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[erastes]

KWESTIONS! (because omg - so bored...)

I was talking to <lj user="gehayi"> the other day about Library thing and how I love every single book I own and couldn't consider parting with any of them, even though they threaten to overtake the house at times, when i suddenly said "Except for Benvenuto Cellini's autobiography, that is - I've never been able to read past chapter 2 without falling asleep"

And amazingly she'd tried to read it too - and had the same reaction - exactly!

I said "It's better than any sleeping pill" and she had to agree. It's bloody ironic, though. He allegedly had this major exciting life, swords, duels bisexuality and I'm going - "blah blah who cares"... Perhaps it gets better after chapter 2....

So - what's the most boring book you either own, or have ever read?

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[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

The Immortal Storm by Sam Moskowitz. It's possibly the only history book in which WWII is something of a minor side-note.

[melora98.livejournal.com]

I feel so bad about this one because I really feel like I should love it, but I just can't get through it without snoring... Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Suzanna Clarke. I still have it because I keep saying I'm going to try it again someday.

[sionnain.livejournal.com]

Jude the Obscure, or Return of the Native.

DIE IN A FIRE, Thomas Hardy!!!

[reddwarfer.livejournal.com]

Robinson Crusoe. Hands down. Really. Freaking. Boring.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Gad! I loved the autobiography of Cellini, for the reasons you cite - interesting life, bisexuality, duels, colourful friends and acquaintances, art, and so on - when I read it, admittedly a very long time ago now, I didn't want to put it down.

The book which bored me most was Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott.

[kenazfiction.livejournal.com]

Vineland by Thomas Pynchon.

[catsintheattic.livejournal.com]

"Ancestors of Avalon" by Diana L. Paxson. It's a follow-up from the Avalon series by Marion Zimmer Bradley. I really enjoyed "The Mists of Avalon". But this last book, which kind of tries to cover the story's origin from Atlantis to Britain - it's one great bore.

I read it in the bath tube, and I wouldn't have minded drowning the book. Totally predictable, one-dimensional characters. I was wishing for the return button! The best part was that I never minded stopping in the middle of a chapter.

[aunty_marion]

One Of These Days^TM I will finish Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. Honest, guv.

It took me over a year to read A Brief History of Time, because I kept falling asleep in the bath with it. It is therefore somewhat wrinkled in places.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

I've tried to read Dune about 16 times. Same with The Mists of Avalon. I couldn't get past page, say, 25 in either of them, any of the times I've tried.

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

I'm a little of part I think... But I love Benvenuto Cellini and his work, and also his life... it's so interesting and exciting. So I have read "La mia vita scritta da me medesimo" di Benvenuto Cellini, but I have read it in arcaic italian: it's a difficult reading, but I think I can't define it boring... Maybe I'm influenced by the person and so I pass over some problem with the reading. With Caravaggio I think that Benvenuto Cellini is one of the most powerful artist Italy have given the born. ciao, elisa

[liriaen.livejournal.com]

Sad to say, Peter Ackroyd's Blake-biography. I've tried some 12 times to progress further than halfway, never made, and didn't retain a thing. Which was a surprise for me, since I normally slide through Ackroyd like a hot knife through butter.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Notes it down to avoid...

[erastes.livejournal.com]

That's two votes for that.... and I've been meaning to read that, too!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

*giggles*

Aw you are so mean! Poor Jude!

Return of the Native, yes, I agree...

[schmoo999.livejournal.com]

I would have to say thinking about it I have tried twice to get through Moby Dick and half way through end up giving up. The writing for me gets soooo dry. I have also have a biography on John Adams, founding father, that I have never finished. :P

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Have to agre with that one, too.

Day 1. Sunny. Had coconut. No ship
Day 2. Sunny. Finished yesterday's coconut. No ship

etc

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I'll have to try it again...

And yes! Ivanhoe! What is it with that book? I think it must be cursed, it never made a good film either.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

*adds to avoidance list*

[erastes.livejournal.com]

sounds awful! What's a bath tube?

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I applaud that you read it!!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I love Dune, I have to say - but the horrid thing is the way the series gets worse and worse and worse....

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Perhaps it's just a bad translation that I have...

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Dry yes, for sure, but OMG SLASHY!!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Haven't heard of him, but will avoid!!

[catsintheattic.livejournal.com]

*blushes* Erm... *mumbles* bathtub *cough* typing without my mind *cough*

It's *not* the underground filled with water. ;-)