Most Boring or Worst Book

[freakygirl]

I'm going with Great expectations, Fankenstein, The Hobbit, LOTR and any shakespear.

[HuskyFan1992]

I liked Great Expectations, but 'A Tale of Two Cities' on the other hand....:sleep:. As far as the Hobbit and the rest of LoTR, the only part I found boring was the first half or so of Fellowship...SOOO much walking and nothing going on. Other than that, I couldn't put the LoTRs down, and I felt the Hobbit was better than any one of the trilogy. Everone keeps telling me to read the Dune series, but the first book put me to sleep.

[Malfoy]

Shakespeare's Henry V *snore*

[Rjm7272]

...but 'A Tale of Two Cities' on the other hand....:sleep:...


Completely agree with that one...it took me about 45 minutes to read the first chapter (3 pages long).....I probably fell asleep during that though....which shows how much I enjoyed it :lol:

[Ephramsgurl]

I had to read Macbeth for gr 11 English, OMG, I wanted to die.

[Jimmay]

I had to read Macbeth for gr 11 English, OMG, I wanted to die.

gr11? ur lucky... i had to do it in gr 9!!!

And it sure was a bore! :confused:

[ocobsessive]

i did macbeth in yr9 nd it was BORIN

[AllPurpose]

I agree on Macbeth.. really really boring :(

[freakygirl]

Macbeth is so fake! actually, all the shakespear stories are

[Cntrolfchick]

I really dislike a lot of Shakespeare's writings.. I know he's a legend and all but his writings are really boring..

[megStone]

I'd have to say that th emost breath takingly boring book I've read is Beowulf, in Frosh lit. Uggggh. What were they thinking? Also, thoughI know it contains metaphors and such, and is deep, I thought Hemigway's The Old Man In The Sea was the most painful book I've ever read. And then there's The Girl In The Box. I can't remember for the life of me who it's by. But it was just... let down city.

[freakygirl]

i must say... all the english reading assignments were boring except Animal Farm, that was cool

[angelface90703]

the most boring book eva iz probably any Shakeapeare book!! :lol: but I LOVE to read!! :read:

[Julie]

Eeep.

Don't mean to rain on the parade here, but I disagree lol, not all Shakespeare works are dead boring.

:lol: I guess I could see why it would be to most of you folks though, being that it's a must do text youse have to go thru in school, but don't blame shakespeare, blame the educational system for choosing shotty shakespeare plays for you to read and do assignments/exams/essays on.

Although, I think the reason why Shakespeare texts are such a popular resource for English teachers is because Shakespeare covers universal themes. Makes examples of all range of emotions via the most obscene or simple scenarios or consequences and it does't matter what time or generation the plays are set in- the themes and messages can be established anywhere in the past present or future. The language can be tedious but I believe it helps that you understand the flows of it- then you get the story and it's messages and it's not so boring.

I suggest reading some of Shakespeare Comedy works, theyre a frikkin crack up, if you're patient enough to understand what is going on. If you are not, try watching some of the movie versions- Taming of the shrew - Starring Liz Taylor and Richard Burton (also 10 things I hate about you - Starring Julia Stiles and Heath Ledger), Much Ado about Nothing - Starring Emma Thompson, Kenneth Brannagh, Denzel Washington, Keanu Reeves, Kate Beckinsale, Michael Keaton, A Midsummer's Night Dream - Starring Dominic West, Anna Friel, Christian Bale, Calista Flockart, Michelle Phifier, Twelfth Night - Starring Helen Bonham Carter etc.. I know sometimes it needs to be visualized for people- And once you have a gist of it- following the book versions is as entertaining.

Heh- That was just my little bit... Sorry lol...

But books I really hate reading- damn, there's not alot I don't like... I know... Some scary Non fiction stuff gives me the wiggins and I dont like reading them... Especially ones that make you think about them all night and you cant get to sleep cause your head is just surrounded by these so called 'facts' and wonder after wonder of 'what would I be like in a situation like that?' Sad yes... But I can delve deeply into things especially if they emotionally and mentally effect me.

[*Liz*]

Therésé Raquime by Emile Zola, was a reale snooze :)

[callmefangirl]

Robinson Crusoe.I'm never doing that again,and two books that realy let me down were The Amber Spyglass by Phillip Pullman and Weetzie Bat by Fransceca Lee Block.

[Jimmay]

I tried to read a phillip pullman book, but it was so boring... and i once read a book called 'the highway man' or something, and i thought that it sucked too.

[RedheadRose]

The Hobbit is definetly the most boringest book in the whole entire world.

[Anna Banana]

I've never tried reading the hobbit.. im going to start reading shakespears soon arrgh.. from you guys point of view it sounds really boring...

Great expectation is really hard to read.. i mean its okish but i get really confused.. then i lost my page so i stopped lol..

[hypergirl475]

Great Expectations was definitely one of my least favorite books I've ever read... or at least pretended to read. heh. I couldn't get through a chapter of that one before I would space out or get bored. It was just that everything was just a detailed description. It was really hard to follow the actual story line because nothing made sense until the last chapters.

[Katherine]

I'm a Shakespeare fan...I haven't read all his plays, I've read most of his sonnets though...but the ones I have read I've liked but trust me I didn't feel that way when I was studying it in highschool.

A boring book? I remember liking the books I had to do in school but it was a hassle to get through 'Brave New World' by Huxley. I didn't get it until it was explained and now I love the book...but to get through it the first time was sleep-inducing.

Persuasion was another one. I mean I love Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice is one of my favourite books, but I had to watch the movie of Persuasion before I could finish the book.

Watching the movie version of a boring book helps me get through it. I enjoy making the comparisons, and often in the end, I prefer the book to the movie.

[Sweet Misery]

Another boring Book was "IT" my Stephen King I love most of his stories but my god over a thousand pages JMO

[Herzschmerz]

The Hobbit is definetly the most boringest book in the whole entire world.


I think so :) :rolleyes:

[redneck67]

I've never read the hobvbit but it sounds really dumb. So are Shakespears the only reason teachers like them is because it's poetry. What teachers like in books are alwaysa stupid. I think we should choose the book they read.

[ocobsessive]

the most boring book ive ever read was Kestrel for a Knave. Theres like 10 pages describing a tree. i read it in english and even the teacher hated it

[OcLuVeR4402]

I was in a Battle of the Books class and I had to read Little Women.. That book was awful! I couldn't read the whole thing.. I skimmed over like half of it. It was so totally boring and the worst story I had ever read.

[Katherine]

I still haven't gottent through Little Women...I mean I know its a classic...but I don't know...I just couldn't keep my eyes open to read it...
Even the movie bores me actually despite a great cast...

[liacer]

The Hobbit is definetly the most boringest book in the whole entire world.

i most entirely agree.

i love shakespeare, i read all of them except maybe Henry V, i think he is simply a genius. but i'm sort of an eccentric person. so. hah.

also. The Crucible and Bless Me,Ultima. don't remind me. ugh.

[Melanie]

I liked the Hobbit, but not the Lord of the Rings' Books. That was overwhelming... too many people, wars, dark lords and hobbits!

[GCL]

Actually, I do like some books of Shakepeare. Like A Midsummer's Night Dream, Much Ado About Nothing (loved the movie too btw), Othello. I like a lot of classics, most of you problably would dislike: Wuthering Heights, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Little Women, the Great Gatsby and Animal Farm. I had to read them for school and liked every one of them.

Never read the Hobbit or LOTR. I can't put myself to read them, they're so big.

[andyninadestiny]

Most boring books- very easy
-lord of the rings
-1984
-the once and Future king
-call it courage
-roll of thunder hear my cry
~~Tally~~
P.S. I will probably come up with about 1000 more!! :yawn:

[Jessie24]

Every book written by Danielle Steel. I can't stand her books now..So boring and predictiable

[liacer]

um, um. WATERSHIP DOWN.

gosh, i DESPISED that book. you may think otherwise but for me, that book gave me hell.

[*gwen*~*grover*]

Things Fall Apart- the WORST book ive ever read, but english/history teachers seem to think is genious. summed up its about people w/names too long to remember, and yams.

[Katherine]

Every book written by Danielle Steel. I can't stand her books now..So boring and predictiable

I completely agree!

[HuskyFan1992]

Things Fall Apart- the WORST book ive ever read, but english/history teachers seem to think is genious. summed up its about people w/names too long to remember, and yams.

YES! HORRIBLE BOOK! I had to read it in 10th grade...it was painful...worst thing ever

[Minnie]

Les Miserables. I had to read it for english last year, but i seen the musical and I loved it!

[Katherine]

^^^ I can't read the book...it's too long and though it is a good if not great story [I am obsessed with the musical]...the book drags and it feels as if it lacks direction.

Another book I've tried to read a few times but can't get my head around it is "A tale of two cities" by Charles Dickens...I adore his plot ideas...but to read his books, I just can't do it.

[SeasideSweetie3]

I know what you mean, the plot lines of A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations were really cool. But his sentences just drag on forever and it's tiresome to read.

[Minnie]

^^^ I can't read the book...it's too long and though it is a good if not great story [I am obsessed with the musical]...the book drags and it feels as if it lacks direction.


yes, I agree. when I had to read it for an english class and they gave us versions of the book, where they cut out a lot. Even though a lot of things were cut out the story just dragged on forever and ever. The only part of the whole book that interested me was the romance between Cosette and Maruis (sp?).

[Katherine]

In the book does it have the relationship between Marius and Eponee as in the musical? Coz I'd be interested in learning more about that...if there was more to learn....

Yep Charles Dickens sentences do droll on...and it's a shame coz I'm sure they are a good read but I can't get my head around it...but who knows...maybe in a few years I might be able to...like what happened with Jane Austen's novels.

[HyPerWBTVMnky]

OMG by far the most boring book I've ever read (and actually didn't finish) was the LOTR. I read the first one and half of the second. But when I read the second half of that second book I was just like woa that's boring, and I stopped right there

No offense cause the movies rock

[Katherine]

I know...I love the movies and thought that I'd love the books too...but alas that wasn't the case for me...believe me I tried my best to get through them...but it was just too hard for me...

[Nickety]

Wow. I actually love LOTR and 1984 and Shakespeare and a ton of others mentioned in here. I'm a little weird, I guess. :D

Though I can't stand any of the Princess Diaries novels (I sorta liked the third one, though). I'm sorry, but they're just way too ... blah. I'm not sure what it is, but they were certainly a form of torture.

[andyninadestiny]

^^^^^ I love Princess Diaries
I can't stand 1984, though.
I also am a huge Shakespeare fan. I've memorized large chunks of various plays.
As for more books I hate- we have done a few more novels in lit since then, so, I'm adding Great Expectations and The Pearl (not Romeo and Juliet, though. That was awsome. I memorized the prolouge in my spare time--alright, math class, same thing)
~~Tally~~
[andyninadestiny]

[CMMluver2005]

Completely agree with that one...it took me about 45 minutes to read the first chapter (3 pages long).....I probably fell asleep during that though....which shows how much I enjoyed it :lol:


I So Agree Book Made Me Sleep :sleep:

[Tay]

Pride and Prejudice without a doubt!

[jkupc]

Huck Finn was awful. I just don't like Mark Twain at all. I understand he was a "great writer" but come on.

[Ephramsgurl]

Macbeth. OMG, never ever again will I touch that book

[kbear49]

Out of the Dust. Horrible book! I think it made it worse that I had to read it at school.

[oc_craze]

Anything by Shakespeare, and "A wrinkle in time" had me falling asleep, but then again I was only 10 when my teacher read it to us.

[jkupc]

Nah Shakespeare is not boring. He is like one of the main sources that all stories and literature come from the other two being myth and The Bible. Shakepeare if you allow yourself time to understand the text is awesome. Every story you ever read now he did before. Something Wicked this way comes is his line which HP and even Point Pleasant use now.

[Pandora'sBox]

The Shining is probably the worst book I have ever read. I kept falling asleep. The movie isn't that great either. It sucked because while I was reading that I was in my "I have to finish all the books I start phase" so I stuck with it for a while, I cheated and skipped some chapters though. :)

[Miss_Lionesse]

The Ya-ya sisterhood
i closed it after 5 pages...

[tantucky]

catcher in the rye and little women

[Kari]

To be honest: I don't get the whole Dan Brown mania.

[Katherine]

Pride and Prejudice without a doubt!

GASP! I will pretend I didn't read that...:lol:
Sorry it's one of my fav books...teeheehee...

Beowulf...omigosh I mean it's a Nordic legend and all that but I can't get into it.

[Jessie24]

catcher in the rye

Really?? I thought it was so funny...Well..that's me..

[Kaylan]

The English Patient. Probably the most boring book i ever read. had to force myself to finish it. i picked it up and put it down on and off for over a year lol.

[SeasideSweetie3]

I loved Catcher in the Rye, too, Jessie24. I guess you jsut have to appreciate that certain type of humor.

I hated Huck Finn (I fell asleep twice during it) and I loathed My Antonia.

[Katherine]

I just bought Little Women and I'm willing to try to read it.
I haven't watched the movie though...should I?

[alcarinque]

I would have to say "The Pluckiest Boy in School"...-_-
-o- " 'What ripping fun!' cried Watts Minor. 'I'm down for scrum half the afternoon!' " AAAAAGHHH! Kill me before I have to read that book again...

[Pandora'sBox]

The Shining-Stephen King

[Pallas]

I have never quite finished reading 'The Similarion' by JRR Tolkein. The plot was uninteresting, it was just plodding through, there was too much "walking" and not enough background on the characters, the dialouge was sparse and,well...

Definatly one of Tolkeins worse.

[lunarlove]

Bound in Blood by Tom lord. I read this book, in hopes to see hot guy on guy vampire action, boy did this book suck ><

I did not like great Expectations had to read it for a class, So boring.

[Katherine]

For me Charles Dicken's has amazing plot lines. But I'm not fond of his language or the way he writes.

[Summer_Roberts2]

We had to read Of Mice and Men last year in English. It was soo boring. I couldn't even get through the first chapter. I love to read, but sometimes I :heart: cliffnotes! lol.

[seth_is_my_baby]

I really disliked MacBeth and the LOTR and The Hobbit, they are so boring. I love books.

[Katherine]

Macbeth is so boring...I mean I thought with such an interesting plot line it'll be ok to read...but I have to admit that's the first Shakespeare play I couldn't get through...and I love Shakespeare...i was ashamed of myself...until i realised so many people couldn't get through it either....

[seth_is_my_baby]

Macbeth is so boring...I mean I thought with such an interesting plot line it'll be ok to read...but I have to admit that's the first Shakespeare play I couldn't get through...and I love Shakespeare...i was ashamed of myself...until i realised so many people couldn't get through it either....

lady macbeth was crazy man lol i enjoyed her character, but that was about it

[Kari]

I had to read a book for school once.
I was called "Young Shoulders" and it was awful.
And another book I had to read for school, was "Der Verlorene" by Hans Treichel.
It was not only awful, no it was painful!!!!

[Katherine]

lady macbeth was crazy man lol i enjoyed her character, but that was about it

Yeah...Lady Macbeth is a good character that treacherous hag...but yeah even she couldn't fix it...

I even had to watch the Japanese version of Macbeth...'Throne of Blood' and even though it was Kurosawa I couldn't watch it....I fell asleep then left...

[alcarinque]

Little women...Gone with the Wind...Ethan Frome...Pride and Prejudice...and Dotsotoevsky or whatever...Sense and Sensibilty...A Tale of Two Citites...the list is endless...

[tinaweird]

pride and prejudice turned out to be quite fun! i'm very surprised you didn't like it, you should see the BBC tv...movie...thingy production of it. i guess it seems a lot better acted out than on paper.

hm, anyways. absolutely worst? wuthering heights. boring? wuthering heights. i dislike that book with passion. i stopped reading it halfway through, and i stuck with sparknotes for my essay.

[Katherine]

^^^ Then you should take your advice for Pride and Prejudice...the BBC production of P&P made the book one of my favoruties now....
I couldn't start Wuthering Heights either and then I watched the movie...the old one with Laurence Olivier and I LOVE THAT BOOK....I know it's weird and at times tedious...but the movie will make the book that much better...

[WitchsFamiliar]

Farehieht 451

it's boring in the beginning and in the middle and towards the end it picks up and it's kinda like the man hunt in Enemy of the State (w/ Will Smith) but it's about the gov't taking away all books and making them illegal. i suggest reading it b/c if the gov't ever does do this it will be a good how to guide! haha...

[everwoodisfab]

Pride and Predjudice and The Hobbit

[skippersrcute42]

MOST BORING BOOKS IN THE WORLD: frankenstein, ishmael, tao of pooh, M.E. and morton, and to kill a mockingbird

[everwoodisfab]

you didnt like To Kill A Mockingbird!!!!!!!! OMG I loved that book... wow its amazing how different peoples opinions can be... oh well each to their own :)

[Katherine]

I loved To Kill A Mockingbird as well...that book is a triumph to all humanity.

But I agree...because I have weird tastes...it is sometimes shocking to read that some that I recognise as cult classics...for me anyway...are hated by others...

[tinaweird]

same advice with to kill a mockingbird from my pride and prejudice post! the movie is really quite wonderful; you'd like it a lot better if you watched it (movie!atticus <3)

[Katherine]

It's so good to see that there are a few [limited but still] movie adaptations that are true to the book...

To Kill a Mockingbird with gregory Peck...is...no words can express...it's magnificent.

[everwoodisfab]

I loved that film... but my VCR broke halfway through so I only saw the start :(

[Katherine]

Awwww You must re-borrow it...
It's a must-see movie...

[everwoodisfab]

cool, will do :D

[Katherine]

But i must warn you...you must be in the right atmosphere, free from distractions...

For me, I had to be in the right state of mind to get into it...but once I was in...I was hooked...

If you loved A Time To Kill...you'll love To Kill a Mockingbird

[everwoodisfab]

^I borrowed it off my friend and watched it when everyone was out... quiet and free from distractions :D... such a great movie

[Katherine]

^^^ Yeay...now i'm in the mood to read the book again...:lol:

[Anna Banana]

I relaly Enjoyed MacBeth, proberly won't when i get a test on it and do bad haha..

I really liked Roll of Thunder hear my cry that was a really outstnding book which i didn't have to do so many things for it though during English class..

[RockPrincess]

I had to read The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers for summer reading. It has a pointless plot and is boring. I love The Heart is a Lonely Hunter so I don't think it was the author's writing style.

[kristy_star]

the worst book ever is "noli me tangere". you've probably never heard of it, luckily for you. i have to read this book for one of my classes.

[seth_is_my_baby]

I've read loads of boring books. Especially for school!

[Katherine]

It sucks when your forced to read thing in school....

[Kari]

Sometimes, but sometimes it opens you ways into literature you would maybe never have crossed yourself.

But, I kind of hated some of the books I had to read.

By the way, the most awful book, I ever started and never finished was "Baudoline" by Umberto Eco.
Oh my gosh, I so hated it. I only read 40 pages and stoppes.
That happens so rarely, I'm king of tough when it's about finishing a book. Some I didn't finish didn't let me rest until I took them again and finished them.
But, this book. I read the first pages and it was annoying me so much, that I has to put it away. I would love to read "The name of the rose", I just can't because "Baudoline" filled me with such dislike for the author

[Katherine]

I hate not finishing a book either Kari...

I started Olivia Joules by Helen fielding and I love (as in I'm obsessed) with The Bridget Jone's books so I thought "Oh it's Helen Fielding I'm sure to love Olivia Joules". But I couldn't read it...it wasn't that it wasn't any good, but it was too...I don't know...obvious kind of? I mean a girl spy is cool and everything but it wasn't something I was accustomed to..so I'd put it down and not pick it up for another few months coz I was determined to finish it...It took me almost 6 months to finish it...I was so ashamed...

I guess reading books in school are gate for great literature but I hate being forced to read something...I want to read things in my own will...I take recommendations to heart and try my very best to set a reading goal for myself...but when I'm handed a book and forced to read it at a quick time and them discuss them...it gets a little daunting...I mean it really all depends on the novel...

[Kari]

Yeah...it sucks to be forced into doing something always...and I'd lie if I'd say that it was great fun to me to read "Der Verlorene", which was a book about a very interesting subject...but it was so awfully written...
I mean, actually it's not on me to judge what is well-written or not, because the writer is famous and the book is famous, too.
But it was so awful for me that every page was a torture!!

[Katherine]

There's a few classics out there that are just unreadable for my immature brain. Like I know Robinson Crusoe is the first English realistic novel...but seriously it was really hard trying to get through...he just babbles on about woe is me...I must repent for pages and pages...it was annoying.

[Kari]

I never tried it..
and...big, big shame on me...so far I have never put my nose in a Charles Dickens-novel. Don't beat me now :lol:
But I'm really planning to read "Great Expectations" soon, as the plot is amazing...

About Robinson Crusoe...I don't know if I want to read it...the story is so well...man on island, plays boss over somebody he found there, treats him like he is less.
Guess, I prefer watching "Cast away"...:lol:

[Katherine]

:lol: I HAD to read it but if I had a choice I wouldn't. There's alot of modern versions that are alot more interesting...such as LOST. Well it was first published as a REAL travel novel...

I cannot touch a Dickens novels but I have tried Kari...I really have but OMIGOSH...it's so...meh...I mean the plot lines are so amazing but the writing...I even bought a children's version of 'A tale of two cities' after attempting the normal one and couldn't get through it...and believe me...I don't know ANY child now who could get through that book. It's such a shame too...it's a good story/plot, but the novel itself is...

[Kari]

It's kind of embarassing that my little brother already read "Robinson Crusoe", "Oliver Twist" and "Huckleberry Finn" all book, I didn't even try to read.
Our uncle has a phase where h would give these books to us for Christmas or Easter...I should be ashamed for my 13 year old brother having read those classics... :lol:
Okay, I have nothing to read right now...I'll give it a try maybe...
But it will be a struggle until I make it with "Robinson"

[Katherine]

:lol: I can't believe it...your brother has read it? That's admirable. Really it is. But don't worry. It's an OK book . It's difficult to get your head around the english because it's oldish english. But sound it out and it'll be ok. The beginning and the end is good. The middle is not so great. Just him and his own thoughts and being a realistic novel his actions are realistic...for example it takes him two weeks to make a ladder and he jots those days down and what he accomplishes each day...and if he doesn't accomplish anything...he'll write [i]June 3rd: Did nothing. And that gets banal.

[Kari]

Well, I can imagine that, being boring..
Yeah, he is really admirable when it comes to reading...you could give him anything, if he wanted to finsih it, he would..My brother read it in German though, I will have to decide whether I try it in Englsih or not. Probably I will first try to read the german version and then the English one.
I am not yet fluent enough in English...
Harry Potter works well and so do many other book in English..but I don't know baout "Robinson Crusoe" :lol:

[Katherine]

It's so cool you have a great collection of German/ German translated novels.

I wish I could read another language...

Australian novels are good but it's not a challenge...teeheehee...

[Kari]

:lol:

Well, anyway, it's better to read a book in the original language...but I started to learn English with eleven and it took a while until I could start to read English books and it's not easy to get many books in English here. Okay, Harry Potter and the Dan Brown books...and a few other fantasy books...but don't try to find an English copy of a Sylvia Plath book...they rarely even have it in German. Luckily there's Amazon.

But German literature is really cool, there are very good books out. "Die Mitte der Welt" is awesome...if it should ever be translated into English I highly recommend it to everybody here...:lol:

Are there any well-known Australian authors??

[Katherine]

:lol: A few that you may have heard of.

Bryce Courtney - Power of One [that's his most popular novel but he's written many others]
Paul Jennings and Morriz Glieztman - they write teenager books that are alot of fun to read.

Man my mind is dead...I'll have to get back to you...I should know huh? There's many books about Aboriginals that are really good but then they are an acquired taste.

[Kari]

I haven't heard of either of them... :embarass:
But I'll try to get an insight in Australian Literature...:)

[Katherine]

:lol: Don't worry I'm not going to hold you against it. Rarely do Australian authors make it big overseas...

[Kari]

Oh, I'm lucky :lol:
Thanks god...

[Katherine]

Hahahahahaha....believe me with your extensive literary knowledge, I will never condemn you.

[Kari]

Good to know...

But seriously what is a better subject than literature...it's fun to get knowledge about that one...isn't it..
Much more than chemistry...

[Katherine]

:lol: Well I do like both but literature is my passion and it pains me to find a book that i can't read....I feel incompetant.

[Kari]

Oh my god...you like chemistry...you always surprise me again.
I suck so bad at chemistry, I think my teacher will sit in front of my test and not know whether to laugh or to cry.

my big passions are literature and music...I wish I could write some literature as I wirte songs...but you can't have it all, I guess.

I always hate to hate a book :)

[Katherine]

I like Chemisty yes...but I never said I was good at it...:lol: I enjoy it, especially the experiments but with the theory I can't get my head around it...too many elements on the periodic table.

Omigosh Kari we are the same. Literature and Music are my passion. Music has always been my passion since I started learning the piano when I was 5 years old and my love for books began when I was in year 2 and I read a book called "When pigs fly". I wish I could get my hands on it, but I don't even remember who wrote it.

But I alos hate hating a book. especially when those books are literature masterpieces.

[Kari]

I started to read as soon as I was able to... :lol:
I remember my first day at school, when we did all this "Get-to-know-each-other-stuff" which was good, no doubt, but I went to my teacher and asked.
"Why don't we learn anything"
She answered "We learn about each other"...Okay, she was right
But I was so eager to read and after reading nothing but the letters on every sign on every package I'd get in my fingers, I got my first book...but even before that I was book-obsessed because my parents always read to me we an incredible patience.
Astrid Lindgren and Michael Ende were my first favourite authors...
Well, it never stopped.:lol:

My music passion came through in the last three years...but it got just as big as the one for literature.

[Katherine]

Awww that's a cute story...I started to read as soon as I can. I migrated to Australia when I was 3 or 4 so I didn't know any English when I started Kindergarten when I was five. I went to one school where I learnt the alphabet but I didn't really need to learn how to speak English because there were so many filos around and my teacher was filo...

But then I changed school mid year and I went to live in a multicultural school but they all spoke English...and I remember my teacher Mr Miller, giving me books to take home to practice my English...ever since then I've loved to read...I made my mum take me to the local library to get a library card [which i still have]...and I was top in Reading by the end of the year...

And that story was so :ot: Hmmmm....Oh I know something...I don't really like random books...I'm not saying I read best sellers all the time...but not those books you can find in the $2 bin...do you know what I'm talking about?

[Kari]

That was a really cute story, too.
Though off-topic, it still has to do with books.

Yeah, I know what you mean. It's cool to read books that are not so well known, but when they have sales, most of what they sell is rubbish, like this hot love stories, where you have a half naked woman on the cover. I prefer reading something that has gotten good reviews or that sounds interesting.

Well, in this super cheap sales, you always hae to watch out, often there's something good in between.
For example a local school had a Christmas market for the Red Cross and they sold secon hand books and the prizes referred to the weight.
So I got the "Sylvia Plath" biography by Anne Stevenson and "Pride and Prejudice" for, like, 1, 20 €...
That was off-topic again.

[Katherine]

:lol: Second hand books are the best! They're the way to go...

But in bookstore and they're selling books off just to get rid of them...
I have succumbed to the temptation because a cheap book is really hard to find...

And I have to admit that I have read a few of those romances...Mills and Boons romances...I'm sorry alot of them are really romantic...despite they're smuttyness...

[everwoodisfab]

^ there is a great second hand book shop on the high street near my house, I have bought so many great boks there, they're really cheap too :)

[Kari]

And I have to admit that I have read a few of those romances...Mills and Boons romances...I'm sorry alot of them are really romantic...despite they're smuttyness...

:lol:...I didn't know that's what they are called.
I would maybe read them if I didn't find anything else, but actually I think there are also excellent and very romantic books, that don't belong to this kind of books. :lol:
"Oh Rhett, is that you?" :lol:

[Katherine]

^ there is a great second hand book shop on the high street near my house, I have bought so many great boks there, they're really cheap too :)

Oh wow...the only 2nd hand book I know that is on my district IS on High Street too. They have cheap books...$4 ish...but the library sells their old stock for 20c. Which I love.

Now I just buy my books from ebay...

Kari try at least ONE smuttybook...aka Mill's and Boons or Harlequinn romances...they're ok...and cleverly written by what I can only assume as desperate housewives...

[everwoodisfab]

^smutty books embarass me :embarass:

[Kari]

Kari try at least ONE smuttybook...aka Mill's and Boons or Harlequinn romances...they're ok...and cleverly written by what I can only assume as desperate housewives...

I don't doubt that they are really cleverly written.
They are just soo mass production. There's so much calculation behind them that it makes me sad :lol:
I mean, they really have a strategy...but I will try it, I promise :)

[Katherine]

^smutty books embarass me :embarass:

:lol: Me too...but I wouldn't read it in a public place like while I'm waiting for a bus or anything...but it's something you should try to read once...[though I've read about 20 of them teeheehee]

[everwoodisfab]

lol I'll give one a shot but I will have a very red face lmao

[Katherine]

:lol: Yeah I was like that too...I actually got a bunch of them as a present from a friend of mine...when i was 13 or so...so I was a very immature brat...teeheehee...but a few of them are so romantic you can't help but cry when things go wrong...like soap operas really...

If you're still blushy try the Sweet Romances...they're tender and not that smutty...the sexy romances arte smuttyness at it's best....

[Kari]

Sweet Romances, my grandmother loves them and there are so many movies inspired by them.
I should really read some of that stuff, too :lol:

[Katherine]

Yes...be a well-rounded literati like me...

[Kari]

Yes, as long as I'll never be forced to read a "Dark Over" novel again.
I really like Marion Zimmer Bradley and her Avalon books.
But these "Dark Over" books...were rubbish to me. :lol:

[everwoodisfab]

"Dark Over"? what are they?

[Kari]

It's some strange planet where strange people live and they had to get away from the earth to live there, because the earth was going to explode and all that...
I only read the first two books, I think there are more than twenty, but they were annoying.

[Katherine]

:lol: I'll be sure to stay away from them...

I'm trying my best to read The Bitterbynde trilogy by Celia Dart-Thornton. They're kind of like Lord of The Rings and it's ok...but it's not as interesting as The Lord of The Rings. But I have to get through them...I got it was a birthday present and I don't want to offend anyone.

[everwoodisfab]

lol... I got some goodbooks for my birthday... its just finding time to read them that is the issue :)

[lizztigger]

We had to read Animal Farm in English this year, and usually I like the books we read in class, but I HATED Animal Farm. I just found it really stupid, I seriously considered just copying the notes from my friend, and risk failing the test.

[Katherine]

Awwww you hated Animal Farm? Why did you hate it? I'm just curious. I'm not going to lash out on you for hating it...I'm just curious.

[Full_Circle]

Lord of the Rings, Shakespear when it isn't in No Fear form (regular words), and others i can't remember

[Andrew]

It would be a stretch to call it the worst... but I had an extremely hard time completing "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu (translated by Ralph D. Sawyer)

My teacher recommended me the book after i quoted the line "Keep your friend close, keep your enemies closer" (i was writing an essay and didn't know who said it). I delved into the book expecting tactical information on warfare that could be translated universally to everyday conflicts... unfortunately, i didn't get much out of the book...

For one, it was way too expositional. Throughout the 150+ page intro, you're fed page after page of "is it really THAT neccesary to put that into here?"-type of information. It is meant to give you a "brief" history lesson on China... but the lesson quickly becomes dull and mundane, only sprouting a few interesting focal points midway between the midpoint and the end; when they talk about the Warring States

Then, after I read through the excruciating introductory stuff... I find out that the art of war is just a simplistically-structured-disappointment. To me, the actual art of war depicts itself to be "organized common sense". Numerous times, when reading, i thought of sarcastic phrases like "duh" & "reaaaaaallllly?". Then on top of that... you slowly realize that most of the tactics rely a lot on "chance" and "circumstance"...

Maybe I didn't interpret the book like i should have... but to me, it remains to be an overhyped book...

[kristy_star]

i wouldn't say that shakespeare's books are boring. i read only one, the merchant of venice. it's just that i cannot understand what he is saying. in my opinion, the very weird english makes his books very bad and very uninteresting.

[Katherine]

I think with Shakespeare it is definetly an acquired taste.
His story lines are very interesting but I can understand why it would be difficult to get through his plays, the fact that he uses olden English can be tough.
But I'm a Shakespeare fan...I love not only his plays but his sonnets as well.

[everwoodisfab]

^I :heart: some Shakespeare but some I cannot stand... for example I love Romeo and Juliet but I cannot stand The Tempest. But The Taming Of The Shrew now theres a play :D

[Katherine]

I actually didn't mind The Tempest. It was his last play so I admire it deeply.

I cannot and still cannot stand Macbeth...it's annoys the hell out of me.

Oh and I don't think much of King Henry [insert number]. It's ok, but not something I'd use for light reading.

Romeo & Juliet, King Lear, The Taming of the Shrew, Hamlet, Othello...all excellent plays.

[Andrew]

"Romeo & Juliet" is too much of a classic not to like...

but i must admit i'm not too fond with "Othello" either... a little too melodramatic...

[Katherine]

That's why i loved it...because it was melodramatic...

[everwoodisfab]

^I agree with you about Macbeth katherine, but thats probably only because we were recently studying it in english and because we had to analyse every little bit it totally ruined the story for me, and then I was in a production of it so... it may sound weird but I think I know it too well to like it

[Kari]

I loved Hamlet, so much that I put Ophelia into one of my song lyrics :lol:
I loved that play, it was beautiful

[Wicked Elphaba]

The only book I've ever bought and couldnt finish was the Lovely Bones. I think I got to chapter 6 and just put it down. I sold it at a garage sale for .25cents.