<p>You know, like books that make you fall asleep and can instantly cure any sleeplessness by simply reading a few pages...</p>
<ul>
<li>The Federalist Papers </li>
<li>War and Peace (sorry, I just skimmed through 75% of this book..)</li>
<li>Notes from Underground</li>
<li>Pride and Prejudice (I bet a bunch of people will disagree with this one, I couldn't get past the first few chapters...) </li>
<li>ANY TWILIGHT BOOKS.</li>
</ul>
<p>Had to read it over the summer for my AP class…skimmed/skipped over 75% of it, and I did fine when we went over it in class. Most boring book ever. He could’ve summed up everything he was trying to say in 10 pages.</p>
<p>The Grapes of Wrath.
Dante’s Inferno. I thought it would be really interesting, and there were a few parts of it that were, but it was hard to understand because of my lack of knowledge of his life/history and I was constantly having to go back and read the footnotes to understand anything. Which is more my fault, I guess.</p>
<p>Guns, Germs and Steel, hell yes. He could have said it all in a sentence or two. Also, A Turn to Empire for the same reason. </p>
<p>Although, most of these I have to disagree with. I love Great Expectations. It’s one of my favorite books! But I’m also a classics nerd, as a Lit major. :)</p>
<p>In Cold Blood…I think if it hadn’t been a required summer reading I would have enjoyed it, but the whole time I was thinking about failing the essay so</p>
<p>All of the books on OP with the exception of P&P. And I actually really liked Grapes of Wrath.</p>
<p>The Americans: The Democratic Experience
^ I should never have read that book… Was for a class, but we were offered several books to choose from. I just chose that one because it was the most recommended, but I was like “OTLFML” the entire time.</p>
<p>Jane Eyre
^ I was in like fourth grade when I read the much abridged version, and I loved it. When I saw the original version in the library, I was so eager to read it… and then I pretty much died after the fourth chapter.</p>
<p>Don Quixote
^ Description was cool, and I’d heard about it in my Spanish 1 class a long time ago when we were learning about the Spanish culture. When I saw it I was like “OOH it’s the story about a guy who attacks windmills thinking they’re giants, right?” If you’ve read the book, you’d recognize that the windmill part was only like 2 pages… and although the book was great and all, the first half was boring. as. f—.</p>
<p>awesome; That seems to happen a lot… I usually like to read any books I may have to read waaay before it’s time for me to worry in order that I can appreciate them (then again, I’m a procrastinator… so any time before the night before the paper’s due is well in advance).
I never read Guns, Germs and Steel, but his other book tops my Most Boring Ever list. I’ve expunged the title from my mind. The prologue was about a bunch of people from Wyoming and it was soooo stretched out… I was like God, kill me NOW…
I loved Les Miserables except that I was NOT in the mood of reading ten chapters on French monasteries, nor 15 chapters on the French revolution. If Victor Hugo could be so cheap on words in his telegrams, why not in his books?
Also Lord of the Flies. Can’t STAND it. I’m usually very good at reading comp, and I could not follow that story for the life of me. Just strange.
Jane Eyre. The only book on this list I actually read for school. I couldn’t stand it, don’t know why. I mean, I like Pride and Prejudice, so it’s not the genre… idunno.</p>
<p>I thought the Invisible Man was a ridiculously boring novel and even though I can probably answer any AP Lit Prompt with it, I won’t because it’s going to be a trite choice - a banal choice in a diverse plethora of novels to choose from.</p>