2006-12-10 02:42:25 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
I studied philosophy in university.
It has to be the Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant.
People in the philosophy department worshiped that book as the final truth on everything. It's over 1 000 pages of horrific jargon. When you finally split your head in half to understand what it does says, it's not that terrific anyway. There's plenty of holes in the theory, and he doesn't really prove anything: He just preaches to the converted (For 1 000+ pages!). The man took a gazillion pages to state: I'm an empiricist, because he insisted on proving that was the right thing to be.
And talk about bad writing! The man breaks any rule for good writing by any standard. Sentences go on for three to four lines, or more. The German language is not good enough for him, so he has to make up words, because he's just not satisfied what he has to say can be expressed with normal words. The writing is so bad students at German universities often used French translations of the book, because it was easier for them to get through once the translators had cleaned it up. By the time you do understand what is being said, it's either benign, false, or downright meaningless - with a few interesting things that could probably be fit in 15 pages by somebody that knows how to write.
Pure torture.
2006-12-10 03:20:23 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I can't read much of boring books. Don't finish them. A book I absolutely loved was The Rule of Four. Had to drag through chapters 1 & 2, but what a book !!!
2006-12-10 10:51:45 · answer #2 · answered by snvffy 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm sure I'll get a thumbs down from someone for this answer, but Black Spring by Henry Miller has been boring me to tears. I've read 10 books in between trying to read it, and maybe half way done.
It's like listening to someone's story, but they can't get to the point, and they're boring you to death.
2006-12-10 12:17:47 · answer #3 · answered by kaadina 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The one and only story I had to read where I had to muster the strength to fight my will-power of throwing a useless book into the trashcan was some fairy tale about frogs in a pond that my mother insisted that I read to my daugther at bedtime.
Oh, the agony! Nothing happened, and it wasn't even cute.
2006-12-10 11:06:26 · answer #4 · answered by tristan-adams 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Hobbit. Everyone made a HUGE deal about it after Lord of the RIngs movies came out so I wanted to see what the hype was all about. The story was good but J.R.R. Tolkein's writing style was so frigging BOOOORRRRING! But I love to read.
2006-12-10 15:16:58 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Poly Williams 'rise and fall of the yummy mummy'. Cost me 5p and it was a serious waste. Self obsessed, middle class, mother with esteem issues. Not a good portrayal or women, men or suburban England.
2006-12-10 11:42:58 · answer #6 · answered by knightofnee 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Pilgrim's Progress
2006-12-10 11:28:53 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
On Liberty by John Stuart Mill.
2006-12-10 11:10:52 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The boring ones that I read I put down,not to read them again.
2006-12-10 10:51:14 · answer #9 · answered by thresher 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by David Eggers
It wasn't and he isn't.
2006-12-10 13:36:58 · answer #10 · answered by eilishaa 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋