For me, it was "Finnegan's Wake"
2006-08-04 03:56:32 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Crap! Sorry! I meant to post this elsewhere!
2006-08-04 04:03:27 · update #1
Sparky: Have you tried skipping a chapter when they start going on about politics or potatoes? Makes a much better read! =0)
2006-08-04 04:23:18 · update #2
"Pride and Prejudice." Nothing but the long-winded drivel of a nineteenth century socialite. It's like if Paris Hilton had lived in early 1800's England.
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"War and Peace." Hate to say it, but most Russian literature turns me off. As Frank McCourt memorably put it: "those Russian novels, where after 400 pages, the peasant commits suicide, and you wish he'd done it on page 4."
I happen to love "Moby Dick." It's one of my favorites. I've re-read it several times. At least it has more substance than "Pride and Prejudice."
2006-08-04 04:19:10 · answer #1 · answered by sparky52881 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have to say that reading Moby Dick was physically painful. I know that a lot of people love the obsession with the unattainable, blah, blah, blah, but that is the ONLY book I've ever read that made me want to scream and bash my head against a brick wall.
Don't get me wrong, I've read some awful books, but I wish I could lobotomize the portion of my cortex that knows that Moby Dick exists!
2006-08-04 04:12:07 · answer #2 · answered by fightintxaggie98 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
some books are like that and of direction all of us have different tastes. some thoughts make an boring study with the aid of fact of writing form yet they make an extraordinarily stable action picture and To Kill A Mockingbird is a competent occasion of that. The books i detect over rated are those written by using Dan Brown. They make exciting movies yet in my opinion the thoughts look very long and drawn out. very widely used although.
2016-10-01 11:30:10 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know this is hard for the elitists to accept, but anything James Joyce wrote was incredibly boring. And Finnegans Wake was probably not his worst in this respect.
2006-08-04 04:00:45 · answer #4 · answered by prosopopoeia 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Awakening. A total loss. Just because a book was 'shocking' at the time it was written doesn't mean it's automatically worth reading.
2006-08-04 04:03:00 · answer #5 · answered by Deek 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'll go with anything by Hemingway. Maybe it's because his subject matter/themes are more male-oriented.
I had a set of his books and just gave them away.
2006-08-04 04:05:02 · answer #6 · answered by 60s Chick 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Moby Dick. i mean... come on! a whole chapter recording the ship's manifest? did i really need to know how many kegs of nails and lengths of rope etc etc ad nauseum the ship had it's the hold? boooooooring!
2006-08-04 04:16:30 · answer #7 · answered by nebtet 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i took an entire college course on jane Austen. i had never read her works and i thought "well, she has written an entire canon of classics, so why not!"
i hated the class and her books. i'm just not a fan!
i even told the professor about my problem and he sympathized with me....
i passed, but i just wanted him to know it wasn't his class, it was Austen!
2006-08-04 04:03:27 · answer #8 · answered by joey322 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't get Flaubert. I read "A Simple Heart" and thought it was simply stupid. I haven't read anything else by him and maybe I didn't have the right professor to help me understand him, but the stupid woman with her parrot...
I just didn't get it.
2006-08-04 05:08:28 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, I was disappointed by the Bible but I don't think it counts as a classic. I think the Hobbit sucked.
2006-08-04 04:00:46 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋