Amph Most boring books ever

Lame is an adjective. Incredibly is an adverb.

I will now return to judging everyone in this thread silently.

 

Bah.

 

Don't forget the cross-dressing! The man was fun.

 

Or the bestiality! Although that sequence from A Midsummer Night's Dream came straight out of Greek myth and was actually bowdlerised compared with the actual myth he ripped off for it.

 

Ah, but Richard III has it all - a maniacal, sword-wielding hunchback killing everyone in sight, seducing women after murdering their husbands,
locking little boys away in a tower...

And then he starts yelling that he'd trade his kingdom for a horse!

 

Again I say, how can anyone root for him? Maybe the book strikes a cord if you read it at a certain age, but I was in my late 20's when I read it and it was a big nothing for me. I don't and didn't identify with a little jerk liek that.

 

One thing I hate is when a book has two storylines that will mesh, and one is boring and the other is awesome but you can't skim the boring or else the book will mean nothing.

 

That does make for boring reading and difficult too. I felt some of that reading the TTT.

 

I just saw the quotes above. I was really let down by the original Dragonlance book shaving just read them last year for the first time. I read a few other book sin that world years ago, Dragons, The Dragons at War, and both Revenloft books featuring Lord Soth and all four of them, especially the first two, were incredible. So I thought the originals were gonna blow me away. Nope. they were not the worst things I ever read, but I was not missing anything.

 

Firmus Jagdon, I suppose that makes sense. I read it freshman year of high school and really felt for and associated myself with the character.


But still...

 

I personally can not STAND anything by Virginia Woolf. Had to read Orlando in college, and it was tolerable, but I could not finish To the Lighthouse. Stream of consciousness writing, otherwise known as continuous run-on sentences, annoys me to no end. I reached a point where I realized I didn't know what the hell was going on, so I put it down.

Also can't get through Moby Dick. I've tried and tried again, but the continual shifts from plot to analyzing whales and the whaling industry just put an end to it for me.

 

The Handmaid's Tale. I wanted someone to do something to fight back, but all the characters turned out to be pretty useless. I didn't care about them or their situation, so it felt like the book just dragged on forever.

 

I have read through A Room of One's Own by Woolf twice, and I have no desire to do so ever again.

 

this is blasphemy i know, but 'sometimes a great notion'. i actually dig the writing style, but jesus nothing happens. i've never made it more than a third of the way through. my next attempt, if there is one, will be number four.

 

Everything I have read by Ed Greenwood. This is a shame since he created one of my favorite worlds.

 

He's not a jerk. He's damaged. He's in serious pain and he's lashing out. And I root for anyone in serious pain to get out of it. I think the fact that you could read a book about a character as wonderfully human and well-realized as Holden and come away feeling like he's nothing but a "little jerk" speaks to a lack of understanding of emotional disorders. He's incredibly layered and to see him as just a kid that likes to be a jerk is to view him in only the most superficial way. It's a case study of someone that's emotionally disturbed. He can't help it. And he is not a "little jerk." I can't underline that enough. If you choose to look at him as that and nothing more, then, yeah, the book will suck. But look at him with empathy and the book is a magnificently realized portrait of emotional trauma.

 

Drogon, right?

 

Moby Dick. Maybe it's because I was too young to appreciate it when I read it, but I seem to recall the book being just: they sail here, they sail there, they meet up with another ship, "Hath seen the white whale?", protagonist rambles on about the romanticism of whaling, they find the white whale, everybody dies.

 

I'm stunned by the lack of Thomas Hardy entries here.

 

What a load of ****. Nothing even happens.

 

I gave up on David Farland's Runelords saga mainly because it was poorly written, and the later books had this unintentionally hilarious obsession with a little girl eating the brains of monsters.