No.19607872]

Ulysses, which was a disappointment. My expectations were high after the Portrait. Sad.

[Anonymous No.19607952]

>>19607872
Disliked both books

[Anonymous No.19608154]

>>19607706
>too highbrow for slapstick
sad!

[Anonymous No.19608167]

>>19607605
the bible

[Anonymous No.19608175]

>>19608154
>too highbrow for banter
>27 At noon Elijah started making fun of them: “Pray louder! He is a god! Maybe he is day-dreaming or relieving himself, or perhaps he's gone off on a trip! Or maybe he's sleeping, and you've got to wake him up!”

[Anonymous No.19608182]

>>19607706
Parts of it yeah but other parts are absolutely amazing. Genesis and Exodus minus the begats and instructions for the tabernacle was awesome.

[Anonymous No.19608241]

>>19607706
t. filtered by the Pentateuch

[Anonymous No.19608395]

>>19608241
well, yeah...

[Anonymous No.19608438]

>>19607853
more moral depth and more boxing knowledge

[Anonymous No.19608447]

>>19608154
>And the mule which WAS under him went on.

i am laffin

[Anonymous No.19608458]

>>19608447
it's just to show that the word wasn't there in the original text

[Anonymous No.19608467]

>>19607605
Thus far, the prior analytics

[Anonymous No.19609434]

Any Oxford Handbook as a textbook

[Anonymous No.19609437]

>>19608458
i am well aware of that but it's still funny when read another way

[Anonymous No.19609454]

Aristotle's Prior Analytics.

[Anonymous No.19609477]

Melmoth the Wanderer past the first 50 pages is the most monotonous bullshit I've ever put up with, particularly the section in the Spanish monastery. Real bummer since the first 50 pages are so are spectacular.

[Anonymous No.19609488]

>>19607605

[Anonymous No.19609492]

Count of Monte Cristo

[Anonymous No.19609807]

>>19607624
>>19607619
filtered

[Anonymous No.19609839]

>>19609492
There are definitely parts if it that just fucking drag on but after watching The anime I'm having a great time with it.

[Anonymous No.19609956]

>>19609477
Oh yeah, this too. But the good parts are quite good.

[Anonymous No.19610583]

>>19607605

This steaming pile of shit. I had to read it for my 18th-century brit lit class. It's an epistolatory novel and the whole point is to teach 'good manners'. It's also like 500 pages long and reads like what you expect a book from the 1700s to read like. The only redemption for it was getting to read Joseph Andrews which is a book that came out around the same time that satirizes the ever living fuck out of it.

[Anonymous No.19610858]

>>19607605
falling asleep while reading a boring book is a pleasant experience

[Anonymous No.19611635]

Don Quixote comes to mind. It's just the same premise repeated for way too long, I couldn't finish it.

[Anonymous No.19611642]

>>19609839
you feel no shame admitting this?

[Anonymous No.19611661]

>>19607605
From what I have seen of it, THE TALMUD.

[Anonymous No.19611668]

>>19607679
I had to read that for school. It was a rural religious private school hosted in a church. I did not read one text of consequence excepting the Bible and I still believe my education was vastly superior to that of (American) public school. My grammar curriculum was superb and that was all I really ever needed from school. In my first English class in college I was the only student that could write anything properly or correctly. Much of the class lectures were devoted to teaching elementary grammar and punctuation. Fuck school.

[Anonymous No.19611686]

>>19608167
You need to stop reading a shitty translation and for God's sake stop imposing Christology on the Old Testament. I'm so very sorry but it was not designed for that shit. I got a JPS Tanakh an immediately my opinion of the Bible elevated to the highest echelon of literature. Finally we can all appreciate the musical sweetness of Hebrew prose poetry. You can take it from this secular nonbeliever that he likes the Bible more than you. You can throw the new testament in the trash tho.

[Anonymous No.19611765]

>>19611668
So you are a genius but unable to understand the point of freshman comp?

[Anonymous No.19611946]

>>19607605
18th century log tables.

[Anonymous No.19612131]

>>19608175
Gives me a chuckle every time.

[Anonymous No.19612139]

>>19609488
C

[Anonymous No.19612142]

>>19611661
The case about the woman who injured herself with a dildo cast from her husband's penis so "he" could satisfy her sexual needs while away on business, brings him before the Jewish court for the injury, and they side with him was funny.

[Anonymous No.19612479]

>>19607605
If you suffer from insomnia just put this book on your nightstand and read some in bed. You'll be cured in no time.

[Anonymous No.19612482]

>>19612479
Wrong one btw, had to post the analects.That one is only a few pages.

[Anonymous No.19612486]

>>19607605
Love fantasizing about girls like her who saturate their panties with fart particles!

[Anonymous No.19612497]

The Bible. Its two good books (Job, Ecclesiastes) aren't enough to remedy the utter tedium and desert-simpleton vibe of the other books. It's not the word of an omniscient and omnipotent being -- that much is clear.

[Anonymous No.19612678]

>>19607731
emma

[Anonymous No.19612721]

>>19612678
Is this what yer readin'? Jane Austen by Emma?

[Anonymous No.19612798]

>>19610583
are you me? except I haven't read Joseph Andrews. Pamela is a great example of how too simple of a plot with obvious plot-twists and shallow characters really triggers the thirst for realism.

[Anonymous No.19613984]

>>19607605
Stoner

>>19607863
also this and War and Peace. both absolute shit, though I'm sure it's the fault of the translation.

[Anonymous No.19614016]

>>19607605
For the life of me I cannot finish Great Gatsby

[Anonymous No.19614022]

The Waves

[Anonymous No.19614026]

>>19607605
Aristotle

[Anonymous No.19614039]

>>19607872
I tried to read Ulysshit with all the references. It just doesn't work even with all the trivial references. The book is basically a random number generator for references that serve no purpose

>Wohoo here's a reference to an Irish poem about oceans or something
>Hey here's a random Bible reference
>Insert random Latin or Greek phrase here
This for 1000 pages. Joyce is the biggest hack in the world for convincing shills his work is not complete shit with no substance.

[Anonymous No.19614069]

The Brothers Karamazov and The Idiot were hideously boring and I could not give the slightest fuck about any of these allegedly profound ideas embodied in the characters.

I'd say Gravity's Rainbow but I refuse to read it. Post-modernists just need to stop. You're not transgressing anything, you're boring as fuck and you're being published by crusty AWFLs.

[Anonymous No.19614076]

>>19614069
Try reading it on shrooms

[Anonymous No.19614083]

>>19612497
Not literature

[Anonymous No.19614088]

>>19607605
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson. A cyber thriller that goes into excruciating detail on the bureaucratic hurdles of opening an IT company in the Philippines.

[Anonymous No.19614113]

>>19614039
I haven't read Ulysses but Dubliners and Portrait were beautiful. Joyce was not a hack

[Anonymous No.19614563]

>>19614069
I can see your case for the Idiot, but Brothers Karamazov was great. Rebellion, The Grand Inquisitor, and the Life of Elder Zosima were some of the best chapters in fiction and all come one after another.

>>19607863
>It seemed a soap opera
Have you never read a russian before?

[Anonymous No.19615974]

>>19607605
Heart of Darkness

[Anonymous No.19615987]

>>19607605
Among the Hidden

[Anonymous No.19616377]

>>19607863
It does have that character, but that doesn't make it bad by default. To be fair though, I did enjoy the harvesting grain and hunting trip chapters the most. Anna and Vronsky's drama kind of drags on.

[Anonymous No.19616534]

its so fucking boring

[Anonymous No.19616549]

>>19607605
Tales of the Arabian Nights bored me pretty early on since part of its gimmick is a roastie required to end all her stories on a cliffhanger lest the king marry her, fuck her and have her executed as part of his vendetta against his ex wife. I may try to read the rest of it at some point but it's unlikely.

The Pale King by DFW bored me. I made it halfway through the book before it lost the bits of charm I enjoyed of it at the time.

[Anonymous No.19616557]

>>19607750
I'm glad I wasn't the only one. granted I didn't really like Annihilation all that much, it was just way too dry. I was excited for Book 2 to get into the bureaucratic inner workings of the organization, but I couldn't make it a quarter of the way through. It's a shame because I bought all three books in the trilogy.

>>19614088
checked and that's the kind of shit I enjoy with Stephenson.

anyway for me, I think Dune is good but Children of Dune is god awful boring.

[Anonymous No.19616578]

>>19614069
I don't think Pynchon was trying to transgress anything with GR. The book reads like its entire writing process took place under the effects of LSD. I like it, if only for the based schizo storyteller feel.

[Anonymous No.19616585]

>>19607863
>>19607872
>>19612497
>>19614039
>>19614069
Can you spare us your sophomoric drivel please? If you must, frame your comment in such a way that it reveals your awareness that you are an illiterate and are approaching something that contains multitudes you aren't equipped to recognise.

[Anonymous No.19616914]

>>19607605
95% of all books.

[Anonymous No.19617011]

>>19607605
>>19616914
Is it that in today`s world you have become accustomed to fast paced entertainment and plot unfolding in every medium so it has become harder to appreciate art works that made >100 years ago or is it that we are just plebs anons?

[Anonymous No.19617033]

>>19616557
>It's a shame because I bought all three books in the trilogy.
Book 3 was better but yeah overall a very dry and cumbersome read

[Anonymous No.19617692]

>>19616549
but anon, it's SUPPOSED to be boring

[Anonymous No.19617750]

>>19616585
I love when pseuds like you write in such an overwrought manner to compensate for your utter mediocrity. See how easy it is to do that?
You're nobody to me.

[Anonymous No.19617824]

>>19607605
Blood Meridian

[Anonymous No.19617902]

this thread is the big YIKES.

[Anonymous No.19617915]

>>19614069
I can see why someone would find then boring but for me, Dostojevski is peak comfy

[Anonymous No.19617926]

Hyperion by Holdrelin, prose varies from absolute cringe to god tier but in the end its a book written by a teenager larper who just wanted to be fucked in the ass while complaining how is he so much smarter than everyone else. Truly a /lit/ book

[Anonymous No.19617953]

>>19607605
only author i ever fell asleep to was dostoyevsky. but i would not call his books boring

[Anonymous No.19617958]

>>19613984
It’s not the translation, trust me. His writing was highly accessible. I tried multiple translations of W&P, and though sometimes the names were different, it was the exact same writing. Soap opera, vapid as fuck, terrible caveman like dialogue. Epitomizes histrionic characters.

[Anonymous No.19617971]

>>19617953
All books put me to sleep if I read them around 3pm-6pm, regardless of whether I enjoy them or not, so you’re lucky.

[Anonymous No.19618410]

>>19617692
Pale King? Yeah, it's true boredom was a theme DFW really wanted to write about, I knew about it back when I tried reading through the book. I'm not sure what he intended to do with it in the end but if the intended effect of the novel was for the reader to desire to put down the book and seriously pay attention to their lives he did an amazing job achieving that effect. I still wonder what it would've been like as a finished manuscript.

[Anonymous No.19618772]

Journey to the End of the Night sucked absolute dick. The first chapter was actually good and interesting, but after that it was abysmal.

[Anonymous No.19618800]

>>19607628
Found GRRM
>>19607605
Theodore Dreiser is considered to be the most boring fiction writer who ever lived (not sure why). I think Johnathan Franzen is there as well.

[Anonymous No.19618811]

>>19607605
Late era Henry James

[Anonymous No.19619015]

A Christmas Carol. Could have been 20 pages

[Anonymous No.19619348]

Wuthering Heights is the most boring book I've ever read in my life

[Anonymous No.19620812]

Asimov’s nightfall

Why expand upon what you already said in a short story?

[Anonymous No.19620820]

>93 replies
>no mentions of Infinite Jest

[Anonymous No.19621106]

I win.

[Anonymous No.19621117]

>>19617750
>overwrought
How the fuck is my comment overwrought? I can only imagine an ignorant saying such things. Find a minumum wage job, a much better usage of yout time.

[Anonymous No.19621130]

Being and Nothingness.

[Anonymous No.19621159]

>>19614069
Agree about the idiot. Stopped reading in the first chapter of three guys on train just lifting off russian names and relations with zero effort to actually make it seem interesting. By the 5th page I couldn't even figure out which one of them was speaking
Maybe I was the idiot the whole time

[Anonymous No.19621473]

>>19607619
desu