Comments on: The Most Boring Books Ever Written

By: Brittany

Brittany — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 16:58:46 +0000

Personally, I loved Of Mice and Men (just read it) and I also love Shakespeare (R&J and Macbeth) and Catcher in the Rye is one of my favorites.
In my opinion, the most boring books I have read are: The Road, The Martian Chronicles, and Call of the Wild. All of these were required reading for school.

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By: zak

zak — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 07:11:28 +0000

I love Shakespeare. . . I still have the huge full portfolio from college.

It’s Billy Budd and Moby Dick that I hated. . . Down with Herman Melville!

By: Jessi

Jessi — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:02:37 +0000

Drums

People say they’ve fallen asleep reading some books, but I can truthfully say I did reading this book. Half the time, I had no idea what was going on. I couldn’t understand any of it and I understand history/any kind of book easily. I was insulted by the authors writing.

By: Colin

Colin — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:35:09 +0000

All of the above mentioned books have their good points, even all of the eating that goes on in LOTR. However the two most boring books ever written that I have read (and I was an academic bookseller for six years!) are Leon Trostky’s “My Life – an attempt at an autobiography” and of course Daniel Defoe’s intensely dreary Robinson Crusoe. Of course most people imagine Crusoe is a marvellous adventure because the read other versions or comics or movies. The original is one long diatribe against… well everything. Trotsky’s biography reads like the Greater London Yellow Pages – and you know, it shouldn’t – he was at the centre of the revolution in Russia.

By: Layne

Layne — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 22:52:56 +0000

Yeah, the most BORING book I’ve ever read was A View From Saturday, a boring and confusing class novel I had to read in the 6th grade. (This is why I still remember it!)

By: Ian Stewart

Ian Stewart — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 05:07:47 +0000

I wish I had of included some Watership Down bashing on this list. It’s bizarrely unpopular amongst the sort of people who answer these questions.

Adventuring talking rabbits—what’s not to love?

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 01:55:24 +0000

Have to agree with Clemens.

By: Clemens

Clemens — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 02:44:48 +0000

Alas, most such negative comments reveal more about the mental equipment of the commenter than anything worthwhile about the book. Just take a look at the comments on Amazon.com.

By: Imani

Imani — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 21:25:21 +0000

Poor Steinbeck. That novel of his always gets beat up in these sort of rings. The “Wuthering Heights” choice is particularly bewildering: the book is many things, and I can hardly stand it, but I wouldn’t accuse Emily Bronte of having written a *boring* book/