5 Quotes Tagged: boring-books

I have just read a long novel by Henry James. Much of it made me think of the priest condemned for a long space to confess nuns.

Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.

"All men have heard of the Mormon Bible, but few except the "elect" have seen it, or, at least, taken the trouble to read it. I brought away a copy from Salt Lake. The book is a curiosity to me, it is such a pretentious affair, and yet so "slow," so sleepy; such an insipid mess of inspiration. It is chloroform in print. If Joseph Smith composed this book, the act was a miracle — keeping awake while he did it was, at any rate."

Ich las das langweilige Buch, schlief darüber ein, im Schlafe träumte
ich, weiter zu lesen, erwachte vor Langeweile, und das dreimal.

"Miss von Osterloh had looked through it once during an idle fifteen minutes and pronunce it "quite sophisticated," which veredict was her euphemism for "inhumanly boring.