Most Boring Books of All Time

Complete rubbish! All it is is poorly written descriptions of how beautiful Edward is. I'm 10 and I know it's crap.

can tell me instead the title is boring but not the book?

definitely, not defiantly. it's difficult for me to want to read what you have to say about literature when you misspell.

Okay the last three defiantly boring especially the second one, took me months to read it because it was so boring, but the first one wasn't that bad

Why, have ya seen one?

The beginning was a bit dull, the middle was unimaginative, and the end was so weak amoebae on Saturn could probably write better than that. Apart from that, brilliant. PS real vampires don't sparkle.

We had to read this for a sophomore English class. The most I could get through was one chapter a day. After that my brain started trying to escape through my ears out of boredom.

I didn't read it, but i thought so too.

I thought this was a pretty good book.

I was really enjoying the novel... until I started reading it.

i put a blindfold on and the book got better

this book helped me look on the bright side of life, it turned my life around

dear pennyhall you can stab herself.

john bonham

Melville would never get his work published today. While several chapters would read great as short stories. OMG the description of his first night with Queequeg is hilarious. But a chapter on the color white? Excellent read for a collection of independent weird thoughts.

I read for pleasure not for teachers and when I get to where I'm not enjoying a book I put it down. Moby Dick is mighty hard to follow. I struggled through about 1/2 and decided not to torture myself any more. I did the same with Billy Budd. Call me Harry.

This is a good book and tells a good story.

The Bible Is God's word in action!!!! I'm ten and i have read sixteen books!!! They are the following: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum,Matthew, Mark,Acts, Titus, and Revelation. Read John 3:16, "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. The Bible is like Iron Man, but it is real!!!!!!

Proves that the King James Version had good editors

first of all you need to shut up if it wasnt for god you wouldnt even be here... you churlish hlaf faced botch... :(

The Bible is the most amazing book ever written... To be written by 40 different authors and never contradict itself obviously prooves something! the Bible is not boring at all! I think you need to actually read it and think about what it says before you say its "boring"

Prepare for the raging Christians... Christians are so sensitive about the Bible these days

I guess that's why it has been printed into more languages than any other book ever written and it is a perrenial best-seller. People must love "boring" books.

why would you say that your saying that you hate harry potter and lord of the rings just because it doesn't exist doesn't make it boring its a pretty good book good advice from the comment below.

its really not boring have you ever really red it?..... its a really good read in my opinion. try to think of it as just a story at first and then if you want to think about it in a religious view.

Wow.

Agreed, honey.

the Bible is the biggest book ever, in every positive respect

whatever it does exist for some and its definitely not a boring book

Whatever

Why do people like this? If you are mooching off someone else you are not living independently. He was such a mooch. Sounds like a spoiled teenager.

I'm sure it is not a breezer. A drag for sure. But nevertheless, one of the greatest literary works.

i can tell your not very bright if you think this book is boring.

This is the best book of all time! You gotta read it again. Right, most people can't figure it out what it means. NO BOOK BY CHALES DICKINS IS BORING! Get it out of the list! Everyone must read this book!

It was very long, but I eventually ended up enjoying it. I would probably read it again, as I haven't seen it in quite a few years.

Most boring book i have read

Had toread this in high school so it's not fair to call it too boring. Gotta blame the teacher some.

I agree I am 10 and I've read the whole harry potter series. You have to look at the whole book altogether.

I was forced to read The Great Gatsby in school as well, but I wouldn't say it's the most boring book of all time. I loathe A Farewell to Arms and Catcher in the Rye far more than The Great Gatsby.

The reason the Great Gatsby is so famous is because of its excellent use of metaphor and symbolism. Its a great story if you catch on the all the little details. Are you 14? Because you certainly write like it... You can't judge a book on how well you like the characters, thats not how it works. Why you must be as shallow and absent minded as Daisy

First of all, it's either "Remembrance Of Things Past" or "In Search Of Lost Time", not "In Remembrance Of Things Past". And this one has two achievements of being the greatest and the most boring novel ever written.

Magnificently, and intentionally boring, I think. I read most of "Within a Budding Grove" for the first time on an erupting volcano (Montserrat). I recommend this procedure.

Keep it on my mp3 player for when I really can't sleep. Knocks me out in seconds

I hated this book and the movie, too. It was as hard to sit through Apocolypse Now as it was to read the book. Because it was so short I tortured myself and finished the book.

It's such a short book, less than 100 pages, but it feels so long. I can kinda appreciate it's message now, but I definitely wouldn't recommend it.

Good book. Had a lot of trouble with Nostromo, though. Deeply dull.

I read this book in the seventh grade for fun because it was the only book in the whole library that didn't have a decorated cover. I ended up really enjoying it.

BEST BOOKEVER

my absolute fave series. INCREDIBLE STORY ARCS! that being said they do get a bit draggy -- robert jordan was very ill while writing a number of them. sadly, he passed away before the series was finished. his wife and Brandon Sanderson used his notes to write the last 3 books of the series. i've read the last 2 of them, and they're incredibly good, with a lot of loose ends tied up.

Finishing book 6 and am having really mixed feelings. The books are really dragging, and I have stopped enjoying them. Don't want to give up half way through though.

you gotta be kidding me? this is one of the best books ive ever read Dune series? now thats boring

NONONONONO!!! This is not boring, any more than any other epic fantasies are boring. Yes, its a very broad canvas populated with a huge number of characters but "boring"? NO!

if this wasn't already number one, it would need to move on up there!

I agree!!!!!!

maybe for too adult an audience to read at school

Another high school assignment--teacher's fault--should have let us read something better.

Agreed. Completely awful. Repetitive, and overlong as most Sinclair Lewis books.

Ok it is long and detailed, but not at all boring. If one takes a little pain by going slow and steady, its very readable and interesting. I would certainly rate it one of the best works of literature.

This is a terrific ironic story. But I'd never had understood it through the how hard it was to read. Got the audiobook and spent two weeks commuting to it. Glad I did. Great history.

This is perhaps the most philosophically challenging work in the 19th century.

You probably had problems with "Dick and Jane" in first grade as well.

I hated this book. I had to read it back in the sixth grade over the summer, cried multiple times, couldn't understand half of it, and ended up going to therapy.

That book sucks! I put it down after the first 5 pages.

No Way. Great story. Too long. Get the audiobook.

It's Shakespeare!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Even his name is EPIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

this is actually my favorite shakespeare play, I kid you not. its absurdist humor. thats what makes it so funny.

brilliant book as is all of George Eliot

Try the 2005 movie. I personally love it and im 13 but everyone has their preferences. Try watching it with a friend who can explain it to you as you go!

Watching paint dry is more exciting than this drivel. Most boring work ever written in the English language. SHEER DRIVEL

The 19th century language is hard to get through for 21st century people, but once you get used to it, it's really great. Full of wit and rhetoric finesse. I adore that book!

How on earth is this a boring book? It is one of the most addictive fictional classics I have ever read!

Boring? Pride and Prejudice? Why is this book in this list? This is a very very entertaining book. Very funny. Very insightful. What a Story.

This is not a boring book in my least, in my opinion. I highly enjoyed it.

A thousand pages, and one interesting scene, and one memorable character in the whole damn thing.

It's a very easy read! And it's deep and like society today. Obviously you'd rather sit around and have conversations with your television walls like Montag's wife

That book was amazing! Its one of my all time favorites!

it was boring the first time i had to read it for class but then i got in school suspension and it was the only thing in the cube i was stuck in so i read it. about mid way through though everything clicked and it started getting interesting and now i love it.

I nominated A Farewell to Arms for this list, but Catcher in the Rye would probably be my 2nd-place book. To me, the book was just a load of nonsense that seemed like a series of completely detached, irrelevant events. It felt like the book had no real point.

I don't know what there is to like about this story.

I don't understand why some people think Catcher in the Rye is boring. I absolutely loved it.

Shouldn't be on this list.

this was a BRILLIANT book. It shouldn't even be in the top 200. let alone top 30 like it is right now...

This is not boring man!!! Very different...From a youth's perspective..this is good work...

It's EPIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Somehow, I get the feeling that if it's not in comic-book form; you will find it boring.

This is not a boring book.

A book doesn't need action to be interesting. I found this book absolutely fascinating in middle school, and it wasn't the abridged version either.

I partly disagree. True, there are a few boring chapters where hes just listing marine life, but there are some very exciting parts, too.

A book about a group of people who strenuously insist on how passionate and life-affirming they are, with dozens of self-consciously staged parties, in which the characters heroically swig from bottles, smoke joints, have sex and become narcissistic, flatulent and boring.

This is a fantastic read, an excellent book. But make sure you get the translation by Fagles. It will make a huge difference. The first few pages probably won't do much for you, but after you get into the book just a little bit, you won't be able to put it down. The Illiad is a tough read and can be boring at times - but not the Odyssey.

we read this this year

it good

No. This book was great. I enjoyed it a lot and have reread it.

If you can't do the prose, get the audiobook. Best adventure stories of all time.

are you kidding me?! Odysseus is such a badass. i guess this is opinion. but i think that the odyssey is sweeeet. if you can get through the prose i guess.

A truly great read, can't understand why anyone would find this boring!

That meant by Robert DeMott

I am having to read this now for next years honors 9th grade lit. I have got through the introduction my Robert DeMott and considered scraping my eyes our. I am currently on page 4 after a week of reading this book. 4 down, like 450 more pages to go of absolute boringness....

This is a great book! this guy gets wrecked on an island, and finds a way to survive and finally get back to his family!!

I found Fellowship of the Rings and easy read and it was entertaining and loved it but the other 2 books was just boring, long and confusing. I eventually finished it just so i can say i HAD read them but never again i say never again!

Yes, some parts can be boring, but the LOTR is pretty cool

Who made this list!?!?!

I absolutely hated this series

I thought enjoyed the Hobbit more, but these books were still awesome...no way where they boring...the Silmarillion maybe

the movies were great! but only because they reminded me a little bit of the book...

I honestly couldn't finish these books. They were so incredibly boring... Actually, I also thought the movies were boring, so maybe I'm just missing something here. To me it just felt like there was a good story hidden somewhere in there but that it was down somewhere beneath pointless description of plants and animal life. I understand the need to establish a believable setting and all, but goddamn, that just KILLED the books to me. Somehow this series ranks below "The Bluest Eye", "Heart of Darkness", "Great Expectations" and other such reads. I understand and appreciate its impact upon our fantasy writing and society in general. I obviously just don't 'get' it.

WHAT?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? It's amazing!!!!! One of the best books I ever read!

really?!

Now this is the biggest joke. Not a good joke. Lord of the Rings boring? Absolutely no. I'm glad Harry Potter isn't in the list. Harry Potter is the most interesting and engaging series I've ever read (only the first four books).

Well, you've obviously not read the books.

had to read this in the six grade and still hate it.

I LOVE this book! Its so great! Sure some parts were a bit slow, but it was a very sweet book overall.

awww, this is one of my favorites.

common, its a classic ! one of the best books !