<p>The Scarlet Letter, Jane Eyre, Oliver Twist, anything by Jane Austen, War and Peace, Anna Karenina, anything by Charles Dickens, Quixquote, and a quite a bit of others. Oh yea, Twilight is boring as well. <em>shiver</em></p>
<p>^yeah, twilight is trash.
I like Jane Eyre, and Les Miserables.
But then again, I like European classics much better than American ones.</p>
<p>Lord of the Flies- Freshman English Hon, it wasn’t completely terrible but really boring
Sophie’s World- AP Euro Summer Reading, worst book ever read</p>
<p>Billy Budd, hands down. Ugh. So short but so painful.</p>
<p>Macbeth, a Doll’s house ( I know they’re plays but…) Canterbury Tales, red badge of courage.</p>
<p>It wasn’t that Grapes of Wrath was written in a boring way…I just don’t like American history all that much, and the dialect was sometimes hard.</p>
<p>I really liked Lord of the Flies because I like survival stories in general, where the characters are isolated and turn into different people. And I thought it was funny to think of them all going insane but still having pretentious accents.</p>
<p>Grapes of Wrath and Jane Eyre.</p>
<p>Walden. I just hated it then having to analyze it for American Lit just made me say “I don’t care. It’s stupid” whenever we had to look at a line.</p>
<p>I’m like the one person who liked Jane Eyre.</p>
<p>Uh, Cat’s Cradle, Anthem, everything by Frank McCourt, a bunch of books my Journalism teacher made us read about black people (including Black Boy, A Lesson Before Dying, and others, like seriously I think she has some major white guilt), and… that’s it for now. I kind of liked 1984 but it did feel very long.</p>
<p>-The Grapes of Wrath
-House on Mango Street (how this became a book read in schools I will never know…)
-Frankenstein</p>
<p>OK here is a list of the most boring books from this thread:</p>
<p>-The Federalist Papers
-War and Peace
-Notes from Underground
-Pride and Prejudice
-ANY TWILIGHT BOOKS.
-In Cold Blood
-On the Road
-A Light in August
-Rabbit, Run
-The Sun Also Rises
-Oliver Twist
-Moby Dick
-Native Son
-Don Quixote
-Les Miserables
-House on Mango Street
-Cat’s Cradle
-Anthem
-Lord of the Flies
-Anything by Jane Austen</p>
<p>Let me add one more. And seriously, Les Mis was hard to read. So much history… </p>
<p>Atlas Shrugged
The. Crappiest. Book. I’m not even gonna go into detail.</p>
<p>Since I didn’t like Anthem I don’t want to read Atlas Shrugged, which s basically the unabridged version, but I’m a weird person who thinks AS would be a cool book to call my favorite. Trendy or whatever. Awk. But 1,000+ pages is a lot.</p>
<p>Longitude by Dava Sobel. Most boring 175 pages I’ve ever read. I had to read it during my sophomore year and the memory still gives me nightmares. The entire book is about clocks.</p>
<p>The Cantebury Tales.</p>
<p>I just couldn’t handle it. There are other books I dislike but it’s because they’re just too painful to read over. (looking at you, A Thousand Splendid Suns)</p>
<p>Great Expectations then Jane Eyre. Also Dr Zhivago, never managed to finish it.</p>
<p>I loved Lord of the Flies, not sure how people found it boring!</p>
<p>I found atlas shrugged awesome… <em>shrug</em>
To Kill a Mockingbird… I’m sorry but I couldn’t get into it at all. Good morals, boring to read (for me).</p>
<p>I was bored to the point of collapse while reading “Ethan Frome” and “Great Expectations”. “Guns, Germs, and Steel” would have made a great academic paper, but that doesn’t make Jared Diamond any money, now does it?
“Native Son” started slow. The Customs House part of “The Scarlet Letter” was slow, the rest of it was insightful.</p>
<p>Great Expectations and The Scarlet Letter. I thought Ethan Frome was OK, but part of it was that I read it in a day for AP summer work, and made myself like it.</p>
<p>OMG, how could I forget Great Expectations. I think it’s turned me of Dickens forever.
It was just so dull.</p>
<p>I’m going to try reading the Christmas Carol or A Tale of Two Cities though- I hear that they’re much better.</p>
<p>Also, I loved LOF. If you do a Freudian analysis on Jack, Piggy and whatever the other kid is, it’s actually quite clever.</p>