Books that make you want to poke your eyes out Are there any books that you failed to finish because they were irritating, too hard to read or just awful?
Re: Books that make you want to poke your eyes out The Scarlet Letter. I know there are many people here that swear by their dead aunts that that book is incredible but I would rather die a thousand deaths than read Hawthorne. Next in line would be James Fenimore Cooper. Also nausiating.
Re: Books that make you want to poke your eyes out Far From The Madding Crowd as much as I am an old literary crab with a twist of Tan, this book took up at least a one perfectly good week of my life, drove me to the brink of madness, before I decided to fake my way through the exam on it and call it a day
I've never been so bored by a book. Same goes for "The Letter". Hawthorne should have stuck with short stories because his are dynamite.
--- "You can't live a full life, if all you do is worry."
Re: Books that make you want to poke your eyes out Well, I had to finish it because I had to read it for school, but Of Mice and Men is the only book I've ever actually wanted to burn . But I couldn't because it belonged to the school. Wanting to poke out my eyes certainly is an apt description for how I felt while reading it.
--- Late have I loved thee, O Beauty ever ancient, ever new...
Re: Books that make you want to poke your eyes out I read around the first one hundred pages of The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens and couldn't force myself to read any farther. The plot was just sitting there while he introduced twenty 'main' characters!
Re: Books that make you want to poke your eyes out *hugs Avfan in solidarity*
My mom bought me a copy of "TOCS" as a Christmas gift once(she didn't know I didn't care for ****ens). I read a chapter and a half I think, before abandoning it in an elevator.
I'd like to know who really likes this kind of writing.
Maybe some people find being bored into a stupor soothing.
--- "You can't live a full life, if all you do is worry."
Re: Books that make you want to poke your eyes out
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OldTonya wrote:
Lord of the rings - tried once or twice, don't want again.
Oh, I agree with you. Years ago I tried to read the 3 books but never made it though the first one. And I have to say the movies are not that great either.
--- The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
