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Pyrokinetic

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PD James' The Skull Beneath The Skin never fails to put me to sleep. Not once. In all the 19 or so times i've attempted to read it through. & I'm a pretty tolerant person when it comes to books too, but my god.


:sleep:
 

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The whole Lord of The Rings series and The Book Thief -.-

i actually liked "Emma - Jane Austen" :p
 
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Romulus, my father - Other peoples life stories, it doesnt get more boring than that (imo).
Frankenstein - Marry Shelley's repetition of the words 'abhorred', 'countenance', 'benevolent', 'ardent' made it even more boring than it already was.
 

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Anything by Jane Austen, except maybe Northanger Abbey (first half definitely yes, second half more interesting).
A Wizard of Earthsea. Though maybe I was too young when I first read that. I was about 8 I think.
The Lord of the Rings. Great idea, but written in the most boring way ever. Then again, maybe I was too young. Was 12 when I first read it.

One author I know for sure won't make people fall asleep--Matthew Reilly. Love the pace of his books!
 

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The Thomas Covenant Chronicles, great plot, but we don't need an insanely complicated and completely artificial psychoanalytical analysis of what was really just a bit of small talk.

If someone like David Eddings or Sara Douglass re-wrote them I would snap them up.

Good as a soporific though.
 

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PD James' The Skull Beneath The Skin never fails to put me to sleep. Not once. In all the 19 or so times i've attempted to read it through. & I'm a pretty tolerant person when it comes to books too, but my god.


:sleep:
lol im glad i wasn`t the only one

my whole class loved it
:jaw:
 

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Emma - Jane Austen.
Maybe because I'm a guy or maybe due to the mindnumbing language.
Probably a combination of both - stopped after about 40 pages.
 

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Albert Camus - The Plague. Had to read it for Extension english.
 

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Anna Karenina. My dad got that for me when I finished the HSC 4 years ago! I only ever got halfway through
LOTR, but I bought the boxset, hoping to eventually try reading it again
Pride and Prejudice..ugh can never get past the first page
Charles Dickens
 

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Its good to know that other people also struggled to read emma....reading the novel was a mission and a half. On top of that i had to take notes while i was reading because i had like a 2000 word essay analysis to do on it.

Has anyone else read schindler's ark? i struggled to read that as well. It was like a documentary compiled to form a novel
 

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okay, please don't murder me but...
The Lord Of the Rings.
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actually i agree. Tolkien spent like 3/4 of a page to describe a single tree. urgh. the hobbit was good tho.

and i like jane austin to all those haters :) mr collins makes me lol haha.

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at first, to kill a mocking bird was soooo boring but then it got better. most boring book ever "lord of the flies" grr i hate that book..and everything shakespeare :devil:
 

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The Fiftieth Gate - Mark Baker. The definition of shit. I find it quite impossible to sit and read more than half a chapter at a time.
I think I'm studying that text for the History & Memories or w/e module this year for Advanced English. =[

Jane Austen is the worst tbh. Takes like 2 pages to describe a piece of furniture.

and shakespeare's writings aren't books... and I personally think his texts are legit. Its engaging once you get into it and can understand what the characters are saying as well as making your own interpretation!
 
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