Most long and boring book ever written

[Siwi]

Done Proust. Done Nelson Mandela autobiography etc.

Don Quixote

Mein Kampf. Part of my history O Level was WW2 (IIRC), so I bought MK - blimey it's boring and repetitive. I've still got it, not really inspired to re-read it!!

Gladys, I agree that the joy can be sucked out of books by enforced teaching ... hence my loathing of Return of the Native.

Give her the whole A Scots Quair trilogy by Grassic Gibbon. They tortured us with Sunset Song at school. I'm pretty sure there's a circle of hell where they force you to read that boring shite continuously.

I also agree that Cloud Atlas is unreadable.

I'm also going to suggest Heidegger's Being and Time. I always think that's a gift for your worst enemy.

War & Peace

Don Quixote Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Rc household but good try

www.goodreads.com/book/show/696093.The_Stuart_Age
I wanted to die

Hobbes' Leviathan?

Or some political biographies.

Andrew Hodges 'The Enigma' about Alan Turing. Looooved the Woman in White, the Moonstone, various Dickens. I so want to read it - I'm a geek. But it has er, temporarily, defeated me. 768 pp in paperback.

SunnyL beat me to Shantarum. What a fucking pile of utter shit that was. Gives me the rage thinking of it.

The Magic Mountain is very painful, it made my brain run out my ears. Lotte in Weimar is also dull, but nowhere near as long

A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth.

Anything by Ken Follett please stop buying them for me DSis

Cecilia Dart-Thornton writes some incredibly long fantasy books full of florid description. Pages and pages of it.

Quiet flows the Don. (Donne?) no idea now of author.

For revenge - Wuthering Heights. What a depressing book with horrible characters.

Les Miserables was very long and tough going but well worth the read though took me a few goes and a long time to finally get through it.

D H Lawrence's - Sons and Lovers. Another tough read.

Dune by Frank Herbert.
It's fucking awful, and interminably long.

I actually enjoyed Moby Dick; I learnt lots about whales and whaling and different parts of the oceans etc.

Somewhat lower brow than PPs, but what about the Morrisey autobiography?

It's sitting unopened on my shelf after I read that it has no chapters, just goes on, and on...

Definitely The Children's Book
Didn't manage any of it t ll

Blackbird I think you've won. The thought of morisey makes me want to stab a fork in my eyeballs

Another vote for a Suitable Boy.

Give me strength.

Another vote for War and Peace
Also, an anthology of Shakespeare

How about Chaucer and The Canterbury Tales?

We did a bit of that at school and all that old English was hard going.

Henry Miller. Dull, long and all about.....guess who?! Henry sodding Miller!

Also the most cringey sex scenes ever periodically. That'll larm em.

*larn

And Chaucer is in Middle English