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Most long and boring book ever written

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Siwi · 03/12/2015 17:23

Done Proust. Done Nelson Mandela autobiography etc.

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Siwi · 03/12/2015 17:23

It's a parent idea.

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wizzywig · 03/12/2015 19:53

The Book Thief

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UnDeuxTroisCatsSank · 03/12/2015 19:53

Infinite Jest.

Ulysses.

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BondJayneBond · 03/12/2015 19:55

Moby Dick

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RatherBeRiding · 03/12/2015 19:55

War and Peace.

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Cacofonix · 03/12/2015 19:55

I second Moby Dick.

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daisydalrymple · 03/12/2015 19:57

Woman in white. Sorry. I know its a classic. I hated it.

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Siwi · 03/12/2015 20:03

Thanks!
You are on the right wavelength be cause all of these are covered apart from the book thief. Which I will order if it gets a second nomination.

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hefzi · 03/12/2015 20:04

Same for me, daisy - started it umpteen times and never been able to finish. Only other book I couldn't finish was "Snow" (Orhan Pamuk - I love everything else he's written, but not that).

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AlphaOmicronPi · 03/12/2015 20:05

Middlemarch. Did it for A Levels. It goes on and on and on and on.

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Siwi · 03/12/2015 20:05

And infinite jest. Thanks. Off to google.

And I finite jest sounds fun!

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BondJayneBond · 03/12/2015 20:05

Why do you want to order a long, boring book? Confused

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Claraoswald36 · 03/12/2015 20:05

I came on to say Ulysses too

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LineyReborn · 03/12/2015 20:06

Return of the Native, Hardy.

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JeepersMcoy · 03/12/2015 20:07

Infinite Jest is amazing and not at all boring! I have read it quite a few times. It is very odd though.

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80sMum · 03/12/2015 20:08

Can't believe that there are people who didn't like the Woman in White! It is one of my all-time favourite books!

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IrenetheQuaint · 03/12/2015 20:09

The Golden Bowl.

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80sMum · 03/12/2015 20:09

I nominate "Nostromo" by William Conrad as unreadable!

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WaitingForMe · 03/12/2015 20:09

I'm torn between Midnights Children and Cloud Atlas. I thought both were dire.

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Siwi · 03/12/2015 20:09

When I was 18, I returned from college unexpectedly (got a lift) and found, on my Mother's bedside table, with a National Trust bookmark, in my very, very detailed teenage diary.

Need revenge boring books.

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MushroomMama · 03/12/2015 20:09

Mao biography is never ending! By Jung Chang I think

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Trooperslane · 03/12/2015 20:09

Jesus. Middlemarch.

Tried to spoof my way through a tutorial having not read it.

Didn't work.

My tutor was her bloody biographer Shock

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DoreenLethal · 03/12/2015 20:09

Infinite Jest. Still only half read on my mantlepiece.

A Hilary Mantel one...yawn. Can't even remember the title. Grey cover, probably about the French Revolution IIRC.

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freshoutofluck · 03/12/2015 20:10

Thomas Mann - The Magic Mountain. It nearly broke me, like bloody kryptonite on my eyes' ability to take in words!

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