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ITT: The most boring book ever written.

>> No.2972277
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>> No.2972282

Pride and Prejudice was shit as well. Same goes for The Idiot, One hundred years of solitude, The divine comedy, To Kill a Mockingbird, the list could go on.

>> No.2972285

atlas shrugged

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mein kampf

>> No.2972311

>>2972277
Anything by the Bronte sisters.

>> No.2972316

>>2972282
Why do you even read?

>> No.2972319

>>2972282
>typical fantasy fan

>> No.2972346

>>2972282

Pride and Prejudice is a beautifully written, witty, intelligent piece of social commentary and I honestly don't understand how anyone could not enjoy it.

The Divine Comedy is obviously a masterwork and to call it shit is only to expose one's own ignorance.

The Idiot is flawed but brilliant. To Kill a Mockingbird is well written and incisive, don't knock it just because you had to read it when you were 14. One Hundred Years of Solitude... yeah, okay, I'm with you on that one.

I'm sure I gave that more attention than it deserved, but never mind.

>>2972277

I'm with this guy.

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the end of the affair - graham greene

god awful book

>> No.2972364

>>2972346
Pride and Prejudice is a shit book for shit brits.

>> No.2972371

>>2972364
>Country has no history
>Hates other countries for having history

Richard Hammonds biography is boring as.
I have yet to find a biography that i enjoy

>> No.2972383

>>2972303
Seconding

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>> No.2972487 [DELETED] 

>>2972346
Jane Austen hardly ever talks about Nietzsche in it, so its a terrible book.

>> No.2972488 [DELETED] 

>>2972346
Jane Austen hardly talks about Nietzsche in it, so it's a terrible book.

>> No.2972490

>>2972346
Jane Austen hardly talks about Nietzsche in it, so it's obviously a terrible book.

>> No.2972491

>>2972311
Second

>> No.2972511

Oliver Twist gets really fucking dull.

>> No.2972517

>>2972487
>>2972490
could you repeat that?

>> No.2972521

>>2972517
4chan was acting up. Now it's gone.

>> No.2972523

>>2972303
>>2972285
>>2972482
I only agree wtih these

>> No.2972540

>>2972482
Dude what?
Perhaps you were expecting something completely different? please explain.

>> No.2972555

Moby Dick comes close, but the end is pretty exciting, so I guess it's out. I've never made it through War and Peace, however. Jane Eyre is also (to me) fairly uninteresting.

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>>2972555
>War and Peace
>boring
aww man, this makes me a little bit sad.

>> No.2972590

The Hobbit

>> No.2972591

>>2972482
Fuck you, this is great.

>> No.2972727

>>2972482
8/10

>> No.2972731

>>2972555
Maybe you're just not cut out for this whole reading thing?

>> No.2972802

Great Expectations.

>> No.2972828

Heart of Darkness is the only true answer.

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>>2972828
Its only 90-100 pages, depending on your copy.
and a pretty good novella too

>> No.2972853

Confederacy of dunces.

>> No.2972989

The Tunnel by Ernesto Sábato. Couldn't even finish it.

>> No.2973001

>>2972828
I came here to say this. Though it's been almost a decade since I read it. Maybe I should give it a second chance.

>> No.2973003

Read Njála in Icelandic OP, it's fantastic.

>> No.2973010

Mrs Dalloway

Nothing like To the Lighthouse. Most disappointing.

>> No.2973013

David Copperfield.

>> No.2973031

Wow, you're all so, so very wrong.

It's "O Pioneers!" by Willa Cather.

>> No.2973042

Jane Austen writes the same damn book every time and people suck her clit.
Bronte sisters are just drier than my wife's coochie.

My personal least favorite and most boring book is Chopin's The Awakening. It is my life's endeavor to construct time travel technology in order to end her life as she squeals in the crib. So great is her crime.

>> No.2973650

Saturday by Ian McEwan.

>> No.2973654

The Castle. FUCK.

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>>2973042
and because *every single time* I manage to out maneuver and out smart your pleb self she continues to live and to write one of the most beautiful self affirming American novels. oh, and I had an affair with your mom.

>> No.2973671

Hard Mode: "The most boring book ever written, that you should read anyway."

Now, which ones are worth the effort to get through.

>> No.2973688

Babbit by Sinclair Lewis

Jesus fuck I want it to end. Thanks American lit 1914-1945 you piece of shit class.

>> No.2973696

fucking wuthering heights goddammit. fuck that book. women just can't write. i don't give a fuck.

flannery o'connor is ok, though.

>> No.2973704

Grapes of Wrath.

We had to read it chapter by chapter, one chapter a night. The teacher failed to grasp that there were ten page chapters and THREE HUNDRED PAGE CHAPTERS.

And I love the rest of Steinbeck's stuff, too.

>> No.2973706

>>2973696
Wuthering Heights is great. Jane Eyre, however, is bullshit, especially after the lesbian loli dies.

>> No.2973708

>>2973696
WOMEN CAN WRITE

>> No.2973710

>>2973706
>Jane Eyre
> lesbian loli

Suddenly, spikes in downloads of Jane Eyre, spikes everywhere.

>> No.2973717

Honestly it's probably Clarissa, which is I think 1.5k pages long and maybe 1 interesting thing happens

>> No.2973719

>>2973706
Wait. I need more info plz.

>> No.2973721

>>2973708

lol

>> No.2973723

The Stand
To Kill a Mockingbird

anything by Charles Dickens

>> No.2973728

>>2973723
I don't know if the Stand is something to put in this particular discussion, but it is an amazing book. People who knock Stephen King haven't read him enough; the man will be taught in lit classes in fifty years.

>> No.2973732

>>2973728

>the man will be taught in lit classes in fifty years.

Especially Misery. And maybe The Dark Half. Postmodern as fuck.

>> No.2973736

>>2973732

Wow, I expected the first response to be a flaming explosion of shit-hate. You've heartened me..err...heartily, sir.

And Cujo. Cujo will be read as an iconic depiction of 70's small-town east coasters and marital strife/despair. The dog is both completely incidental and absolutely symbolic.

>> No.2973737

>>2973736

Sir or madam, I ought to have said.

>> No.2973738

>>2972802
Yes. Had to read that for sophomore English class and I strained some eye muscles because they kept rolling back into my head.

>> No.2973758

>>2973719
When Jane is a child, she meets another girl at her boarding school and they become pretty close. Cuddling and kissing is involved, until she dies of tuberculosis.

>> No.2973835

gardens of the moon was pretty fucking dull.

>> No.2973837

>>2973738
Well, assuming you've got your eyes fixed, maybe you should give it another try now that you can actually read it.

>> No.2973849

Ethan Frome

>> No.2973912

Second the guy who said Clarissa. Strong contender.

>> No.2973958

Maybe in search of lost time?

Lovely to read, but painfully boring.

>> No.2974005

Wuthering Heights. "The greatest love story in the English language" wellllllllll I didn't get in to it, at all. Although I liked the setting

>> No.2974465

>>2973728

That reminds me, Under the Dome by SK....yikes

>> No.2974471

I tried so hard to get all the way through The Return of the King. I am ashamed. I plan on finishing it some day though. The trip to Gondor was just too much for me to handle apparently.

>> No.2974474

>>2972828
Aww man, I just bought this book. I heard it was good, now I'm hesitant to give it a shot.

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>>2973696

I've been taking my time, reading Wuthering Heights in the bathtub whenever I have a bath.

except for the most recent bath where I decided it was a good use of time to masturbate until my legs cramped

I have found it reasonably enjoyable. Not great but certainly not as terrible as you claim.

>> No.2974497

>>2974474

Not the guy you were responding to, but I'll chip in anyway.

Take a seat o'er there cos I tell long, meandering stories that urgently need some red ink scattered across the sentences.

6 years ago I lived with a divorced alcoholic chain-smoker who had experienced his own "Heart of Darkness" in Papua New Guinea and somewhat earlier in Vietnam (during the war, although he didn't discuss that in detail).

We got talking about Conrad and Heart of Darkness. I told him I didn't find the book to be particularly memorable.

He hacked and barked and sputtered his discontent at my opinion before replying "you don't understand that book until you experience it first hand".

Fast forward to 2010-2011 and I got my very own taste of life beyond the cosy borders of civilisation. I won't tell you where because everyone has a preconceived notion of what a place should be like when you give them a name, but it was beyond beyond. Extremely isolated.

The rules change. Your mind changes. Your attitude changes. Your personality shifts. You lose your grip on what is normal. Then you come back and everything is different forever.

>> No.2974505

>>2974497
Thanks for that.

I won't be able to relate at all but I copied your post into my reading list under the book so I can look back on it before I begin reading and not forget what you've said.

The idea of being thrust into an environment that is completely different than what you're accustomed to is quite frightening once you begin to think about it. I've never been placed in a situation that completely shakes up my world-view so I can only imagine at this point. I don't really know what my point of saying this is but I guess now my interest in the book is re-stirred.