2006-08-31 09:59:22 · 22 answers · asked by vick 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
The Great Gatsby...absolutely mind numbing
2006-08-31 10:04:29 · answer #1 · answered by bradcymru 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think anything by F. Scott Fitzgerald is incredibly overrated. He was a prole with a lyrical prose style and a very strong attachment to other people's money. And...this makes me feel incredibly guilty, because I rever Russian culture...but I find practically every long Russian novel before Nabokov's "King, Queen, Knave" just about unreadable. Narrative pacing is not their strong suit. I sympathize with the non-fans of "Dr. Zhivago" below, as I found it particularly unreadable and have never even seen the whole movie version because it put me to sleep every time.
2006-09-02 00:42:20 · answer #2 · answered by silver.graph 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was able to read and did enjoy "Moby Dick", mainly because I do like classic sea stories such "Treasure Island" and "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea", but another classic I just could not get into was "Madame Bovary" by Gustave Faubert.
2006-08-31 18:58:28 · answer #3 · answered by BlueManticore 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The "classic" books that have wasted my time most egregiously would have to be:
Remembrance of Things Past
War and Peace
Moby Dick
Siddhartha
The Stranger
The Lord of the Rings trilogy
2006-08-31 18:55:18 · answer #4 · answered by flamingointhegrave 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Anything by Jane Austen. I cannot get through her books for the life of me, and I've tried several.
I had to do a book report on "Emma" when I was a junior in hs, and couldn't get through the book...so I tried the movie with Gwynneth Paltrow. Fell asleep twice.
You know it's bad when you can't even get through the movie!
2006-08-31 17:07:13 · answer #5 · answered by sgmaluv 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Lord of the Rings trilogy, a mind numbing collection of the words worst poetry bound together by some average fantasy.
2006-08-31 18:50:47 · answer #6 · answered by Doctor Tardieu 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Portnoy's Complaint
2006-09-01 00:48:38 · answer #7 · answered by February Rain 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wuthering Heights or whatever its called...had to read it for school...hated it.
Moby Dick....was a soso book...took awhile.
Hated absolutely Flowers for Algernon.
other than that..i like most of what i read...Reading Plato's Republic and the Silmarillion by Tolkien at the moment.
2006-08-31 17:18:40 · answer #8 · answered by broussard_donovan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Frankenstein: It was sooooo long and just so repetitive. The ending was sad and all, but I hated the writing style.
The Hobbit: The story was cool, but the way it was written was unbelievable. Mind you, they made an awsome movie out of some truly horrible books.
Charles Dickens: They just sucked, plain and simple.
2006-08-31 19:50:40 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I've TRIED about three times to get through Ulysses, by James Joyce....never got further than four or five pages.
Moby-Dick (in an abridged form, thank goodness, back in high school) was pretty awful.
2006-08-31 17:07:18 · answer #10 · answered by samiracat 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋