Authors or Books that are Torturous, Tedious, or downright Boring

[MegademiC]

Edith Wharton
Charles Dickens.
Tom Clancy. - sorry. Loved the first one, 2nd was a repeat(same story), third was burned me out, it's like listening to that really excited guy at the gun store talk about his Cia secret Nam days that never happed... but your reading it.


I gave up on reading anything that's not educational. If I want a story, I want to watch a movie, which is like 3 time a year.

Brad thor was good (1 book).
Catcher in the rye and Great Gatsby were probably the only books I read in school that weren't aweful. I'm not a "reader" though.

[SteyrAUG]

Catcher in the rye was probably the book I read in school that wasn't aweful.

OMG. Probably the worst book ever written.

[Doc Safari]

OMG. Probably the worst book ever written.

LOL. I've never read it but please give us your detailed critique for our viewing enjoyment!

[SteyrAUG]

I bought all three....but it had Teller in it. I saw first one in theatres and it wasnt bad. The DTV ones welllll..........


Meh I just got weird tastes.

To be fair, John Galt wasn't exactly a good character. He was just a bum who convinced rich people to abscond with their stuff and hide out in the woods like Reactionary hippies. Dagny wasnt so great either. She got passed around like a pack of cigarettes by all the main dudes. We get it. Ayn Rand wanted a devil's threesome but the 1950s wasn't open to it. And the Taggart brother was so P whipped it was kinda sad.

Per Mein Kampf blah blah Teh Jooz blah blah muh Nationalisms blah blah Teh Furriners blah blah I rode a bicycle in WWI and a British dude almost shot me blah blah Jail sucks. I've honestly read teenage girls' diaries with more political and philosophical merit.

Mein Kampf is like the Bible for Nazis. Like literally.....they all quote a few lines and act like they read it, then make up shit as they go along.

Also all these dudes and Catcher in the Rye. I guess taking the Lord's name in vain every paragraph was edgy back then but it glorifies someone being a POS. How they book inspired anyone to shoot John Lennon is beyond me.

How could all these writers living in an agr of cocaine in soda pop, OTC morphine, OTC full auto, and slutty flapper chicks churn out such square books?

The REAL literature of the day was Pulp. Kinky sex, weird old gods from space that live underwater, revenge tales with .38 Super 1911s dual wielded, screwing chinese chicks and murdering Fu Man Chu, and being worshiped as a god emperor in the darkest wilds of Africa all because you brought a boomstick and beat one of their warriors at leg wrestling and taking tall Nubian Queens as brides, and thats not counting all the barbarian stories and stories about aliens that are made of tungsten and eat brains.

I tell ya.....we were all focused on the wrong books back then.

Honestly, I have very little time for fiction. If I'm going to read, 90% of it is going to be history or related. I love sci fi, but it's been a long time since I read anything great. I wouldn't voluntarily read anything I was required to read in school, the only thing I remember reading that wasn't terrible is stuff by Jack London and Rudyard Kipling.

Even Mark Twain is boring to me. Good writer, but I just don't care. Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn might have been relevant until the 1950s but it had little or nothing to offer me. Catcher in the Rye was even more pointless, a story about somebody I don't care about crying because he laments the loss of his childhood and how he doesn't seem to fit in. Salinger might as well have called it "Mein Kampf."

The only classical literature that did anything meaningful for me was Greek / Roman mythology. The Iliad and Odyssey and the other classics were more useful to me than anything I read later in high school.

[jpmuscle]

Mein Kempf was brutally dry IMO.

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[WillBrink]

Kevin Trudeau


Okay, cheap shot: he's not a real writer. He's an infomercial goon and convicted fraudster, but he's "written" several books. I tried to read one of his books once that I found in a used book store. I could not put my finger on a coherent thought or comprehensible sentence in the few pages I read. His writing is more on the order of random thoughts typed in any order on a page.

That's because he's an idiot. Like the man Mencken said "No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public” and no one proves that better than Trudeau.

Of the well known authors, mine would have to be Tom Clancy. Talk about boring. When his books made into movies, GTG. His books, couldn't get through any of them. Only one I finished was the first Ghost Recon and I was totally unimpressed with it.

Admitting Hemingway was boring is like saying Picasso and a stoned 5th grader were hard to tell apart. Both true...

[Firefly]

Per Tom Clancy, I'm still waiting on my MP-10, Beretta 92 in .45, and WA-2000 in .300 Win Mag as general issue.

[polydeuces]

Y'all are pussies.
Try reading James Joyce.
Makes watching paint dry a hi-speed exercise. And all them gloom n doom Russians like fluff
MINDNUMBING and truly amazing how litererati's mutual masturbation society seem to elevate it as the pinnacle of all that is culture.

[polydeuces]

Admitting Hemingway was boring is like saying Picasso and a stoned 5th grader were hard to tell apart. Both true...

Do some research and see what Pablo Picasso was producing before he was a teenager.
Some people truly function on a level that is different from us mere mortals.
Not getting it is not a measurement of quality.

[Inkslinger]

Immanuel Kant. The critique of pure reason.