What books bored you as a child?

[meaty]

Blood brothers.

[KEV67]

Wind in the Willows. 

[itsmeagain]

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand.

[Madeleine]

Lots that I read at school.

[lunababymoonchild]

I have chosen my own books since I was 4, so can’t name a book that bored me in childhood. I even liked the set texts we got in school, except for Of Mice and Men, which horrified me but wasn’t boring. That said, I wasn’t too keen on Stig In the Dump which we read after The Power and the Glory and I thought was too infantile for us (so did the teacher).

[PYX]

It's funny, but I didn't like reading as a kid. Everything seemed boring to me... But now I'm making up for lost time!

[poppy]

I don't remember any books that bored me as a child, not even the set books for English at school. Some books and stories I didn't like, but they didn't bore me. I disliked Peter Pan and Alice in Wonderland and I hated Lord of the Flies but they're the only ones that stick out.

[Madeleine]

1984, missed out the entire middle section as I found it so tedious, though eerily prescient now.

[~Andrea~]

On 12/24/2024 at 5:09 PM, KEV67 said:

Wind in the Willows. 

 

I agree with that one. I loved all the adaptations but not the book. Perhaps I attempted it when I was a bit too young (about 10 I think).

[France]

On 12/26/2024 at 3:19 AM, poppy said:

I don't remember any books that bored me as a child, not even the set books for English at school. Some books and stories I didn't like, but they didn't bore me. I disliked Peter Pan and Alice in Wonderland and I hated Lord of the Flies but they're the only ones that stick out.

I loathed Alice in Wonderland which I read when I was 8.

[lunababymoonchild]

1 hour ago, France said:

I loathed Alice in Wonderland which I read when I was 8.

I don’t recall reading it as a child but was less than impressed when I read it as an adult, although boring wasn’t what I thought

[Hux]

Carrie's War.

[KEV67]

On 12/25/2024 at 5:10 AM, itsmeagain said:

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand.

You read that as a child!

[KEV67]

Huckleberry Finn. I loved Tom Sawyer, and I thought Huckleberry Finn would be more of the same. I got at least ten chapters in, but it was more serious and it did not have Tom Sawyer in it. I read it about forty years later and I thought it was a great book, probably the best American book I have read. The only bit I did not like were the last six chapters, in which Tom Sawyer reappears and is very annoying. Huckleberry nearly slipped to second place behind Moby Dick in the Great American novel charts.

Edited December 30, 2024 by KEV67

[itsmeagain]

2 hours ago, KEV67 said:

You read that as a child!

I did. Tough going. When I asked for a biscuit the old man said, ' run along now, 15 more pages of gut busting right wing bull gets you a half of 1 custard cream'.

Done me no harm, honestly...I worked for the NHS. 😘😄

[KEV67]

5 hours ago, itsmeagain said:

I did. Tough going. When I asked for a biscuit the old man said, ' run along now, 15 more pages of gut busting right wing bull gets you a half of 1 custard cream'.

Done me no harm, honestly...I worked for the NHS. 😘😄

I don't think Ayn Rand would have approved of that. She would rather the mooches die off.

[itsmeagain]

5 hours ago, KEV67 said:

I don't think Ayn Rand would have approved of that. She would rather the mooches die off.

I had to look up mooches Kev. Cheers , I learn something each day. 😃 

I knew what mooching meant already.

[poppy]

On 12/25/2024 at 6:10 PM, itsmeagain said:

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand.

 

How old were you when you read it? 😲 And what was your Dad hoping you'd learn from it? Do you still like custard creams or has it put you off them forever? 😂

[itsmeagain]

I was.... hahaha...by.my reckoning..a very childish..45...so my dad was no longer with me..it was horrific but was joking about it being as a child...I have a Bourbon rather than a custard cream now.. 😜 

Edited December 31, 2024 by itsmeagain

[Anna Faversham]

On 12/26/2024 at 10:50 AM, Madeleine said:

1984, missed out the entire middle section as I found it so tedious, though eerily prescient now.

I'm reading 1984 now just because it is eerily prescient! And a bit tedious too...

[Anna Faversham]

I remember trying to stay awake during English lit classes when we were reading 'The Rover' by Joseph Conrad. 

[tzkay]

Shakespeare , couldn't make heads or tails of it .

[Madeleine]

Same here, probably a lot to do with how it was taught in school, but his work still doesn't do it for me I'm afraid.

[lunababymoonchild]

21 hours ago, tzkay said:

Shakespeare , couldn't make heads or tails of it .

I thought Shakespeare was magical back then.  Then again, I was allowed to listen to my grandmother quote whatever she felt like quoting whilst she (she would not allow anyone else in the kitchen at the time) did her dishes. I remember as a very small child being shown what was the threshold to the kitchen and told that I must not cross it but could listen to her if I kept quiet, and I did.  She didn't just quote things parrot fashion she 'emoted' as they say in acting circles. I had no idea what she was saying but I got the gist from the expression in her voice. When I got to secondary school Shakespeare, Burns and sections of The King James version of the Bible all made perfect sense to me.