What is the most tedious book you have ever read?

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I am going out on a limb here for my first thread - I am struggling through The Well of Loneliness by Radcliffe hall. Aargh. I read it out of "historical interest" because I was interested by her boldness and by the obscenity trial etc but bloody hell she should have got herself an editor. The writing is truly dire. I am not sure I am actually going to make it to the end.

Underworld by Dom DeLillo. sweet Jesus who cares about baseball that much?

it was so offensively meticulous that I left it in a doctors waiting room.

last week I read The London train by Tessa Hadley.

It was so dull and dry I binned it, I didn't want to donate it and inflict it on some poor sod

'The Goldfinch'. Yawn. Couldn't even finish it and I usually inhale novels!

May cause uproar but 50 shades of friggen grey - it, for me, honestly read like it was written by a lovesick teenager. The grammar was awful and I'm sure I've read more descriptive scenes in a Martina Cole book!!

I'm battling my way through Bring Up The Bodies, I didn't enjoy Wolf Hall but was reliably informed by a friend that BUTB was better, not to me it isn't.

'Room'

I managed one page and died of boredom/didn't give a fuck

The Time Traveller's Wife - total tosh and One Day - equally total tosh.

This will be one which divides the board, I'm sure: The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared. I couldn't finish it, and I persevere with books!

the time traveler's wife was irritating and complicated. I hated it.

Gone Girl was dreadful. I didn't care about anyone in it at all.

Catch 22 - I think it's the only book I've ever given up on.

I'm currently wrestling with A Death In The Family by Karl Ove Knaussgard. I asked for it specially for Christmas because it has been spattered with critics declaring undying love for it and draping themselves over it in a human sacrifice of admiringness. I should know better, I once bought a Black Grape album because it got 5 stars in every review. Everything unlistenable gets 5 stars in the reviews or maybe I'm just too old

50 Shades - so boring!

Not counting ones I gave up on in disgust.

'And the Mountains Echoed' by the Kite Runner chap. Absolutely bloody awful.

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad - even our English teacher said it was dull.

Wolf hall.
My god that was shit

The Poisonwood Bible. I attempted it five times before getting through to the end.

I found wolf hall clunky and dull. I seem to be in the minority though

Puremorning, when I saw the title I thought of wolf hall as well!

Never let me go by Isiguro. Dreadful.

Tristram Shandy. Urgh. Just urgh.

I couldn't finish The Time Travellers Wife or The Cloud Atlas.

I wasted hours of my life reading various Martin cunting Amis' novels as a younger woman.

Oh, and Fifty Shades. I hate myself for it.

Wolf Hall, the magpies and I am pilgrim. At least with wolf hall I could see it was well write, just couldn't get into it. But ghe other two were just utter drivel.

Pinkerton's Sister. By I forget who.

No one's ever heard of it because I'm the only person foolish enough to have ever read it. Imagine my surprise when I saw the follow up book in the book shop a year or two later.

Aw I loved Room and Never Let Me Go.

Took me years to read Under The Dome by Stephen King because I was determined to finish it but could only manage a handful of pages at a time. Hated A Girl is a Half Formed Thing. I couldn't get into the flow of it.

Dune. Good Lord! I will never get those hours of my life back, sigh.

(sorry Cote!)