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"The Stranger" by Albert Camus. Story of a man sitting in his prison cell awaiting execution at dawn and his reflections on life. Existentialism is the entire plot.

Quite frankly they couldn't have executed this guy sooner in my opinion.

2007-10-16 03:15:41 · answer #1 · answered by Quasimodo 7 · 1 0

This isn't, perhaps, an entirely fair question. When I was a child, I couldn't get into Little Women. I waited a few years and tried again, and I absolutely LOVED it.

Lately, I started Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain and couldn't get into it. Is this fair? I don't know. I'll try again at another time.

Personally, I think some books seem boring NOW that you will appreciate later. With me it has to do more with my mood at the time or my own tastes, I think.

That's not to say that there aren't really bad stories. Obviously with the amount of books published, there must be.

Basically, what's boring to one may be fascinating to another. These very differences are what make people so interesting!

If I had to tell you the book I enjoyed the least, it would have to be Cold Mountain. I know there are a LOT of people who just loved it, but I wasn't among that number!

2007-10-16 03:26:01 · answer #2 · answered by ck1 7 · 0 0

Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser. I had to read it for this history class I took in college and I really wanted to like it, but I just hated the main character. She got on my nerves the whole time I was reading the book, and I really wanted something bad to happen to her in the end. Sadly, nothing really bad did happen and I was quite disappointed. And, my professor seemed to think it was the greatest book ever and spent the rest of the quarter using it as an example whenever she could. Such a boring, awful book.

2007-10-16 06:17:12 · answer #3 · answered by DngrsAngl 7 · 0 0

The Wandering Jew by Sue.

It's a nineteenth century novel done exclusively in omniscient POV, and every setting is described in exhausting detail, as are all of the clothes that characters wear.

People liked that style of writing back then, but the advent of motion pictures, television, and mind numbing advertising has changed the pace of entertainment.

It's a massive work (I'd guess it's around 300,000 words), and I got about 100 pages into it before putting it down with a promise to myself that one day I would try it again.
It's still waiting on the shelf.

2007-10-16 10:38:22 · answer #4 · answered by james p 5 · 0 0

The Federalist Papers.

It was required summer reading for my high school Civics class. NOBODY in the class got past page 5. I am a fast reader, and generally a good student/dutiful/agreeable ...and I think I got the farthest into the book (page 5). The Civics teacher actually realized nobody had read it after a couple questions, and told us the highlights so we would pass his quiz....

2007-10-18 19:23:10 · answer #5 · answered by Katie W 6 · 0 0

I know a lot of people will disagree, but The Alchemist by Paolo Coelho was definitely the most boring book i ever read.

2007-10-16 07:06:37 · answer #6 · answered by Princess15 2 · 1 0

I know people will despise me for saying this, especially Dante lovers, but I can not get through Dante's Inferno to save a life. I have tried it with it music, without it, outside, inside. It wasn't entertaining till I read it in Italian.

J.G. Ballard's Crash because of the repetition of words, "contours of her hips, contours of the road," just annoyed me. It was as if he had writer's block, so he kept writing the same thing over and over.

2007-10-16 03:17:33 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

a hundred years of solitude. i don't care what people say bout it.. but personally i don't see what is it about the book that makes people wants to read more than once or even finish it the first time. and in my opinion.. a good book should always attract u to read it again and again

2007-10-16 02:31:00 · answer #8 · answered by .......!!......... 3 · 0 0

Wicked bored me silly. But there is one book I didn't finish. I don't know why but I just could not get into Nick Tosches In the Hand of Dante. Maybe one day I will try it again. It is in my library.
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Pax - C

2007-10-16 02:37:17 · answer #9 · answered by Persiphone_Hellecat 7 · 1 0

Don DeLillo's White Noise or Malory's Arthuriad

2007-10-16 02:29:46 · answer #10 · answered by Evieve 5 · 0 0

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