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>> No.4057268

What is Ulysses

>> No.4057267

Moby Dick

>> No.4057271

WHAT IS ANYTHING BY VIRGINIA WOOLF

>> No.4057273
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>>4057268

>> No.4057280

What is a setup for the most boring joke on /lit/ ?

>> No.4057317

Lolita

>> No.4057337

>>4057267
No

>> No.4057338

Audrey Niffenigger books

>> No.4057340

What is "Wuthering Heights"?
What is "For Whom The Bell Tolls"?
What is "The Awakening"?

>> No.4057342
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4057342

Pride and Prejudice

>> No.4057343

inb4 In finite Jest

>> No.4057360

>>4057268
this

I can't understand how something could be so boring to the point that it passes the point of being comically uninteresting.

>> No.4057367

House of Leaves

>> No.4057369

What is "Fathers and Sons" by Ivan Turgenev?
(although, the end was beautiful)

>> No.4057384

That's not how Jeopardy works OP

>> No.4057390
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4057390

>>4057271
HOW ABOUT VIRGINIA WOOLF WRITING ABOUT WRITING
SURE, I'LL GIVE YOU A ROOM OF YOUR OWN, BITCH, AND I'LL THROW AWAY THE FUCKING KEY

>> No.4057397

>>4057367
Seriously. I found it relatively enjoyable, but holy shit did it drag on.

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4057398

Pic related or Pride and Prejudice.

>> No.4057399

The scarlet letter

>> No.4057409

>>4057340
>Wuthering Heights
which is worse
the book or the song

>> No.4057420
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>>4057317
Fuck no

Whenever anyone says that Lolita was boring or difficult to finish, I know they're probably a dullard

>> No.4057425

>>4057340

This. For Whom the Bell Tolls is the worst war novel I've ever read. At least half of it is just Hemingway's self insert getting pissed in a cave.

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>> No.4057452

>>4057399
fucking this

>> No.4057458

>>4057409
don't you talk about kate bush like that

>> No.4057471

What is "The Common Law"

>> No.4057496

>What is Crime and Punishment
>I'M TALKING ABOUT HOW SHIT MY PLEBEIAN GIRLFRIEND WAS
>I'M SAD NOW, I'M GOING TO HUG MY MOMMY IN THE MIDDLE OF A FUCKING CONVERSATION WITH OTHER PEOPLE IN THE ROOM
>Wow
>Deep
>Psychology

captcha:cumkin copied

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4057521

Oh god, it just wouldn't end

>> No.4057524

>>4057420
It's a stupid ass story.
It's a dude, trying to fuck a girl.
It is a boring ass read. The only good part about it is the prose, the story is shit, how it's written is incredible.

>> No.4057526

The Brothers Karamazov
It was predictable as fuck.
The Grand Inquisitor was good, The Devil was good.
The rest was boring fucking bullshit
and OH MY FUCKING GOD THE RUSSIAN MONK CHAPTER WAS THE SHITTIEST THING IVE EVER FUCKING READ
goddammit that book is pleb as fucking fuck.

>> No.4057528

>>4057496
you forgot

> WOAH IM CHILLING ON A COUCH FOR 200 PAGES SHEEEEEEEIT

>> No.4057529

>>4057526
I'm a big Tolstoy fan and made it 70 pages into Brothers Karamazov.

I just couldn't handle it.

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>>4057390

>> No.4057532

>>4057529
maybe that's because it's not by Tolstoy.

>> No.4057597

The Old Man and the Sea

>> No.4057608

Finnegans Wake

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSdSemAMzdY

>> No.4057639

>>4057317
Nope. Nope nope nope nope nope.

>> No.4057661

>>4057529
I'm a big Immanuel Kant fan and I couldn't handle The Brothers Karamazov either.
>internet fist, bro

>> No.4057668

>>4057526
Take your modern ADHD elsewhere.

>> No.4057672

>>4057369
>>4057496
>>4057521
>>4057526
>>4057529
ALL YOUR SHIT IS ABOUT TO GET SLAPPED

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4057758

I swear to jesus fuck this is the only book that has made me want to fall asleep while reading it. So goddamn dull.

>> No.4057856

On the Road

>> No.4057880

I don't know but Steppenwolf was the most boring novel I've read this year.

Jesus Christ, I'm just glad it's over.

>> No.4057919

what is The Fountainhead?

before I knew anything about Rand, I heard it was about an architect, so I read it because of that. 3/4 through, after Roark demonstrated how his ideals were unbending for the billionth time, i closed that book forever.

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4057932

Pic really, really fucking related. God damn I had to read this shit in high school and it bored me to tears.

Pretty much anything prairie pioneer days is fucking dry as shit.

>> No.4057936

>>4057919
You're not missing anything, it ends how you think it would.
>Wow gee looks like Roark was right all along and Keating was just a tool! Who woulda thunk it?
I went into Rand's stuff blind and boy was I disappointed.

>> No.4057941

>>4057496
>Being this pleb.

>> No.4058000

What is [insert your favorite book here]?

>> No.4058019 [DELETED] 

For Whom The Bell Tolls

>> No.4058020

Looking for Alibrandi

>> No.4058102

>>4057496
Being forced to read C&P on tenth grade in a week left me these traumas

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4058111

I don't even know why. It's just really, really boring. And I've read his all other novels with no problems.

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>>4057268
>>4057399
agreed

>> No.4058667

>>4057526
Are you a teenager?

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4058689

>>4057265
What is Jean-Paul Sartre's Nausea

>> No.4058690

>>4057521
Whaaaat? It was just a fun detective story

>> No.4058692

>>4058111
But...but...
That's my favorite Vonnegut Novel...

>> No.4058703

>>4057399
Gotta go with this.

>> No.4058710

What is "Jailbird" by Kurt Vonnegut?

>> No.4058742

Tess
Holy shit
Hardy, pls go out of my canon

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>>4057265
what is anything by Jane Austen

>> No.4058767

>>4057265
What is "Divine Comedy"?

Currently in the middle of Inferno. I swore i would do it but its so boring... After inferno ill actually pick up on something interesting, then in the future finish the comedy

>> No.4058847

>>4057608
I don't even think that can be considered a novel.

>> No.4058926

>>4058767
well it's a poem not a novel

>> No.4058928

>>4058767
If you find Inferno boring DO NOT read the last two parts. I enjoyed Inferno and even found those two pretty tedious. Also, fuck Beatrice.

>> No.4059158

Fucking Tess.

>> No.4059171

>>4058111
hey fuck you guy i liked that one.

>> No.4059206

what is not germinal

disclaimer: currently reading germinal

so good

>> No.4059226

>>4057526
3deep5you

>> No.4059250

>>4058111
This novel was slightly less entertaining than his others. But come on, this is a thread about THE MOST BORING books mate.

>> No.4059552

Crime and Punishment, Garnett translation. Maybe the P&V one is better...

>> No.4059596

I'm 26 pages into the Brothers K and this is dark and hilarious. I'm also very intrigued by his matter-of-fact narration and I wonder how it affects authorial intent/reliability

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>>4059552
>Crime and Punishment
>boring

>> No.4059729

Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline.

Just don't.

>> No.4059735

>>4059729
The part where he was sitting around doctoring was pretty boring, but once Robinson shows up again everything was redeemed.

>> No.4059743

>>4057267
>>4057268
>>4057271
>>4057340
>>4057317
>>4057369
>>4057496
>>4057521
>>4057597
>>4057608
>>4058111
>>4058689
>>4058710
>>4058767
>>4059729

no, pls leave

>>4059206

yes, fuck yes, m8

>>4058742

all of hardy is shit apart from Jude the Obscure

one of the best tragedies ever written

For my contribution:

David Copperfield

>> No.4059748

>>4057265
Madame Bovary

>> No.4059751

>>4057608
8/10, but 5 of those are for the skeletons

>> No.4059756

Dickens is SO BORING, except for A Christmas Carol.

>> No.4059763

>>4059743

>tfw only one title from that list I haven't read.
>tfw enjoyed the lot

>> No.4059775

>>4059743
you're my new germinal bro but c'mon, tess of the d'urbervilles is a straight banger m808

>> No.4059782

>>4057608
What are you talking about? Finnegans Wake is many things, but "boring" isn't one of them

>>4057271
if you found To The Lighthouse boring, sry dude, but you have no heart

>>4057268
I'm assuming you didn't put it down after the third chapter
If so, what the fuck how did you not like it

>> No.4059844

>>4059756
wow. Christmas Carol is the most boring of his books, in my opinion. But then again, that might have to do with the fact that I had to re-read it in school every damn time christmas came around.

>> No.4059855

The Scarlet Letter sucks shit.

>> No.4059863

What is Pride and Prejudice.

"I was rather shocked to see Mr.Darcy giving fellatio to Mr.Bingsley, Elizabeth. After all, Mr.Darcy is a man of eight thousand a year and Mr.Bingsley a man of only five!"

IDONOTCAREWHYISTHEWHOLENOVELLIKETHIS.

>> No.4059871

>>4059863
because it's a satire of the vacuity found amongst landed Victorians at the time

>> No.4059872

>>4059855
It does.
>here's a metaphor
>here's a double-page spread explaining the metaphor I just used

>> No.4060007

>>4059871
>Victorians
Georgians

>> No.4060168

>>4057528

>chilling on a couch for 200 pages

That was Oblomov, not C&P.