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SheilaT

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28. It is so nice to finally meet someone else who did not like

Sun Jul 1, 2012, 05:59 PM

Jul 2012

Lord of the Rings. I couldn't get more than two chapters into The Hobbit, which everyone said was a great way to start, so I've never even tried the real thing.

I no longer even consider finishing books I'm not liking. I'll give it fifty pages or so, and that's it.

Finishing a book that's reasonably interesting, but not liking it for some reason or another is a different story. I have learned the hard way that if a novel is hugely praised, I'm probably not going to like it. Couldn't get more than a third of the way through The Road. Couldn't get past the first paragraph of A Million Little Pieces or whatever that stupid book is called, because it starts out with him coming to on board an airplane and bleeding profusely. I'm a former airline employee, and I can tell you we would never board a passenger in that kind of condition.

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what is the most boring book you have ever read? [View all] JitterbugPerfume Jun 2012 OP

I tend not to get through snoozers to the end - John Irving's "Son of the Circus" NRaleighLiberal Jun 2012 #1

The Right Wing Noise Machine OrwellwasRight Jun 2012 #2

The series of books by Stephen R. Donaldson which begins with "Lord Foul's Bane" Systematic Chaos Jun 2012 #3

Good choice. bemildred Jun 2012 #8

So that's why we get so many of that fantasy series donated to the thrift store Odin2005 Jun 2012 #24

Anything that Ayn Rand has written.... MindMover Jun 2012 #4

I was going to say ATLAS SHRUGGED! nt raccoon Jun 2012 #19

Atlas Shrugged was silly and juevenile, but Curmudgeoness Jun 2012 #21

Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser rocktivity Jun 2012 #5

Uh oh. Curmudgeoness Jun 2012 #12

I failed the first time when young. getting old in mke Jun 2012 #15

I'm from Mississippi and have never been able to finish and comprehend a full page of any work by... Rowdyboy Jun 2012 #6

I am with you there RB! JitterbugPerfume Jun 2012 #9

Try listening to Faulkner on audiobook. If it is read by a japple Jul 2012 #35

I had honestly never thought of that option.... Rowdyboy Jul 2012 #36

"Light in August" is a great book. LuvNewcastle Jul 2012 #37

I love Faulkner... freesqueeze Jul 2012 #42

I've only read three books/series where I felt truly punished: XemaSab Jun 2012 #7

LOTR bored me. Hunger games were a fast read so didn't feel badly about the time uppityperson Jun 2012 #16

It is so nice to finally meet someone else who did not like SheilaT Jul 2012 #28

I actually could agree Xyzse Jul 2012 #44

Moby Dick. 480 pages of technical whaling manual, 10 pages of Boys' Own adventure story. nt dmallind Jun 2012 #10

HERETIC! BURN HIM! Odin2005 Jun 2012 #25

S'OK. I hate Ulysses too (and yes I get the pseudo mental masturbation of varying styles etc) dmallind Jul 2012 #29

I've never been able to stay with one of Rushdie's books long enough pscot Jul 2012 #32

I never finished Ulysses Xyzse Jul 2012 #45

Me too!!! TuxedoKat Jul 2012 #31

Bridge of Sighs Mz Pip Jun 2012 #11

I loved Empire Falls too. Curmudgeoness Jun 2012 #13

Anything by Michener is near the top for me. Curmudgeoness Jun 2012 #14

I found it odd that there were no women in Michner's books. The History Of the World with Men uppityperson Jun 2012 #17

LOL, I never thought about that, but you are right. Curmudgeoness Jun 2012 #20

The Lion, The Witch and the zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz YankeyMCC Jun 2012 #18

One Million Kablooie Jun 2012 #22

Though page 27 was particularly riveting. (nt) getting old in mke Jun 2012 #23

Anything by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Odin2005 Jun 2012 #26

Oh c'mon. How can anything with "he ejaculated" on almost every page be tedious? dmallind Jul 2012 #30

The Velvet Underground by "Mitchell Leigh" Tom Ripley Jul 2012 #27

I won't finish a boring book. closeupready Jul 2012 #33

Anything by Noam Chomsky LuvNewcastle Jul 2012 #34

great expectations skippercollector Jul 2012 #38

Prairie tales DUgosh Jul 2012 #39

Yes, LOTR & Cryptonomicon bored me, too... Moe Shinola Jul 2012 #40

To the Lighthouse - V. Woolf freesqueeze Jul 2012 #41

Back in junior high we had to read SheilaT Jul 2012 #43

I can't say what is the most boring book I've read Xyzse Jul 2012 #46

LOTR demguy_5692 Jul 2012 #47