World's Most Boring Books? A game for people who read the OP....

**bassybill** · #1 02-09-2009, 02:30 PM

A pal of mine just sent me a text to say he saw someone reading a book called "The Mathematics of Juggling". I'm enough of a nerd to find that interesting, but my friend thought not. Anyway, it inspired a text exchange where we tried to think of what would (hypothetically, of course) be the world's most boring books.

We came up with a few. I think the best entry yet was this one...

"My Childhood - a tribute to canned foodstuffs of the 1940s" by Lorraine Willoughby (née Doonican).

Okay. Let's have yours.

EDIT I just changed the thread title to avoid further confusion.

username n/a · #2 02-09-2009, 02:32 PM

My thoughts on the history of string-Bob Dole

Gard · #3 02-09-2009, 02:37 PM

Great Expectations

It was an assignment in HS. I wanted to exhume the author just so I could murder him for writing such tripe so badly. I ENJOY reading, he almost ruined the entire concept for me with that one book. I just wanted someone to kick Pip's @$$ and be done with him.

T.O.Bass · #4 02-09-2009, 02:37 PM

Stitchin' is Bitchin' - An in Depth Analysis of Sock Repair by Florence Biggs.

Thunderscreech · #5 02-09-2009, 02:40 PM

Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte.

This book made me want to shoot up heroin in a victorian mansion so I could escape from that book. The teacher who made me read it got what she had coming to her at the end of the year: An angry reflective letter telling her how much I did not like her class.

Jared Lash · #6 02-09-2009, 02:46 PM

I'll see you one Bronte sister and raise you another.

Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte. Hated it. Every page.

bassybill, I'm like you in that non-fiction on topics that most people would find incredibly boring are interesting to me. Even if it isn't as well written as it could be, I'll read it if I think I'm learning something.

But when I hate a work of fiction, there's just nothing redeeming about it.

L-A · #7 02-09-2009, 02:48 PM

Not everyone reads the OP it seems

"Apple Pie: The Cognitive Reasons for Gravity-Induced Fantasies"

Jared Lash · #8 02-09-2009, 02:52 PM

I read it. I just don't think you can imagine a more boring book than Jane Eyre.

But if I must:

"What's that Blue Thing Doing Here? (an annotated history of reflective highway markers)" - By John Linnell and John Flansburgh

WickedPissah · #9 02-09-2009, 02:53 PM

Electric Guitar For Dummies.

**bassybill** · #10 02-09-2009, 02:54 PM

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Stitchin' is Bitchin' - An in Depth Analysis of Sock Repair by Florence Biggs.

"Apple Pie: The Cognitive Reasons for Gravity-Induced Fantasies"

These are great! You get the concept.

True, people are not always great at reading OPs.

I just ordered the Mathematics of Juggling book from Amazon and sent it to my pal for his birthday. Oh, what fun.

I can read it myself when he decides it's not his sort of thing.

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Originally Posted by TheBigO

bassybill, I'm like you in that non-fiction on topics that most people would find incredibly boring are interesting to me. Even if it isn't as well written as it could be, I'll read it if I think I'm learning something.

Spot on, good man.

**bassybill** · #11 02-09-2009, 02:56 PM

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"What's that Blue Thing Doing Here? (an annotated history of reflective highway markers)" - By John Linnell and John Flansburgh

You have certainly redeemed yourself with THAT one.

**bassybill** · #12 02-09-2009, 02:58 PM

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Originally Posted by username n/a

My thoughts on the history of string-Bob Dole

Sorry, missed this one. Not bad at all.

**Jerose** · #13 02-09-2009, 03:02 PM

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Originally Posted by TheBigO

"What's that Blue Thing Doing Here? (an annotated history of reflective highway markers)" - By John Linnell and John Flansburgh

Hahaha one of the best bands ever!

How about:

Hopefully not to inappropriate.

**Thor** · #14 02-09-2009, 03:03 PM

Our Garages Are All Connected: Fractals, Mandelbrot Sets and
Modern Transportation Infrastructure Theory for Civil Engineers.

Brothers Karamazov

**bassybill** · #15 02-09-2009, 03:05 PM

^^^ Jerose - nice try, but I said BORING made up books, not dead obvious double entendres. Keep it inoffensive, please folks. I may get called into the office if this gets out of line.

iamlowsound · #16 02-09-2009, 03:06 PM

Frankenstein by Mary Shelly. Worst. Book. Ever.

lowsound

**bassybill** · #17 02-09-2009, 03:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Thor

Our Garages Are All Connected: Fractals, Mandelbrot Sets and
Modern Transportation Infrastructure Theory for Civil Engineers.

Brothers Karamazov

One of the few people here who manages to make his every post even more off the wall than his avatar. Mucho respect, brother.

**Jerose** · #18 02-09-2009, 03:09 PM

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Originally Posted by bassybill

^^^ Jerose - nice try, but I said BORING made up books, not dead obvious double entendres. Keep it inoffensive, please folks. I may get called into the office if this gets out of line.

Haha my bad, my bad. I do figure that it's a pretty boring book. There's a Youtube video of David Cross reading some parts from it but without his hilarious commentary it would certainly be a dry read.

**bassybill** · #19 02-09-2009, 03:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Jerose

Haha my bad, my bad. I do figure that it's a pretty boring book. There's a Youtube video of David Cross reading some parts from it but without his hilarious commentary it would certainly be a dry read.

You mean IT'S REAL?

Mingus · #20 02-09-2009, 03:12 PM

Frankenstein was okay... Now The Awakening, by Kate Chopin...