| The most boring book you’ve ever read? 09:29 - Sep 17 with 3798 views | Ryorry |
It’s ‘The Mill on the Floss’ (George Eliot) for me. Insomnia cure and useful doorstop though.
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| The most boring book you’ve ever read? on 11:16 - Sep 17 with 502 views | PhilTWTD |
Middlemarch to add to the George Eliot non-fan club. |  | | |
| The most boring book you’ve ever read? on 11:16 - Sep 17 with 503 views | NthQldITFC |
The Da Vinci Code
One of few books I've stopped reading part way through.
A very interesting concept, but...
A book with a plot so linear and dependent upon a series of ridiculously interlocking coincidences could, perhaps, have been saved by some decent characterisations and dialogue. But no, Mr Brown 'decided' that all of the characters should have exactly the same personality, and exactly the same lexicon.
Pulp. |  |
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| I had to do…. on 11:18 - Sep 17 with 493 views | Bloots |
| The most boring book you’ve ever read? on 11:04 - Sep 17 by farkenhell |
I think you might be right. I studied that for my O. Levels (showing my age) and although it was a few years ago now, I can't remember a thing about it! |
….The Siege of Krishnapur by JG Farrell.
I genuinely never read it, just read the Letts (?) study aid.
Got a grade C. |  |
| "....get on, get on, get on, my groovy train” - Peter Joseph Hooton (Aug 1990) |
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| The most boring book you’ve ever read? on 11:18 - Sep 17 with 491 views | NthQldITFC |
| The most boring book you’ve ever read? on 09:52 - Sep 17 by leitrimblue |
The Archaeology of Early Medieval Ireland (Nancy Edwards).
Read it 20 odd years ago and still scared by it now. Is a masterclass in how to take any joy out of a subject. |
That nice Francis Pryor fella, has he written anything worthy on the subject?
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| The best spin off…. on 11:22 - Sep 17 with 495 views | Bloots |
| The Oxford English Dictionary…. on 11:12 - Sep 17 by Swansea_Blue |
The Translation Dictionary spin offs were rubbish. I didn't understand half of what was going on. |
….was the one by Roget.
It was incredible, astonishing, amazing, prodigious, awe-inspiring, stunning, spectacular and tremendous. | |
| "....get on, get on, get on, my groovy train” - Peter Joseph Hooton (Aug 1990) |
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| The best spin off…. on 11:23 - Sep 17 with 477 views | mrfixit426 |
| The best spin off…. on 11:22 - Sep 17 by Bloots |
….was the one by Roget.
It was incredible, astonishing, amazing, prodigious, awe-inspiring, stunning, spectacular and tremendous. |
Genuinely laughed out loud at that! Thanks for brightening up my morning. |  | | |
| The most boring book you’ve ever read? on 11:23 - Sep 17 with 472 views | leitrimblue |
| The most boring book you’ve ever read? on 11:18 - Sep 17 by NthQldITFC |
That nice Francis Pryor fella, has he written anything worthy on the subject?
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Think we can all agree that Mr Pryor as never wrought anything worthy on any subject  |  | | |
| The most boring book you’ve ever read? on 11:24 - Sep 17 with 468 views | Sharkey |
A biography of Hank Williams. Drunks often are very boring. |  | | |
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| The Oxford English Dictionary…. on 11:26 - Sep 17 with 461 views | leitrimblue |
| The Oxford English Dictionary…. on 11:12 - Sep 17 by Swansea_Blue |
The Translation Dictionary spin offs were rubbish. I didn't understand half of what was going on. |
Couldn't agree more Swanners, my Spanish speaking partner gave me the English-Spanish one as a 'present' years ago. I only got a few pages in, could barely understand it and was so boring. Don't know how to tell her | | | |
| "Este libro es aburrido" (n/t) on 11:29 - Sep 17 with 454 views | Bloots |
| The Oxford English Dictionary…. on 11:26 - Sep 17 by leitrimblue |
Couldn't agree more Swanners, my Spanish speaking partner gave me the English-Spanish one as a 'present' years ago. I only got a few pages in, could barely understand it and was so boring. Don't know how to tell her |
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| "....get on, get on, get on, my groovy train” - Peter Joseph Hooton (Aug 1990) |
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| The Oxford English Dictionary…. on 11:32 - Sep 17 with 445 views | Cafe_Newman |
| The Oxford English Dictionary…. on 11:12 - Sep 17 by Swansea_Blue |
The Translation Dictionary spin offs were rubbish. I didn't understand half of what was going on. |
This. I've been suckered into buying quite a few over the years but never got through any of them. Clever marketing I guess. |  |
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| The most boring book you’ve ever read? on 11:34 - Sep 17 with 443 views | thorpedo |
| The most boring book you’ve ever read? on 10:08 - Sep 17 by Guthrum |
I quite enjoyed the first couple in the series, but it went downhill rapidly after that. |
...and then uphill, and then downhill and then..... Oh sorry you were talking about Dune not dunes..... |  |
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| "Este libro es aburrido" (n/t) on 11:34 - Sep 17 with 437 views | leitrimblue |
| "Este libro es aburrido" (n/t) on 11:29 - Sep 17 by Bloots |
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| The Oxford English Dictionary…. on 11:34 - Sep 17 with 441 views | tazdac |
| The Oxford English Dictionary…. on 10:43 - Sep 17 by Bloots |
….lacks any storyline and has absolutely zero character development.
The ending made no sense either, the author just drops in some South American weevils for no reason at all.
Load of rubbish. |
At least it explains the words as you go along ;o) |  | | |
| The most boring book you’ve ever read? on 11:44 - Sep 17 with 421 views | Phantasm |
The Old Man and the Sea by Hemingway - admittedly at school some 20 years ago but truly turgid stuff. | | | |
| The most boring book you’ve ever read? on 11:45 - Sep 17 with 418 views | Keno |
| The most boring book you’ve ever read? on 10:25 - Sep 17 by Steve_M |
'Human Traces' by Sebastian Faulkes.
I liked Birdsong, although it's probably not quite as good as the hype but otherwise, Faulkes' fiction is either overblown and unrealistic (the last part of Charlotte Grey) or just dull - that book especially.
I mean this is how is website describes it:
"Five years in the research and writing, the epic Human Traces, Faulks’s seventh novel, was, and remains, his most ambitious yet. Its theme is the nature of humanity: the make-up of our conscious minds and what it is that makes humans so perplexingly different from other creatures."
Yeah, it was crap. |
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| The best spin off…. on 11:45 - Sep 17 with 416 views | Cafe_Newman |
| The best spin off…. on 11:22 - Sep 17 by Bloots |
….was the one by Roget.
It was incredible, astonishing, amazing, prodigious, awe-inspiring, stunning, spectacular and tremendous. |
POTM | |
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| The most boring book you’ve ever read? on 11:50 - Sep 17 with 406 views | Churchman |
| The most boring book you’ve ever read? on 10:34 - Sep 17 by bsw72 |
Have you read Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman - he has been compared to Tolstoy and like you I struggled with War and Peace but found Life and Fate a much more intruiging read . . . |
No, I haven’t. I’ll give it a go. Ta! |  | | |
| The most boring book you’ve ever read? on 11:54 - Sep 17 with 400 views | mellowblue |
| The most boring book you’ve ever read? on 09:40 - Sep 17 by Churchman |
Tolstoy’s War and Peace. I’ve tried twice and given up twice. |
my choice to. So many Russian names ending in ov that are not easy to recognize, soon lost touch with who was who and gave up. Nothing seemed to be happening. Joyce's Ulysses was awful too. Yet both books are bedrocks of literature. Somehow feel guilty for not ploughing through and getting the job done. | | | |
| The most boring book you’ve ever read? on 11:54 - Sep 17 with 401 views | Guthrum |
| The most boring book you’ve ever read? on 10:07 - Sep 17 by Guthrum |
Jean Pul Sartre, "The Age Of Reason" - barely got beyond the first chapter. |
Also Aldous Huxley, "Island", which we had to do at school. "Brave New World" I enjoyed, but "Island" was tedious.
As opposed to DH Lawrence ("The Lost Girl", which I did at A Level), just terrible rubbish, all 'thrusting blood' and overwrought fantasising. |  |
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| The most boring book you’ve ever read? on 12:02 - Sep 17 with 374 views | leitrimblue |
| The most boring book you’ve ever read? on 11:54 - Sep 17 by mellowblue |
my choice to. So many Russian names ending in ov that are not easy to recognize, soon lost touch with who was who and gave up. Nothing seemed to be happening. Joyce's Ulysses was awful too. Yet both books are bedrocks of literature. Somehow feel guilty for not ploughing through and getting the job done. |
I absolutely hate Joyce's Ulysses, its a stinker. But it can be unpopular in certain Irish circles to mention how bad it is. Whenever it, Joyce, or Bloomsday are discussed in find it best to just smile an stay silent.
I do enjoy Homer and Herodotos though, proper classics | | | |
| The most boring book you’ve ever read? on 12:11 - Sep 17 with 361 views | Steve_M |
| The most boring book you’ve ever read? on 12:02 - Sep 17 by leitrimblue |
I absolutely hate Joyce's Ulysses, its a stinker. But it can be unpopular in certain Irish circles to mention how bad it is. Whenever it, Joyce, or Bloomsday are discussed in find it best to just smile an stay silent.
I do enjoy Homer and Herodotos though, proper classics |
I'm not sure that I like Ulysses exactly but, having read it, I can see why it is so popular. It helps to understand that a) Joyce was taking the piss a lot and b) he has a dirty mind.
Admittedly, it took me 20 years to actually go back to it having given up about 10 pages in when I first tried in my mid-20s. It had annoyed me that I hadn't finished it so wanted to try again but there are bits that I just had to plough through. |  |
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| The most boring book you’ve ever read? on 12:17 - Sep 17 with 354 views | J2BLUE |
The Martian takes some beating. A dull book full of technical details and the same crap repetitive joke about disco music.
I have never watched the film but I can only assume they made lots of changes. |  | | |
| The most boring book you’ve ever read? on 12:21 - Sep 17 with 340 views | mellowblue |
| The most boring book you’ve ever read? on 09:47 - Sep 17 by Ryorry |
Interesting - as a mid-teen girl not into football, I loved it!
And loved ‘Lord of the Rings’ in my late 20s when in a v. stressful job - used to read a page every night in bed for sheer escapism. |
as a visitor to Durrell's zoo in Jersey and also Corfu as a boy; and at a similar age to Durrell in the book and also a lover of animals, I enjoyed it thoroughly and have re-read it a couple of times. Would have been about 1976 when Corfu was very much undeveloped and it was all rather Zorba the Greek, with peasants dressed in the same rustic clothing style that had endured for many hundreds of years ploughing impossibly stony ground with wooden ploughs and oxen. This juxtaposed with the youngsters who were all dressed in up to date Western clothing listening to pop music. You could see the disconnect between them and the traditional lifestyle of the parent generation as they embraced the opportunities in the developing tourism.
In those days there was no way of finding out football results when abroad, until the British daily papers arrived (dyed yellow for some reason) 2 or 3 days later. It was pretty stunning to find that we had lost 6-2 at home to Derby County in last game of the 75/76 season . I put it down to a printing error until I found out it was true when back home. It was Francis Lee's 500th and final game and he signed off with 2 goals. | | | |
| The most boring book you’ve ever read? on 12:25 - Sep 17 with 332 views | mellowblue |
| The most boring book you’ve ever read? on 12:17 - Sep 17 by J2BLUE |
The Martian takes some beating. A dull book full of technical details and the same crap repetitive joke about disco music.
I have never watched the film but I can only assume they made lots of changes. |
Really, I only just bought that last week. I wasn't expecting a book with repetitive jokes about disco music. Not very sci-fi. | | | |
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