I've noticed a lot of 'what book should I read next?' type of questions here recently. I'd like to know if there are others out there who scream "NO!" at some of the suggestions. Especially when it's a classic you remember hating. Like Charles Dickens. I've often loved the actual stories, but reading his novels makes me want to scratch my eyeballs.
2007-01-21 05:08:47 · 18 answers · asked by fleurpixie 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Wuthering Heights. Great, tragic story. Flawed gothic novel. PAIN IN THE *** TO READ. I'd rather run barefoot throught a landfill than read this book again.
2007-01-21 05:37:03 · answer #1 · answered by arwens_curse 3 · 4⤊ 1⤋
When I saw The Notebook, I thought the book would be great because the movie was just so good. I was so wrong. It was one of the most boring books I had ever read, there was none of the passion that was in the movie on the pages.
Also, The Secret Lives of Lobsters was interesting to a certain extent. It didn't need to be over 200 pages, and I now know more about how lobsters mate than I probably should. It was really boring with maybe a few interesting facts about lobsters. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone and am quite embarrassed to admit I actually read it.
2007-01-21 07:32:16 · answer #2 · answered by Caitlin G 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I love your question. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy would top my list of books I would NOT recommend to even my worst enemy. It was the most torturous book I've ever read. Although Great Expectations would be on my top ten list of books not to recommend as well. The Iceman Cometh is a play that I wish I could unread and unwatch. I forget who wrote it and don't want to waste anymore of my life on it by googling the author. And Octavian Nothing by M.T. Anderson is another. It is the most boring, most dull, most odd book. I can't understand why it is winning award after award after award. I consider it to be a case of the Emperor's New Clothes.
2007-01-21 08:08:08 · answer #3 · answered by laney_po 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Anything by:
James Fenimore Cooper (gruesome language) great films!
James Joyce
The Naked Lunch, William S Burroughs
Hardy's great masterpiece, 'Tess of the D'Urbervilles' (painful) & Jude the Obscure but I dropped the class before it had to be completed.
Balzac (the horror of it)
Thomas Pynchon
Most all German literature: why? bother Thomas Mann?
Depressing Russian literature: if you do not freeze you die anyway so why write? please wander into the snow and take your English teacher with you.
Books I hated in high school: "Kitty Literature"
Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
Chaucer
Salis Marnier -whatever-
Scarlett Letter
2007-01-21 08:12:20 · answer #4 · answered by cruisingyeti 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Anne Rice. Now, don't get me wrong, I know that she has a huge fan base and people love her books and they've been turned into movies and her name is huge. But when I decided to jump onto the bandwagon and read "Interview with a Vampire", I had to FORCE myself to finish it. I kept saying 'It'll get better.' . . . and it never did. It wasn't that the story wasn't good (it was nice, though not fantastic) and that the characters weren't well-drawn (they were okay), and the premise (the creative interview idea) wasn't innovative, but she didn't need to take 352 pages!
The book is not that long comparatively- I've read far longer that are incredibly better- but it feels like 2,000 pages because it is SOOOOOO drawn-out, boring, and filled with insipid detail. Main character Louis, or Anne Rice through him, rambles on and on. Sometimes he has great moments in his mental wandering, but most of the time he sounds whiny and disgusting. Believe me, it was a struggle to finish this thing, and I usually devour books quickly.
I wouldn't make anyone read it.
2007-01-21 07:15:51 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
The Biography of Jane Goodall in Letters. Boring,boring,boring!
2007-01-21 14:07:55 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i understand it is conventional and classic yet I even ought to assert Lord Of The Flies. lower back in a unmarried year 9 we had to ascertain it for English type and that i ought to no longer stand it. i'm an avid reader, i appreciate books of all matters yet I purely did not like that e book. the concept and the psychology of all of it become interesting although the way it become written did no longer something for me.
2016-10-15 21:36:02 · answer #7 · answered by cohan 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wuthering Heights
2007-01-21 06:23:03 · answer #8 · answered by Nicole 1 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Now that's a good question! I hated "The alchemist" by P. Coelho. Never read so much pseudo-ancient kitsch wisdom on a heap.
2007-01-21 15:23:04 · answer #9 · answered by Sterz 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
656 pages of banal boredom.
I usually Love vampire novels, but this one sucked so much, I wanted to slit my wrists after I read it. I kept waiting and waiting for it to be interesting, and the ending...Oh My God... the worst ending...I threw this book across my living room and then jumped on it.
2007-01-21 05:26:01 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋