^ I'll second Pride and Prejudice, though I only had to suffer through one of the many movie adaptions, but I still found it pretty boring.

I'd say Ulysses by Joyce. A book which is more interesting by how it tells its story rather than the actual story itself. The cast is pretty bland and boring, while it might have been a filthy book at the turn of the 19th century, it is pretty damn tame by today's standards. Its different use of writing mediums to tell the story is interesting, it can get jarring at some times, especially when you have to deal with characters thinking in images which takes a few reads to understand what the hell they are actually thinking about. Its just a boring story told in a very pretentious manner, that may have been scandalist(sp?) a hundred years ago, but by today's standards, Disney could be helming a film adaption of it.