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Old 01-23-2014, 05:43 PM
 
Location: So Ca
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Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible. So many people raved about it that I tried to get into it, but I was bored out of my mind.
One of my all time favorite books. (I did not like her most recent book, though.)

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BTW, I had the same reaction to The Hunger Games. EVERYONE I knew who had read it went on and on and on about how amazing it was, so I got it for my Kindle and was bored silly.
I didn't expect to, but I loved the trilogy. Read them well after they were popular, just to find out what my then-teenage nieces were talking about. However, my adult daughter found the first one "dull." I told her, "You didn't even give it a chance!'
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Old 01-23-2014, 06:02 PM
 
Location: Jamestown, NY
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This came with the Google Books app on my phone. I'm trying to read it here and there (waiting for appts, etc) and I swear one of these days it is going to put me to sleep!



I read this a couple of years ago for a book club and we all pretty much hated it.


I don't know that boring is necessarily the right word, but I'm finding Joanne Fluke's "Hannah Swenson" seris is getting stale. My friend keeps asking why I bother to continue reading them. I'm hoping some of the previous spunk will return.
I read Catcher in the Rye back when I was in high school and panned it in a book report, which my English teacher couldn't believe. A redneck farm girl who started working in the fields as a little kid just doesn't relate well to some spoiled little rich boy's pathetic problems. I've thought about re-reading 40+ years later but why bother?
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Old 01-23-2014, 06:14 PM
 
Location: Jamestown, NY
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Silas Marner by George Eliot. I had to read it for my sophomore year in high school. I honestly did not care for the selected works that my teacher chose that year. I did enjoy reading Jack London's works while I was conducting research for a paper that she required.
Did you go to high school in the 60s???? Good grief, I hated Silas Marner. We also had to read Steinbeck's The Pearl. I swear, the entire purpose of English lit in HS was to make even good students hate literature.

Luckily for me, I took an English lit course as a freshman in college from a pretty cool instructor, and so I developed an open mind about literature.
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Old 01-23-2014, 08:21 PM
 
Location: Where the sun likes to shine!!
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The Road by Cormac McCarthy.
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Old 01-23-2014, 08:30 PM
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Location: NC/SC Border Patrol
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I can't remember, it was too boring. I once got tired of choosing and just went to the fiction section at the library and started in the A's. That lasted through one book or part of one book. Looked like someone had just made a journal of their daily life and published it.

I really prefer non-fiction; especially statistical information books.
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Old 01-23-2014, 10:14 PM
 
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Anna Karenina
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
11/22/63
The Sun Also Rises
The Pilots Wife

Many more...............................
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Old 01-24-2014, 07:11 AM
 
Location: Gaston, South Carolina
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I've been on a Dean Koontz kick lately and every story I read I feel would make a great movie.
My wife keeps asking: when are they going to make an OddThomas movie?
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Old 01-25-2014, 05:40 PM
 
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I once had to read a fat book on the history of the polio vaccine. That was the worst.

The second most boring was, I think, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, by Jared Diamond.
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Old 01-25-2014, 05:56 PM
 
Location: SC
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Try the "Mission Earth" series if you want to be bored AND waste a month of your life.
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Old 01-26-2014, 12:46 AM
 
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I once had to read a fat book on the history of the polio vaccine. That was the worst.
Hmmm, did they talk about the theory of the polio vaccine trials in the Congo possibly starting the HIV epidemic? I read an in-depth article many years ago about that theory, and it was very plausible. I think that angle would have been pretty interesting.
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