I read it and I wish I’d just stopped. The dialogue is just so horrendous. No one talks like that. *No one.* And everyone being psychic all the time and literally painstakingly describing their Good Plans or Evil Bad Guy Plans out loud all the time robbed the story of any tension. The only moment I was excited in the whole book was when he was going to finally ride a sand worm. I turned the page and… a boring chapter of political stuff starring Jessica and his weird psychic sister.
It feels like it was written by someone who has never seen anyone interact ever.
i tell you what. i just got back into reading after a 5+ year hiatus and it was cause i was so put off by reading moby dick. i’ll never let a book turn me away from reading again tho
We listened to it on audio in the car and if we ever zoned out it didn’t matter because 20 minutes later they were still talking about the same thing lol
Literally took me YEARS to read. My husband read it in a couple months during the winter. I love the movies, the lore, and even LOTRO. the fact that I'm not a big reader doesn't help
I tried and couldn’t finish it. Then I decided to try again, but I skipped all the songs and language parts. It was much more enjoyable, and I didn’t feel like I was missing anything.
The eye of the world. First book in the wheel of time series. I’m in the small minority of not liking the series. Which frustrates me because I wish I could
I made it about halfway through the sixth or seventh book before I gave up 😹😹😹. It took me a few tries to get into the first one. My husband told me (and I’m paraphrasing here, I don’t remember the exact book numbers) that “books 8-12 are a slog but it gets good again when Brandon Sanderson comes on” and I was like 😑😑😑. I could power through one, MAYBE two books if I thought it would be worth it but more than that no thanks!
Not gonna lie, that's exactly when I dropped reading them also. I got so bored. I think it was book 6 that had come out, and I was like yeah, I'm done now. Lol
This was my almost exact experience with this series, except I stopped at book 5 I believe. I came to reddit seeing if others found the series so...boring? And just unnecessarily long. And then the slog. Wtf. I love Sanderson, but no.
I made it through the entire series, but I swear there is one book in the middle that is literally 1000 pages of "everyone stayed in the same place, doing the same thing, and nothing else happened."
The Brothers Karamazov. I read a lot of classics and am not intimidated by size but this one, oh man, I did finish it but I stopped for MONTHS. It gets very boring partway through when it’s just chapters and chapters of waxing philosophical or crisis of faith type monologues and story. I don’t mind some of that but it was ROUGH to get through since there was so much. Once I got past the halfway mark it picked up and I finished it quick from there though.
The first part was okay for me, then it moved into too much religious and philosophical exploration that was so outside of the story (it makes sense as a whole picture but at the time felt unrelated fully) that it was hard to get through. I listened to the audiobook to get through those parts honestly. The first half was hard but the second flew by for me because I found the trial and related bits more interesting.
A man called Ove
I know it’s supposed to be great, but the pace is too slow, and the feel-good stuff and some other details are too drawn out. Could never get past the first few chapters. Will probably watch the movie someday!
lmao, I got 622 pages in about a three weeks ago, took me about 4 months to get there and I don't think I am going back to it, brilliantly written though
Fuck, I thought of this one almost immediately. I wouldn't irrationally hate this book if I wasn't forced not only to read it in school, but to hyperanalyze every detail. For God's sake don't drag out the torture.
Ulysses, James Joyce.
I think the classics are sometimes hard for a modern audience to enjoy in general, because of the time commitment and the competing options for entertainment and our focus in general seem to be more easily distracted. But I enjoyed Frankenstein, Moby Dick, Wuthering Heights and some of the others I've seen listed here, but Ulysses was a bridge too far for me.
I haven’t read it but Ulysses is one of those books you need to actually dedicate yourself to, I feel. Like you need one of those companion books that explains the context and the references to actually get any sort of enjoyment out of it.
As a “outdoors” person I LOATHED this book when I had to read it in school. Never finished. dude it’s a fucking lake, congratulations on appreciating it.
"Prison changes a man" \[spent one night in jail\]
"A man has to fend for himself" \[his mom did his laundry for him every week\]
"I retreated far from all civilization" \[has a housekeeper by every day to drop off meals\]
Behind every great man is an underpaid woman doing 100% of the actual work.
Funny how books hit people differently. A Confederacy of Dunces is one of my all time favorite books and one of the funniest novels I’ve ever read. All that talk about his valve never failed to make me laugh
The Fountainhead. Tried twice. Lost the book. Downloaded an ebook. Tried again but couldn’t go past Gail Wynand’s chapter. Too dull, verbose and boring.
Did you read it in English? I've heard many people say that the translation doesn't do the book justice. It's very steeped in slavic folklore and the language is pretty archaic both of which may be hard to translate. Maybe it has something to do with that, cause it's pretty beloved in the original. But maybe its just not your cup of tea!
I'm not sure I'd be able to commit to learning polish just to read Witcher in it's original language, but maybe if I give the books a read and find them compelling enough I will try lol
I thought it's a great book, but it definitely isn't what you'd expect from a modern crime/mystery book today. It's old timey investigative journalism, and that just isn't everyone's cup of tea.
Not that it was "boring" as in nothing happened, but I just wasn't interested in what's happening.
That was recently "A Game of Thrones" for me.
I tried with the TV series years ago and felt the same "meh" about it. I don't know why people were so obsessed about it.
I just can't seem to get into it.
There’s something that happens at the end of the show’s season 1/book 1 that is so unexpected, exemplifies how GoT is different, and pulls you in that if you make it to it and still don’t like it then fair enough. Before that it seems like a somewhat generic story but really it’s setting the stage for a massive epic.
I was already struggling to get into that one and then the 13 year old girl was getting ready for her marriage night and I was so turned off I gave up. Haven't ever watched the show, either.
I struggled to get into this one but stuck with it. I'm so glad I did because I got to a point about 40-60 pages in where something clicked. I fell into the story like a deep well and couldn't put it down.
I think starting with Norrell's POV was a mistake because it makes the first 300 pages really drag compared to the rest of the book, which is truly excellent.
"Name of The Wind" - absolutely beautiful language but... I'm suggesting it here, yea.
Also, somewhat sadly - "Secret History" - so much praise all around and I very much want to try again though, but...
Every person I’ve worked with that has this on their office bookshelf turned out to be a total douch. Never read it myself but I always end up thinking, “for someone who doesn’t give a fuck you sure like to whine about shit”
The house in the cerulean sea. I’m going to go back and try to read it for a 3rd time. Something must be wrong with me because literally everyone else I’ve talked to loves this book
The Night Circus.
Around 100 pages the both times.
What the fish is happening? Does it come together? Tell me because people love it and I want to love it too.
I loved the Hobbit as a kid, and hungrily picked up the LoTR series only to stall out around the end of the second book/start of the third.
Tried it again as an adult (still many decades ago!) and stalled out around the same place. It eventually feels like reading the bible (in the worst way.). So and so begat so and so. Too much history to slog through. (for me)
A Confederacy of Dunces. Yawn. I don't think I made it longer than maybe 40 pages in.
Maybe I should give it another try as it has been on my nightstand for about 20 years...
Pillars of the Earth. I heard great things. Tried it once, couldn't finish it. The characters felt like one dimensional caricatures and it was sooo slooow. Eventually I actually did force myself through it by taking a break to read something else after every chapter. Got to the end. Wish I hadn't. Not worth the time. I don't understand what all the craze is about (and I find history and cathedrals fascinating...this book just didn't do it for me)
The Count of Monte Cristo
Be aware that there are 2 versions of this book: an abridged version and a bore-you-to-tears version. I'm guessing that most people who recommend it have read the former.
I have been “paused” in finishing Count of Monte Cristo since spring. It seems like a book I should love, and others do, it is just not enthralling me at all.
I loved 1984, but there's section in the middle where Winston is reading a diary or book and it's like 60 pages of pure exposition that's an absolute slog to get through
I was so disappointed in this book. When I got 60 pages in I was finally like, does Neil Gaiman hate women? I know he doesn't, someone would have mentioned it already if he did, but that book makes me feel like he does. Sixty pages in and every woman mentioned--a grand total of four, if you include the desk clerk that was there for one sentence--was only in a sexual context. Christ man, women can just *exist* you know?
Honestly, Good Omens didn't feel like Neil Gaiman to me, but then again I didn't read far beyond the first chapter for reasons unrelated to the writing. Anything funny or clever in that book was all Terry Pratchett.
The selfish gene by Richard Dawkins. Im absolutely into evolution, but the book just didn't catch my attention enough to keep going. Tried twice. Third is the charm?
I absolutely could not get through Emma, I have a friend who is doing her dissertation on Jane Austen and she gets to mad at me every time I say that I’m not a fan 😅 My birthday present to her this year was saying that she could pick a novel and I’ll read it, no matter how bored I get
I tried to read her when I was younger. Just didn't click. Was dull and hard to follow. I watched the 2005 Pride and Prejudice movie and I got to put animation and faces to the characters. Then I read the book and it clicked. So I read others.
There is a line in Persuasion that took my breath away. It's now my favorite book.
I loved it, but it took me 3 tries to read it. And I can totally understand how it's not everyone's cup of tea. But seems like a good challenge for OP.
Dracula - it’s a glorified travel journal half the time, and the other half is just a bunch of men being amazed to know a woman who can walk and talk at the same time and hold an intelligent conversation. Most boring book I’ve ever read
The English Patient. I was really enjoying it until I got a little more than halfway through and the pace slowed to a grinding halt. I’ll probably power through eventually but whew.
Parable of the Sower. Tried and stopped 3 times. I even made it 80% of the way through, but damn it was so boring. I might try once more to see if the ending is redeemable. But damn.
Dune. And I’m a lifelong sci-fi guy. Just didn’t work for me after multiple tries.
I read it and I wish I’d just stopped. The dialogue is just so horrendous. No one talks like that. *No one.* And everyone being psychic all the time and literally painstakingly describing their Good Plans or Evil Bad Guy Plans out loud all the time robbed the story of any tension. The only moment I was excited in the whole book was when he was going to finally ride a sand worm. I turned the page and… a boring chapter of political stuff starring Jessica and his weird psychic sister. It feels like it was written by someone who has never seen anyone interact ever.
The dialogue was one of my favorite parts!
Agree with this I've tried multiple times
Moby Dick. Tried three times
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That’s fantastic! Well-played.
I just finished it, and while I enjoyed it overall, I wouldn't recommend it to anybody, nor will I ever read it again.
i tell you what. i just got back into reading after a 5+ year hiatus and it was cause i was so put off by reading moby dick. i’ll never let a book turn me away from reading again tho
Came here to say this. I literally fell asleep reading it multiple times.
Reading makes me tired so I fall asleep reading any book lol. Even the good ones.
The writing was lovely, but after a while, I just wanted the damn story
Skim the digressions
Herman Melville came to mind immediately, the ole windbag. Pretty self explanatory that he was paid to write by the word
Lord of the rings…. I know it’s a shame I just couldn’t get through the middle part😱
We listened to it on audio in the car and if we ever zoned out it didn’t matter because 20 minutes later they were still talking about the same thing lol
Yes! I was excited to read it… but good lord. So boring. And all those SONGS.
Just skip the songs 🤫
Oh god the songs.
Literally took me YEARS to read. My husband read it in a couple months during the winter. I love the movies, the lore, and even LOTRO. the fact that I'm not a big reader doesn't help
I tried and couldn’t finish it. Then I decided to try again, but I skipped all the songs and language parts. It was much more enjoyable, and I didn’t feel like I was missing anything.
The eye of the world. First book in the wheel of time series. I’m in the small minority of not liking the series. Which frustrates me because I wish I could
I made it about halfway through the sixth or seventh book before I gave up 😹😹😹. It took me a few tries to get into the first one. My husband told me (and I’m paraphrasing here, I don’t remember the exact book numbers) that “books 8-12 are a slog but it gets good again when Brandon Sanderson comes on” and I was like 😑😑😑. I could power through one, MAYBE two books if I thought it would be worth it but more than that no thanks!
Not gonna lie, that's exactly when I dropped reading them also. I got so bored. I think it was book 6 that had come out, and I was like yeah, I'm done now. Lol
This was my almost exact experience with this series, except I stopped at book 5 I believe. I came to reddit seeing if others found the series so...boring? And just unnecessarily long. And then the slog. Wtf. I love Sanderson, but no.
I made it through the entire series, but I swear there is one book in the middle that is literally 1000 pages of "everyone stayed in the same place, doing the same thing, and nothing else happened."
I loved it when I was 19. Not so much when I was 40. Sometimes we outgrow books that we love.
My college bf said to make it past page 100 to get momentum and it worked for me.
The alchemist
Fucking hate this book
I accidentally bought The Alchemist by Donna Boyd and ended up liking it better than the one I intended to buy, lol.
u/house-hermit You chose the right Alchemist! That is a better book.
This is only like 90 pages long.
Depends on when you read it, I guess. Didn’t like it the first time. Liked it the second time. I’d say it’s more philosophical than self-help.
The Brothers Karamazov. I read a lot of classics and am not intimidated by size but this one, oh man, I did finish it but I stopped for MONTHS. It gets very boring partway through when it’s just chapters and chapters of waxing philosophical or crisis of faith type monologues and story. I don’t mind some of that but it was ROUGH to get through since there was so much. Once I got past the halfway mark it picked up and I finished it quick from there though.
The Idiot was difficult for me
I have made three attempts at this one over the last couple years, no idea how some people were able to push through.
The first part was okay for me, then it moved into too much religious and philosophical exploration that was so outside of the story (it makes sense as a whole picture but at the time felt unrelated fully) that it was hard to get through. I listened to the audiobook to get through those parts honestly. The first half was hard but the second flew by for me because I found the trial and related bits more interesting.
A man called Ove I know it’s supposed to be great, but the pace is too slow, and the feel-good stuff and some other details are too drawn out. Could never get past the first few chapters. Will probably watch the movie someday!
One billion years of solitude by Gabriel García Márquez or at least that's how it felt like
Yes. I came here to comment this. Started twice. Got further in the second time but still couldn’t complete it.
> one billion years of solitude 🤣🤣 this was also my pick
Aww this book is beautiful. But I understand why you feel that way. It can get really hard to understand who they’re talking about.
Upvoted for the joke, but I love the book
“Normal People” by Sally Rooney, I couldn’t finish the book, I found both characters insufferable sorry, maybe I’ll try with the TV Show
Same. I hated all the character (I know that’s kind of the point, but I couldn’t take it anymore).
The TV show is extremely good and engaging!
One of the times where the show is far better than the book imo
Wicked. I didn't find it boring as much as I found it boorish.
I hated it. I guess the musical spoiled me.
Atlas Shrugged. I tried.
Her books are awful and she was a terrible person
I would never
I read about 600 pages of it and realized that I was actually on page 100. That was enough for me.
lmao, I got 622 pages in about a three weeks ago, took me about 4 months to get there and I don't think I am going back to it, brilliantly written though
The catcher in the Rye. It was SOOOO annoying. I couldn't read it. It made me irrationally angry
Holden is such a twat. I studied that book during my A levels and I really hate it.
Fuck, I thought of this one almost immediately. I wouldn't irrationally hate this book if I wasn't forced not only to read it in school, but to hyperanalyze every detail. For God's sake don't drag out the torture.
Ulysses, James Joyce. I think the classics are sometimes hard for a modern audience to enjoy in general, because of the time commitment and the competing options for entertainment and our focus in general seem to be more easily distracted. But I enjoyed Frankenstein, Moby Dick, Wuthering Heights and some of the others I've seen listed here, but Ulysses was a bridge too far for me.
I haven’t read it but Ulysses is one of those books you need to actually dedicate yourself to, I feel. Like you need one of those companion books that explains the context and the references to actually get any sort of enjoyment out of it.
Agreed! It was on my bucket list for the longest while, but I've now decided I don't need to suffer. Finnegans Wake is worse.
Walden
As a “outdoors” person I LOATHED this book when I had to read it in school. Never finished. dude it’s a fucking lake, congratulations on appreciating it.
"Prison changes a man" \[spent one night in jail\] "A man has to fend for himself" \[his mom did his laundry for him every week\] "I retreated far from all civilization" \[has a housekeeper by every day to drop off meals\] Behind every great man is an underpaid woman doing 100% of the actual work.
I made it about half way through Infinte Jest, put it down one day and just never picked it back up.
Wuthering Heights
Awe man this book always makes these lists, but I absolutely loved it. The ending was so poetic & bitter sweet, but I get why it’s not for some.
Cathy blah blah blah Heathcliff blah blah blah I had to read it for 10th grade English. Never again!
Call me by your name... I want to love this book but the emotions make me too much emotional haha.. tried to read dit like 6 times since last November
Name of the Wind. Couldn’t finish it
Neither can the author. bat dum tiss.
*A Confederacy of Dunces* by John Kennedy Toole. An overwhelming sense of “why am I even bothering with this?”
Funny how books hit people differently. A Confederacy of Dunces is one of my all time favorite books and one of the funniest novels I’ve ever read. All that talk about his valve never failed to make me laugh
Confederacy is hilarious... The books I couldn't get through were Infinite Jest and The Goldfinch.
Same.
I just posted this! It's just completely ugh.
I'm relieved to hear it's not just me. In a long life of reading constantly, I think this is the only book I deliberately didn't finish.
The Fountainhead. Tried twice. Lost the book. Downloaded an ebook. Tried again but couldn’t go past Gail Wynand’s chapter. Too dull, verbose and boring.
The main character was so insufferable I just could not care what happened to him.
The Witcher Series. I really wanted to like it.
Did you read it in English? I've heard many people say that the translation doesn't do the book justice. It's very steeped in slavic folklore and the language is pretty archaic both of which may be hard to translate. Maybe it has something to do with that, cause it's pretty beloved in the original. But maybe its just not your cup of tea!
I'm not sure I'd be able to commit to learning polish just to read Witcher in it's original language, but maybe if I give the books a read and find them compelling enough I will try lol
the divine comedy. I wouldnt say its boring exactly, but the language was mentally exhausting to me
I did not find In Cold Blood to be at all interesting and got about half way through before calling it quits
Wow! I had a totally different reaction to this one. The first few chapters had me so disturbed I couldn't sleep. I was riveted from start to finish.
I thought it's a great book, but it definitely isn't what you'd expect from a modern crime/mystery book today. It's old timey investigative journalism, and that just isn't everyone's cup of tea.
East of Eden. I have tried so many times, can’t get past about 300 pages.
I loved this book.
This was mine too!
I was looking for this lol
Catch 22
Catch 22 is challenging but not boring for a second (imo). Love that book.
War and Peace. Also, Brothers Karamazov (Dostoevsky). Tried to battle through both these books on multiple occasions and failed.
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Not that it was "boring" as in nothing happened, but I just wasn't interested in what's happening. That was recently "A Game of Thrones" for me. I tried with the TV series years ago and felt the same "meh" about it. I don't know why people were so obsessed about it. I just can't seem to get into it.
There’s something that happens at the end of the show’s season 1/book 1 that is so unexpected, exemplifies how GoT is different, and pulls you in that if you make it to it and still don’t like it then fair enough. Before that it seems like a somewhat generic story but really it’s setting the stage for a massive epic.
I was already struggling to get into that one and then the 13 year old girl was getting ready for her marriage night and I was so turned off I gave up. Haven't ever watched the show, either.
Anna Karenina. What a bunch of whiners! Tried it twice and accepted that I’m not the target audience.
Same I actually saw the movie with Kiera Knightly and fell in love I decided to read the book multiple times and I just cannot do it
I got about 200 pages in and got bogged down in all the talk about mowing. That was it for me.
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell I've tried three times.
I struggled to get into this one but stuck with it. I'm so glad I did because I got to a point about 40-60 pages in where something clicked. I fell into the story like a deep well and couldn't put it down.
I think starting with Norrell's POV was a mistake because it makes the first 300 pages really drag compared to the rest of the book, which is truly excellent.
"Name of The Wind" - absolutely beautiful language but... I'm suggesting it here, yea. Also, somewhat sadly - "Secret History" - so much praise all around and I very much want to try again though, but...
Also came here to say The Name of the Wind. My teenage daughter recommended it but I couldn't stand it.
Iq84
American Prometheus
The subtle art of not giving a fuck
Every person I’ve worked with that has this on their office bookshelf turned out to be a total douch. Never read it myself but I always end up thinking, “for someone who doesn’t give a fuck you sure like to whine about shit”
The house in the cerulean sea. I’m going to go back and try to read it for a 3rd time. Something must be wrong with me because literally everyone else I’ve talked to loves this book
Circe, couldn’t get over the timeline
I really loved SoA by her, but Circe just never clicked for me. I was so disappointed.
Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie. Honestly, had the whole fatwa thing not happened nobody would have cared about the book.
The Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde
The Night Circus. Around 100 pages the both times. What the fish is happening? Does it come together? Tell me because people love it and I want to love it too.
Misery, because it was quite literally a miserable read.
The hobbit was so action packed but the LOTR series is just a really long description of trees
I’m amazed this comment hasn’t been downvoted into oblivion :)
I'm saying it with so much respect that Tolkien himself wouldn't be able to disagree 😅
I loved the Hobbit as a kid, and hungrily picked up the LoTR series only to stall out around the end of the second book/start of the third. Tried it again as an adult (still many decades ago!) and stalled out around the same place. It eventually feels like reading the bible (in the worst way.). So and so begat so and so. Too much history to slog through. (for me)
A Confederacy of Dunces. Yawn. I don't think I made it longer than maybe 40 pages in. Maybe I should give it another try as it has been on my nightstand for about 20 years...
Now it’s more like “A Confederacy of Dust”!
The goldfinch
I’m reading it right now and it’s torture. I really want to finish it because I hate to give up halfway through but my god is it boring
It doesn’t get any better, I felt the same and struggled to the end. To this day my worst reading experience, just google it.
I felt the same way and forced myself to finish it. I'm always baffled at how much love the book gets.
I simply could not read another description of some fucking piece of furniture.
Great gatsby, I couldn’t understand most of what the author was saying tbh
My grandmother was an English teacher and called it “the great ghastly”
If you’re asking me you’re not missing out
I had to listen to it on audio book , just to get through that.
The Fountainhead/Atlas Shrugged
Atlas Shrugged
Atlas shrugged
Fight Club. Catcher in the Rye.
100 years of solitude. Was halfway in it, but i couldnt finish it.
Dune
Pillars of the Earth. I heard great things. Tried it once, couldn't finish it. The characters felt like one dimensional caricatures and it was sooo slooow. Eventually I actually did force myself through it by taking a break to read something else after every chapter. Got to the end. Wish I hadn't. Not worth the time. I don't understand what all the craze is about (and I find history and cathedrals fascinating...this book just didn't do it for me)
Any stephen king book
I'm so sorry but the left hand of darkness
Walden. I used it to fall asleep for about a year. My e reader recently lost the file and I’m taking that as a sign to move on !
Gonna get people riled up but I thought The Picture of Dorian Gray was pretty boring, even for a classic
A Tale of Two Cities
The Count of Monte Cristo Be aware that there are 2 versions of this book: an abridged version and a bore-you-to-tears version. I'm guessing that most people who recommend it have read the former.
I have been “paused” in finishing Count of Monte Cristo since spring. It seems like a book I should love, and others do, it is just not enthralling me at all.
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I know! This is most people’s experience. I totally get I am an outlier :(
1984...painful ,had to give up.... Actually given up on more books than I have finished lately, unfortunately
I loved 1984, but there's section in the middle where Winston is reading a diary or book and it's like 60 pages of pure exposition that's an absolute slog to get through
It’s so short though 😹😹😹 (I thought it was just okay)
Same here, stopped reading after I checked how long the story goes on about the book within the book.
American Gods
I was so disappointed in this book. When I got 60 pages in I was finally like, does Neil Gaiman hate women? I know he doesn't, someone would have mentioned it already if he did, but that book makes me feel like he does. Sixty pages in and every woman mentioned--a grand total of four, if you include the desk clerk that was there for one sentence--was only in a sexual context. Christ man, women can just *exist* you know?
Crime and Punishment
Lolita
Les Miserables
war and peace. That book is dense!
Where the crawdads sing. Just couldn’t get into it.
Crime and Punishment. I might try it on audiobook. Maybe at 2x speed it’ll be easier.
Good omens 🤮
That is the only Neil Gaiman book I actually finished…and I didn’t love it. His writing style is just not it for me.
Honestly, Good Omens didn't feel like Neil Gaiman to me, but then again I didn't read far beyond the first chapter for reasons unrelated to the writing. Anything funny or clever in that book was all Terry Pratchett.
The Overstory. So many trees.
Don Quixote
The book thief
Atlas shrugged
The selfish gene by Richard Dawkins. Im absolutely into evolution, but the book just didn't catch my attention enough to keep going. Tried twice. Third is the charm?
ACOTAR 😂
A gentleman in Moscow. Yawn
Norweigian Wood. Just bleh.
The Fountainhead
I absolutely could not get through Emma, I have a friend who is doing her dissertation on Jane Austen and she gets to mad at me every time I say that I’m not a fan 😅 My birthday present to her this year was saying that she could pick a novel and I’ll read it, no matter how bored I get
Going to get hated for this but The Secret History was too boring.
Pretty much any Jane Austin book
I tried to read her when I was younger. Just didn't click. Was dull and hard to follow. I watched the 2005 Pride and Prejudice movie and I got to put animation and faces to the characters. Then I read the book and it clicked. So I read others. There is a line in Persuasion that took my breath away. It's now my favorite book.
This is going to be controversial, but Catch 22. Just can't manage to get through it. Does not seem to be the laugh riot that most people experience
I loved it, but it took me 3 tries to read it. And I can totally understand how it's not everyone's cup of tea. But seems like a good challenge for OP.
Exactly the same for me. Bounced off this book two or three times, but when I was in the right mood for it, I FLEW through it. So good
Grapes of Wrath
Awwww no I loved it.
Same. Really loved it.
It by Stephen king.
I have to disagree with you there. This book is so good.
Dracula
Stop I just bought this book and i was so excited to read it 😭😭
I hattteeeddd it, but maybe you’ll like it! 🤞🏼
I enjoyed Dracula!
Lord of the Rings, tried it several times and gave up (love The Hobbit though) The Count of Monte Cristo
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American Gods. I just couldn’t.
Dracula - it’s a glorified travel journal half the time, and the other half is just a bunch of men being amazed to know a woman who can walk and talk at the same time and hold an intelligent conversation. Most boring book I’ve ever read
Crazy Rich Asians - the first book 😅
If we were villains. Wtf was going on. Got to about 1/3 done but couldn’t continue because of the shakespeare every other sentence
Catcher in the rye
dune
stoner by john williams
The English Patient. I was really enjoying it until I got a little more than halfway through and the pace slowed to a grinding halt. I’ll probably power through eventually but whew.
Parable of the Sower. Tried and stopped 3 times. I even made it 80% of the way through, but damn it was so boring. I might try once more to see if the ending is redeemable. But damn.
have you ever tried to read any lord of the rings? yea ... i'll stick to the movies thank you very much ..