Finished reading. And why did you finish it?
2006-09-06 22:10:04 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
the dictionary...although it made my speaking....good...
2006-09-07 10:55:34 · answer #1 · answered by bookstorejunky 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hate to say this, but some good and intellectual books can be very boring.
On the other hand, some bad, soap-opera style books are interesting.
I've recently finished 2 of perhaps my most boring reading ever :
1 River Town. It's about China from a westerner's perspective. I can't remember the author's name.
2 From Emperor To Citizen. This was made into the award-winning film The Last Emperor. The ex-emperor Pu Yi wrote it himself.
These two are regarded as "great" by many critics.
They are, indeed, boring. I took somewhat 3 months to finish each task.
The main reason I finished the books is I don't wanna lose my money without reading them.
Actually, there are lots of books I've read which are even more boring than those two, but they are in Thai, my native language, so there's no point to mention them here.
2006-09-06 22:31:54 · answer #2 · answered by ohmsiris 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Several years ago, I bought the complete set of Mission Earth by L. Ron Hubbard (in hardback) and I finished the first 3 or 4 volumes. But, I gave up after that and donated the whole set to my local library.
It was extremely wordy and very slow moving, two things you don't want in sceince fiction.
I remember saying to myself, "Come on, get off the damn planet!" When I was reading the first volume, and if I remember correctly the main character didn't make it off the planet until the second volume. It was like watching paint dry!
2006-09-06 22:31:24 · answer #3 · answered by JSalakar 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
War and Peace by Tolstoy and Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
I probably just finished War and Peace so I could say I read it, but honestly for a book with a War in it, almost nothing happens.
Atlas Shrugged was very drawn out and I was just completely bored with the plot. But my friend was reading it and kept raving about it, I was thinking maybe it gets better, maybe it gets better, maybe it gets better...
2006-09-07 01:08:40 · answer #4 · answered by Kevin 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The scarlet letter......i know it's a classic, but it just goes on...and on...and on....took me almost a month to get through and i could not read more than a couple of pages a a time....but i finished it at last...because i don't like to leave things hanging in the middle, plus it was an experience....
2006-09-06 23:32:09 · answer #5 · answered by S 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Robert Jordan's Books. I finished it to get it over with. Still have not finished the Arms of Krupp started over fifteen years ago.
2006-09-06 22:35:14 · answer #6 · answered by sescja 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Night. I had to read it for school last year. It got interesting after about three chapters though. No wait...the Diary of Anne Frank. That really was a bore!
2006-09-06 22:17:41 · answer #7 · answered by Steph :-) 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Lord of the Flies, by William Golding. I hated that book, it took me forever to read it and I was a good reader! Had to read it in grade four to do a book report, or no field trip to Lake Louise. Lake Louise (Alberta, Canada) is not to be missed!
2006-09-06 22:16:36 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'd say Silmarillion, but I never finished it (too damned tedious).
so I'll go with "the Magic Mountain" by Thomas Mann; I only read it as a friend was raving about it. unfortunately, it made "the Idiot" seem exciting by comparison.
2006-09-06 23:39:06 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
P.S I love you by Celia Ahern, and Where Rainbows End, also by Celia Ahern, what a boring load of rubbish they were, I hated them but had to finish them just to make sure they didn't suddenly get really interesting.
2006-09-06 22:20:33 · answer #10 · answered by sparkleythings_4you 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Almost every text read during coursework year of an abandoned social work degree. Easily the most mindnumbing reading year of my literary life.
2006-09-06 22:29:08 · answer #11 · answered by LaBrat 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋