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...WITH UTTER FRUSTRATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Has anyone lived to read the end of Vanity Fair? I sacrificed a summer and only read HALF OF THE BOOK! It just doesn't end!!! I reached the bit when Becky was wondering whether to welcome Napolean or flee.
Has any one else read a book which refused to end?
See Spot Run
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is definitely not the longest book I've read, it's 500 pages and the longest book I've read was about 800, but it just would not end. It was good though.
war and peace, that war bit just kept going.
Watership Down.
It was kind of long, but it confused me to no end with it's rabbit language, so I just wanted the damn thing to end, and it took a while, since I usually read slower when I read a book unwillingly.
Lord of the god damned Rings. I could not get through that book no longer how hard I tried. Also, Interview With the Vampire. With both of those books, I completely dug the story but the style of writing had me wanting to pull my eyes out and eat them. The size of a book really doesn't matter to me at all -- you just need to keep me interested the whole time. *clings to George RR Martin*
Great. Expectations.
my expectations were thoroughly disappointed.
Becky Sharp!
Don't get me wrong, I haven't read a word of Vanity Fair, I just had to write a paper on Becky Sharp and how she would live in real life in the world of today. Man am I glad I'm finished with that paper.
I made it through half of War and Peace.
i dun read
I refuse to look at another copy of The Great Gasby.
http://www.threekingdoms.com/
It's long, but I love it.
thats one of my fav books! xDQuote:
Originally Posted by Aurey
to kill a mocking bird :s what an aweful book....
Likewise.Quote:
Originally Posted by rubah
The Bear and the Dragon-Tom Clancy
Rainbow Six. I read about half of it (which I think is like 400-500 pages) and nothing happened.
Heart of Darkness, despite being deceptively tiny, is insane. Reading it is like entering a zone where time slows to a crawl and each word is excruciating agony.
Wow. With the exception of Interview Woth the Vampire (I haven't read it yet) I agree with everything stated above. I love LotR, but all the books, especially The Two Towers, took forever. I think I took almost a year to read that, which is totally nuts.Quote:
Originally Posted by Germ Hamee
Oh, and Spindle's End, by Robin McKinley. Took forever to get anywhere. Anywhere interesting.
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except Heart of Darkness is cool.Quote:
Originally Posted by Behold the Void
Gravity's Rainbow, although it was very cool, still longer than hell.
Ulysses (sorry champ).
The Two Towers. When you spend pages upon pages talking about the hills they're running over and can make the battle of Helm's Deep exceedingly boring, you know this book has gone on long enough.
Rubah knows the score. Also Portrait of a Lady by Henry James. Oh LORD.
Travels Through Sacred China. Non-fiction, which I usually prefer to fiction. China, which is one of my favorite cultures to learn about. The book was, however, about as interesting as counting the number of crumples in a sheet of corrugated iron. The worst thing, however, was that when the auther wrote from his perspective, and lent his thoughts and experiences, it was incredibly good. If only more of the book were like that.
the bone people is a brilliant piece of literature, but I've still barely made any progress in it. I bought it in 2002 - recommended reading for a literature paper at uni - and it's still sitting on the shelf, waiting to be finished...