No, you’re wrong, I’m right, it’s boring.

LotR infuriates me. I managed to read it during my LotR phase after the movies come out but goddamn it is just so boring whenever I try to reread it. I’ve never gotten past the first chapter, dear God.

Pride and Prejudice is so much fun to reread because of all the banter and machinations and whee.

And LotR is…I dunno. D: The first chapter’s not that long. I love those books.

And yeah, had to read Macbeth sophomore year and it bored me out of my mind. At some point it just gets redundant because I’ve seen it too many times.

@ Dr. Alligator: The first chapter is boring. I will readily admit it. LotR is extraordinarily difficult for a casual reader to get into (despite the fact that the writing itself is pretty comprehensible- it’s just so dry).

I however, can deal with boring if it’s made up for later. Which, in the case of LotR, it so totally is.

(Another reason why I too like P+P)

WHAAAAAAAAAT?!!! What is the world coming to?! In fewer than a half-dozen posts, people have called Pride and Prejudice and the Lord of the Rings boring?!! You should all be ashamed of yourselves, being mean to classic literature like that… hoards PnP and LotR

On Oedipus… he was such an idiot. But you know who I hate even more, especially if you take all three “Theban” plays into consideration? Creon. Completely full of himself. He totally got what was coming to him.

@ Swenson: Hey, everyone knows I’m a rabid LOTR fan, right? And I’ve read P+P at least five times.

I still love ‘em. :D

You should all be ashamed of yourselves

And yet, I’m not.

I didn’t say they were bad books.

They’re just an immense bore.

The Hobbit was the very first full-length novel that I read by myself, silently. Apparently when I was 4 or 5. I have yet to get all the way through LOTR. The language is very different, see, and LOTR has much more dwelling on insignificancies. I loved Tom Bombadil, but there’s so much waffling on and little things that may add to the world, but not to the plot, that it just draggs on and on, and I always find myself losing interest by around halfway through Two Towers, the furthest I’ve read through it so far.

The Hobbit, however, doesn’t have nearly as many tangents, and uses a much livelier narrator that engages with the audience more than the LOTR narrator, who may as well be Sir David Attenborough. To be fair, I adore and respect Sir David Attenborough, but his voice is most emphatically not one with which to narrate an epic-length novel.

gah. it’s too late at night for me to be compounding clauses. Comma-abuse is rampant. Excuse me, please.

I’ve never read Lord of the Rings. I tried to get through it once many years ago, and got to the end of the first book of Fellowship of the Ring before becoming bored and being distracted.

Aragorn killing things is far more interesting.

And he’s so much more attractive than a whiny, mutilated hobbit.

My dad made us listen to Sherlock Holmes in the car. Which was fine, but usually I skip parts I think are boring (I skipped all of Roran’s scenes in Eldest for this reason). With a tape, you can’t do that. And when they switched to these Mormons and how someone was mad and asking “WHERE ARE YOUR WIVES?“... I still don’t know how it ended.

Sam is truly awesome.

I think he’s the hero, not Frodo.

Sam is so cute. I’d totally spring for a man like him. :D

I just got my twelve year old brother to read the Hobbit a couple days ago, and now he’s onto Fellowship of the Ring. 8D FANTASY INDOCTRINATION IS UNDERWAY.

I have excellent taste. >;D

We had to read Antigone in class last year. I don’t get why everyone in ancient Greece had to be such a bastard. Although, on topic, Aeshylus’s plays bored me to tears. There were about two characters and a chorus, and it was basically just pages upon pages of exposition and whining. Nothing happened. Ever. The only one I liked was the Eumenides.

Me too, except it was last last year for me now. o_o My class was so bloody boring. Innuendo everywhere and no one got it. Even the bit where Haemon is being told by Creon that he has “other fields to plow” and that Antigone wasn’t worth it, no one reacted. At all.

Gragh.

I wish my little brother was as impressionable as yours.

The thing is that I have basically all the books in the house, because I…live in them. I’m running out of space, though. ;_; Two double bookcases and a single and I still have to pile books under my desk. Hrmph. Anyway, since I have all the good books, I control what he reads, essentially. And I can judge his taste pretty well. So far he’s gone through Bartimaeus, Harry Potter, Three Musketeers, a bit of Narnia, Abhorsen, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea…I had him started on Scarlet Pimpernel except that he abandoned that for The Hobbit. Muahahahahaha.

I feel like I’m fulfilling my duty as an older sister. :3

Admittedly, it took a hell of a lot of badgering for me to get him to read Harry Potter. At least a year. Seriously. And then even more badgering for me to get him to read the Three Musketeers.

But then he did, and got obsessed, and now he trusts my book judgement. ;D cackles

Also he doesn’t know about HSM or Hannah Montana.

I’m proud of him.

...I have a very strange feeling right now that this sibling-indoctrination thing is what happened to me. Only that my parents were in on it too. Seriously, they read me Narnia when I was five, LoTR when I was six, HP when I was seven/eight, and then my sister started having me read Diana Wynne Jones and Tamora Pierce and Terry Pratchett…

As an only child, I’ve tried to indoctrinate some other members of my family to little success. Most of my cousins just find books to be boring, though at least one of them is unfortunately a Twilight fan. Tried to get my cousin’s niece to read Coraline and The Graveyard Book, but he just felt that the content was too dark. And, I’ve never really seen my dad ever a book. Still, my mom likes Harry Potter.

Dickens. >.<

We had to read the kiddie version of David Copperfield in English class, and me being a Native Speaker I read the whole thing. It hit my wall several times. I then wrote a book review that contained something along the lines of, “In fact, the whole book can be summed up with, Everyone Loves David So Much It’s Painful, even though he has roughly the character of a damp rag”. I was about twelve. My teacher was actually really amused.

As someone once said on Third Rock from the Sun, “It was the best of times and it was the worst of times…why bother reading the whole book if he can’t make up his mind on the first page?”

Even the bit where Haemon is being told by Creon that he has “other fields to plow” and that Antigone wasn’t worth it, no one reacted. At all.

Heh, innuendo usually flies straight over my head until everyone else starts snickering, but that one… yeah. Saw it first time.

On indoctrinating people… it’s always fun to do that! Of course, with some people, it’s difficult to break them away from hurk Twilight. But there are the few out there who you can quietly mold into proper readers… even if it’s something as small as convincing them to read Deathnote instead of watch Naruto.